Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-01-05
NEBRASKA.


mistress OF Fremont.
AW. Il. c. with twenty members has been
organized at Beaver City.
+. II. Lyle, OF the hardware firm Of Lyle
Bros. ~ Co., at Benkelman has become sud
denly insane.
The Republican remarks that another
Christmas has come and Omaha Is still with
out a city hall.
Forty wolves have been killed this season
by a pack Of hounds belonging to a Sioux
county ranchman.
Philip Boyle, u well known farme living
near Jackson, dropped dead in his buggy last
Sunday from heart disease.
The News urges the necessity OF q packing
house, all opera house, a canning factory and
railroad connections In Norfolk.
The county commissioners of Keith county
are being urged 10 convert the basement of
the court houEe into a county jail.
The Swedish Mutual Loan and Building as
ISOLATION Of Wahoo has been incorporated
with the small sun of q, t0O,0oo capital.
A new 81 200 church has just been com
pleted by the Presbytsrians at Burnestone
and will be dedicated the Both inst.
The first annual orator!cal contest Of Gates
college at Neigh occurred last Thursday. ID
X. Ceilings, Of Pender, won first honors.
Patrick Maginnis, appointment young black
smith Of Kimbsll, and Maggie Marshall, aged
81 years, eloped last Friday evening.
1t is said that Cherry county, with an area
larger than several eastern states, hasn't \
practic!ng physician within its borders.
Daniel Graves, who has been passing him
self off at Portsmouth as a Plnkerton detec,
tive, flew a few days ago., leaving an 80 board
bill.
The Red Cloud National bank has closed
Its doors and is in the hands OF the bank ex.
aminer. Assets and liabilities are as yet I'm
known.
According TO the Citizen 1t Is considered
a poor days business when not more thar
three TO five carloads Of hogs are marketed
In Scotland.
The arrival Of a gang Of tramps scared the
people of Long Pine the other evening and
they stayed up all night to prevent stores and
residences from being ralueu.
The Tribune is hopeful, as is shown by the
following: Next year Fremont will get q
$50, 0G0 court house ard possibly a sl0o,0O(
hotel In her Christmas stocking
A gang Of thieves have been working Crane
Island for the past month. The latest raid
was last Saturday night on a shoe store
About 500 worth OF goods were taken.
The Tribune admits that "sassiety" II
Fremont is rapidly growing recherche
ricochetty, evanescent and all that sort o.
thing, but spike tail coats come like pulling
teeth.
The recent failure at Beatrice Is accounted
for by the local press by the fact that the pro
prietor did not have sufficient capital to carr,
out his plans of selling goods at less thar
cost.
The teachers who have set out to provid
a dinner for all the children In Norfolk hav
a large undertaking on their hands, as ther
are at least 200 children within the corpo
rate limits.
Lee Freeman, a Sioux Falls tough, mad,
an unsuccessful attempt TO shoot o. w. Bucl
In the bar room Of the Cataract house las
Thursday night. He was quickly jagged
!, and an example will be made Of him.
James May, residing near Valparaiso, tool
a dose of ~tincture of aconite last Tuesda'
night, thinking 1t was cough syrup. Tn
timely arrival of a physician headed of al
obituary notice.
The North Platte club was organized AM
articles of interpretations adopted last Thurs
day night. The principal objects Of The clu|
will be TIE forwarding Of North Plates bust
ness interests, though social features are no
to be neglected.
Charles Hubbell, aged IS years, son OF Fl
Hubbell, proprietor OF the Iowa house a
P~lattsmouth, was run over by the cars las
Friday near the Burlington and Missouri
shops, receiving injuries which caused hi
death In a few hours.
An interesting meeting Of the women o
Beatrice who took part in the crusade agains
the saloons in 1874 was held at the Methods
Episcopal church at Beatrice last Sunda,
evening. The church was filed. The origina
number Of crusaders was about twenty-five, O.
whom about ten were present.
IL rIcuuOut iIlDuuc 10 itcpouelplc " LII
following; "a Lincoln cabman was knocked
down and robbed the other night by two mer
whom he had driven to a distant part Of the
city. This is another proof of Lincoln's
superiority over Omaha and Wahoo. Cab
men In the latter cities prefer to do all the
robbipg themselves whenever there is any to
be done"
A queer suit was decided at Kearney the
other day. A young man hired to work two
weeks for a farmer. At the expiration OF
four days the young man quit on account Of
sickness. He brought action 70 recover his
wages, and lost his case, besides having to
pay 50 per day to the farmer for hunting an
other man.
The authorities at Hastings we're called
upon last Thursday night TO take charge of a
stubborn child found in a water closet # the
Burlington and Missouri passenger train
bound west. 1t was ascertained that 1t was q
premature birth by a widow who was removed
from the train and taken to a hospital In Lin
coin. The babe was buried by the authorities
at Hastings. No inquest was held.
The board Of regents sat upon the petition
OF the Lincoln bar students for a room In
which to meet for law lectures. The action