The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14
THE NEWS SUMMARIZED.
From Warrington,

The public debt statement shows an al
legged reduction OF IS, 662, 100 in July.
The total amount paid Mr.. Roach by the
navy department from 1862 to date was
$10,333,626.
Baron Schaeffer, the Austrian minister at
Washington, islosing his health lthe climate
not agreeing with him..
Charles l.. Skinner OF Baltimore was dis.
barred from practice as an attorney before
the interior department, for extorting lille.
gal fees.
Postmasters commissioned: e. P.
Dorivla, Caledonia, Mimi; j. F.
Qtinlan, LIE Sueur Center, Mimi; j.. N.
Hooper, Mabel, MINI.
Secretary Whitney makes public the criti-
clsms OF the naval advisory board on the
report OF the Dolphin board of examiners,
together with the reply OF the latter.
Joseph NJ. Morrow was appointed col
lector of internal revenue for the Sixth dis
trict OF Wisconsin, ard NJ. ID. McHenry was
appointed receiver OF public moneys at Des
Moincs, Iowa.
Prof. Riley, the government entomologist,
is lending every energy to the task OF dis
covering whether there is likely to be a gem
eral visitation OF the Rocky Mountainlocust
in the Northwest next year.
The wife OF Senior Don Matias Romero,
the Mexican minister at Washington, was
Miss Lucretia Allen of Philadelphia, Rom
eros brother Cayetano also married an
American girl, Miss Haines OF Washington
Senator Malone has issued a circular to
all the postmasters in Virginia who have
been bounced, asking questions as to the
circumstances vi their removal. He pro-
poses to use the inforlnation when the senate
meets.
The prcsidens received a telegram from,
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, saying that he
was in Portland, Or, when he received
word OF his selection as one of the pallbear-
ers, and that he had started Immediately
for New York.
1t is understood that the presidentwithin
a few days will fill the vacant Lieutenant
cies existing in the line OF the army from
civil life. There will be ten vacancies after
the non-commissioned officers who are
now being examined shall have been assign
ed to regiments.
A soldier at Bombay was reported for
misconduct. In revenge he shot and killed
two s%erseants belonging to a native resi-
ment. He then barricaded himself within
his quarters and hot his wife dead. After
Keeping up for a thine an effective fire against
those who attempted to assail his retreat
he lay down beside his wife's corpse and
with his last bullet ended his own lie.
The president has made the following APP
pointments: Collectors OF Customs-Isaac
B. Poucher, for the district OF Oswego, N.
Y; Joseph Magotfin, district OF Pasc del
Norte, Tex; Charles +. Bailey, district OF
Corpus Christi, Tex. United States consul
at Newcastle, Joseph Smith, OF the district
OF Columbia; Alexander N. Wallace, sur
yeyor OF custom for the port of Atlanta, Ga.
The civil service commission have sent to
Gen. Black, commissioner OF pensions, the
entire list OF persons who nave passed sue
eessful examination for appointment as
pension examiners. The list contains three
hundred names, and there are eighty va.
cancies to be filed. The commissioner has
r~einstated four of the pension examiners
who were legislated out of Office, and will
hitthe other seventy-sis vacancies from the
names certified by the civil service commits
sion
The president has decided to retain the
following United States consuls on
account OF their excellent records: J.
H.. Stewart, at Antwerp, Belgium; H.
j. Sprague (who has been at his post since
1S4S), at Gibraltar; II. c. Hilton, at God
erich, Canada; Oscar Malmras, at Lieth,
England; William Thompson, at South
ampton, England; p. j. Stevens formerly
clerk OF the house appropriations commit
tee), at Victoria, B. c.; Phillip Carroll, at
Palermo, Italy; r. o. Williams consul
GENERALLY, at Havana, and c. c.. Ford (com.
mercial AGENT, at SaguaLa Grande. Jasper
Smith, formerly commercial agent at Not
tingham, has been transferred to New-cas.
tle-on-Tyne, and Secretary Bayard has APP.
pointed G. S. Williams at Nottingham. Mr..
Williams is resident OF western New York.