The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-05-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF NEWS.

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Charles Holden was hanged at Petersburg,
Ill, for the murder Of his wife.
Brndstreet reports q continued dullness in
the movement of merchandise. ~
The striking quarrymen at Lemont, Ill, re-
turned to work, and the trouble is believed to
be over.
At Locust Gap, Pa, Miss Julia Kramer,
eighteen years old, was shot and fatally in
jured by Peter Knobanch, q rejected lover.
Tho court at Saltwater affirmed the sale of
the assets of the lumber firm of Walker, &
Veazie to certain of the creditors for $4,000.
Editor Houston Of New Orleans gives Sen
ator Gibson and Representative King a lively
raking, and gently intimates that they dare not
take it up.
The governors Of the Metropolitan club,
Washington, in response to q largely signed
petition from its members, have abolished
poker playing in the club.
Gen. Butler is the principal owner Of the
GreatFalls or rapids water power of the Poto-
mac, fourteen miles from the city, which de-
scends about one hundred feet in q mile, and
which, it is claimed, is worth $1,OO0,OM
The management of the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific railroad has designated DR.. B. H.
Sutherland Of Iowa City as veterinary surgeon
to inspect cattle which may be offered for
shipment into or through the state by that line
from quarantined states.
The vote taken in the eastern part of Kidder,
Dakota, and the western part Of Stutsman in
regard to forming q new county and calling 1t
Stanton was carried by seventy-one majority.
Happen will probably be the seat Of the new
county.
b contract for erecting the main exposition
building on the state fair grounds has been
awarded to Charles Hamilton of BIT Paul
Architect Brodie declines to state what the
amount OF the successful bid was, or to give
ont eny particulars. The contract for build
ing the barns has not yet been let
The Mccormick reaper company at Chicago
has reaceived answers Of 400 correspondents
in the winter wheat states. It estimates that,
If the ratio thus far 10 maintained, reports will
show a falling od Of 10 per cent, in the condi-
ton of winter wheat compared with the esti-
cent, Of q full yield, with : decrease Of 20 per
cent in acreage sown.
Miss ane Holmes Of Pittsburg in her will
left s270.OOo to fourteen existing institutions
and $4,000 each is left for an institution for
! the blind, and q hospital for children; also
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vidiDg that all three institutions are organized
within two years. The residuary estate is to
be divided pro rata between all except three OF
the seventeen institutions named. The estate
amounts to over $1,000,000.
Henry Clews, banker and broker, has adj
dressed a letter TO the chairman of the com
nlittee on admission OF securities of the stock
exchange, protesting against listing the new
| issue of Georgia bonds. Clews says he las
suffered to the extent of several million dollars
by Georgia's bad faith in unw~arrantably repu-
dating bonds which have az full right TO equal
standing as representing the credit of the state
- the new bonds, and protests against the ad-
1nission OF any new securities until Georgia's
repudiated bonds are recognized and provided
for. sss t
The sixty-ninth annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Bible society was held recently at New
York. The issues during the year Of Bibles,
Testaments. and portions were 1,548, 175, of
which SOS, 79 were circulated in foreign lands.
The total issues were Al, 440, 206 Forty eight
new auxilisries were recognized. The receipts
for the year were 1857. 914. 81, andt the expendi-
lures 96l9 $50 IS. For the foreign work Of the
society to be expended the coming pear, S172,-
$50 has been appropriated Hon. FIT. Freling-
huysen was elected president, AMI William
Gsmrnell, LII D., and Hon. John Jay vice
president