The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-24
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a MaEsellles eOltOr gave lola MS hrEt start
in the world by employing him to write q ro-
nance out of . mass Of police reports at two
sous per line. The result was o hit, and Zola
mas never employed any other method since.
Hans Makart, the dead yiennese %colorist, was
slenderly built, OF medium height, with delicate
features and q long black beard and hair
streaked with gray. His taciturnity was al
most as proverbial Is that Of Field Marshal
Won Moltke.
The closing Of tho university at Kieff has
greatly incensed the educated classes of Russia.
Excitement among the students of that country
is increasing. 1t is reported that the university
at Charkoff has been closed. The Russian gov
eminent has resolved to proceed against rebel
lious students with the utmost rigor.
On the 18th of September Yokohama and
Toxic were visited by o terrible typhoon. In
the latter city 5000 houses where wholly or
partly destroyed, and twenty people killed
The loss of life at sea was appalling. No es-
innate could be mad of the number. Tho
but of brief duration
Gen. De Lisle telesraphs that the wound
Gen. Negrier received in the engagement at
Keep is 40 painful that it is necessary that that
officer should rest, and that he therefore will
JAIL AAo VI III ! SOllh1uc5. 4E LII lQ1 ElASG
engagement the Chinese lost 1000 men, in
Guiding their generals. Our victory was main
~ due to the gallantry of the vanguard
After celebration of mass in ST. Peters
church, London, the bishop of the diocese and
the clergy and the congregation, numbering
500, proceeded to the shrine of Edward the Con-
fessor, in Westmi MISTER abbey, where they knelt
and prayed for the conversion of Englandto the
ancient faith They were not disturbed by the
vergers. Visitors to the abbey were much as
tonished by the proceedings.
Letters in the London Times paint a sad pic
ture of German oppression in Schleswig,
where the Danish population is made to feel
the alien dominion in all its harshness. Even
school girls are punished if they speak among
themselves in Danish. Railway conductors
are discharged for some slight %offense, while a
malden's birthday was broken up by gendarmes
and all those present arrested and fined be-
cause the girls were singing an old Danish
folk Gong.
Constantinople Cable: Great excitement
prevailes in government circles owing to a
most audacious robbery successfully accom-
piished recently. The Turkish mai! from Bag
dad was attacked near nightfaA at the Segorge
Lakaritch range, some forty miles from Ismid.5
The brlgaads made q grand haul. The govern
loss alone is believed to have been ESQ.,
GOO in remittances and tithes; the private losses
are about 4a,00 One mail rider succeeded
in escaping and carried the news to Isnid the
following day.
London cable: Minister Lowells Grafton on
democracy at the opening of the Midland in
stitute at Birmingham is still the subject of ex-
tended comment in the newspapers. The st
James Gazette quotes Mr.. Lowell's statement
hat an American may climb from the coal pit
to the highest positions, and says: He may
not, however, be fitted to govern men. He
may prove to be o Blaine or q Cleveland. In
that case filter persons may be deferred by our
grimy friend from entering politics and may be
compelled to retire to the comparative quiet OF
a foreign legation.
Several members Of the British association
who returned from a visit to Canada and the
United States complain of the niggardly con-
duct of Philadelphians, into whose hands they
fell while visiting American scientists. They
say publicans, cab drivers and others took
outrageous advantage of their innocence, and
swindled them numerically in hotel and 9TH
or charges. On the other hand, Prof. Gold
win Smith writes Indignantly to a Toronto
newspaper regarding the personnel of the Brit
ish scientific excursion party. He alleges it was
composed largely of Manchester ''bagmen,A
who came to America to sell goods for firms
they represent, and were really conducting
trade under the cover OF philosophy.
The North German Gazette says the idea @
the Congo congress in Berlin is warmly ar
proved by the governments of France, Belgi.
um, Spain, Holland, Austria and Prussia.
The Gazette also states that Germany recently
took steps in London to obtain security for
German commercial interests in Africa in the
event of the British annexation of what is now
unoccupied territory. The friendly exchange
Of views has thus far resulted in the decision
that Great Britain shall only place the south
ern coast Of New Guinea and adjacent islands
under British protection, aud that entente
cordiale may be hoped in regard to any rival
interests of both England and Germany else-
where.
An ultimatum has been sent the Transyaal
government by Great Britain. 1t recalls re-
peated violations of treaties and acts Of violence
committed by the Beers beyond the boundary
lines of the Transvaal country. 1t demands of
the T'ransvaal government due satisfaction for
the acts of aggression by Boer flibusiers and
q thorough observance of the articles of the
last convention entered into by both countries.
1t is reported that the British war office is al
ready preparing an expedition of 5000 men to
proceed to South Africa, u portion of which
will be drawn from the East India army. The
withdrawal of the proclamation annexing the
Montecias territory is not expected to altar the
position of affairs, as the Beers continue to
hold a grip upon the lands.