The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14
General News.

Milwaukee is preparing to celebrate her
semi-centennial Sept. II.
The failures of the week number 1874,
against 215 the week previous.
There were 256 deaths in Boston last
week, OF which 115 werelittle babies.
George W. Childs insures the lives of all
the principal men OF his paper, the Phila-
delphia Ledger.
Gen. Sherman says the Grant funeral
parade will be the grundest military display
ever seen in New York.
and Commissioner Sparks declares him.
sell In favor OF consolidating the surveyor
generalships OF Minnesota and Dakota.
A Chicago newspaper asserts that
thousands of diseased sheep are daily
slaughtered for consumption in that city.
PAUL & Hamilton, organ manufacturers
OF Lancaster, Pa, havefailed. Theirliabil-
tiles are $4,000 and assets considerably
less.
Two hundred workmen are constantly
employed on the immense tomb of the
Vanderbilt family at New Drop, Staten
Island.
At Ocala, Fla, Mr.. Thomas D. Prentiss,
aged t~wenty-four, married Mrs. Annie N.
Butt, aged eighty. The bride has an estate
worth 100000.
ThesiSteenth annualterritorial fair will be
held at Helena, Mon, Aug. "a, 25, 26, 27,
2S and %. Ten thousand dollars will be
offered in premiums.
During the year just ended the gold and
silver bullion received at the Helena, Mon.
assay office amounted to: Gold, $1,O3l,-
1887; silver; SEQ, 291.95.
In %excavating on the site for the Auerbach
block. on Main street, Helena, Mon, n gold
nugget worth $3.50 was found. The gravel
taken out is to be washed for gold.
Thorndyke Rice offered Gen. Grant, be-
fore the general bound himself to the Cen
tury company, $4,000 for twelve articles
on the war, to be printed weekly by his
newspaper syndicate.
Rumors concerning a deficiency in the
accounts OF the dead cashier OF the Manu-
facturers and Traders bank at Buffalo, N.
Y, lead the officials of tho bank to issue "a
circular declaring that the lossis only $75,.
900
On June 90 u shortage of $4,000 was
discovered in the cash account OF the
Citizens Ban at Council Bluffs, Iowa. A
most thorough investigation has failed to
discover where the money went to or who
got it.
Mr.. t. Conant, on u tour Of observation
through the Canadian Northwest, discuss
ing the effects oftlie rebcllio n says: "An Off
cial OF he Canadian Pacific railway told
me that early this spring they got three and
four loads per day from the south filed
with immigrants. Upon the rebellion be-
coming known, he said, it stopped Just like
turning the water off from a faucet.
An effort is being made by Col. James f.
Coogan OF New York city to buy the house
in which Gen. Grant was born, at Point
Pleasant, Ohio, now the property OF Mich
ael D.. Hirsch. In answer to an inquiry from
Col. Coogan, Hirsch offered to sell the house
Tor $4,000, Col. Coogan replied that he
would give So 5000. Mr.. Hirsch has been
offered more than this, and evidently real
ICES the value of his possession.
The fact is hat there is no law or regIla-
ton which prevents the intermeat at West
Point OF the widow OF an army officer. but
on the contrary, the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
provide that widows OF officers buried there
may also find sepulture at the post GENE
try. Accordinsto trustworthy reports, the
cemetry at West Point was one ofthe places
for which Gen. Grant expressed a preference
as a place OF interment, but was induced to
decide against that place because OF the be.
lief that Mrs. Grant could not be laid by.
his side.