The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-08-20
About forty nom ina tions were left un,
acted on

About forty omina tions were left un.
acted on.
The bill to increase pensions to soldiers
who lost an arm or a leg provides that a
man who lost a foot or n hand shall re.
ceive $50 per month; the rate for the loss
OF Il leg above the knee, or an arm above
the elbow. is advanced to S36 per month.
and where the limb was amputated 80 near
the body rs to prevent the wearing of an
artificial limb, the rate is fixed at $45 per
month.
The adjournment Of congress puts the
holders OF Northern Pacific securities ont
of their anxiety once more.
Ex-senator Bruce of Mississippi will enter
the lecture field in the autumn. His sub.
iect will be The Race Problem"
The conierrees on the iortifcation bill
were unable to agree on that measure, and
it went over until the next session.
Nathaniel H. B. Dawson was confirmed
by tie senate as commissioner OF educa.
tion.
Madison (Wis.) society is surprised by
the announcement OF the marriage OF e1.
Gov. William K. Taylor to non-society
widow.
w. A. Nimock of Pittsburg has invested
$500, 600 in New Mexican ranch property
The ranch pays him $40, 1000 a year.
There is every prospect that Senator
Cullom's interstate bill will become law
early next session. Much to the surprise
OF all OF his friends. Mr.. Reagan has con-
sented to rdopt nearly all ofthe provisions
in the Cullom bill instead OF his own.
The president having failed to notify the
house that he had approved the surplus
resolution, the inference is that he has APP
piled the pocket Veto" This kills the
resolution.
w. p. johnson has resigned as a mem
ber OF the board OF Indian commissioners.
On motion Of Mr.. Butterworth (Ohio), a
senate bill was passed appropriatin. an
additional sum OF $50, 900 for the selection
OF a site for the congressional library.
Mr.. Gladstone has written letter from
which it is inferred by some that he intends
to retire from public life.
The festivities attending the five-hun.
dreth anniversary OF the founding of He.
delberg University, by Count Palatine Ru-
precht l, are already IN progress, and the
ancient city in the Rhine valley is full OF
visitors and Joyous singing clubs.
The marquis OF Londonderry, lord leu-
tenant OF Ireland, and Sir Michael Hicks
Beach, chief secretary, have taken the oa tn
and started for Dublin.
Higday Fosdick, Mt Laporte, Ind, shot
his wife and then killed himself.
Rollin R. Gregg, we'll known and dis.
tinguished homeopa thic physician, died at
Buffalo, n. Y.
The Republican convention for the Eighth
Indiana district renominated James l..
johnson for congress.
The Kansas state board OF agriculture
estimates the production OF the state:
Winter wheat, II, $50, 900 bushels; spring
wheat. 926, 900 bushels; oats, 32. 194 900
bushels; corn, 100, 900, 900 bushels.
Madeline Kessler OF Chicago, twenty-five
years old, eloped with Alfred Rckner alias
French Fred, a man forty-eight years OF
age, with an unsavory reputation and hus-
band OF Nine. Choquette proprietress of a
house of i'll fame on Fourth avenue The
girls father died three weeks ago, leaving
property valued at 100000.
Mr.. Francis Claiming, who has just been
elected to parliament, England, is II Bos.
ton boy, and II brother-in-law OF Edwin
Arnold, the poet-editor.
The republicans OF the Fourth Indiana
district nominated Capt. Argus d. Van Os.
dol to make the race Tor congress against
Hon. w. S. Holman.
A sunh over iorty-five inches in circum-
ference, is blooming near Trava, Gala.
The people OF Carthage, Jefferson county,
N. y, saw a beautiful mirage, which made
the st. Lawrence river and the Thousand
islands. thirtysix miles away, seem but
hall mile distant.
Asbury Park is threatened with deser.
ton by the cottage residents because OF
the swarm OF colored people who fill the
lounges and crowd the bathing ropes.
E. Rice Jr., mt st. Paul. has completed
negOtintiOns rosutinp in the r,1rci, n 90 by
eastern parties OF the water power OF the
st. Croix at st. Croix Falls, Wis, opposite
Tuylor's Falls, MINI. The purchase in
cludcs the riparian right on both sides OF
the river for about three miles, altogether,
with about 25, 900 acres OF land, part OF
which is the old st. Croix Falls Townsite,
belong insorisinally to Caleb Gushing.