Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-01
NEBRASKA.

Paving has been suspended in Beatrice for
want Of brick.
Nebraska City IL laboring to secure a fold
ing chair factory.
The Fremont social club has been resur-
rected for the winter.
Palmer wants business enterprises OF all
kinds tc locate 10 that town.
C~learwater's chief ambition IL to establish
a reputation as q hay market.
The receipts Of the charity ball at Fremont
last Friday evening were 300.
The Methodists at Ainsworth are about to
erect a comfortable parsonage.
A suitable site has been purchased for the
new high school building at Fremont.
Tn tailoring firm Of Miller X shock, in
Fremont has assigned. Liabilities 5000.
The Farmers State bank Of P~lsinview has
Incorporated with a capital stock Of SO, 900.
Burglars carried of 500 worth OF goods
night.
The district court In session at OMEN IS
wrestling with q bar docket containing 800
cases.
1t is expected that the water works at
Broken Bow will be ready for use about
January l.
The people OF Norfolk are organizing an
excursion OF Omaha business men TO visit
that city the coming week.
About o~ne-fourth OF the business property
in Bennett was destroyed ny fire last.Saturday
night. Loss, $4,000 to $4,000.
The Nebraska Land and Cattle company
near Kearney has been offered $4,000 for the
crop of whea: raised this season.
The Jackson Criterion predicts that there
will be more steers fed in Dakota county this
fall than during any previous year.
The Y. NJ. {. a. building at Omaha will be
formally turned over to the society next MOI
day, as 1t is now ready for occupancy.
a Thanksgiving turkey escaped from its
moorings at York the other day and dashed
through the plate glass window Of a store.
A man named cambridge was arrested last
Wednesday at Emmett, charged with unlaw-
full cohabitation with bis l3 year old step
daughter.
A barn, eight horses, a buggy and a har-
ness belonging TO a farmer named Swartz,
located near Creston were destroyed by lire
last Wednesday.
Alliance 10 in a great state OF excitement
over the arrival OF large numbers of teams
and men TO begin work on the Black Hills ex-
tension Of the Burlington road.
A new town is being started on the railroad
between Ewing and Imam, named Stafford.
A new postolllce has been established and a
station house is now being built.
A rattlesnake den containing 600 reptiles
has been discovered In Dawes county, and
arrangements have been made for a grand
snake killing bee on November 20.
The State bank Of Oxford has fled articles
of incorporation with the secretary OF state.
The bank has been in operation since July IL,
ISIS, with a capital stock Of $4,000.
The Rev. DR.. Duryea Of Boston, has accept
ed a call to the psstorate of the First Congre-
g~ational church in Omaha. The society has
just dedicated an elegant temple OF worship.
A dictionary club is the latest thing in Ere
mont. 1t has ten members and the meetings
are held weekly at their homes. rs OBJ
ject is the study OF definition and pronuncia-
ton.
Several Shelton boys, with fendish in
stincts, tied a cat in a paper bag and then
set fire to the bag. a mild reprimand was
the only punishment melted out to the little
wretches.
The first guests entertained in the new
cooler at Emerson were four tragnps who
were about to rob an old man, a stranger,
who has been picking corn in that vicinity
during the tall.
The Ainsworth precinct court house bonds
have beeu sold and the money is In the hands
Of the treas urer to be paid ont as fast as the
corlm .~ssioners can audit the old claims ana
issue the orders.
There Is a rumor. current at Ravenna that
the Union Pacific is about TO extend It's Nan
tasket branch and the people Of the town are
making an effort TO induce the company to es-
tablish a depot within the corporate limits of
the village.
L.. A.. Seymour, q dealer In agricultural i'm
plements at Syracuse, and one Of the oldest
and most respected citizens OF Otoe county,
died suddenly last Tuesday after an Illness
Of only twenty minutes.
Inc udIlHgc care ol MdTk 81. DlllttteT
against the Union Pacific railway was termi-
mated in the district court at Fremont last
Thursday evening. The jury gave a verdict
of 81, 5l2. 80 in favor Of the plaintiff.
An i~ncipient strike took place last Monday
at Fremont among the German PAYERS. The
custom Of the contractor is to pay them off
every two weeks, but they wanted their pay at
the end CT the first week and were refused.
Five pirates OF the Missouri were arrested
at Nebraska City Thursday as they were float
ing down the river on a fatboat stolen at
Plattsnouth. Other articles OF booty were
also captured and held for proper owners.
The board OF public lands and buildings in
session at Lincoln, ordered a reaprraisement
Of school lands in Antelope, Adams, Colfax,
Fillmore, Hall, Harlan, Jefferson, York and
Platte counties. They affirm that these lands
arc being sold too cheapiy.
The marble and granite dealers Of Nebraska
met at Lincoln last Thursday. About twenty
FIVE were III attendance. The object of the
meeting is to promote social intercourse ana
honorable dealing between the dealers and
the discussion of means TO clrcumvent ire
sponsible retail dealers.
a number OF the sporting fraternity of