The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-02-08
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
NEBRASKA.

The incandescent lights at Fremont will
soon be in operation.
Tho marshal of Oakdale has hcen in
structed to kill all unmuzzled dogs.
| chapter Of Royal Arch Masons was ir-
stituted at Oxford last Saturday night.
The citizens of Fairbury are agitatlng the
question of building new court house.
fire at Culbertson last Sunday evening
destroyed seven business buildings Five of
them were insured.
| Rev. John Hewitt of Fremont has accented
a call to the postorate of the Episcopal church
at lincoln.
An Auburn man has perfected system for
hlltng the decsyed teeth of horses and TO ,,cs
| to make fortune.
The city marshal of Superior has been
| fined $50 for shooting a dog aud has appealed
the case to the district court.
The sheep feeders in the vicinity OF Ffe-
| mont are marketing their stock 1t lis esti.
mated that the sheep will net at least $780,
600 profit TO their owners
Lyon post, G. A. r., at Grand Island, will
be on hand ct the encampment to be held at
kearney with proposition to have the re-
untcn permanently located at Grand Island
A Ponca special says that small grain is
alarmingly scarce in Dixon county.
Mary Raynor young woman living near
Nebraska City, hus been declared infare
The Kearney Electric Railway company has
been incorporated with capital retosk OF
$100, ,O00
Aaron Cue, OF Columbus, has causcd the
arrest OF Charles Seward, charging him with
attempting to ravIsh his wife, AIDA Cue.
Monday night Thomas Parker, who residca
six miles northwest from Tecumseh willie in
hs bed asleep was shat In the head. The
wound will not be fatal. There is no clue to
the perpetrator of the deed.
IOWA.
The Santa Fe company has made the widow
of dad" Myers the veteran engineer who
was killed near Lawrence last summer. =
present OF 5000 in cash.
| Hale's grain elevator at Washington CON
tanning $4,000 bushels Of oats and i 00O bush
els OF corn was burned on Monday. The lsss
was $4,000 with $1,000 insurance
| The tramp who has stuck SO faithfully to
the solitary and a bread and water diet In
preference to the stone pie at Marshaltown
/ now turns out to be an artistic wood en-
graver.
Eugene Hayes, the Ii year old oon OF Den
nts Hayes Of Dudley, was struck by train
while attempting to cross the railroad track
on his way to church last Sunday morning
and instantly killed.
County Attorney Mcintyre of Osceols, who
was reported missing few days ago has re.
turned. He says he needed rest aud was sim
| ply on trip for Lis health and as he didn't
care to be annoyed by letters and tel grams
he concealed his whereabouts.
| An old lady living Ia the western part of
Dubuque county called at the store of Du-
buque merchant recently ard irquired about
the former proprietor. She said that about
ten years ago she hsda teakettle mended for
which she had never paid and that she wanted
to DC square with the world befor. she died.
Thirty cents, the cost Of the mending, was
left to be handed to the proper party.
| Alexander Brown, formerly all employe In
the rostt flee at Newton. pleaded guilty in
she United States court at Keolluk 10 the
charge ef ro5bing the mails. He had taken
a letter cont&!ning postal note for S4 He
was sentenced to six months Imprisonment
In the Polk county jail and to pay costs.
| DAKOTA.
The Mitchell board of trade now has sixty.
three members.
The Chief predicts n building boom fol
Troquois this year.
| Tba p-nc cbvt r;o ~
dedicated last Sunday.
shall we have an artesian well this sea
SOM" is the question asked at Iroquois.
According to the Press Sioux Falls is get
ting quite a reputation for palace saloons.
Onida claims to have more literary ant
social societies than any other town Of it
size in Dakota.
There are thirty-tive common schools nov
in session in Jcrauld county, with an averag,
attendance of seventeen pupils to each.
leading farmer gives 1t as his opinion
that fully nine-tenths of the farmers of Gas
county will SOW inferior eced wheat this year
One of the young lady teachers in tn
Schuyler high school became very indignan
because the janitor of the building "threw
Kiss" at her and made complaint to tn
school board. The ianitor was obliged +
apologize.
Three school children named French, livin
twelve miles cast of Hitchcock. were lost II
the storm Friday night and wien found th
next morning the two boys were dead and til
gill, aged u.s. was badly frozen and uncon
scious. They waited at the school hous
until darl. for old h~a
: them, and finally started for home, only t
lose their way and wander in the deep sno,
until overcome by cold and exhaustion.
child of Banker Nixon died at Pierre tn
25th inst under peculiar circumstances
After the child had been taken sick no med
cal assistance was called except two 80 calle
Christian scientists, and after the child die
they attempted for two days to raise it fror
the dead. This fact was called to the et,er
lion OF citizens and committee waited o
the Christian healers and invited them t
take walk or submit to coat of tar an
feathers. elliott, one Of the alleged healer
and raisers from the dead, lives at Des Moinet
: To-, where Guild OF his own died some tim
since and 1t was stated at the time that th
child had no medical treatment except th
; Christian science treatment Of its fathe,
. The people Of Pierre are very indignant tina
Nixon should allow himself to be taken In S
. 'ompletely by such fraudulent combinatio
I OF cranks. They are an abortive element
. any community and should, In cases such a
this, be punished the same as murderer.
MINNESOTA.
Ills proposed to start spring he'd an
I mattress factory at Red Wing.
Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley hel
forth at st. Paul Tuesday night.
Company of Haribault was banqueted la.
Monday night at the Jordan hotel.
The ice in the river at Winona is utterl
Z ruined and an Ice famine is feared.
Arrangements are being made for sire.
railway TO be built at Rochester In the ne,
future.
.. NJ. Lowell, an old resident and ex-rnay,
Of Chatfield, died 1t his home In that city a
Saturday.
stock company has been formed at s
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