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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
Maxwell Admits He Killed p~re11er.

Maxwell, in the presence Of several re.
porters and the Jail guards at st. Louis
confessed that he had killed Preller by adj
ministcring an overdose of chioroform. In
order to pin him down he was asked to sign
a statement to thai effect, and this he did
in the presence OF several witnesses. He
said that all other statements which he
had made We're given under instructions
from his attorney. In making this state
mcnt Maxwell said:
when Preller died there was no groan-
ing. When n man takes chloroiorm he
brcathcs like this and Maxwell il
lustriated in Il most striking man
ner how one chloformed breathcs.
He threw pack his head and emit
ted a sound which was most peculiar, fore
ing the air from his lungs with n singular
choking result. THAT is the way a man
breathes who has taken chloform, he said,
apparently charmed with his mimicry. He
said that it would be proved that Prcller
had been Il sufferer from heart disease, and
he asked nuively. Do you know the effect
OF chloiorm on IL person who has heart dis
ease, 50 that it will do no harm, but the
chance are always against it, as any doc
tor will tell you. Now Preller had heart
disease, Il fact which could be proved out
side of my testimony. His family knew it,
and Others knew. He told m~caboutitlong
ago.. Whenever administered chloroform
to him | did it with the greatest care, on
this
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
A watertown {yyis.) sensation.

Papers have been filed in a suit for divorce
by DR.. james +. Cody,o OF WATERFOWL, Wis,
against his wife, Theresa Cody. The com
plant charges adultery with Clarence
Brown. The couple were married in 1850
and have one child four years old. The
suit is likely to create a sensation through
out the state, where DR.. Cody is well known.
about six weeks ago it is alleged Dir.
Cody attempted suicide by taking ten
grains OF morphine. Only the most
active exertion on the part Of
his brother physicions saved his life. 1t
was then alleged that DIR. Cody's action was
the result OF a discovery made by him IL
short time previous to his attempt on his
life, the nature OF which is revealed in the
complaint for divorce.
Young Brown, who is mentioned in the
complaint, is the son OF Peter Brown. a
banker and well known citizen OF Water
town. Brown was engaged in business in
Watertown at the time OF the above incl
dent, but shortly afterward sold out and
went West. He returned a week ago and
was quietly married to Miss Kitty Pugh OF
Watertown. Immediately after the mar
riage the newly welded couple took the
train for a Minnesota town, where young
Brown has charge OF an elevator.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
An Engineer In a Fearful FIJI.

Boston Advertiser: Train No. "a on the
& Albany railroad left Worcester
on time. 1t vas an express train, and due
in Boston Mt IL O'Clock, Conductor r.
b. Gardner was in charge, and
Edward King managed the engine.
When South birmingham was reached
was well and after taking on
more water the train sped on its way tow
ard Boston. Shortly after passing Cottage
Farm station Engineer King felt thnt be
was becoming sick, and as the rapidly fly
ing train sped down the track he fully real
lied that il something was not done at
once he would lose all control OF the en-
CINE and cars which followed him, and that
a terrible disaster would ensue. He
felt that the intense heat was more
than he could stand up under; he felt his
physical powers dropping away inch by inch,
and, MS a final effort, just before the engine
and train arrived at the crossing ofthe Prov
idence road he CAV all his effort to shut off
the steam and dropped insensibie on the
floor OF the cab. II the engine had been NJ
lowed to go by, an awful disaster might
have resulted. There was n train on the
Providence railroad track all ready to cross.
Engineer King dropped apparently dead
with his hand on the throttle. Conductor
Gardner at once took charge. The latter
very soon procured the services Of an en-
gineer on a switching engine, and the train
was brought to Boston with very little loss
Of time. Engineer King, although very i'll,
was conveyed to his home on the 3.a0n
u, train.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
The statistician Of the Ohio Labor

The statistician of the Ohio Labor
Bureau finds that the average cost oil
maintaining the families OF mechanics
and laborers is $lls.44 per year for
each person, or 32.46 cents per day.
The average cost Of maintaining a
Cinnamon in San Francisco, provided
hegoes without the Injuries, issaid to
be fifteen cents a week, besides q dol
lar amonth paid for lodgings. With
the labor markets already greatly
demoralized, and with decomposition
of cheap prison labor, the work
ingman, whom it costs thirty
two cents aday to supportea each mem
Der Of his family, would not look with
favor upon a competitor who can live
on half that sum for a week. The
aristocratlc element Of the country,
however, would gladly welcome "cheap
Chinee labor They like it not only
because it is cheap, but of its seryility.
An apistocratic teartable paper in
Boston is honest enough to confess
that the manners OF other races SAVIOR
too much of human equality, and
that the docile and servile Chinee mark
q desirable separation between the
employee and the fortunate possesor
ofwealth and culture.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
Illegally on the Pension Rolls.

