The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-04-25
General News Items.

Brooklyn's last directory gives 800, 600 popu.
lation.
A wealthy lady has presented the New York
presbytery $4,000 for needy churches.
The Massachusetts house of representatives
ordered to a third reading a bill providing that
in writing policies for life insurance no com
pany shall make distinction on account of color.
The value of exports of breadstuffs in March,
ls = was slo'aas,4 Se, against MS $50 in the
March 81, 1884, $50, 79S, $40, against $167, 273,-
US same period last year.
Negotiations have been made for running a
line OF steamers on Shell and Grow Wing rivers
III machinery and material has all been Sc
cured, and is now on the ground at that place,
for a boat twelve feet wide by sixty feet long,
and sixty days hence will see her floating.
The postmaster at Forreston, a small town in
Clarendon count IS. c., has been removed and
q colored man appointed in his place. The
white people OF the tow are indignant, and
will not mail letters in the Office, but post them
on the train, causing the obnoxious officer TO
lose his pay.
At a meeting of tho G. A. r. committee at
Minneapolis, Maj. Heffalfinger read a telegram
from Gen. w. D. Washburn, authorizing the
hnance to draw upon him for 81 600
to aid in defraying the expenses Of the en-
campment, which announcement was received
with applause, and is an example worthy of
- otitSl I III luo
important event of the summer in Minneapolis.
committee of shareholders of the Pacific
bank of Boston have filed with the house com,
mittee on banking and currency a series of
charges against Controller Knox. Mr.. Knox,
however, declares them to be merely u rehash
of allegations before made and fully answered.
He further claims that the tlimsy nature of the
charges is shown by the fact that they are not
signed by q single stakeholder.
At a meeting recently held in New York it
was decided that iBasmuch as there were many
manned confederate soldiers in the south un-
able to earn their living by manual labor, and
as the states We're unable to provide a home for
them, the Northern people would aid in estab-
fishing d free home for them. Gen. R. W.
johnson OF st. Paul has been requested to act
as agent to receive any contributions the liberal
people OF Minnesota may desire to make.
St Paul has a case of leprosy, or something
like it. The name of the victim is Even Ever
son. He is about fifty years of age, and has
been in St Paul for some time. He came from
Norway, where he was u fisherman, and from
a district where lcprosy exists. He is believedto
be afflicted with the horrible scourge. He has
had eruptions on his body for q number of years,
and three years ago the disease became pro-
nounced in character. His body, limbs and
head are covered with large, swollen ulcers,
which emit a horrible stencil. His feet are
very badly swollen, and are three times their
natural size. His hands are n mass of sores,
and the disease has drawn the fingers down.
he is Kept by himself in an upper room of his
home, where disinfectants have been placed
by Or. Hoyt, the health officer. A number Of
neighbors are fearful that the disease is infec-
tlous, but DR.. Hoyt thinks there is no danger,
though one might become inoculated by con-
tact