Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-08
NEBRASKA.

to begin operations.
On December Is a X. OF z. lodge VIII be In
stituted at Brainerd.
TIL new NJ. F.. church at Petersburg was
dedicated last Sunday.
TIL Young ladies of Plum Creek have or
ganized a broom brigade.
Two thousand dollars have been raised for
the Y. M. G.. A. In Nebraska City.
The Danish college project has been re-
vived at Atlantic.
The number Of insurance companies doing
business In the state of Nebraska lie 1863.
The new band at Norfolk has organized
under the name Of the Queen City band.
There is a yawning chasm at Beatrice which
the Express thinks a basket factory would
just fill.
A. j. Miller, one Of the Oldest citizens OF
Hastings, died last Sunday morning OF heart
disease.
David Furbush Of Loup City has voted for
sixteen presidential candidates and is now 81
years old.
Considerable interest is manifested in Val
ley over the prospect Of a new bank being
located there.
The dog ordinance Of Rising City has been
misplaced and the town is overrun With
worthless ours.
Charles McCarnless, a We'll digger, met his
death in a well near Papillion last Tuesday.
Foul gas did the fatal work.
Fremont is fast gaining a reputation for be-
ing a lively town. There were five runaways
in one day last week IN that city.
Kennie Mcdonald, a IL year old boy at
Benkleman, blew off his left hand and wrist
with a shotgun last Sunday While hunting
geese.
Bert Johnson, night yardmaster at McCook,
was run over and killed in the yards last
Monday night. His foot was caught In a frog.
There is considerable excitement at North
Platte over a reported find Of coal north of
the river within o mile Of the railroad station.
The chief of police al Omaha has issued an
order %forbidding the members Of the force
drinking while on duty. What a dry job the
poor cops will have.
Johnnie Harmon, a IL year old Plattsmouth
boy, climbed into a tree that his brother was
cutting down and fell with 1t to the ground,
receiving fatal injuries.
The new county Of Rock already has a
county seat war on its hands OF mammoth
proportions. Newport ard Bassett are the
leading contestants for donors.
Nilus Starr, an IL year old boy at Liberty,
deliberately ended his lie last Sunday by
shooting himself through the head with a
rifle. No cause can be given for the act.
The opera house scheme hobs up again in
Nebraska City. II the citizens now respond
to the call for $40, 0C0 'the cosiest opera house
in the state'' will loom up IN the spring.
The America FIGURING Mill company, Of
Jersey City, n. j., has filed articles Of incor-
p~oration and proposes to do business In this
state. It's headquarters will be at Loup City.
The citizens Of Norfolk are considering q
proposition to erect a new opera house on
the site occupied by the present opera
house.
l.. NJ. Cross, the lord high executioner Of q
McCook restaurant, has departed, and O
score of boarders with unpunched meal
tickets are condoling with the confding
creditors.
The state board Of agriculture has Issued a
call for It's annual winter meeting, beginning
January Is At this meeting the annual corn
exhibit will be made and liberal premiums
>. distributed.
Mrs. William Wilson, of North Loup, has
commenced suit for $4,000 damages against
all parties who ever sold liquor in that place
and their bondsmen. Her husbands inebriety
was the cause of the suit.
The commissioners of Greeley county have
decided to invest $1,000 in the thorough ex.
animation Of the books Of the county treas.
urer and clerk and make an exhibit Of the
financial standing OF the county.
: Mrs. w. L. Oman, OF Cortland, died last
Tuesday night from the effects OF a dose OF
rough on rats taken with suicidal intent,
!, Her mind had been unbalanced for some
time over her husbands financial troubles.
: Coal gas laid out all the patrons and pro
prietor Of the billiard saloon at Schuyler the
a other day. None of the cases proved fatal,
| but the own ers Of tie place were so sick tina
they could lot attend to business and the
: saloon was closed for a day.
Jack Marry, a notorious character at Platts
mouth, died last Thursday night In the coun.
+, ty jail while talking to his fellow prisoners
and standing with his hands firmly gripped
on the cage bars. He had been drinking to
excess during the past two weeks.
Superintendent Toby, OF the Nebraska City
sewer construction, was out with a lantern
the other night looking over the bitches to
see that they were in a condition so that no
body could fall In. A slip Of his foot pre-
c~ipltated him into q deep one, breaking his
leg a. the ankle.
Prof. George Il. Chatburn and Miss Mary
Stafford, teachers IN the Plattsmouth public
schools, have been arrested and hound owe
for trial on the charge OF assault and bat
terry. They had inflicted corporal punishment
on the refractory son Of Mr.. Woodson, q
hotel keeper who caused the action to be
taken.
The quickest work Cupid ever did In
Greeley county has just resulted in the mar
rage Of James r.. Furgusou ana Mrs. Laura
Brown. Ferguson ard the charming widow
met for the first time at a dance, fell head
/, over heels IN love with each ather, ard in jus,
eight days they we're bound together by 8
:. justice Of the peace.
South Omaha people have an original way