Washington Special.-The discovery of a
large number Of names on the pension
rolls at Philadelphia and Washington
OF persons no longer entitled to draw
pensions has induced Commissioners Black
to start a system Of vcrification of pen.
sion rolls at other points. The ~vcritica-
ton at the Chicago office has just been COM
plcted, and it is alleged that sc names
have been found that should not be there.
These are said to be the names OF persons
now deceased, and widows of soldiers who
have again married and thus forfeited their
rights % pension. 1t does not appear, how
ever. that money has been paid out on &C.
count OF these 6 names, and the dis.
covery is important only as it will enable
the commissioner to revise and reduce fu-
ture estimates for appropriations. Here.
tofore it has been the custom to make up
the annual estimate on the number OF
names carried on the rolls forthe preceding
year. The death OF a pensioner or
the marriage Of n widow are not re.
ported to the office, and the names
OF such continue on the list, and perhaps
in the case OF the latter class n few %contin-
ne to draw pension. The Notification now
in progress will purge the rolls OF all names
that should be stricken Off, and thus n
more correct estimate for future appropri.
ations will be reached. tits not alleged that
any rand exists at the Chicago office in
connection with this matter.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
Cholera In Nav Jersey.

The people OF Camden, n. j., are cousid-
erably alarmed over what appears to have
been a death from cholera. Margaret
kealy, a young Irish domestic on the farm
of Edward p. Hunt, at White Horse, died
suddenly. Miss kealy was taken
suddenly and violently i'll, and
vomited continually until She died, IA
hour and n hail afterwards. Til.
coroner gavea certificate of death fromcon-
g~estfon ofthe brain, due tocholera morbas,
and the body was taken to an undertaken
in Philadelphia and was to be buried at
once. The house andcorpse were thoroughly
disinfected. Coroner Beal afterward con
tinued his Investigations and foand tlatthe
symptoms in the case were identical with
those OF Asiatic cholera. DR.. Bowman
Shivers Of Haddoniord, who was called in to
attend the girl, did not arrive until after
death, but he is also OF the opinion that it
is a case Of ture cholera.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
The ocean Quilted bx OIL.

New York speciel: The steamship olyne-
STA presented a dilap dated appearance as
she lay at her dock recently. She arrived
from Hamburg, and reported hay
ing encountered u cyclone. Capt.
Kuhn said on Aug. 10 n terrific cy-
clone swept down on them at 10
O'Clock. The wind suddenly swept down in
a perfect fury, and in a moment the sea ran
mountains high. He had never seen any
thing s. terrific. The water fell with a
crash on the deck, knocked down the sea-
men who were on duty and hurled them
against the bulwarks. 1t swept the
deck from stem to stern, carried away a com
panion hatch, pouredinto the cabins, caus-
ing G panic among the passengers who were
kept below. At midday another huge break
er carried away a boat and all movable ar
ticles on deck. Thecaptain saw that some
thing must be done, and decided to try the
effects of oil. A tank Of paint oil was taken
to the side of the ship and allowed to leak
out. The effect was marvellous. 1t spread
over the water and quieted it right down.
The cyclone lasted eight hours. There was
danger one time that the vessel would go
down with all on board. She carried ESQ
steerage passengers.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
West Pointers in Negro Regiments.

The Army and Navy Journal also pub
fishes a letter from Adjt. Gen. Drum to a
congressman, suppressing the name, in
which the congressman requests that u
young lieutenant just out of West Point,
who had been assigned to the command in
a negro regiment, be relieved OF hat COM
mand and sent to a white regiment, is
denied. The adiutant general says:
The wal department knows no difference
between the statue OF white and colored
soldiers, that are on a perfect equal
ity before the law; that they are
equally entrusted with the keep
ing OF the flag and with the honor OF the
country, and it is as important that color
ed regiments should be well differed and
well led on all occasions as other regiments.
While under the law they are maintained
as part OF the army OF the United States,
the secretary ofwar IA know no inequality.
and it is his duty to assign officers to them
upon the same principles which govern the
assignment oi all officers. The good OF the
service, the provisions OF the law, the dis
cipline OF the army and the unhesitatins
obedience to orders demand that officers
should acquiesce when assigned to such
regiments.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
Murder in Anoka, MINI.

