Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-24
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al Lincoln.
Albio, will soon have another new roller
Touring mill.
Broken Bow nas been sized mp for a city ii
the second class.
Omaha proposes to pave five miles Of her
streets this summer.
Table Rock will manufacture pressed brick
an extended scale.
The brick masons Of Omaha want eight
hours a day and $40.
The new $1,000 Methodist church ri Crete
was dedicated Sunday.
The recent SHOWS have stopped the Missouri
Pacific grading In the vicinity of Hastings.
The Sisters Of Charity are considering the
project of establishing a hospital at Lincoln. |
Business men Of Lincoln held Il mectipe I,
Saturday 10 devise means TO boom fh.eir town.
The new Clarendon hotel AT Fairmont Will
be dedicated with . banquet and ban next
week,
BsownvisSs sdyertises for a physician, a
dcnti.', IA drug store and a grain and hog
b0yer.
Elmer Zimmerman, a siyteen-year-old lad
Of Dayid City has been arrested for horse
stealing.
Fairbury is making AL organized effort TO
have several excursions run to that place dur
ing the summer
Thomas Miller received a broken leg from
alighting from a cable car while in motion at
Omaha Saturday night.
The twenty-second annual session OF the
State T.aYl.r's aGgnpjatfnp will convene M
Fremont March - TO 80.
A county seat fight is brewing in Nuckolls
count between Nelson, the present county
seat and the town Of Noir.
Robert Furguson, Il young man living near
Lyons, committed suicide Thursday morning
by hanging himself In 4 corn crib.
A man named White taking a seat in a ear
4. Whitman accidentally discharged a revol-
yer In his belt casing a fatal wound.
The town OF Whitney is anxious to secure
a creamery to handle the product Of 800 COWS.
A liberal BONUS awaits the right man.
Mrs. II. {. Casselman received a fall from
the second floor of the new school building at
Hay Springs and was seriously injured.
The temperance people of Tekama are de-
uIiniItu ludt JIG Ia lGldllIS w lht Illipl
traffic shall be rigidly enforced in that town.
Charles Springbone Of South Sioux City,
was sentenced by Judge Powers to serve two
years In the penitentiary for stealing a steer.
A fellow named Hopkins was arrested at
Neigh for showing the queer" He made r
confession and now he languishes In durance
vile.
Eddie Carlson and Thomas Peterson, aged
respectively IL and II years, pupils in the
public school OF Oakland, engaged in a dis
pute over the possession Of a paper. lr the
fight which ensued Carlson stabbed Peterson
with a jack knife, inficting an ugly but non
not dangerous wound under the right srm.
Last November Henry Cross, Of Scotia. adj
vertised for and secured a wife. The anton
had scarcely cooled before he began a series
of affectionate demonstrations. He carcssed
his bride with his horny fist, spanked her
with "A butcherknife, drove her out of door in
cold weather and cooled her ardor by ~colginc-
ment In "a damp, dark cellar. For these rca-
sons she prays the court to lift the Gross from
her shoulders and set her free.
In the late ease in the district court where.
in Colby. city attorney of Wymore, obtained
81 800 judgment FOR SANDER against II. A,
Greenwood, mayor, 1t now transpires that
some one tried to bride members Of the jury,
Two of the iurymen, reputable citizens, filed
information Thursday, 5. Jsbobs, OF Barnes
ton, and ID. +. Meyer, OF O'Dell, swearing
that $25 was offered 10 cause the jury to hang.
The matter will be tried at once and sifted &c
the bottom.
An Omaha stable boy died Thursday morn
Ing from asphyxiation by gas. He slept IN
the stable. in which gas was used, and from
some unknown means the gas became turned
on during the night. When fonnd he was
dead, as was also the eat that Mas sleeping
under his bed. The barn contained only two
carriage horses and they were nearly dead,
and it is doubtful whether they will recover.
The physicians say this is the first instance in
their experience in which horses have suf
fered total or partial asphyXiation from illum-
mating gas.
John O'Conner, an employe ia Armour's
packing house, South Omaha, had a close call
from a dreadful death Monday night. Dur
lie NhA hobh ~ ~ hit IA
getting full" About 9 O'Clock he made his
way TO the Tenth street crossing, where. de
spite the warnings Of the Waterman, he
planted himself in front of the incoming sub
urban train. There was IA rush and a roar
and O'Conuer lay beneath the ponderous en-
CINE, whence he was dragged by the conduc-
tor and engineer, a thoroughly scared and
sobe:, but, strange to say, unframed indi-
viddal.
The citizens Of Linwood are all torn Up
over a smooth chap name Wisner, who pro
fessed TO be an organizer Of A. .. l.. W..
lodges, and did the town TO the tune Of $3.50
Monday. BY giving a reduction Of 81 apiece
be succeeded in collecting most Of the mem
bership fees in advance, and wren the boys
assembled for initiation Wisner could not be
found. An official telegram from a. O.. w.
headquarters states that Wisncr was moi a
legalized organizer Of lodges for that society.
When il became known that a number Of
Linwood's best citizens had been duped, in
GLIDING deaCons, bankers and business men
the villagers enjoyed a sumptuous oyster sup.
per at the expense Of the suckers Wisner
is still at large and unmolcsted
A shooting ARRAY occurred at Auburn at a