The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-04-11
Record OF Casualties.

Smallpox has broken out in a thickly settled
factory district of New Haven.
Seven children in one family at Lake Elmo,
Mimi, are down with diphtheria.
Three children of Mrs. K~avanaugh, of East
Rochester, Mimi, died from diphthreia.
At Grand Haven, Mich, a fire destroyed
George L. Hubbard's hardware store. Loss,
stock, $4,000; insurance $4,000.
The village of Oakville, Ind, between Nun
Gle and Newcastle, was swept away ct 5 p. III.
Monday the 3lst, by q cyclone. Several lives
were lost.
Leonard Grewter, residing on Greenwood
prairie, near Elgin, Mimi, died of trichinosis
o few days ago, and several members OF the
family are very i'll with the same disease. They
have been eating raw pork all winter.
A girl named Hannah Kennedy died at Con
shockcn, neal Philadelphia, Friday, of by
drophobia. She was bitten by a dog last Jan
uary. Her wounds healed up, but she was
seized with spasms last Tuesday, and all efforts
to save her life proved futile.
The nitro glycerine house of The Rapanno
Chemical works Mt Thompson's Point, n. j.
opposite Chester, Pa, exp:oded on the Goth I
is supposed to have been caused by TOO much
heat generated by nitric acid. The six occu-
pants of the building were seen to rush for the
door and were jammed in a passage when the
explosion occurred. All We're instantly killed.
Their bones were broken and twisted and their
heads crushed in a frightful manner. They
were: lamot Dupont, VICE president Of the
company; w. N. Hill, superintendent; Mr.. Nor
cross, ~compounder of dynamite; George Nor
ton, employe; Lewis Lay, employe; A =. AcA.
erson, chemist, 81. Louis.
Personal Points.
Capt. George B. Dickinson, one of the oldest
captains on the lakes, is dead at Buffalo.
Francis Longfellow's school teacher, died
the other day in Portland, Me-, ninety years
old. He taught fifty years.
Judge {. B. Crumpler, Readjuster, is dead
at Petersburg, Va. He is the second Readjust-
er Judge who has died within a week.
Rev. J. Coleman Adams, of the First Univer-
salist church, Lynn, Mass, will accept a call to
St PauIs church, Chicago, formerly Rev. Dr..
Ryders.
Mary Penn Connolley, an intimate friend of
Stephen Girard, anda lineal descendent Of VIII
liam Penn, died in Bethlehem, Pa, Thursday,
at the age of eishty-two.
Josh Billings says no man in Michigan by the
name of Hunt or any other name gayo him and
several other humorists $1,000. Eli Perkins
was authority for the story.
Gov. Hubbard of Minnesota, has received a
letter from Franz Fl. Widstrand of Litchiold,
pronouncing the governor incompetent and
false to the trust reposed in him. Gen. Jenni-
sOn the Governors secretary says that Wild
strand is a mild Grams. Some time since he
mortgaged his property, ana refusing to pay
interest, because he thinks any %interes. unjust,
he lost it on a foreclosure. Ever since lie has
been beseeching the governor to get back his
property Tor him, and a short time ago he
wanted the governor to remove Judge Wander
burgh, because he would not permit Widstrand
to commence suit in the supreme court to re-
cover his property, Enclosed IN the letter was
a copy of Q paper he prints, called Tie Radical
and the plotting out of every vice.