Anoka, MIMI, was excited over the fatal
shooting OF Peter Gross by William F. Mir
rick. which occurred after midnight OF the
10th. The shooting took place in front of
Jackson's hotel, and was the unpremeditat-
ed freak OF a man crazed with drink. Mir
lex, who is a printer, well known in both
Minneapolis and st. Paul, and who had
been employed on the Evening
journal for the past four weeks.
drank in three different saloons before
going to his family, who reside in Anoka.
He then told his wife he overheard some
parties say they were goingdown to see Mrs.
Mirick, and he demanded his revolver,
which she gave him, saying he was going to
shoot somebody. He then came back up
town, and meeting Gross and jackson, the
proprietor OF the hotel, the former banter
ingiy inquired OF Mirick if he wasn't out
pretty late. Mirick replied, You think you
are smart" and told him to go into the
house, which Gross refused to do, and after
u few more words Mirick pulled q revolver
out of his pocket and fred, the bullet going
over CROSS head. Mirick fired again, and
the second bullet struck Gross in the left
side, about six inches above the hip.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
Miscelloneou. New. Note..

Dakota's immigration statistics shows q
rapidly increasing population.
It is estimated that Sedgwick county,
Kan, will produce 5000, 900 bushels OF
corn this season.
Ambrose Belden, a superstitious well4to-
do negro OF Atlanta, is dying from the
effects Of the curse OF the Voodoo doctor.
The official returns. as filed with the Sec
rotary ofstnte, show the population OF st.
Paul to be 1887, and that of Minneap-
oils, 10000.
Undertaken Merritt otNew York expresses
the belief that the federal government will
pay his bill Of 100000 for the expenses OF
Grants funeral.
Lord Ernest Vane Tempest is dead. He
was an officer in the federal army during
the late war Of the Rebellion, serving un.
der thu name of Capt Stewart.
The schedules of the assets and liabilities
OF John Roach have been filed.
They how the liabilities OF Mr.. Roach to
be SO, 222,S77.S1. The nominal assets are
stated to be So, 107 ,09s.s Z, and the actual
assets S4,4S1,47S.23.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
Conanea for E,travaranco.

A Philadelphia dispatch says that Miss
Adrianna Physick Brinckle has just been
released from the state iunatic asylum,
where she has been confined for twenty
seven years, on the extraordinary charge
OF ''e~xtravagance and eccentricity.'
She is a daughter OF the late DIR. Will
liam Draper Brinckle. q physician
who enjoyed a large practice and moved in
the highest circles OF society here for thirty
years. Miss Brinckle was an acknowledged
belle, a woman OF great beauty INC accom-
plishments and apopulariavorite. She was
extremely extravagant, but an unfortunate
change in the financial standing OF her
father made it impossible for hin to pay
her bills as he had always done before.
Adrianna was unable to overcome her
ex~travagant tastes, and without knowing
anything OF the law in such cases, ordered
n piano and a set OF furniture, which she
sold before paying for them. This proceed
ing scandalized the set to which the
Brinckles belonged, and, as it was stated at
the time, to save the family honor" Miss
Brinckle was sent to the asylum, entering
the institution in July, 1858. Upon her
arrival in thisc city she was taken to the
convalescents retreat near Glen Mills,
where she is being tenderly cared for. Miss
Brinckle is now a g%ray-haired woman OF
sixty, in the full possession of all her facul-
ties, and in good bodily health.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28

