Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-03
NEBRASKA.

The rainfall Of July has never been e~qualled
in the history of the state.
A kleptomaniac Of the sneak thief order re-
Gently stole a pump at Alliance.
The pontoon bridge at Nebraska City has
taken another trip down the river.
VIM. Murphy, aged 81 years, was drowned
at David City Friday while bathing.
According to the assessor Geneva is the
weslthiest town In Fillmore county.
A petition is being circulated at WILDER
praying for the pardon Of Sylvester Hall.
The Globe hotel at Broken Bow has changed
hands and is being put In first class order.
Carl Schenk, employed on the paving work
at Beatrice, received a sunstroke last Friday.
The Big Blue is on a tear. Tue water In
some places has risen ten feet and Is still ris.
Ing.
George Clark has been recommended by
Congre ssman Dorsey for the Alliance post
Office.
1t took a barber In Carleton four solid
hours to shampoo the heads Of two young
ladies.
There has been a hay famine in Grand
Island for the past three weeks.
The commissioners OF Banner county lately
decided that no saloon license would be
granted.
Tramps are numerous at Gordon. Thir-
teen boarded a freight train last Monday at
one time.
The new safe Of the county treasurer at
Box, Butte county, reposes In the open air on
a log wagon.
The question OF voting bonds for a sc, 900
school house will soon be submitted to the
people OF Schuyler.
the largest peacI crops in the state. 1t will
exceed 1000 bushels.
The proposition TO Issue water bonds
amounting to $4,000 carried by l57 majority
at Tekamah Friday.
Baltzer Jenny, a young man living near
Peigh, has disappeared, and 1t is thought he
has committed suicide.
A movement is on foot by the newspaper
fraternity OF Clay county to hold a picnic ON
the Blue river In August.
A couple OF men were carried over the dam
at Beatrice last Friday and one of them mar
rowly escaped drowning.
A special car Of excursionists is being or
gained at Central City and Clsrks to go to
the mountains for q month.
William Little, who has been a resident OF
Johnson county for thirty years, has gone on
a visit to his old home Ireland.
A temperance billiard hall at Genoa has
turned out to be a full-fedged gin mill and
the proprietor has been arrested,
Several Burchard men tried to beat a
sharper who travels with Coles show and the
lesson cost each Of them from 81 to $50.
Colonel West, who was appointed shipping
and receiving clerk at the Indian supply de-
20. at Rushville, has taken charge OF the of
fee.
Lewis II. Evans, a machinist Of Wymore,
fell under the tender OF an engine last
Wednesday and the amputation OF a limb was
the result.
The Nebraska state board OF horticulture
met In Fremont Tuesday. A large number
OF prominent horticulturists were present
from adjoining states.
Messages are being transmitted By tele-
phone over a barb wire fence between Col
umbus and the fair grounds. The arrange
ment works like a charm.
John Curtis, an old pioneer living near
Burchard, died last week, aged 20. The de-
ceased took a homestead in Turkey Creek
precinct twenty-three years ago.
The secretary OF he Chase county agricul-
tural and horticural fair association has
been kept busy this week receiving samples
1 NJ small uraJpu For oxhib{tinn 10 tbn ....n
fair.
At the late X. z. engagement at Columbus,
Hebron division, No. %, won the first prize
in the competitive drill by an average score
Of ninety-two points, seven more than
| Omaha.
Rustling farmers In the west part Of the
state occupy their spare time In gathering
bones on the prairie for which they receive
81 per ton. 1t beats raising corn at IS cents
a bushel.
Whilst the 17-year-old son OF Thoma.
Wright, near Kennard, was coming home
from a field his team took fright and run
away, throwing him off the cultivator, killing
him instantly.
W.T.. Boyle, who was brought to Hebron
from Kansas last week charged with horse |
stealing, had his preliminary examination
last Tuesday and was held for trial at the
next term OF the district court.
Landlord Miller, OF the Emo house at FIRE.
mont, introduced a new mode of ~ejecting
rowdies from his place the other day. Two
OF the disturbers will Gerry an arm and a
head respectively In a sling for some time.
For the past four years Edgar has been left
out In the cold when II came TO divis' IN of
county offices. This year she comes to the
front with the determination that II there is
large persimmon on the political tree It
belongs to her.
Harvard lately passed a dog tax ordinance
and the mayor promptly issued a proclama-
enforcing the law and ordering the i'm
muzz!iDg Of dogs, because of the
prevalence OF h~ydrophobia, the penalty OF
iisobedience being death TO the dog.
DR.. Goodel, Of WILDER, was blown from his
recently by the WIND catching under
an umbrella which was attached 10 the seat.
His shoulder was thrown put Of place and he
unable to move Tor about four hours, I'm.
some one came along, when he was taken
10 q house near by.