The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-07-10

pieces in short order, and they were left to
lace the fury OF the storm. The loss in this
county viii aggregate $4,000 to $12, 900,
and is partly covered by tornado insur.
ance.
Washington News.
Marshal McMichael removed a Demo
cratic subordinate for Offensive partisan
ship
Prof. Huxley viii retire from his govern
ment post in October on q yearly pension
Of 81, 200.
a. H. Dodge Of Washington has been ap.
pointed superintendent of Mount Vernon,
TO succeed Col. Halingsworth.
Gen. Don Carlos Buell. win probably be
appointed pension agent for Kentucky.
he has been twenty years in retirement.
Admiral Jouett his inability
to settle the Colombian dispute, and says
hostilities are liable to break out again.
OF the eighty-four collectors OF internal
revenue under the last administration, six
ty have been relieved by Democratic sue
cesBors.
The president has ordered the electric
lights on the White House grounds and at
the gates n doors to be taken down until
next winter.
The president has appointed Arthur K.
Delaney United States attorney for the
Eastern district OF Wisconsin, vice Hazel
ton, suspended.
Tbs Washington Republican, since its
change OF ownership. has become an OBJ
sequious champion of Capt. Eads' Tehuan-
tepec ship railway scheme.
The announcements made in Washington
that WalkerBlaine, the eldest son
tary Blaine, will be married this summer to
/. Mrou IN r,,s, n ~, u L. ,,-1,An~ ~ - o.,
F~arnsworth OF West Virginia.
An oil painting OF Secretary Lincoln, by
Huntington, has just been added to the col
lection Of PORTRAITS of secretaries OF war in
the war department, and completes the sec.
retaries from the foundation OF the govern
ment.
The commissioner OF the general land OF
flee has directed registers and receivers o
the district land Offices not to furnish blank
forms for homestead applications except
upon personal application by actual entry
men.
The postmaster general has received a
letter from M Ohio widow congratulatine
him upon having refused to disburse the
100000 fund amongsteamsEipc companies
for carrying the mails and asking him to
send $4,000 Of it to build n widows home
in Ohio. Mr.. Villas was much bothered.
Secretary Manning appointedR. H. Sevey,
p. Cunningham and Charles G. Mitchell
chiefs OF division OF the sixth auditors
office, and l.. G, Mangham chief OF division
in the first controllers Office, vice Maj. Sax.
ton, reduced to the S1,400 class. 7. Hunt.
ington was promoted from bookkeeper to
assistant chief of division, vice 4. Stewart
deceased.
a handsome cabriolet intended for Presi
dent Cleveland was received from New York
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Victoria. The body liz painted black with
green stripping; the running gear dark green,
striped with black. 1t is finished in dark
green roc and cloth. The box is built
with raised seats for %coachInan and foot
The seal brown bays will be driven
to it, and altogether it will make q hand
some turnout.
The Chinese minister has sent to Mr..
DENLY, the newly appointed minister to
China, several boxes OF imperial tea as O
mark of his respect. He has in addition
appointment OF Mr.. DENLY, and congratu-
lating his country Upon the prospect OF in
creased friendship with this country to be
brought about thereby. Mr.. DENLY will
sail from San Francisco early in August.
The newly elected commander-in-chief OF
the Grand Army OF the Republic, Gen. Sam
uel A. Burdett, is well knownin Washington.
At the close Of the war he was sent to con.
gress from Missouri for two terms. Sebse.
quently he became commissioner OF the gen
eral land office. Since his retirement from
that office he has praeticed law here, and is
now a member OF the firm OF Curtis & Bur
dett. He was the at Arlington on the
S0th OF May last.
The recent graduates at the West Point
Military academy WILDE assigned to various
regiments shortly. There now exist la
vacancies among the officers of the army,
Sixteen are in the cavalry, sixty-seven in
the artillery, t~wenty-nine in the infantry
and two in the engineer corps. After the
assignment OF graduates the non-commis.
stoned officers who have passed the exami.
nations by the boards convened by the var.
ious departments will be assigned.
The commissioner OF the general land
Office has declined to accede to the requests
OF the Oregon g. California Railroad Com,
pany for the issue OF patents on 5000, OOC
acres OF land already selected by the com
pany, n to allow selections to be made
for 1000, 600 acres more under the lane
grant to that company in Oregon. The
grant expired in 1880. Bills declaring a
forfeiture OF the grant were before congress
at the lastsession.
Lieut.. Scheutze will take to the Lena
delta a sword, designed by himself, as d gift
~ jill wv Vic SoSCIli
or OF Yakutsk. The blade is Of
the finest steel. It's scabbard and hilt are
OF gold. On the foriner are engrayings o.
dog and reindeer sleds and the Jeanette,
1t is inscribed: Presented by the President
OF the United States to Maj. Gen. George
F~edorovitch Tchernaireff, governor of Yak
antscha, East Siberia, for eminent services
rendered the survivors OF the Arctic explor
ing steamer Jeanette and the search par
ties. 1t is valued at $500.
Congressman Hill of Ohio, in an inter
view says: Tie democrats Of Ohio are op
posed to the civil service law almost to 8
man. They regard it as a fraud on Thu
public, and believe in the rights OF the PEG
pie to change every officer in the govern
ment IN the time prescribed by the consti
tuition. He did not know whether or no
| an effort will be made to repeal the law al
the next session, bat if there was he wouic
vote to repeal it. He had heard man,
Democratic members OF congress say the,
would not vote a dollar to pay the ex
penses oil the commission, and he felt tina
way himself.
Record of Casualties.
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