Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-24
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49,
account of scarlet fever.
The Congregational church at Sprlngview
was dedicated last Sunday.
The telephone line is now completed DC
tween Madison and Norfolk.
The knights OF Pythias band Is a new mu-
steal organization at Fremont.
SCHUYLER seeks to cover herself with glory
by working up a reputation as chicken mar
ket.
Ex-Editor f.. r. Spencer OF Cretethe
Globe has moved TO Lincoln and Is studying
law.
Now that election excitement has died out
at Lincoln the sidewalk question has been
revived.
Norfolk has a "rrofltablc hour club" 1t Is
counted a profitable hour when the net earn
ings on poker are $25.
A spirited rate war has just been inaugur-
ated on packing house products between Lin
coin and Omaha and Chicago.
The citizens OF Tekamah have become
thoroughly aroused and are making efforts to
rid the town of a gang OF burglars which mas
successfully followed lis vocation there dur
the past few weeks.
Burglars raided q saloon In Arlington last
Saturday night and secured 1900 cigars and
a quantity OF bottled liquors. No clues.
Several men employed or the paving at
Nebraska City struck last Monday because
the contractor locked them for lost time.
The Omaha postofiice had the biggest bust
ness In Its history last month, the sales OF
stamps and stamped envelopes reaching s2o,-
624.
Thomas Griffin, a dcserter from Company
+, Eighth United States infantry at Fort M
obrara, was captured at Atkinson Friday
evening.
The conpositors on the Nebraska City Press
struck last Saturday because the proprietors
wanted to reduce their wages to 20 cents per
1000 ems.
A Sunday morning paper will make It's APP
pearance at Omaha next Sunday. 1t Will be
managed and edited by Dan Shelley and Fred
Bensinger, late of the Bee force.
The Harrington Herald says that the bust
ness of the railway station for the past month
has been nearly double that of any previous
month In the history Of the town.
A wolf hunt is threatened in the nighbor-
hood of Minden. The latest event Of the
kind recorded In the state resulted In one
funeral, four manned and one mUtilated
wolf.
The cattlemen of the Omaha reservation
have been losing a good rnaay cattle at the
hands Of thieves, and have arrested a man
who they claim has run of more than 100
head.
The Fremont Tribune thinks that the quail
fly Of the coming Nebraska legislature prom
ises TO be something above the usual stand
ard. Several newspaper men have been
elected.
The Kearney pressed brick company, CAPT
tai $50, coo, has been incorporated. The com
pany will build an electric railway from the
city to its works and erect down draft kilns
: TO cost $4,000.
The small pox and the ague are the pet
e names hv which the city council and the
| board OF education are known to the news.
paper fraternity at Omaha, at least SO says
the Republican.
The Nebraska and Dakota bridge company
: has Incorporated with an authorized capital
stock OF 81 $50, coo. The object OF the com
pany Is to construct a bridge over the Mis-
souri, river near Ponca.
Henry Calhoun, a driver In a livery static
at Omaha loved Lena Rivers. She did not
return his affection and consequently be took
morphine and died last Wednesday morning.
His home is In Charlton, 10.
The Lincoln Paint and Color company has
brought suit In the district court against the
board of trade for $3.50, unpaid balance of
the 5000 pledged by the board when the
works were located at Lincoln.
VIM. Veedenberg, while repairing the ele-
vator In the Palmer house at Grand Island
last Thursday, lost his footing and fell a dis
tsnce Of about eight feet. He received In
juries on the head which may prove fatal.
The Dakota City Ragle says: "Tis strange,
but tits true, that there is at the present time
over $50, COO due Dakota county on personal
property taxes, - per cent. Of which could
be collected II the proper effort were put
forth.
A butcher a. Nebraska City named Elser
discharged a young man named Frank
Hoover, who had beer in his employ. Hoove
was so enraged at Eiser that he attempted to
murder him last Wednesday morning with a
butcher knife. He now langu.shes In jail.
A Dawes county widow had plans made for
a SIS, 900 monument for her "dear DEPARTED"
but when the lawyer got through settling up
the estate the widow was doing homework
for the man who designed the monument at
81 a week.
A we'll known physician Of Omaha Ia said
to have made a number OF young society la.
dies happy by impsrting to them the secret
that TO prevent a possible cold in the event Of
! appearing decelette at evening psriies one
has but to wash tie neck and shoulders in al
cohol.
The 1 year old son Of c. J. Rest, one OF the
proprietors OF the Neli:h Leader, played
around a bonfire until his bib caught fire.
The child's screams brought assistance before
he was seriously burned. One hand and hip
were scorched, but not sufficiently to cripple
or dis6gure him. II was a narrow escape.
w. +. Fitch, retiring manager Of the Elk
horn road, was banqueted at the Willard
hotel, Omaha, on Thursday evening", by
employees of the road. II is pro-