Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-31
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A sewing machine factory wants to locate
at Beatrice.
Red Cloud is agitstins a $40, 600 court house
for Webster county.
The newspapers of Nashville are agltating
the public parn question.
Fremont Baptists will build a new house Of
worship al a cost OF &, 900.
Nicholas Johnson, a tramp, was run over
by the cars and killed at Sidney.
Complaint has been filed against the Union
Pacific for overcharging on freight.
Arapahoc has a board OF trade In operation
With George W. Calvin at the helm.
Mrs. John Moody, Of Syracuse, poisoned
herself on Monday. Family troubles.
Chadron Is organizing a base ball club, and
will make application to join the Black Hills
league.
A stock company has been organized at
Eais for IT, purpose Of boring for coal with
diamond drill.
Inc fFsIaoHt road offers to transport free
inc bacterial for the construction Of the water
works for Chadron.
IlaNlIE dilNAlplNA AN Nblib%' VI NiRN't
county, Scotia is % reaching out for a can
merry and other profitable industries.
w. p. Allen, an old soldier OF Chadron,
has received notice that be will get "a pension
from the government, with 81, 900 arrears.
A fire broke out IN the business part OF Cen
were burned before the flames were Quenched
The free postal delivery system cannot go
into effect at Fremont as ordered. The ap-
preparation was expended before Fremont
was reached.
George Dwinell, the Long Pine hotel msn,
AT , hadron for Il bonus Of the ground and
$4,000 in cash.
A pawnshop burned at Lincoln Monday
night. Clothing and jewelry TO the amount
Of 81, 900 were consumed, but the loss Is fully
covered b.. insurance.
The Bohemian OATS swindlcrs ere said to
be operating in the state. A number twelve
boot or a hungry bulldog will take their mea.
sure, II promptly applied.
The Illinois and Nebraska Loan and Trus,
company, Of Kearney, filed articles OF incor
poration Monday with the secretary of state,
The capital stock is placed at 5000 900.
The Odd Fellows Of Saline county will hold
their anniversary celebration In Crete, Apri.
&c. II the weather will permit the exercises
will take place on the assembly grounds.
Lincoln people have taken 81 ,000, 600 of tn.
81, SOC, 600 OF life insurance In the New YORK
J,.,, ,pli,l i 30 ar.nt n Eanjunp,A h,,fli
ing in that city in return for the patronage.
Geo. Tovett. an aged ;axidermist, mysteri
Ously disappeared from Omaha Sunday. lie
had frequently mtimated to his daughter:
that he would drown himself, and it is feared
he has funded In the river.
The Jury txers OF Gage county will be thor
oughly sailed before Judge Brady gets
through with them. TIL cruelest cut of al
WAS to chop down Wymore's Greenwood, with
o big celebration coming on.
Charles Conrad pleaded guilty in the dis
trict court at Nebraska City, Monday to forg
and was sentenced to fifteen months in the
penitentiary at hard labor.
Everything is running smoothly on the Bur
lington. Out at Harvard Monday one Of ths
imported competents showed his contempt fol
signals by dashihg iu.o some cars At the depot
and hurting them into the ditch.
S. y. Stewart, who made IA proposition tt
Nebraska City to buad a pontoon bridge acros.
the Misso ri river, will build two or three
~pontoon boats about April /, and If a chartel
can be obtained the bridge i. to DO bnilt in
mcdiately.
The board OF trade Of McCook has sent g
loud and lengthy document to the Burlington
officials declaring unwavering fidelity TO the
/ Burlington and Missouri. The town is anx
ious TO pose as the iruk shop Of engine black
smiths.
The North Bend Fail has raised Sl06 for q
monument to the Westphalen orphans. The
Bee has raised az cQual mount. Both to-
Dodge c%ounty's martyrs in the blizzard 0!
January.
A young lady doing domestic work for f.
n. Persinger, Of Central City, went crazy
Monday on the subject Of religion, She is
now "a ,avlng maniac caused by the great ex-
tibbiiCIIs htlihS ANiu A'iS INC iaSt
two weeks.
Chas. III. Irwin, editor of the Silver Creek
Times, was arrested Tuesday at Central City
for obtaining money under false pretenses.
He was married on the 10th and it is now ru-
aored that he has q wife and fan4ly living in
Illinois.
The Union Pacific has been engaged In
blowing up the ice at the Valley bridge with
dynamite to prevent a gorge which might de-
stroy the bridge, or throw the water over the
low land adjoining, which would be even more
expensive than the loss Of the bridge.
A freight car at Blair was broken open Sun
day and robbed OF about 800 worth OF goods.
A clue was obtained to the robbers by one OF
their number Offering for sale a pair Of boots
identified as part OF the stolen plumber, and
four men were arrested for the crime.
High water Is playing sad havoc with
bridges on the Platte and Loup rivers AMI
other smaller streams. Wagon bridges At
Fremont and North Bend started on a Jour
ney Monday, while many other bridges arc
reported washed out or impossible.
Omaha sportsmen are in the habit Of cele-
brating sunday with dog and cock fights.
sunday two bull dogs were put into the ring
cnd they fpught pnch otlar for hrep-nuortcra