Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-27
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A creamery is the latest thing In the pro
gram at York.
A stock company Is being formed at Alma
to erect q SIS, COO brick hotel.
A lack Of patronage has resulted In the
demise of the Louisville Observer.
DR.. G. N. Sutton, Of Syracuse, has suffered
two parslytic strokes within a month.
The school census of Omaha, just com
pleted, shows 20, 243 children of school age.
Church Howe Is walking around Auburn on
. pair o. crutches as the result Of asprained
ankle.
The First N. E. church of Omaha has
broken ground for q church building to cost
81, 900.
The police station at Omaha entertained
124 homeless wanderers during the mouth Of
March.
They want a new court house In Cass
county, and the commissioner having refused
to make the call for an election, the citizens
OF Plattsmouth propose to try a hand at COM
~pulsion, and have therefore commenced man
damus proceedings in the supreme court.
South Omaha is petitioniDg It's mayor,
Mayor Sloane, to order the saloons closed on
Sunday.
Ellis Waldron accidentally shot and killed
Sunday.
Charles II. Gardner, Of O'Neill, has pur-
chased a controlling interest in the o Neil
Frontier.
The Burlington and Missouri depot at Fair
mont was burned Monday evening. Loss,
$1,000 to 5000.
Arrangements have been completed for the
erection Of a grand opera house In Lincoln at
a cost Of 81 O,Oo0.
The acreage of wheat sown this spring in
western Nebrasks is the largest since the
settlement of the country.
"Why shouldn't the Omaha board of trade
go to Oklahoma and try to begin a new lifei''
asks the Omaha Republican.
A prairie fire on John Copley's farm, near
Unadilla, on Sunday destroyed barns, grain,
stock and An orchard. Loss, 81, 200.
Last Sunday was another day Of closed So
loons in Omaha. The Republican says 2,OO(
sturdy citizens visited Council Bluffs.
III WIG SIdaha y "oihp u
Florence have struck against a reduction o.
their wages from $1.7 rs to 81 so per day.
An Omaha plumber has fallen heir to $l65,
600, and the Herald observes that at leas
one plumber has been saved from starvation
Mayor Kretsinger, the new mayor OF Beat
rice, has recommended that the liquor licens,
be raised to g., 900, double the present amount
There are 100 men In the Beatrice fire de
%partment, and the equipment consists o.
three hose carts and one hook and ladder
truck.
All the old city officers of Grand Island
have been reappointed except chief of police
the new incumbent Of that office being JOSEPH
Killian.
Lightning struck the house of Elijah Glea
son at Utica during a recent storm, demolish
ing one end of the building and shocking the
inmates.
Within a few days arrangements will b,
contaminated Whereby ID c. Dunbar will be
come business manager of the Omaha Re
publican.
A number OF the men who have been dis
charged from the Burlington and Missouri
chops at Plattsmoulh have secured work a.
farm hands.
The supervisors Of Hardin county have
called a special election for May Il to vote OF
the issuing Of S25, coo In bonds to build a new
court house.
The state legislature has changed the date
of holding the annual district school meeting
from the first Monday N April to the las
Monday In June.
An unknown man was run over and killed
by a passenger train near Chadron SUNDAY
no heed to signals.
A company Is being organized at Kearney
to manufacture sugar from sorghum, and
committee has been sent to Fort Scott to In
vestigate the plant there.
Harry Mordrum, an Omaha street cal
driver, was kicked under a wheel Of his cal
by a horse on Monday and then dragged sixty
feet. He will probably die.
Harry Mordrum, an Omaha street Cal
driver, was kicked under a wheel Of his Cal
by q horse on Monday and then dragged
sixty feet. He will probably die.
Ann Dennison, IA years old, on the 30tl
inst. attempted to cross the railroad track at
Greenwood ahead OF the engine. She was
caught by the pilot and instantly killed.
Harry Wilson, a big bully Of Lamar, re-
turned from Colorado In an intoxicated con.
dition and tried to run the town, but was laid
out cold by . little man whom he insulted.
The Meth odist people At Nashville gave
their pastor = birthday dinner, the msin OBJ
iect Of which was to raise money to purchase
= carriage horse for him. Proceeds nearly
800.
| The 1o-yearold daughter of William White,
living at Auburn, was severely burned
Wednesday by her clothes catching fire from
some grass that was burning near tho school
house.
The Beatrice Republican says that two pc
titions are In circulation asking for a new
court house. One asks for 4 building to cost
$50, 900 and the other for q building to cos,
s2Co,0OO.
A temperance lecturer held meetings a
Drainerd for some time before the election a
an expense OF 81 per night. The result Of tn,
election shows = heavier majority than eve
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