The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-09-03
Suffering from violated Promise.

Suffering from n Violated Promise.
Hinckley letter to Rush City Post: A
lew days ago the town was thrown into
an unusual excitement by an occurrence o!
the most sensational character that has
ever happened i'll our village, the facts are
as follows Mr.. D. Coffin, bookkeeper ana
Phoebe Henry, daughter of Mr. Nelson
Henry OF this place, were engaged to be
married Saturday, the 14th inst. Wednes.
day evening Mr.. Coffin left for ST. Paul
telling his betrothed that he was going for
q suit OF clothes to be married in they
lady suspected nothing wrong nor did amy
of her friends, until the arrival OF the mail
Thursday, when she received a letter from
him in which he bid her farewell, and stat
ed that he was never coming back. 1t is
impossible to describe the effect of this
news not only upon the young lady her
SELL but upon the whole family, suffice TO
say that it was the cause of the bitterest
anguish and sorrow, and the many friends
OF heiamily deeply sympatki.c with the
young lady, and hope she may soon recov-
er from the perfdy OF her faithless lover
r. S. Sanders, who was appointed one o
the commissioners to allot lands in sever.
atty to the Crow Indians in Montana, is u
native OF Tennessee, but has for several
years been located in New York as the edi-
tor OF the American Agricultural Review
He has had some experience in Indian mat
ters and is well qualified to handle the
matter placed in his charge. Mr.. Walker
is well known resident OF the District OF
Columbia. The commission expects to be
employed for several months in this work
dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria, dated
Saturday, Aug. 21st, says. The populace
and the troops quartered in the capital
surrounded the palace early this morning
Prince Alexander abdicated and was es
corted over the frontier. There was no
disorder. The populac, then assembled
and adopted ~ resolution praying the ear
to extend his sympathy to the Bulgarian
people. The assemblage proceeded to the
palace OF the Russian agent and submitted
to him the resolution, all kneeling The
agent assured them OF the czar's friend
ship.
The Princess Beatrice has grown heavy
and dull, and has been forced to give ur
tricycling.
The University of Mississippi, at Ok
ford is looking about for five professors
to fill vacant chairs-Latin, Greek, math
ematics, history and literature. A salary
of $4,000 is offered and a house free o
rent.
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additional facilities for correspondence by
mail the postoflice department has com
pleted arrangements for issuing a combined
letter sheet and envelope. of Il pattern
which can readily be understood and used
1t is styled a Letter Sheet Envelope" ;"
and is OF only one denominati tion-two
cents. They will be furnished in separate
sheets, also in pads of twenty-five, fifty
and one hundred. For the present the
issue OF these will be confined to n few oi
the principal cities. among them st. Paul.
Prices will be: Single sheet, 3 cents; TWEEN.
ty-five sheets, 5S cents; fifty sheets, 81. l s.
one hundred sheets, S2.25.
Mrs. Anne Sophia Stephens, the novelist,
died at Newport II. /. Mrs Stephens was
born at Derby, Conn, in 1913, her maiden
name being Winterbotham. In 1892 she
married Edward Stephens, IL printer OF
Plymouth, Mass, and between that time
and S37, when she removed to Now York,
edited the Portland Magazine and the
Portland Sketch Book. Nearly all her life
she edited and contributed to various peri.
odicals besides publishing numerous works
OF fiction.
The report that the British steamer Alb.
erdeen had foundered in the China sea was
not correct. She hns arrived.
Washington Special: Interest in Capt.
Howgate, the ex-disbursing clerk OF the
signal service bureau, has been revived by
the appointment OF his daughter, Miss Ida
+. Howgate, to clerkship in the office OF
the secretary OF the treasury. "This young
lady" said Assistant Secretary Thomp.
son, passed the highest examination in
her class, and was certified by the civil
service commission for appointment. II
is generally understood she will be the
principal support OF the mother, and do
not think any one uncharitable enough to
punish the daughter Tor the sins OF the
father. Miss Howgate is u graduate oI
Vassar colle-e, and is very highly esteemed
by her associates"
John R. Hanley, the absconding mana.
ger OF the United Lines Telegraph company
at Toledo, has been arrested in New York.
He agrees to go back to Ohio without any
legal formalities.
Judge Barrett OF New York, who recently
sentenced the boycotters, has been warned
to move out OF his present residence in
Connecticut or expect a dynamite ex-
plosion.
Demands for minor coins principally /
10 and 25 cent pieces, are being constantly
received at the treasury department. This
supply on hand is entirely inadequate and
it hAs been found necessary to call on the
United States mints for an additional sup
ply. Superintendent Fox, OF the Phladel-
phin mint, thinks he can supply all de.
mands in thirty days.
1t is rnmored that Thomas z. Benedict
OF Albany has been appointed public
printer.