Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-06
NEBRASKA.
Kearney Is to have a public library.

Fire destroyed a barber shop in Ashland
last Thursday night.
The Peru normal school graduated eight
scholars Thursday evening.
Beatrice voted the $l0O,00 courthouse
bonds by the bare majority Of 119.
A Presbyterian church has been organized
At Utica. 1t starts with twenty-six mem
bers.
The Knights OF Pythias of Nebraska viii
meet In annual c~onclave at Columbus
July 1.
A Madison man captured five young eagles
the other day. They are about the size Of
hawks.
Hattie Clark, n maynard girl of Lincoln,
has been sent 10 the industrial school q,
Kearney.
The safe In the depot at Blue Hill was
blown open early Sunday morning and $50 in
cash taken.
81, 500 for assessing the county and were al
lowed 81, 1868.
The veterans Of Kesrney are making exten
sive preparations for d reunion to be held Au-
gust II to IL.
The supreme representatives OF the ma
tional order Of United Workmen are In SEES
sion at Omaha.
Bellevue college has conferred the degree
of LII. ID. upon Charles 4. Henderson and Al.
gernon s. Paddock.
The Quealy Soap company Of Omaha filed
articles Of Incorporation Saturday. Its cap
ital stock is $25, 0eO.
a barn belonging to A. Thomas, at Clark,
was burned Thursday night. 1t is thought
to have been set on fire.
Kearney Is about to have a cotton mill.
The company asks $3.50, 600 from the city and
$780, 900 has been raised.
William VIM was, Wednesday, sentenced
to twenty years for rape on the 9-year-old sis
ter of his wife at Kearney.
The treasurer of Douglas county Saturday
forwarded TO New York $4,000 70 psy inter
est OH Douglas county bonds.
The trial Of VIM. Carson, for the murder o!
Chauncey T. West at a negro dance May Is
WAS begun Thursday at Beatrice
DR.. F. J. Shug received his commission
Thursday as one Of the examining surgeons
VI lGC SloSSo pShciOh booius
Chas. w. Tracy, alias Indian CHARLIE a
ssfecrscker, was seLt to the pen for three
years from Grand Island Thursday.
Argus Green, OF Plattsmouth, had a shout
der dislocatcd and three ribs broken by the
falling of a bank of earth last Thursday.
Orleans had a mac dog scare Thursday, 9
rabid canine running Wild for an hour and
biting several other dogs before 1t was shot
Work on the South Beatrice street railway
has begun, and the line will be completed c
the Chautauqua assembly grounds within q
week.
An unknown man was killed near Colum.
bus by a Union Pacific freight train Sunday
He was q Pole and supposed to reside neal
Duncan.
Edith Young, 9 years old, while endeavor
ing to cross the mill dam at Oakland Sun
day afternoon fell into the water and wa
drowned.
. Evening displays Of fireworks will be
prominent feature In the program of the sta,
fremen's tournament at Red Cloud, July II
to 10 inclusive.
A vigilance committee was organized q
Springfield last Saturday night, and hors,
I thieves 10 that locality viii hereafter NEE
with a warm reception.
l The county commissioners Of Otoe count,
J Friday sold to s. A. Kean u Co., OF Chicago
$4,000 of twenty-year 3 per cent. refundins
bonds for a premium Of s ,000.
' Charles Cody, Of Ogallala, only 5 years old
who was convicted Of larceny at the last tern
l Of court, has been caught pilfering again snC
! will now go to the reform school.
{ Lena Meyer, mother OF the child whicl
died last week at Oman. from the effects OF
Q dose Of carbollc acid, has been arrested Oh
D the charge of murder In the first degree.
K. T.. Woolsey, a well-known farmer Twin,
north Of Nebraska City, was Friday kicke,
on the head by a horse, injuring him so badl.
that It is thought the wound vii. prove fatal
1 A. l.. Davis and Ed Brown were killed In
thunderstorm at Royal, Antelope county, OF
) Wednesday. Davis two children miracu
, lousy escaped. Four horses were also killed
The value of the Pullman and Wayne
cars run In Nebraska, as computed by thu
state board OF equalization, is $S,3l3, 900
on which the assessment is placed a
1924, 500.
John Campbell, q youug man of Omaha
accidentally shot himself In the back Of the
head Saturday morning. He will not die,
Contrary to all precedents he knew the gun
was loaded.
The small fruit crop Of Otoe county has
been an immense one. More fruit has been
shipped from Nebraska City this season than
n any one previous year and the harvest ia
not half over.
Right Rev. Bishop o'Connor, Of Omsha,
assisted by Rev. j. Barry, administered IN
acrament Of confirmation TO q class Of
hirty-seven at 81. Joseph's Catholic church
Ia Lyons on last Sunday.
The school board and teachers in the pub
lie schools at West Point are in q fuse. The
principal IL charged with being unable 10
pass an examination, and the teachers say In
case he Is suspended they Will resign In
body.
In the cage OF the state vs.. Redfeld 4
Whitiock, salooEkeepers at Ashland, foi
selling liquor to a minor, the jury brought In
q verdict Of guilty under "extenasting cir
cumstances.n Just how this verdict will hold
Is doubtful.
Chadron will celebrate 81 ZOO wcrth. The