Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-07

new lease Of life.
Farmers around Chambers are being be-
sieged by oats buyers.
Colonel johnson, Of Ashland, will be 100
years old next October.
Harvest excursions are the cause Of many
people visiting the state.
M%ethodists in Greeley point with pride
TO a new church building.
The whisky question is causing dissen-
sions and feuds at Paxton.
Omaha has been presented with a forty
acre tract Of land for q park.
An ear Of corn grown near Wymore
measures 1917 inches in length.
A Plattsmouth elevator receives about
seventy-6ve loads of grain each day.
The machinery of the Utica roller mill
has been transported to Greeley Center.
The roster of Reno post Of Lexington
shows the names of eighty-two old soldiers.
The St. Francis academy, Of Columbus,
opens its eighth scholastic year Septem-
Der 4.
A three-story court house is being erected
at Harrisburg, the county seat of Banner
county.
Several cases of diphtheria are reported
at Ere mont, and one house has been quar-
sntined.
The Beatrice Daily Express has found
out that it takes money TO run q morning
newspaper.
Omaha proposes TO extend the course OF
manual training in her schools from two to
four years.
Labor day gives Nebraska more legal
holidays than any other state in the p-ion
eight in all.
Beatrice knights Templar will attend the
triennial conclave to be held at Washing
ton October 8.
Solomon II. Risbar worked the merchants
Of Ogalalla to the extent of 1900 on the
bogus order scheme.
The Beatrice hose company gave an en-
tertainment Thursday for the benefit Of In
dian creek food sufferers.
The residence of r. C. Wsyland, Of South
Omaha, was entered Thursday nigh and
$50 worth of property stolen.
One hundred persons are employed in the
Nebraska City canning factory. The pack
this year will amour TO 10000 ans.
Saunders county farmers meet at Wahoo
next Saturday for the purpose of organiz-
ing a mutual fire insurance company.
1t Is estimated that 10000 acres of land
were sown TO fax in Nebraska this year.
The average yield will be very large.
The sisters academy at Hastings is fast
nearing a state Of completion. II will be
two months, however, before it will be 90.
cupied.
Hog cholera has appeared near Ames.
A farmer whose hogs were affected saved
seven out Of twenty by the use Of kerosene
and lye.
Acknowledgement Leese has decided that
county supervisors now holding Office are
entitled to the increase of salary from 81 to
50 per day.
Chris Schwab, living near North Platte,
who was in the habit of loading a shotgun
and shooting imaginary persons, has been
| ~adjudged insane.
j. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska City,
will expend over 81, 500 in rebuilding his
large fish dam which was recently washed
out by heavy rains
The 2-year-old child of John Reedmuller,
of Fontanelle, drank from a saucer filed
with fly poison Wednesday, from the eff.
fects of which it died.
Arrangements have been completed for a
grand harvest festival to be held at Wy.
more next Tuesday. j. Sterling Morton
will deliver an address.
A case was fled last week against the
unknown heirs of Christopher Columbus,
now deceased, who formerly owned prop
erty at Kearney Junction.
Brady Island is to have a new bank, to be
known as the Citizens State bank. 1t will
be started by the proprietors of the Tren
ton, Hitchcock county, bank.
Frank Guthrie escaped from the Mo
brara Jail last Thursday. He did the work
with powder, and left q note stating tina,
he would return in time for trial at the dis
trict court.
Reports from the northwest bring bad
news concerning the corn crop west of Val
entine. There is no crop at all west OF
Valentine, dry weather having cooked the
growing corn.
AN immiRrdtiOn committee mas ieft Mad.
rid for the east to be absent several weeks
They go prepared to show up the advan
tages Of that locality as a desirable place
for investments.
The police judge and chief Of police a,
Madison have an unusual grievance. They
state that they are handicapped at every
turn on account Of the lack of proper ordi.
nances to govern the city.
As Nicboli Clausen, aged Is years, was
driving q team attached to q mower neal
Fremont, last Friday, he was throws
in front Of the machine and his right arm
completely severed . few inches from tbs
shoulder.
Only about one-fourth of the land Of
Blaine, Thomas and southwest Browr
counties is yet occupied, the rest of the
land still being held by the government and
being opened for presumption, homestead
and tree claim entry.
A letter containinga check for Is, 600, id
dressed 70 the long lost John Doe, was re
ceived at Weeping Water one day thi,
week, but remains uncalled for. Since
John voted on the court house proposition
at Weeping Water in July nothing has beer