Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-27
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Hastings people use zoo, 900 gallons Of water
daily.
There are $50 ~convicts In the Nebraska pen
itentiary.
J. L. Oliver has again assumed control OF
| the Fairfield Herald.
The Frenchlnan Valley bank is reported In
| excellent condition.
The Merrick county fair will be held Sep
TENDER IS, 10 and 20.
A council Of the Royal Arcanum is to be
organized at Kearney.
The Dundy county teachers institute opens
at Benkelman July %.
A youth of IL welded a school teacher OF
81 at Omaha last Tuesday.
Cheap John clothing fakirs have been doing
up Platte county farmers.
Lightning struck the steeple of the Luth-
eran church in Syracuse Monday.
&. l.. True, OF Palisade, lost tis touse by
fire last Tuesday. 1t was insured.
Robert Welch, Of Columbus, while in a tree
picking cherries, fell and broke his arm.
A number of buildings were blown down
at Osceola by the storm Of Saturday night.
They arrest plumbers in Omaha when they
fail to use good judgment in doing their work.
A farmer living near Fairmont had 100
bushels OF cherries this season from 1870
young trees.
A party Of twenty Italians from Omaha
were bounded out OF Weeping Water last
Wednesday.
The Hastings telephone exchange has been
enlarged and about fifty additional instru-
ments put In.
Hiram Chase, an Omaha Indian, has been
admitted tn practice law by Judge H~opcwci,
at Tekanah.
Armada Is making preparations TO organize
and hopes to secure the Kearney and Black
Hills railroad.
A heifer Of the Holsteln breed in Butler
county gave birth TO a calf when only / year
and Q days old.
Last year 40, 600 sheep were fed for market
at Fremont and 560, 600 have been contracted
for already this year.
The city council Of Broken Bow has passed
an ordinance prohibiting the use of profane
language on the streets.
The young son Of DR.. I. w. snowden, an
old resident,o of Nebraska City, died Of lock
Jaw recently at San Jose, Cal.
Lightning struck two private residences at
Hastings Friday morning. A little girl was
severely but not fatally shocked.
The annual camp meeting Of the Nebraska
State Holiness association opens at Bennett
August 20 and continues ten days.
The contract for the construction OF the
city hall at Grand Island call 3 for the com
pletion Of the building January /, 1890.
Ample provision has been made FOR the en-
tertainment Of all fremen who may attend
the tournament at Red Cloud this week.
Farley's bank, at Marquette, was struck
by lightning Saturday night. A new light.
ming rod had just been placed on the build.
ing.
Burglars entered the postoffice aud general
merchandise store at Hardy Saturday. They
secured 81 IN the postcfice and $50 at the
store.
The Portland Pavement company hiss be
gan operations In Beatrice, and will manu-
factlre artificial stone. Thirty men are EN-
ployed.
The Columbus Sentinel offers a years sub
scription to any one who VIII bring to that
Office the body of DR.. Cronin's murderer, dead
or alive.
Lightning struck the residence Of r. r
Douglas at Clark's Friday morning. Tn
house was considerably torn up, but no one
injured.
F. P. Alexander, Of Tecumseh, has a saddle
which has been in his family lob years and is
still in active use, the only thing new about
It being q girth.
+. NJ. Cutler, a Greeley county saloon man,
was arrested Friday for selling liquors with.
out a license. 1t being his first offense he
was fined s25 and costs and liberated.
The editor OF the Bennett Union eCitorially
announces his Willingness to ascertain, ex-
perimentally, IL Marriage is a failure" pro
vldiuE $50 delir quents will settle for sub
scription.
Reliable reports from all over the state
show that there is in Nebraska lao, 900 acres
Of OAK under cultivation. The average CON
dition Of the crop is 95 per cent. 1t is raised
chiefly for the seed.
AAS %No'Aoih iiShAoho VII
psny held Its first annual meeting Thursday
evening. The old directors were reelected,
and a dividend Of S per cent. was declared on
the ten morths' business.
Deacon" Smith, Of Genoa, is imprisoned
at Columbus because he could not give the
bail Of $500 for his appearance before the
district court OF Nance county on 3 charge Of
selling liquor without a license.
Push Eugie, OF Nebraska City, borrowed
S55 from Charles Otis, giving as security a
mortgage on 8 team OF mules. Shortly after
the transaction Engle left. Otis Is now Ia
Omaha looking for the man, mules or money.
He Is not particular which he gets hold Of
first.
The receipts OF the Kearney postofice for
the past quarter amounted to s., Sl3, an IN
crease OF 81 ,1s3 over the corresponding period
last year, and the hope to soon secure free
postal delivery.
Lightning struck the court house ct Aims
worth Saturday, and damaged it 10 the exteut
Of $500. 1t also struck q residence AZ the
Same place o~ccapied by a Mr.. Hayes, com
pletely demolishing IL.
Toe wife Of u Holdredge saloonkeeper be-
came enraged because her husband spent his