The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-12-17
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| Mr.. Carlisle says that the tariff question
| will certainly be called up at this session,
and that it will be pushed to vote.
William L. Newton, OF the District OF
| Columbia, clerk in the dead letter office
OF the postofiice department. was rem owed
Mr. Newton has been in the service OF the
departmen mt since July /, 1856, and has
become incapacitated from old age to per
| form clerical duty.
The directors OF the Canal National
bank OF Portland, Me-, authorize the state
| ment that Howard Blackstone, discount
clerk, has embezzled funds OF the bank to
amount OF $25, 900 and absconded.
An ordinance has been introduced in the
Chicago common council increasing saloon
licenses from $500 to 81 900, and compel
ling merchants, ETC., to take out licenses.
General Master Workman Powderly has
| issued circular levying an assessment OF
twenty-ti five cents on each knight OF Labor
| Tor the aid OF members made needy by lock.
| outs.
| collision occurred on the Milwaukee
road one mile east OF Parker, Dak, be-
tween mixed passenger train from the
east and q freight from the west. A snow
storm was in progress, and when the en-.
gineer OF the freight saw the light OF the
passenger train he thought it was at a
farmers house until the engines were almost
together. He and his fireman jumped in
time to save their lives, but the passenger
engineer and fireman, David Blackwood
| and Charles Gust, were caught in the
wreck and horribly crushed. Blackwood
died instantly, but Gust fingered few
hours. Blackwood was q member OF Hen.
nepin commandry, Minneapolis.
A new dam which had just been finished
at Langley cotton mills. on the Charlotte
Columbia & Augusta railroad, s. c.. gave
way, and is almost complete wreck The
water rushed through in food from the
pond, swept away halt u mile OF the track
OF the Columbia d Augusta railway and
badly damaged the tracks OF the South
Carolina railway. All the new and expen.
sive work recently completed by the form
er road is totally ruined. The accident is
ascribed to violent shock OF earthquake.
The waters flooded all the adjacent coun-
try and did much damage.
President Fitzgerald, OF the Irish Nation.
al League OF America, makes an appeal for
funds to aid in the fight against coercion.
George Parr, lumber manufacturer and
merchant OF Barron, Wis, makes an as
signment.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor has just realized
500, 900 by an advance in some railroad
| securities.
According to the Railroad Gazette there
was total OF 11S train accidents during
October, in which 4S persons were killed
1885, there was a decrease OF 5 accidents
an increase OF II killed and a decrease OF
2S injured. The ten months OF the cur
rent year to the end of October show II to-
tai OF 966 accidents, 334 killed and /, 1888
hurt; a monthly average OF 81 accidents,
33 killed and 100 injured.
The president has made the following
appointments: Edward Gushing, to be
collector OF customs for the district OF Bel
fest, Me-; Joseph p. Moore, to be collector
OF customs for the district OF Waldbor-
ough, Me-: Philip w. Downes, to be gcner-
al appraiser OF merchandise for the port of
Baltimore, Md; William N. Neal, OF Frank
lin, Md, to be agent for the Indians OF the
Lemhi agency i'll Idaho.
The London Standard says it is serious
ly proposed at Sofia to nominate an Amer.
lean as a candidate for the Bulgarian
throne.
The Berlin police have prescribed the
first number OF the anarchist periodical
Autonomie.
The total vote for congressman, in Col
orado, as given by the state canvassing
board is: Symes. Republican, 27,732;
Reed, Democrat, 26, 1923; Murray, Prohibi.
tionist, 3,59T. Symes' plurality SOB, as
against g, 726 two years ago. The vote Of
the state was s, ,393 less than in 81
The secretary OF the interior has decided
that Frank A. Bidwell, OF Mitchell, Oak,
| and George w. Vennum, OF Jamestown,
| Oak, will be no longer recognized as at.
| torneys or agents before the interior de-
| partment or at any bureau or Office con-
| nected Herewith.
| bill filed in the probate court in Chca-
| go asks for II conservator for the estate OF
Miss Petrinella johnson in order to pre-
vent her from giving her property to the
Salvation army and leaving herself penni-
| less.
Stephen w. Rawson, q Chicago banker,
is suing his wife for divorce on the ground
OF adultry.
At Providence, R. l., "Doc" Wilson de.
clares that he is the son OF Millionaire
Moen.
The following Dakota postmasters wero
county; James G. Webb. Pembina, Penn.
bina county, vice Edmund X. Caviler, re.
moved; Charles II. Morse, Winfield, Lake
county vice Charles A. Dewell, removed
The friends OF Senator Jones OF Nevada
are the most iubilant men in Washington
"He hasgot all his old fortune back, said
Congressman Page OF California. He tel.
egraphed that he had madea clean 81, O00,-
900, and has made most OF it in one day.
They have found immense new deposits OF
ore in the Virginia consolidated, and the
stock went kiting from 1S to 80. Jones
has got all his old pile back again.
Commissioner SPARKS asked for the dis
barment OF James Vennum OF Jamestown,
Dak., and Frank Bidwell OF Mitchell, Dak
Both parties were given sixty days to de-
iend themselves against the charges brought
against them.
Chief Justice Wait was seventy years old
on the 29th having been on the supreme
court bench continuously since 1874. He
becomes eligible now for retirement upon
a pension OF $4,000 year. The chief
justice has no thought as yet OF throwing
off his silken gown and retiring to II life Of
ease and comfort. Three other justices OF
the supreme court-Miiler, Field and Brad
ley--are now eligible for retirement with
full pay, as they are past seventy years OF
age and had seats upon the supreme bench
| or more than ten years. Each OF these
enjoys excellent healt, though Justice Brad
ley looks rather delicate and is often
mentioned as the first justice likely to
resign.
The president appointed Rudolph Guy
ehardt OF Washington Territory to be re.
ceiver OF public moneys at Walla Walla,
| Wash.
The president issued proclamati tion
promulgating the extradition treaty with
Japan, which was ratified after being
amended by the senate last June.
In the circuit court in Milwaukee the
jury in the case OF 8. ]. Woodward
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