Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-17
NEBRASKA.

The Nebraska City packing house has re-
ceiyed fifteen new refrigerator cars.
A Beatrice firm shipped a baby cab to Chat
ham, Kent, England, a few days ago.
An Omaha barber claims to be a Seventh
Day Baptist, and thus avoids the Sunday law.
1t cost the state S30S 10 bring back ). l..
Weber, the forger, now In the Dodge county
jail.
The possibility OF securing q mandatory
Of street cars Is being agitated at Platts'
mouth. ].
At Red Cloud the Republican river raised
two feet In fifteen minutes, the best time on
record.
Fremont BARRIERS have been notified that
thew will be prosecuted IL found shaving on
Sunday.
The Fremont Odd Fellows gave their an
nual picnic on the river and lake at Airing
ton August
The outfit of the Plum Creek creamery, at
Lexington. has been sold by the sheriff.
1t cost Cunning county 1894 SO to satisfy the
people of Blaine township that Maggie Men
dali died Of poisoning.
York has an ordinance which, TX enforced,
prevents farmers from selling their produce
on the streets Of the city.
John Delaney, OF Dodge county, has lost
sixty head OF cattle in a few months. Hydro
phobia is supposed to be the cause.
The Mofet hotel at Grand Island was re-
Gently struck by lightning and the contents
OF a coal oil can scattered over the room.
Hog cholera mas again commenced Its work
on a number Of herds OF hogs northeast OF
Brock. Several farmers have lost quite
heavily.
TIL republican state committee will meet
at the Millfrd hotel in Omaha August for
the purpose Of fixing the time OF the state
convention.
Crawford will try once more TO vote bonds
for a system of water works. The amount
proposed is $40, 900, and the election Will be
held Wednesday.
Kearney, McCook and several other towns
are lighted with electricity, but Omaha is
still In the darkness Of gaslight .-Omaha
World Herald, 5.
When the saloons In West Point close their
doors Oh Saturday night the old topers are
forced to &c dry-until the beer garden opens
up on Sunday morning.
The Burlington refused to take ten cars OF
cattle from Kansas City for South Omaha,
owing to Governor Thayer's Texas fever
suarsntining proclamation.
The first white settler in Brownyille was
Richard Brown, Of Holt county, Missouri,
| after whom the town was named. He arrived
on the Goth Of August, 1854.
The body Of the S-year-old boy named Her
man Schultz, who was drowned In the Mis-
souri, at Omaha on July 3, was found on a
sandbar near Gibson the other day.
Monday morning an unknown man was
found dead IN an Omaha elevator. He had
gone to one Of the upper floors to sleep, and
losing his way in the dark fell down the shaft.
Piattsmouth is considering what to do with
a sand bar Of large proportions which has
been accumulatiDg for years in front OF the
city. A move TO annex Is receiving support
g.. l.. Thomas. OF Cass county, has shipped
more wool than all the other farmers Of tht
county combined. The census returns show
that he OWES one-half OF the sheep In the
ounty.
E York has one OF the finest court houses IL
the state, but 1t is surrounded by bottomles'
mud holes. Recently a horse becoming
mired In one OF the pits had TO be pulled on
by a derrick.
Small pox still exists In the family OF Henri.
Loebe, at Centerville, the mother and five
children being down with the contagion
leaving the father and eldest son yet well anC
one child buried.
-5he following sign hangs on anew bridg'
near Central City; twenty-five dollars sn'
for riding or driving over this bridge taste
than n walk or buying Rock Springs Goa
from any one but Smith IL Jones"
Wednesday night a fellow named McCo,
and the keeper OF a saloon at Roseland, A
NJ. Hengan, became involved In a war c
words, when Mccoy whipped out a sni'e an'
stabbed Hengan in the abdomen, resulting
fatally.
F. T. Patterson, Of North Platte, will b.
recommended as cadet to West Point, hay
ing received the highest standing In the re
cent Examination. His average standing II
all branches was 619. Allen p. Brown, o
Schuyler, stood second.
Last winter a poor hungry tramp driftet
into York. Sheriff Shrek and Cliff FRANK
gave him r square meal and paid his fare t.
his destination. Last week the York phil
anthropists received a check for the amour
expended with interest.
A female thief was discovered "Wednesday
night vaooing a hen house In ~Greggsport, bu'
escs ped by threatening ID Kill the owner OF
the chickens IL he raised an alarm. She took
a foul advantage OF the chicken proprietor
aud carried of the entire lot.
The children Of Thomas Churchill were
playing under the frame work Of an old
barn, which was being torn down near Ster
ling, when a Iafter fell down striking a little
boy about Q years old on the back OF the
head, killing him instantly.
An elephant with Address circus became
unruly at Wood River and walking through
the tent wandered about town, going through
board and barb wire fences until late a
night. The manager OF the circus remained
over TO defend o suit for 800 damages.
While two boys were herding cattle nea
Peoria postoflce, In Knox county, one o
them enanped a pistOl at the other seyera