Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-20
NEBRASKA.

the amcnnt Of So 800 TO Maria Atkinson, the
wife OF the man murdered last fall at Day kin
by a saloonkeeper named Shiel. Shells
pondsmen are held for the amount.
Three children OF JeDs Jensen, living near
Oakland, ate some wild parsnips the other
day, and before a doctor could be summoned
the youngest, aged 3 years, died from the
effects Of the poison. The other otwo recov-
cred.
The editor OF the Humphrey Republican
was appointed postmaster recently and in the
next issue OF his paper he announced that ne
had sold the Republican to the retiring post
local democratic sheet.
Two prisoners escaped from the Fillmore
county jail at Geneva last week by cutting a
hole through the roof with q jackkhiie and
have not been seen since. John Miller, alias
Thomas Craizer, and John Gabriel were their
names, the former u jewelry thief and the lat
ter a horse thief.
The annual report Of the Covington, South
Sioux City and Dakota City Railway company
shows the value OF the property to be
$l3, 965. 35; total indebtedness, $l,465.35;
gross earnings, $2,C6s IS; operating expenses,
sl,752 so. A dividend OF "a per cent. was
paid last August.
The Oakdale Pen and Plow gives this ad-
vice to Mr.. Coleman that "no legislator
should monkey with q dining room girl when
she Is loaded"
JOHN Clarke shot and fatally wounded q
man named Syms near North Platte Tues
day. The cause Of the shooting was Syms
relations with Clarke's divorced wife. Syms
was returning from a visit to neighbors, &C
companied by Clarke's daughter when the
shooting occurred. Clarke is in custody.
Ten miles west Of Creighton, John Rosen-
berger, q farmer, shot and killed Andrew
Casteline IN a row over Casteline's cattle tres
passing on Rosenberger's premises. Resen-
beI ger then set fire to his own house aud
burned 1t to the ground. Remaining in the
burning house, he shot himself through the
head causing instant death.
The farmers OF northern Gage and south
crn Lancaster counties will have a meeting
In the German hall at Cortland, April 6, to
pledge themselves not to buy any twine of
the trust, but to bind without twine, as they
have done before. They do not propose to
pay an exorbitant price for the product, but
will rather do without the twine.
Henry Chinn, an Englishman who had been
running a butcher shop at Craig for the past
year and a half, creased himself and quietly
slid out Of town between two days. He owed
everybody In town, and victimized the farm
ers by huying their cattle and promising to
pay for them In a short time, then dress and
ship them TO Omaha, pocketing the proceeds.
Some OF the people Of Hastings are ev!-
IDENTIFY not very well pleased with the an
nouncement OF the engagement Of Senator
Taggart, for the Nebraskan remarks: "The
constituents Of Senator Taggart would be
much better pleased IL he had postponed his
love making and devoted his time more as
sidiously to a faithful discharge OF his public
duties"
A 17-year-old young man, living near
Hampton, Hamilton county, has heen bound
over to appear at the next term Of district
court, charged with throwing shot or bullets
from a rubber attached to a forked stick, one
Of which struck a German woman in the tenn
pie. 1t was supposed for a time that she
would not recover, but is some better, al
though out Of her head.
Mrs. Peters, of P~lattsmouth, who resides
near the Fourth ward school house, narrowly
escaped being shot Wednesday evening about
s o'clock. She was sitting by a window aud
arose to pick up a garment which was on a
,b,f- ,oar ~, ,yhn, ;,e+ nc che e.opnoJ aSiJa
the report Of a pistol shot rang out and a bull
let came crashing through the window where
she had been sitting and buried itself In the
wall In the opposite side OF the room. II she
had been a moment later Ia her movement,
she would have received the ball In her body.
Ravenna has been enjoying a first class
sensation. Some two months ago a man
named T. B. Zaraba opened a general mer-
chandise store at that place. Evidently he
was q model citizen and a good business man.
The Knights Of Pyihias In their temporary
organization elected him treasurer Of the
Fraternity Lodge Of Knights OF Pythias, Of
Panora, la. Saturday evening last 1t was re-
ported that Zaraba had drawn ali the money
from the bank and had departed with a young
and handsome Bohemian girl named Gusta
Valek, a waiter at the Cuddy hotel, leaving a
wife and six children aim ost destitute. lara
ba's store has been closed by the creditors,
and the stock will probably be sufficient to
cover all Indebtedness. Very fortunately the
lodge funds amounting to $500 had not been
turned over to him, and are consequently
safe In the hands of the master of finance.
Zaraba's wife claims that this Is the third es-
capade OF the kline he has INDUCED In.
The guests at the Morton house, in Ne
braska City, were treated to q decided sensa-
ton Sunday morning, which has just been
made public. Last Friday Mics Rita Villers,
an elocut'onist who has been giving enter
tainments throughout the state, registered at
the above hotel, and Robert Cleveland wrote
his name as her manager" All went SEEM
ingly well until Saturday evening, when an
other lady arrived and put her signature on
record as Mrs. X. Cleveland, Kansas City,"
and then trouble began to brew. She found
her husband and q storm followed, In which
the thunder rolled and lightning flashed. SIC
discovered Miss Villers and wanted TO shoot
her, but was prevented, and then publicly ac-
cuao1 them ~ long and continued nauphty