The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-10-15
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81 Inc president has appointed Quincy A.
8nfccks collector OF customs Tor the district
OF Puget Sound.
Tho court martial of Capt. w. 8. John.
son, charged with duplicating pay accounts,
began at Washington.
Postmasters commissioned: Dakota:
Fort Yates, w. p. Gilbert. Iowa: Cali
fornia. ]. H. Ward. Minnesota; Frank
Laucamp.
John Nelson committed suicide at Lenox,
Iowa, by taking poison. He lett property
valued at $4,000
S Frank johnson OF the town OF Chetek,
Wis, charged with incestuous relation with
his fifteen, year-c Id daughter, pleaded gull:
ty in the circuit court and was sentenced
by Judge Clough to eight years in the pen
itentiary at Waupun.
Il. i, Henry, prominent druggist OF Om-
TO, Wis, took u drink OF carbolc acid in
mistake for beef extract and died n terri
BILE agony ten minutes afterward. He was
thirty five years OF age, and leaves o wife
and two children.
Diplomats at Vienna believe that since
the return OF Count Kalnoky, Austrian,
minister for foreign affairs, from Pesth,
Austria's attitude against Russia occupa-
tion OF Bulgaria is more pronounced. This
is partly accounted Tor by the belief that
Austria fears that il Bulgaria is occupied
by Russia King Milan will be deposed in
Servia and Servia and Bulgaria will be both
Russianized. This. it 10 argued, would
cause disorder in Bosnia nnd probably a
conflict with Montenegro. The state oil
siege in Bulgaria has been raised.
The Massachusetts, democratic state con-
vention was called tc order by Hon. p. A.
Collins. John T. Andrew was nominated
by acclamation for governor. The ticket
was completed as follows: Lieutenant
governor, Frank K. Foster; secretary oi
state, John r. Thayer; treasurer, Lewis
Warner; attorney general, John w. Corcori
an.
The board OF engineers Gen. G. B. Com
stock, Col. Q. w. Poe and Capt. j. Z. Post
appointed by the government as n COM
mission to examine the Illinois e. Michi-
gan canal and the proposed Hennepin CO.
nal to consider their value to the commerce
OF the country met in Rock Island. They
drove to the Rock river and made an ex-
animation rs to the course OF the river
from Milan to it's mouth, for there the
proposed canal is to debouch into the
Mississippi.
The secret OF Geronimo's surrender
comes out in Gen. Miles report. He prom
ised the barbarian exemption from trial
in Arizona by the civil authorities. OF
course, such n trial would end Geronimo's
career of violence and blood. Miles is
threatened with trial for assuming too
much authority.
port of the Apache campaign, made public
at Washington, that Geronimo was not
captured, but surrendered conditionally,
is contradicted by Capt. Lawton, who was
in command OF the troops at the time OF
the capture. In q private telegram to
Lieut.. Albee, OF the Winchester armory,
dated Albuquerque. Capt. Lawton explic-
lily denies that the surrender Of Geronimo
was coupled with any conditions whatever.
Higgins, the appointment clerk, is medi-
tating more discharges from the treasury
roll. In an interview a few days ago he
said: Here is n most fragrant case that
came under my notice, showing how pat
ronage is abused. An $1,SOO clerk in the
treasury turns out to be retired naval
officer drawing $40 month in addition to
a pension OF $72. Another case is that of
q chief OF q bureau who draws So, 600 and
his sons and relatives in Office who bring
the total receipts from the government Of
fees they hold up to So ,1S0. Then, too, l
have discovered cases where husbands and
wives are borne on the rolls, the woman
er under the same roof. All these matters
will be brought to the attention OF the sec.
retary.
The public debt statement issued shows
the reduction OF the public debt during
September to be $40, ,627, ,O13. 1T, and total
cash in the treasury s465, $40, ,6l3.93.
r. NJ. Johnson, assistant superintendent
OF the railway mail service, has been dis
missed.
Sproule, the American convicted OF mur.
ia tod
Oct. 20.
The defeat OF the crack English cutter
Miranda, off Newport by the American
sloop Sachem is disheartening to Britons.
They haven't yet produced craft which
can beat an American yacht
A dispatch to the N Y. World tells the
alleged story OF the assassination OF EN-
ory A. Storrs at Ottawa, ILL.,, u year ago.
The story is that Storrs was poisoned by
the gang whose secrets he had gained.
There were 255 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's during the
week ending Sept. 80, against 156 in The
pr eceding week.
The store OF A. s. Gage & Co., OF Chicago,
was reopencd Oct. 1, by the assgnees, who,
under the orler of Judge Prendergast, will
conduct the business for the benefit OF the
creditors pending Il settlement OF the at
fairs OF the firm. The liabilities are esti-
mated at $500, 600, and the assets atover
81 900, 900.
Union Dime Savings bank OF New York
city has just come to light. The defaulter
is Otto Baumann, receiving teller, who has
been in the employ OF the institution for
two years and who was implicitly trusted
The official census of the Sioux Indians
at Standing Rock agenc. Oak, taken Sept.
30, shows there are l, 23, men, I, ,597 wom-
en-, 927 boys and S4S girls, d total OF sos.
There is a net gain ofeight since July 1.
Rev. W. c. Godfrey, formerly professor
lii Morrisville college, was expelled from
the Southwestern Missouri district confer
ence OF the Methodist Episcopal church. in
session at Kansas City, for immortality.
w. B. Custer ofHnnter, Oak, slopes with
SIS, 600 OF the money OF his employer, d.
Follett of Hastings, whose farm he had
charge Of.
Gov. Pattison OF Pennsylvania recon-
mends that the companies composing the
coalpool be prosecuted for violating law by
restricting the output and raising the prices
OF coal.
For the year ended Oct. 1, 1885, /, ,sO6
new buildings were constructed in Detroit,
Mich, at total estimated value OF 3d.
ia, 632. This year the totals are l 1,7o3
and So, ,044, 312, n decrease of 1O3 build.
ings and $40, 800 in value.
Secretary Burwell, OF the Minneapolis
clearing house, reports tho total clearinss
Of the local banks for the first nine m onths
Of 1886 at $109,603,5 ,500.07.
The Central Pacific passenger train went
through trestle bridge ITS miles east OF
Winnipeg. Five cars, including mail car
and four passenger coaches, were badly
wrecked, and nfterward completely burned
by fire, caused by upsetting OF stoves. The
Pullman coach only escaped injured.
Mrs. Craig Alexander, the wife of n for.
merly very wealthy commission mercha mt
Mt st. Louis, and u man OF great local
prominence socially, committed suicide by
jumping from the root OF her son-in-law' s