Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-01-26
NEBRASKA

buildings at F%airbury last Friday.
Mrs. J. IL. Spicer, Of Hastings, was serious
~ injured In a runaway last Friday.
j. j. STANFORD, general merchandise dealer
at North Bend, has failed. Total liabilities,
$40, 900.
Twenty-ni line lawyers were admitted to the
bar in Douglas county during the last term
OF court.
The treasurer Of Sheridan county has been
warrants.
The Harrington postoflcc for the past
quarter came within 50 Of being . presiden-
tial Office.
The water works in Rushville are not yet
working to any great extent, as the tank is
partly filled with Ice.
Rev. T. X. Tyson, who has been pastor OF
the Baptist church at Valparaiso for the past
four years, has resigned.
Mrs. Dallas Follmer, a most estimable lady
Of Oak, has become insane and viii be taken
to Omaha for treatment.
Mark Butler OF Geneva offers % cents for
dog scalps. The motive that prompts him Is
cow WORM Oh deau sncep.
1t is estimated that 1t will require $lS6,50
to pay the running expenses OF Lancaster
county during the coming year.
The Metcalf Cracker company, doing bust
ness al Central City, will remove to Kearney
and put In additional facilities.
NJ. Gould, cashier Of the Central Nebraska
National bank at David City, has resigned
his position and will return to Omaha.
William Chsppcll, a farmer residing near
Albion, disposed Of mortgsgcd property and
departed for Ohio last Saturday. He was ar
rested al Scribner and returned to Albion.
The ladies Of the Congregational church at
Lincoln will open an industrial school today
for the purpose Of teaching children to sew.
The meat inspector at Lincoln says that
not a carload Of Kansas City beef has been
sold in that city since bis last monthly report.
j. S. Rain, a travelling man from Clinton,
10 was found dead In his room at the Grand
Pacific hotel in Grand Island last Monday
morning.
An important event in student politics at
the Lincoln university is now transpiring.
1t is nothing less than the birth Of a new lit
erary society.
DR.. Alex. Robinson of Ashland, and Miss
Georgia Gillett Of Beatrice, were married AT
the residence Of the brides father In Beatrice
last Wednesday.
The residence OF Peter Gruss In Nebrasks
City was destroyed by fire last Wednesday
night. The family narrowly escaped perish
ing in the flames.
The Fremont Tribune remarks that as the
days fit by it becomes more and more evi
dent that the Dodge county board Of super
visors should employ q chaplain.
A farmers institute, under the auspices o
the Custer County Agricultural society, is t.
be held nj Broken Bow on the 23d inst. 4
winter display Of farm products will be
feature.
a short time since the Albion State banl
purchased the business and building Of th'
Boone County bank, and last Tuesday wa
reorganized iato the First National Bank o
Albion, with a capital of 100000.
Simultaneous with the announcement tina
police officers atationed in saloons at Omahi
10 watch the bartender comes the report tina
about a dozen applications are made eacl
day for membership on the force.
The dry goods store Of Galley Bros. a
Columbus, was entered by burglars las
Tuesday night, who Effected All entrance b,
cutting a hole through an eighteen-inch bricI
vail. About $500 worth Of goods wert
taken.
A Minden young man whose teeth, though
sound were Irregular, has had all his molar
extracted TO please the fancy of his sweet
heart. The couple win be married as sooi
as his store teeth are secured.
Gage county does business under TOWNSHIP
organization and has thirty supervisors
When the board is In session It is almost a
much OF a boom for Beatrice as Lincoln en-
joys when the legislature meets.
The initial marriage ceremony OF Rocl
county occurred last Sunday at Newport. Tn
contracting parties were VIM. A. Plants an,
Miss Mary T.. Lane. Judge Morgan per
formed the ceremony and it wss his frs
official act as Judge.
Geo. Haggermau, alias Hans Bonns, til
bastard who set FIRE TO John Craig's barr
near Schuyler some eight or ten days ago an'
stole three head Of fine horses, has beer
captured. Balford Doherty, a farmer resid
ing four miles south Of Elkhorn, caught hin
Friday night.
The position of city weighmaster In Nor
folk must be a lucrative one. Applicants 70
the job are SO numerous that the city council
has appointed a committee to examine tn
candidates and award the position TO the on,
who passes the best examination. A sort o
civil service racket.
At a post norton examination Of the bod
Of John Allrich, the farmer supposed to hay,
been poisoned at his home In SilNe Lake
township, Adams county, last Thursday, sui
fclent evidence developed to justify toe
coroner's jury In holding Mrs. Aldrlch for
the death OF her tu shand.
Jacob Sascly, who some time ago al
seconded from Crete after mortgeglng a team
wagon aud harness belor ging 70 his brother
aad pcrpctratiag other frauds, was arrested
al Warsaw, Ind last Saturday, and helt
there unti. an on CT with proper papers or
rived TO escort him back TO Crete.
The board OF trade of. Beatrice has passed
resolution declaring the attempted collection
Of the occupation tax detrimental to the hes