Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-10
NEBRASKA.

pupils.
York expects to get the National guard en-
.ampment.
The smallpox quarantine at st. Paul has
been raised.
The Grand Island and Wymore ball clubs
are no more.
West Point merchants will organize for
mutual protection.
The body of u suicide was found near Col
umbu Wednesday.
The contract for a s3,225 school house at
Geneva has been let.
The Peoples bank, at Tobias, is putting up
a new brick building.
There are three cases OF small pox In Cen.
~terville, Dodge county.
T.. G. Harlan Is In jail at Kearneyfor work
ing a confidence game.
The principal streets Of Hastings will here
after be OF uniform grade.
The corner stone OF the First Baptist
church at Gibbon has been laid.
The Ulysses school house has been sold
and will be converted into a hotel.
Last Friday the corner stone OF the $500
Baptist church was laid at Gibbon.
A Neigh man who tried to ship a box Of
prairie chickens only escaped by flight.
A stock company is being formed to oper-
ate the Norfolk foundry to It's full capacity.
j. r. Csntl'n. chairman OF the executive
committee OF the state grange OF Nebraska,
is dead.
The fax crop around Sterling Is being
thrasbed and yields from eleven to fourteen
bushels an acre.
kearney is progressing. The Enterprise
says the opera house floor was swept for the
Nodjeska performance.
Custer county supervisors voted themselves
81 per day and had their pictures taken in a
group at their last meeting.
Calves In the vicinity Of Sterling are at
fected with a strange disease, the origin or
name OF which is not known.
For the third time Hastings has let the
contract for a natural gas well. Two con-
tractors have failed to connect.
Norfolk citizens have received a steamboat
worth about 81 900, With which they will
make excursions on Norfolk creek.
Judge Enlow county Judge Of Gage county,
udS ItelSucd, duu W tuOct WuO hHOW Inc
true state Of things 1t is no surprise.
The Superior fair grounds are not consid-
cred fast just at present, on account OF four
feet Of water covering the Enclosure.
A live marten is on exhibitor at Wilson
vile, where 1t attracts much attention, be-
ing an animal rarely seen In the west.
Druggists at st. Paul refuse to pay $50 oc-
c~upatton tax, and the case will be appealed
to the supreme court for final decision.
Miss Marie Epson, the present incumbent,
Is candidate for reelection to the Office of
county superintendent Of Gage county.
The Farmers alliance of Custer county has
organized a purchasing and selling company,
and will do business as a corporation in the
future.
Wymore has passed an ordinance COMPEL
ing transient merchants to pay $50 a day for
the privilege Of swindlirg citizens on the
streets.
The city water at Nebraska City is causing
much dissatisfaction. 1t is full of mud aud
sand and resembles water filtered through a
rail fence.
The large new brick hotel at Chadron was
offered for sale last Wednesday to satisfy a
in lgment for SIG, 600. This judgment was
obtained by the contractors.
The Injunction against North Des Molnes
by the North Des Moines Water Works com
pany, restraining them from voting for g
town water works, was refused.
The United States fish commission will
stock the waters Of Nebraska streams with
some choice fish. Bass and carp viii be dis
tributed In October and November.
A Kearney woman has sued seven saloon
keepers Of that place for s., 600 for selling in
toxicating liquors TO her husband. The
saloon men say they will fight the case until
the last.
1t is settled that the Second regiment Of
the Iowa National Guard will encamp at Fort
Madison next month. The encampment will
open August ) and be continued throughout
that week.
Two BARRIERS Of Pawnee City are OF distin-
gushing ancestry. One is a nephew Of John
Brown, the Harper's Ferry insurrectiopist,
AMI the other a nephew Of Joseph Cook, the
Boston lecturer.
JOnn "A. OVerOeck, foreman OF the snip
ping department Of the glucose works at Des
Moines, went bathing In the lows river near
the soldiers home at Marshalltown Sunday
and was drowned.
Albert Van Clave, who resided eight miles
south of Wilsonville, was instantly killed by
lightning last Wednesday. All the other in
mates of the house were rendered uncon-
scious by the shock.
A postofice inspector visited the Creston
postoffice Monday with a view to reporting on
the city's application for a free mail delivery.
1t is understood that his report will favor es
tablishfng a free delivery.
The York County Agricultural society has
voted TO make a county exhibit at the state
fair, and will give $50 premium to the town
ship making the best exhibit at the county
fair, these township displays to be used at
the state fair.
A prize fight occurred at Scotia a few days
since between John Beck and Scott White FOR
the muniticent stake of s., but nearly 500
changed hands. Eight rounds were fought,
Beck having the best Of every one, and the
claret flowed freely on both sides.