The trial OF Poundmaker, the Indian
leader, which has been held at Regina, N.
w. r., resulted in conviction and Il sentence
OF three years in the penitentiary. Consid-
cradle evidence was introduced to show that
Poundmaker counseled the India to cease
hostilities, and also prevented the murder
OF prisoners. The jury was out but hall an
hour, returning with n verdict of guilty as
charged. Poundmaker sud:
81 was good all summer. The peopletold
lies. ] saved II lot OF bloodshcd. | can't
understand how it is that after saving SO
many lives | am brought here. | could
nave been on the p~rairies still if | would"
Then, waving his hand majestically, hesaid
with a smile: II am Il man. Do as you
like. ! am in your power. gave myself
up. You did not catch me-"
On hearing his sentence the chief asked
that he be hanged, us he preferred death to
imprisonment.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28

1sA4 2lfGHr 4Nl. E4EHAAEA
The statement is telegraphed from
the capital Of Texas that there are
thirty millions OF acres Of good school
lands id that geographical division.
that can be Immediately bought or
leased BY the cattle barons who have
been ordered to move their herdsfrom
the S,86e,o00 acres they now occupy
IN the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reser-
vation. This statement from the CAPT
tai OF. Texas, and the vehement asser-
ton OF the cattle barons that there is
10 ~placeswhere they can find pastures
now, are not reconcilablet to each other
npon any hypothesis that permits the
:supposition that both are true.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
Of St, Paul and Minneapoli,.

The excitement OF weeks over the popu-
lation OF these rival cities was not much al
layed when the auditors OF Ramsey and
Hennepin counties filed their reports on
Saturday the 18th inst. Auditors O'Brien
and Mcdonald both attestcd and certified
and averred to truth and correctness, -
and ii either is wrong it will never be found
out this side OF the Styx. TIL figures show
the population OF st. Paul to be III, 397;
Ram'ey county, 4,S31; total, city and
county. OF ZIG, 22S. Minneapolis has a
population of 10000; Hennepin county,
1886; total, 14S, 1876.
ST. PAUL n RAMSEY COUNTY
The umbe OF inhabitants in st. Paul on
May l is returned as follows:
First ward...15.056 Sixth ward....13,565
Second ward. 9,299 Seventh ward. lilo
Third ward. .12, 249 SNew Ter. b.. 5S7
h ward 34,129 --
Fifth ward. 9 500 Total......1l1,3 1897
The cnumerations OF the city of Mime
npolis show as follows, to wit:
First ward.-..16,021 Sixth ward....30,S9
Second ward....S,527 Seventh ward. .6,971
Third ward...19,222 Eighth ward .....5, 511
Fourth ward. 81 ,992 -
Fifth ward...20,063 Total ~city.129,20O
There is nothing in the figures to encour-
age the hope that Minneapolis will grow to.
ward st. Paul. The smallest growth has
been in the ward which borders the city
limits OF st. Paul-the Second.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
How a Hoosicr Farmer Served the
TrampS.

The residence of Noah Lockabell, on a
farm in Broad's Valley near Charlottesville,
Ind, was entered by tramps recently.
Lockabell was awakened by the noise,
sprang from his bed and closed with the
one in the room. The burglar was rein
forced by two Others. Mr.. LockabelI is
a powerful man, and flung the captured
burglar against the other twoi in such man
ner as to bring the three to the floor. Then
he went at them with Il club. His wife
brought the clothes line, and together
they bound the tramps, sat down and
waited for them to recover. When
the tramps r~cgained consciousness, Mr..
Lockabell asked them which they
preferred to be taken to Charlottesville and
placed in Jail, where they stood the chance
OF several years in the psnitentiary, or to
be led cut, one at Il time, and receive such
Il whipping as he would administer. They
chose the latter, and the farmer took them
out, scvcrally, tied them to the gate post,
and administered 10Olashes to each tramp
with II large new rawhide wagon
whip. Each stroke OF the whip raised a
huge welt on the back of the tramp, and
when the operation was completed IL pool
OF blood could be seen where they had stood.
Their piteous cries Tor mercy called in the
%neighbors, until quite a little audience had
assembled to witness the castigation OF
Tramp Mob. Asallsympathized with the
irate farmer, the performance went on until
he had completed the hundred lashes.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
singular Miscecenation Case.

