Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-24
NEBRASKA.
SEES has q law and order league.

SALONS.
Nebraska City's police force now consists
OF two men.
A physician at West Point says 1t is eds
t~resslngly healthy there.
A flock Of ostrscAes will be one OF the at
fractions Of the state fair.
A Grand Army reunion lie to be held at
o'Neill, beginning August IS.
In some parts OF the state farmers are
making large quantities OF cider.
The Ulysses Congregational people have
donated $500 for a new parsonage.
The Beatrice city jail is empty the last man
having been liberated Wednesday.
A street car line in Grand Island Will We
extended to the new fair grounds.
The state records show that Nebraska n
81, OOO, coo weather. this year than last.
An addition to st. Msry's church at David
| City Is being erected. 1t will cost $l,3OO.
Eighteen and three. quarter pounds Is the
weight of a new borne babe at Grand Island.
Cucumbers are now recommended as a
sure poison for cockroaches and little red
ants.
The Auburn Post is stirring up the que
ton OF q new court uOust III Ntblth NoNh's .
f. c. johnson, of Linwood, is making
arrangements 70 start a newspaper at tina
place.
A roller Touring mill Is among the near
future improvements TO be acquired at Well
feet.
Max Hubert, OF Grand Island, who re-
ceiyed q sunstroke two weeks ago, died last
Friday.
A curiosity is on exhibition at PawneeC City
in the shape OF a corn stalk containing eight
ears of corn.
The question Of dividing Holt county is
being agitated by the Atkinson, Ewing and
Mineola papers.
On August 10 Lincoln will be called upon
to vote bonds for the extension OF the sani-
tsry sewer system.
The Omaha Motor Railway company has
placed a mortg age on record to secure the Is
sue OF $500, 600 worth of bonds.
1t is expected that the Burlington and
Union Pacific roads will enter into an ar
rangement for e union depot at Beatrice.
Albert Resting, Of Resing City, believes in
raising flax. This week he threshed 49s
bushels from a field of thirty-three acres.
Prospecting for coal In Whisky Run, near
Fairbury, IS proceeding satisfactorily and the
coal question will be decided in a few weeks.
The supervisors Of Dixon county, at their
last meeting, paid out the sum OF 1904 bounty
for 2S2 wolf scslps and s. for two wild cat
pelts.
A special election will be held at the vii
lage Of Hooper on August "A for voting on
the issue Of water bonds 20 the amount of
$500.
Peter Powers, Of Summit township, In But
Ter county, has fallen heir to an estate valued
at about $50, 600 by the death Of an aunt in
Peoria.
The editor of the Odell Enterprise is
supposed to be the only newspaper mar In
the state who is a Sunday school superfn-
tendent.
j. p. Glenn, OF Wymore, is carrying a cane
which was cut In the year he was born, fortS-
nine years ago. He will hand 1t down as a
keepsake to his children.
Mrs. Minnie Walworth, wife OF the de-
ceased postmaster at Loup City, has been up
pointed postmistress at that place. The ap
pointment is said to be a popular one.
The P~lattsmouth board Of trade has issued
an interesting circular denying that the city
has ever had q boom, but setting forth the
actual advantages Of the place for profitable
investment OF capital.
Mayor II. A. Cox, OF Chadron, has re-
signed his municipal Office and will resume
his former position OF conductor on the
South Park division of the Fremont, Elkhorn
and Missouri Valley road.
N. p. Crump, land office inspector for the
North Platte district for the last two years,
has been called upon to step down and out,
being succeeded by j. s. Caldwell, ex-con-
gresham from Cincinnati.
G. w. Scarf and others, of Grand Island,
offer a town lot valued at $50 as a premium
for the best general display Of farm products
exhibited at the county fair, the exhibit OF all
competitors to be donated to tie hospital.
The trial of Harvey Smith, for the murder
OF Logan, In Wheeler county, has been set
for August 20, and will take place at Bartlett.
Smith vigorously and continuously proclaims
that he committed the deed in self defense.
r. 0. Willis, editor Of the Cazard Mesnen-
ger, and nine adventurous friends invested
go In a lottery. They won $l5,eOO and now
all Nebraska newspaper men are saving their
cigar and lunch money to form lottery syndi-
Gates.
1t is the intention Of the young ladies com
prising the Beatrice Gypsy encampment"
drill squad to perfect a permanent organiza-
ton, and to enter the tests for competitive
drill at the state militia encampment should
It be held there this fall.
Wednesday morning the people Of Platts-
mouth were startled by a mar running up the
streets crying murder. He was captured, and
| stated that two men entered his room and
threw him out of a back window. 1t turned
out to be only a case Of delirium tremens.
1t Is claimed that Mra. Dudley, the Chris
tian science healer of Atchison, has done
some wonderful work at Ewing. She
succeeded in curing a Mrs. Lewis, who had
been confined 10 her bed nearly fourteen
months, and who is now able to be about ana
attending to her household duties.
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