The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-02-06
UNITY, DAKOTA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY s, 1885.
SUMMARY OF NEWS OF The WEEK.
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Washington Special: A fire was discovered
Monday morning, Jan. Is in : lot Of books and
records stored under tho roof Of the house Of
representatives The firemen cut away the
wood and soon extInguished the fire, which
WAS confined to space OF less than twen-
ty feet square. The damage is trifing.
Tho fire is supposed tn have been started
by the electric wires used in lighting the
halls. The first discovery that fire was in
was taf
above, which in moment increased to quite .
shower. The few representative in the hall
and officers and pages rushed for the doors,
and for moment they seemed to expect an ex-
plosion and see repetition of Satnrday's
scene in the British house Of parliament There
except up . narrow staircase running
three stories, upon which two men
cannot pass each Other After some de-
lay, however buckets ~ water were passed
up, and what came dAneerously near being 3
serious confagration Wis averted. In the
stored the first records 5of congress, with all
the original reports OF me committees, pro-
ceedings OF the house and reports Of various
heads Of departments, including some valuable
reports dated lT90. Tho close proximity Of
the fire to these volumes rendered. it marvel
GUS that they were not burned
Roswell Grant uncle Of The general, died at
St. Albans, w. Va. Il
The weeks failures numbered $50, against
AS for tho week previous. u
The Hamburg~American line practically sells
second class passage for $40
A New Jersey woman has loft 81S, 900 to Fred
Douglas, or the income thereof.
The senate Of Nebraska passed q bill to for
bid the sale of tobacco to minors
tits thought the loss Of stock in Texas by the
cold weather will aggregate $40, ,0OO, ,000
A Chicago grand jury indlcted $40 judges
who served at tho recent elieged election.
The republicans gained twenty-five seats in
the French chambers at Sundays election.
John j. Orton, one Of the foremost lawyers
Of Wisconsin, died at his home in Milwaukee.
Commander George D. B. Glidden, U. S. N,
died at Cambridge, Mass, recently Of consum-
Gon.
DE- Harrison Of New York city has just mar
ried Miss Della Young, one Of Brigham's
daughters
At Smiths Falls, on the Canadian Pacific,
not far from Ottawa, passenger train was
thrown from the track and burned. H
The wrangle in the First Presbyterian church
of st. Paul has ended fpr the present in the
resignation Of the pastal, Mr.. Herriott
Con Murphy, the most notorious desperate
and Jail breaker IN Montana was lynch
cd by Helena vigilantes Oh Tuesday last
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The steamer st John 1t New York lies at
the dock blackened wrock, and the marine
insurance companies will Sse fully 100000.
Jessie K. Robinson and tyo children of Mat
tie Newbold of Northumberland county, Va,
were drowned while slidlngSon the ice near
Heathsville.
1t Hastings For hoasse stealing pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to five years in the state
penitentiary
Capt Joseph stewyea who disappeared from
Marlborough, Me-, a few days ago with about
$40, 900 of other peoples money, 10 supposed
to have gone to Canada.
George Hearst received the joint Democratic
caucus nominations for United States senator
from California, receiving II votes on the
seventeenth ballot; Henley, IL; Sumner, 9.
Excitement is rife In st Petersburg over the
attempted assassination Of Police Superinten-
don't Kollert He WAS attacked by two stran-
gers in one Of the man thoroughfares in broad
daylight.
Senator James G. Fair had the deed of .
building site in San Francisco, valued at $212,-
900, presented recently as 3 gift from him to
the Boys and Girls Aid society, which intends
building home.
James Sheridan Of Lawrence, Mass, has
been arrested on charge OF manslaughter. Il
is alleged that while enraged he kicked his
thirteen year old daughter Annie in the Abdo.
men, resulting in her death.
The New London Mutual Insurance compa-
ny of Norwich, Conn, Of which William Roath
embezzlng cashier of the Shetucket National
bank of that city, was treasurer, has found q
deficit in its accounts Of over $1,000
A B. Campbell, arrested iu Chicago the 9th
or day in connection with mail robberies, has
made confession in Winnipeg, giving away
another postoffice clerk there named Frank H
Duffy The latter has been arrested, and bal
is refused
T. B. Sanborn and James D.. Cumming, con.
victed in Washington of presenting fraudulen
claims to the navy department, were sentenced
recently, the former to six months in jail and
fine of $500, and the latter two years in Jail ant
| 5000 fine.
Reports from twenty-one cities, represent
ing 35 per cent of tho total sales Of stamps
postal cards and stamped envelopes, shows
falling off in sales of 1.2 per cent for the quar-
ter ended Dec. 81, 1884, as compared with 1883
Only four cities on the list show an increase.
Jens simonson, living near Audubon, MINI.
returned home drunk and finished his orgi
with quarrel with his wife and dose o
| strychnine, attempting to aid its digestion
with shotgun, and passing to the great beyon
with neatness and dispatch
| Mrs. Stewart Rice, Jr., OF Tacoma, Wyo
daughter of the late Gen. Sargent of Duluth
died the 23d inst, in tho former place He
remains will probably be brought to Duluth
for burial She was married last May to HI
Rice, then resident Of st Paul
| The master plumbers of Brooklyn organize
against their union employees, and on Saturda
last all except fifteen establishments discharge
those of their workmen whom they knew wer
union men. As RESULT there il a general sus
pension Of labor among the plumbers of th
city.
Tho employers of the Bessemer steel work
at Troy, N. Y, have decided to begin wor
Feb. 9 at reduction in price The mill his
been idle three weeks, and for six months pre-
yious was on one third time Eight hundrc
men will be given employment The pay ro
amounts to 81, 800 a week.
The propaganda at Rome has issued circt
lar, signed by Cardinal Simeon, to the effe
that the unanimous protest of the Cathol
bishops of the whole world has not preyente
alien authorities from liquidating the prope