Joliet (Ill.) dispatch:-Mary Daniels OF
Terre Haute, a white woman, and Charles
A. Stewart, IL negro, mailing from the same
city, were released from Toilet. after seevins
q year each for bisapfy&FI SSlopedfrom
Terre Haute, leaving a white husband,
md Stewart lett a cofored wife. The two
went to Marseilles, H., and were married,
but were followed up from IndianajyS Stew
arts dusky better hall, who had them ar
rested and convicted. A popularity about
the Daniels women is that when shereached
the prison her face and hands had been col
ored by some kind OF q stain that gave her
the appearance of a lisht-colored mulatto
woman. A years s~oiourn behind the bars
had blcached herskin toits natural color,so
that when she was called up for discharge
the prison officials were astonished to see
that instead OF being a muiatto, Mary Dan
iels has dark eyes and a fair skin, withrosy
cheeks, and instead OF kinky hair her head
was adorned with bangs OF a light brown
color. Stewart had been released several
hours ahead Of the woman, but instead Of
leaving town he haunted about the prison,
waiting for her release. He remained Mt the
prison until the ST. Louis train arrived,
when she got aboard, giving Stewart the
slim
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
Capture of an Iowa Defaul.cr.

II. A. Tretz, the absconding agent OF the
American Express company and the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad at
New Albion, Iowa, has been captured, and
placed in the Jail at Waukon, Iowa.
lie was held under $4,000 bonds,
but being unable to procure bail was
was lodged in Jail to await the action
OF the grand jury. Tretz robbed the com
punics by whom he was employed and fled
on the 10th of June. He struck out for
British America, and since he left has trav-
cled over i, ZOO miles. He wentto Winnipeg
and thence west on the saskatchewan river.
Hcbought II team ofponics and drove across
the country to Dawson, Dak., where he was
caught working in Il wheat field. He was
pursued and captured by John Flynn, quite
agent OF the express company, who Travelled
over 9 700 miles alone in the British pos
sessions.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
But One riccan Scalp.

The fuss with Piegans at Billings, Mont,
SINNERS to a skirmish, with one scalp as Il
trophy. They are said to be pursued by
a party headed by Liver Eating John
son. That settles it. But little will be &C
complished. Among the COW men here
there is a strong feeling in favor OF
decisive dealing with these m%arauding
bands. Granville Stuart : recent IL t~terances
concerning Indians leaving their reser-
vations are seconded by all ourstock grow
ers. II ~ white nan steals, he is hung; ditto
with an Indian. In the case of these Pie
gans there is more hope that the band OF
twenty-five Crows. who suffered loss by the
S:egans, win dothem up. Adetectivesystem
is being organized whereby the movements
OF marau iers will be watched and tele-
graphed over the territory, and effective
means will be taken for the expurgation OF
rowing raiders.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
A Rad Man Loose Upon Society.

LanderssweS' Special: The escape of
Jacks Smith, the desperate cattle thief and
rustler gensgally, from the Green River jail,
- tsgat county, throws u bad man up
5~H95eiett ag6in. Smith is desperate and
dangerous, cool and determined. Lastwin-
tegshe spent chiefly in killing cattle from
Capt. r. A. Torrey's herd in the Big Horn
country, out Of revenge for an alleged wrong
received while working for Torrey the pre-
vious summer. For this the grand jury
found six indictments against hini,
all for grand larcenv~ In the spring
he seduced and carried off with
him a ranchman's young wife, and when the
husband claimed her filed his hat aud
clothingfu OF 45-calibcr bullet holes. For
this the grand jury brought in IL true bill
for assault with intent to commit murder
On being arraisned, Smith took rchange o;
Venue to Sweetwater, an adjoining county,
and, in default OF 81, 900 bail, was placed
in Green River jail to await the next term
OF court. While in this Jail he laid a saw
age plot to kill the iailer, and nearly sue
ceeded in doing go.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
No Fears of Cholera.

Surgeon General Hamilton, CT the Marine
hospital at Washington, says that there is
as yet nothing to alarm the people OF the
United States in the reports coming by ca
bic Of the spread Of cholera. Despite
all that has been said about the
portability OF the epidemic reaching our
shores this year, hcsays there is not u single
it WAS last year. There is every Indication
that this years outbreaks are to follow the
course OF those OF last year, the localities
suffering most severely being those which
have not taken the most ordinary preciiu-
tions OF cleanliness and disiniection. DR..
Hamilton says Americas danger is mainly
from cholera in England oriuCuba. Ithas
been his impression that ii it comes to the
United Stattsitwoul comedy way oiCuha,
and for this reason the efforts oithe service
have been directed mainly asainstcontagiop
in that direction.