The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-26
NTY, DAKOTA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1883.
Personal Matter.

A. 1. Stewart once put the price oi
, kid gloves down to fourteen cents pair
in order to ruin rival house. The ri
val house gobbled up the whole lot and
| raised the price to eighty-eight cents
Comment was needless, but 4. L. COM
| mented Just the same.
| There is no longer any doubt that Mr..
Seth Godfrey, whose death in Peru un
der suspicious circumstances was recent
ly reported to the state department at
| Washington, was foully murdered. Mr..
Godfrey was nephew of Charles Hast
| ings, of Detroit, and the latter has re-
celved from II. NJ. Brent, our acting
counsel at Callao, full particulars of the
murder as gwen by Mr.. w. B. Delaney,
! an American citizen residing in the vi
cinity of La Merced, where the crime
| was committed.
Mr.. Henry Ward Baecher is occurring
! in Texas. Perhaps instead of convert
ing the Texans, the Texans will convert
him. Adirondack" Murray went down
there and came back to New York to
advocate greater ease in procuring di-
vorces.
The dead body of lovely girl of l6,
nude, and with bullet hole in the side,
has been found near the fort at Leaven-
worth, Kansas. The head, bearing q
heavy mass of golden hair, was severed
from the body and lay several feet away
from it.
September 10, IA days after her mar
riage, Ada, the pretty Young wife of
Thomas Fl. Dunno disappeared and no
traces of her can be found. Inherited
insanity or detention by a vicious re-
jected lover are supposed to be account
able for the loss.
Mrs. Evaline French, New York
lady who died recently, will be taken
to the Pennsylvania crematory lin pur-
suance of her ante-mortem request.
Isaac Cornell of Elmira, who has been
poverty stricken all the l03 years of his
life, has received information that he is
the heir Of ss$3 100000 from an English
estate.
A diamond thief while protesting to
examine the gems of various Chicago
jewelers., has taken about $4,000 worth
within month, and the police can't
catch him.
Judge Wheeler in the United States
circuit court at NewYork has rendered
decision which dooms all the ancient IT,
ties to the water fronts of New York.
He says the crown could not give title
except to the linerof high water mark;
80 the city can fill in at any dock it
pleases.
Mrs. Thomas Cooch of Pottsville, Pa,
so seriously burned by her clothes ia
king fire died on the 10Th inst. Two hours
before death she insisted that the we'd
ding of her daughter to young gentle
man of Pottsville should take place by
her bedside, and the solemn ceremony
was performed in accordance with the
dying mothers request,
Edward Hovey, who killed his sister
in-law, Fannie Vermilye, in New York
ayear or SO ago. was notified on the 18th
that the court of appeals had affirmed
the decree that he should hang October
10. AT the trial Mrs. Hovey was exceed
inyly anxious to testify against him, but
since then her baby has been born and
she is now almost crazed at his fate.
Joseph Miller, Cincinnati German,
was married at Flushing, L. l., recently
to Julia Hinkman. an African maiden of
that place. Among the presents re-
caived were cook stove, springfield
and mattress, a plated butter-dish,
Webster's unabridged dictionary and
two wash tubs. The Flushing people are
greatly stirred up, and swear the bicol-
ored pair shall not live in that town.