Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-21
Nebraska.

uiIbuIS NhhNo citSbIlS hBhl5s
kearney will organize a local militia com
pany.
A Masonic lodge will be instituted at
Gresham.
The Y. NJ. c. A, of Pawnee, has been in
corporated.
There is a dearth in the marriage license
business at West Point.
Stromsburg has n hook and ladder com
pany numbering twenty members.
The Kansas City and Beatrice railroad
will build a new depot at Beatrice.
An oatmeal mill, with a capacity of 100
barrels daily, has been started at Beatrice.
The Wahoo Commercial union has fled
articles of incorporation with the secretary
of state. Capital, $4,000.
Counterfeit half dollar pieces are being
circulated throughout the state. They ring
all right but lack in weight.
\ Lowell court has decided that a hired
man working by the day is not entitled to
board unless he pays for it.
Over 81, 500 has been collected by the au-
thorities of Thaysr county from illegal
liquor sellers SO far this year.
A hen at Madison has adopted a litter of
kittens, and thinks as much of them as IL
they were her legitimate offspring.
Grand Island wants tho state fair located
ut that place and a committee has been ap-
pointed to solicit subscriptions to secure
that end.
Falls City people Amt stuck o. patent
medicine fakirs. A party Of that deso~ip-
ton were given a shower bath Of ancient
eggs tho other day.
Five hundred dollars In prizes will DO
given away at the Plattsmouth electric pal
ace exposition to base ball clubs who will
get up a tournament.
Scarcity Of brick Is Interfering with the
building business In Kearney, work on the
city buildings being suspended On account
Of the short supply Of material.
Lincoln looks very gay this week, the
business houses aad streets being bousti-
fully decorated with bunting, lights,
arches, etc, for the tradeslabor display
Thursday evening.
Niobrars Pioneer, O.: Last Saturday q
drove of 700 cattle passed through Niobrsrs
on its way to the upper Brule agency, rs
one Of the many donations of our generous
government to the red man.
Jennie Wright, adepraved girl at Omaha,
committed suicide Sunday morning because
her infatuation for . bartender named
Hank Allen was not refrigerated. Her
parents live at Red Oak, la.
Lightning struck John y. Albin, editor
of the McCool junction Record, some time
ago and he recovered sufficiently to re-
ANNA xynrk IJ0ht MIN n,obt IN Lpax- hat
ter than TO try to kill an editor.
An i~n-growing tos Aail prevented George
Patterson, of North Platte, from getting
into the West Point military academy.
He passed the examination ahead of all
competitors, and thinks 1t is toe bad that
he was rejected on that account.
A MISUNDERSTANDING tramp took in
the people of Crete last week. He secured
a weeks board on the promise of interced-
ing for the souls of n certain denomination
on Sunday, but when the day arrived he
changed his boarding house.
Several months es9Re J Rst s5anty sShi8Rasl4sr
had a fight and the former struck Simms
over tho head with a club, which resulted
in laying the victim up for some time. He
~" iiht SUM II the ulSLTlct court Tor
$1,000 damages for physical and mental in
juries.
Cal Wagner, a former resident of Ne
braska City, who was re ported recently as
having been lynched in Dakota for cattle
stealing, writes to a friend in this city pro-
testing against the newspaper accounts as
to the manner and cause of his taking of -
| He inSiats TINT ba vuaS aya bnuol
he in the cattle stealing business.
Omaha police have run down a young
robber named Hamilton, who uses a horse
and wagon in his business and appropriates
everything he can lay his hands on, from a.
load of lumber TO a bunch of toothpicks.
He has been working the suburbs of the
city and has been doing a thriving business
in securing all kinds of building material.
carpenters tools, whole lines of clothes.
beds and bedding, painters tools, and in
fact, everything he could see lying around
loose.
Hastings Nebraskan: A blowsnake was
killed in the peach orchard of Mr.. Dillen-
back, a few miles north of Hastings one
day last week, that had infested the or.
chard for some time. One of the Misses
Dillenbach was in the orchard one evening
and the reptile blew its poisonous blast at
her, and although she was thirty or forty
feet distant the stencil almost overcame her
and a short time afterwards she became SC
sick from the effect that medical assistance
was necessary. After the snake once ex
hausts itself 1t takes several hours to re
cover, and IL was while in that condition
that it was killed.
Hindu Marriages.
ease illuwtrating the haxdshirs IL
fiicted by Hindu marriage customs, and