Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-05

will be erected at Hastings.
l.. Plowman, an Omaha man, wrote 157
words on a typewriter in n minute.
A Custer county farmer raised so pounds
tobacco on his farm the past season.
Beatrice is in need of more stone and
masons to carry on her building oper
atoms.
There is talk of placing the telegraph
and telephone wires under ground at
Pat McGrath, of Omaha, pounded his
wife over the head with "a beer glass ead
she will probably die.
Beatrice hasn't enough women who know
how to peel tomatoes to supply the demand
of the canning factory.
Washers have become so thick In Omaha
that young ladies nave applied for permits
sion to carry revolvers.
A number of brick masons struck IN
because they were not allowed tc
drink beer while at work.
A little son of Michael Zeigler, living
near Seward picked up a live rattlesnake.
The usual remedies saved his life.
The opera house at Ulysses is about com.
pleted and is said to be one Of the finest
places OF amusement in the state.
The livery stable of JOIN Walton, at
Johnson, was burned to the ground, and
six horses persisted in the flames.
Burglars went through the general store
of l.. G. Weber & Co., ut Arlington, taking
$50 worth of ready made clothing.
Three couples got $50 apiece for going
through the ACKNOWLEDGMENT one
act at the Kearney agricultural fair.
An unknown man has been working the
check racket in Fremont and worked three
checks for s11.7 each in one afternoon.
It is said that some of the conductors on
the Union Pacific don't divide evenly with
the company and will have to take a walk.
James McDougal, living near Shickley,
has stopped drinking. He went to bed
after a big drunk and will never wake up.
A silver eel which measured thirty-eight
inches in length and weighed six pounds
was caught near Columbus by ]. G.. Pol.
luck.
Mathew Pyle, a Nebraska City mer.
shant, was seriously injured by his horse
running away and dumping him out in the
street.
Tramps set fire to the residence Of o
widow named Mrs. Sauer at Columbus.
but the blaze was put out before much
damage was done.
Alice Kuhn, a Nebraska City domestic,
disappeared from that place a few days
ago. So did n large lumber of articles be.
longing to the people where she worked.
Anton Leinshinsky, the Plattsmouth man
who has been in the habit of beating his
wife, disappeared Thursday and it is
thought he may have sought rest beneath
the waters of the classic Missouri.
James Murphy, of Wymore, has a bull
dog with tourist" proclivities. The other
day it broke it's chain and took the train
for Washington, Kan, where it was
captured and returned TO it's owner.
Charles Cline and Moran Hester were
killed by lightning last week while seeking
shelter in a barn near Harrison, Sioux
county. The clothing was partly tornfrom
the bodies and both were terribly SCARED
and burned.
A party of York boys INDUCED in an anna.
teur execution, using the son of Sheriff
Shreck for a subject and a ladder for the
gallows. A slip in the rope put a serious
turn to the affair, and came near finishing
the subject who was only rescued ir
time to save his life.
A party of twenty men called at the resi-
Ja,.a " ,o,l-nu o.- n
who has a habit of whipping his wife, with
the intention Of applying q dose of his own
medicine, but their courage failed them,
and Buchanan will continue to furnish his
wife with black eyes.
There has been fled for record in the
Office of the county recorder a mortgage for
$500 100, executed by the Nebraska City
Water and Electric Light company and the
American Loan and Trust company. The
mortgage specifies that so much of the sum
shall be used in making repairs and build.
ing additions.
Tramps assaulted q brakeman on the
west-bound passenger train at Columbus
with knives, but he warded of the blows,
and in the scrimmage was knocked from
the train, which probably saved his life, as
the tramps were of the worst stripe and
evidently meant to make him a subject for
the coroner.
Several days ago a stranger went to Hew-
TIT Starr, q farmer living south Of Ne
braska City, and hired q horse to ride to a
~neighboring farm, promising to return In
an hour Starr gave him the best horse in
the stable, and now he offers a reward for
its return, the stranger evidently losing HE
way. Starr has not as many horses as he
he had before, but considerable more ex.
periencs.
A young man named Bert Southern, Iiv.
Ing four milss from Fullsrton, mads an IN
enectual attsmpt at suicids. He had been
sick q few days, and while the folks were
OFT in the hay field he ran q razor across
his throat, but failed to get deep enough to
sever the ~iugular. No cause for his act
could be learned. He will recover.
A man named Bussey deserted his wife
and family at Madison some time ago and
came back recently and wanted to "make
up" His wife refused TO have anything to
DO with him and he produced a bottle pur
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