The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05

imprisonment for ~insinuating in q letter to q
Buenos Ayres paper chat a prominent German
socialist was q natural son OF Kaiser Wilhelm.
Sharokoff, commander of the Turkestan bat
talon at the battle of Dashkepri, says that two
English officers vainly tried to persuade the
retreating Afghans to resist, and that $50
Afghans were killed on the bridge.
Count Terenzio Maminni, who died at Rome
recently, was q fellow worker with Mazzini,
president of the cabinet in lS4S when the Lib
erals formed a constitution, and was one of the
original advocates of & united Italy
The will of Gen. Gordon was proved in Lon.
don the 23d ult., by his brother, Sir Henry
William Gordon, X. G. b., the value of the
personality being under 81, 500. He bequeaths
the whole of the property to his sister, Mary
A.. Gordon, for her life, and on her death t5
be divided among his nephews and nieces.
Columbia by an order from Ottawa raising the
price of railway lands to 81. SO an acre, and in
%creasing stumpage and other duties on timber
to an extent that will destroy the lumber trade
of the province. At a public meeting held at
New Westminster d~enouncing resolutions were
passed.
The French Geographical society has re-
ceived news from the upper Congo that the
large Mohammedan population of that region,
excited probably by stories of Ell Mahdi's sue
cess, have resolved to assert their claims to
the center Of Africa The immediate occasion
of this extraordinary movement is said to
have been the conduct of Henry N. Stanley's
ivory expedition.
Victor Hugo died in Paris recently. He was
conscious most Of the time for several hours
before his death. He seemed at times TO see
death, and appeared to look upon its approach
as the coming offs friend. The poet spent all
his strength while conscious in talking and
seemed TO never tire of conversing with his
grandchildren. Cardinal Guibert, the arch
bishop OF Paris, sent specially to Hugo's resi-
dence, offering to visit HIM and administer
spiritual aid and the rites of the Catholic church.
M, Lockroy, the poets s%on-in-law, who was in
attendance at the deathbed when the cardinals
offer arrived, replied for Hugo, declining with
thanks the archbishop's tender, and saying for
the dying man: "Victor Hugo is expecting
death, but he does not desire the service of a
priest"
London Cable: The belief is growing that
Lord Roseberry's visit to Berlin is of political
Importance. Rumor says that he and Count
Schuvaloff, Who are both in Berlin, will ask
the Emperor William to undertake the arbi-
tration. If true, this shows the affair will in
deed be a farce. The Anglo Russian situation
stands thus: Everywhere, except in Calcutta,
assurances of peace are given. On the other
hand, night work and overtime are hastily re-
snmed in the royal a~rsenals, and orders are
again issued by the admiralty to expedite the
armament of the mercantile cruisers. The
Indian troop ships are ordered to be ready for
sea as soon rs possible, Farve sound has been
closed by torpedoes by the Swedish govern
ment. Five new sheltered batteries have been
built on the Finnish coast. Odessa and Sc
bastapol are being fortified with I'LL speed.
So 1T certainly seems the cry is .'peace where
fha1.a 10 n f1non an y E,a1a,;a n-,, IL
a%gnostic, lecturing recently; said, that the
British empire and peace could not dwell to-
gether; that the former was built by the sword,
and by the sword it must perish.