The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-09-21

The telephone exchange In Norfolk opens
with fifty instruments.
Nebraska CitY's board OF education has
abolished the teaching of Greek In the high
schools.
The Omaha Fair association is rejoicing
over surplus of $1,000, out Of receipts of
s24 200.
Frank Spooner. love sick Webster county
youth, took two ounces of laudanum because
his best girl had several other admirers.
The recent discovery of mad dog at
Ulysses has caused a relentless war against
"snines there. Fully two score OF the an nimals
nave been killed. sA
John Reid, farmer OF Valley, has brought
an action against Samuel McClcneehar.
another farmer, for 5000. McCleneghan
called Reid thief and that caused the
Bold burglars have made their appearance
again in Nebraska City. II. II. McElhenny
succeeded in winging one Of the birds Mon
day night, but he made his escape.
Decatur boy was punished by his mother
for stealing watermelons and immediately
tried to hang himself. 1t is warning to
mothers not to interfere too far with the in
nocent amusements Of their children. 5s
The Lincoln Call editor must have been an
applicant for military honors and been aisap-
pointed. He says of the state militia system /:
"The whole thing is an elegant, disgusting
fraud, and should be abolished at the earliest
possible date Z"
An Omaha matchmaker, named McIaugh-
lin, tried to kill himself with morphine on
Thursday. A doctor pumped him out, but
the man said he would "try it again some
time and would not get left again" Whisky
and domestic trouble.
The freight depot Of the Fremont, Elkhorn
and Missouri Valley railroad at Barrett was
burned on the night of the 5th inst. with CON
tents, also nine freight cars loaded with mer-
chandse, coal and produce Of all kinds, to-
gcther with the coal sheds owned by Hall d
Dawson, which were filled with hard ard soft
coal. The FIRE caught from spark from a
passenger locomotive which fell among some
ell barrels.
There is complaint OF petty thleving at
Whiting.
The school census OF Sac City shows 42O
children.
: The opera house at Burlington will be
heated by steam this winter.
The tailors' strike at Fort Dodge continues
without any new developments.
The Whiting Dramatic companv has reor-
ganlzed and studying on the play, Bound
to an Oath.'' 4#JGs&
The switchmen's union of Council Bluffs
will indulge in picnic at Fremont, Eeb.,
September %.
The saloon at Carroll, which has caused
much trouble for the officers of that town,
has been closed.
There is an epidemic among mitch cows
near Clinton. And average of one dies daily.
The disease affects the brain.
F. S. Boynton, of La Porte City, is the only
druggist in Black Hawk county who has taken
out permit to sell liquor.
john Flohrer, Il young German farmer,
whose home was near Parish, Des Moincs
county, srictded last Saturday evening by
b'owing his brains olt. He WAS prostratea
by heat during July and lis mind was unset
tied in consequence.
''There is always something to discourage
the farmers of Sioux county," says the Index
mournfully "How are they going to manage
to shuck corn that grows twelve feet from the
groundW t
There are 499 cases on the docket for the
September term OF district court which
onvened Monday at Clinton, with Judge
Waterman on the bench. OF these 2S7 are
old cases and 212 new ones.
Benjamin Bennett, an old resident OF Keo-
sauqua, died suddenly about noon Friday
from what was supposed to be heart disease.
He had been in the hospital at Nj. Pleasant
for some time and WAS returned to his home
a few days ago.
The Des Moines Register says that consid
cradle fault is found by some artists of the
city with the state fair management, charg.
ing them with appointing persons as judges
in the art department who were lrcompetent
to make awards.