Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-07-28
NEBRASKA.
Emerson is now an incorporated town.

a three story brick hotel TO cost $4,000.
Tramp burglars have made life a burden to
residents of Republican City the past few
days. &
The steeple OF the Methodist church at
Syracuse WAS wrecked 10y lightning Sunday
night.
C. J.. James, a brakeman, had his left leg
smashed by a freight train at North Bend
Sunday, and II was amputated above the
knee.
The Lincoln Journal informs Its readers,
that the whirring sound heard of nights is
not the rushing Of a planet through space,
but is occasioned 10y the growing OF Nebraska
corn.
Hitherto Fort omaha has been supplied
with water from the city water works, but the
supply was cut OIL because the government
would pay only meter rents. 1t has cost $2S,-
600 to supply the fort the past three years.
David Addie, living seven miles north Of
Rushville, killed a large rattlesnake in his
his house the other day. The children Gagged
| the reptile In the house and held him captive
| until their father came from the field and dis
patched him. His snskeship measured four
ana a half feet IN length and had eleven rat
ties.
Elmer Horner sits In a corner OF the county
bastiIe in Nebraska City munching the cua Of
remorse. He is a masher from Missouri and
resided for Il time I'm Ulysses, Butler county,
where under promise OF marriage he basely
betrayed a young woman. He will be taken
-, II, .,... - 80, n,n.,t,n.. and r.pniys his
freedom By marrying the girl.
Friday afternoon two sons q George lTay-
erIand, of EIgiu, Antelope county, were play
ing with a re ,olvtr belonging to the hired
man. While the eide. OF the boys, aged
about years, was handling the weapon, 1t
vent on and the ball entered the left temple
Of the younger son, aged about 1 years. The
child was alive Saturday night, but will no
doubt die.
Mrs. X. l.. Ware, wife Of the station agent
at Stanford, was killed Sunday by the roof Of
a dugout cellar falling on her. She had gone
into the place to get something and was in a
stopping position when the roof gave way,
and the weight OF the earth held her fast
until she was smothered to death. No one
knew Of 1t until over half an hour sfterward,
and when the body was reached she had been
dead sometime.
Lulu Williams, of Omaha, has commenced
suit for divorce against Robert Williams.
She claims that she was married to the de
PENDANT October 10, 1854, In Missouri, and
that she lived with him until March |, 1851.
The cause of action is extreme cruelty, the
use OF abusive epithets, and the fact that the
plaintiff was only IL years old when the mar
riage occurred, although her husband swore
she had attained the proper manageable age.
During Friday nights storm at York the
house of r.. G.. Swartz was struck by light
ming. Passing down the chimney and enter
ing the bedroom, the iuid made a complete
circuit OF the room, following the gilt mold
ing under the border, and taking all the gilt
from 1t. The ball, which appeared to be
about four inches In diameter, after explOr-
ing the room and frightening Its occupants to
its entire satisfaction, inally passed out at
the corner Of the room, making a very small
hole. The room was filed with smoke and
offensive odors, bat strange to say no one in
the house received a p~erceptible shock.
A habeas corpus case in which W. +.
Thomas Is relasor and A.. j. Brown respond
ent, will come before Judge Farnsworth at
Norfolk on the 10th OF this month, This
case is Of peculiar interest, involving as 1t
does the possession of "a child in which the
stepfather endeavors TO take the child from
its natural father at the requesto the child's
deceased mother, the respondent having mar
ried the divorced wife of the relator.
Some boys were playing in a grove at Ere
mont when they came across IA spherical tin
arrangement with burnt fuse attached. The
boys had never lived In bomb towns and were
at a loss to know what IT was. They hacked
a hole into 1t and discovered that 1t was
loaded with dynamite caps. The would be
wrecker was turned over to TIE chief of police
who pronounced II a genuine bomb.
A German girl was sent to the insane asy-
lum from Lincoln last week who had lost her
reason In a pitiful manner. About two years
ago she came over from the FatherIand and
went 10 her ~uncle's, a farmer In Seward
county. Being kept at hard outdoor work by
him she went TO Lincoln after a time, and en-
tered service as a children's nurse. Her
uncle wanted to get her back 10 DO his drudg-
cry, and as a means to that end wrstc to her
parents In Germany that she was not leading
a proper life. This accusation caused the
father to write her a letter containing the ac-
~cusation and casting her off forever, and this
so preyed on her mind that she became in
ape.
During the high wind on Friday evening Il
box car was blown from the side track on TO
the main track at Scribner and came rushing
south before the wind, despite all efforts TO
stop 1t. The Norfo,a. train going north had
just before left the station at Hooper, and in
consequence there was no way TO notify the
coming train Of It's danger. They met about
three miles north Of Hooper, viii disaster to
the wild car, which was reduced TO kindliug
wood and stripping off everything from the
top Of the engine, which had scooped right
under the car, but fortunately without INJURY
10 any one. The track was got clear Satur-
dsy morning AMI The disabled engine was
hauled to the shops At Missouri Valley, Some
idea OF the speed of the runaway car may be
obtained from thc fact that il travelled fv.
miles Win" the passenger train was Coiu.
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