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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
ODD FELLOWS CELEBRATING
seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the
ORDERS Birth,
Banquets, Pro c%essions and Meetings Al
Over the United Statcs-Institu-
tion of the First Lodge in
Country.

BALTIMORE, Nd, April 26.-Through-
out the United States with banquets,
professions, meetings or other forms OF
demonstration the million or more OF
men who are linked together in the fra
nal bonds of Odd Fellowship are today
celebrating the 18th birthday Of that
organization. 1t was on April 20, 1919,
that Thomas Wildey, the English carl
riage spring maker, and who had como
to this country but a couple Of years
before, instituted the first lodge Of
Odd Fellows at the Seven Stars tav-
ern, which was given the name of
Washington lodge No. /. Out of this
feeble beginning, for only five persons
We're initiated on the opening night Of
the new lodge, has grown the immense
organization of today. Nor has it yet
reached the acme of its success, Tor,
more persons are joining it today than
ever before in it's history. Mas
~sachusetts alone has so, 900
members. an increase OF more
than 5000 over a year ago,
and many other states show similar
progress. The real estate held by tho
organization exceeds in value $40, OOO, :
600, and there is scarcely a town in the
country that has not its Odd Fellows
building. The total revenue OF the
order for the past year was nearly
So, 000, 900 and the total relief extended
footed up S. 500, 600.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
AFTER A DIVORCE.
The Authoress of .For Love of Gold" .
Member of che Sioux Falls COLONY.

The Authoress of ..For Love Of Gold" q
Member of che Sioux Falls Colony.
SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., April 29.-Mrs
Mary Cahill OF Brooklyn, N. Y, vel
known in literary circles as "Maris
Walsh" authoress of His Wife or Hi.
Widow" Hazel Kirke." Saints and
Sinners" "For Love Of Gold,'' and kin
bred novels, came to Sioux Falls some
time ago, ostensibly to write q move
which should be based upon the Sioux
Falls divorce colony, and which it was
promised would expose the foibles o!
local attorneys, and would contain u,
characters many Of the more prominent
solonists. 1t has just leaked out thai
while she may be engaged on such !;
novel she is going to kill two birds with
one stone--by getting n divorce her
self. Her complaint has been filed
in Canton, Lincoln county. The de,
PENDANT Is Michael J...Cahill of Chicago,
editor of the Home Light and tho Pilot,
Catholic weeklies. Mrs. Cahill allege,
that her husband was cruel in that Id
called her abusive and offensive manner
and also that he not only failed to sup
port her but that he has used up $l5,
900 which was left her by her first hus
band, named Walsh, who died som,
years ago in Brooklyn. Cahill has put
In an answer in which he denies abso
lutely that these charges are true. TIL.
parties 10 tho suit were married in May,
1890, at Lincoln, Neb., and after living
together for two years in Chicago Mrs
Cahill left her husband and returned tc
her old home in Brooklyn.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
A PIOUS PAWNsHoP.
Aheme for Conducting . Humane Pawn
lSuslnoas.

Aheme for Conducting . Humane Pawn-
brokiES business.
NEW YORK, May 1.-The passage Of
Tho bill to incorporate the Providenr
Loan society, followed by tho election
II officers, has set in motion d philan.
shropic enterprise which will DO
watched with interest. The scheme is
practically one for humane %pawnhrok-
ng. 1t is intended for the relief Of a
arge class temporarily in misfortune,
Who are now compelled to pay SO per
tent per year for small loans on per-
'onal property. The society is capital
zed at $3.50, 600. Its charter limits the
rate of interest to 12 per cont per an
aum.
The society will open its first office
- tho United Charities building at los
East Twenty-second street in u few
lays. 1t will be In charge of an en-
perlenced pawnbroker, thus evidencing
the practical character of the plan.
The mar engaged for superintendent
was for many years in the business,
but became disguised with it and re-
tired. He will resume work ut a fixed
salary, and 1t is expected that the Office
will be run ut a profit under his man
tgement.
Should any surplus accrue. it is the
Intention of the officers to apply it to
necessary improvements in the plant
md in establishing branches of the
original offices in such parts of the city
IS seem to be most in need of them.
The idea now carried out in the act
constituting the society originated
With the Rev. DR.. Greer, rector of St.
aartholomew's church, and it is backed
BY the Vandcrbilts and other wealthy
MEMBERS Of the church.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
THE TARIFF MEASURE.
Changes That Are to BE Made In the
lending Bill. :,

Changes That Are to Be Made In the
Pending Bill. q
WASHINGTON, April 2s.-The princi-
pal changes to be made in the tariff
bill in accordance with the agreement
made by the democratic senators are in
tho income tax and the sugar schedule.
The sugar men have been from the first
clnmorous for an advalorem instead of
a specific duty and tho change has been
conceded. The details have not been
absolutely fixed, but there is little
doubt that the sugar schedule will be
entirely supplanted by IL new one which
will provide a uniform duty of 40 per
cent ad valorcm with an addition of q
cent for refined sugar.
The principal change in the income
tax is u provision for the limitation of
the time that the law shall remain in
operation. There is another matter OF
detail, which has not been absolutely
agreed upon, but tho principle having
been conceded, the senators who have
the compromise in hand, do not con
slider that there is any possibility OF
failure on account of the period. 1t
will probably be about five or six
years. There will be no change in tho
rate of taxation, which will be left at 3
per cen on amounts in excess Of 81, 900.
A number of changes in the rate of
duty will be made in the iron schedule
in which there will be q slight advance
over tho rates fixed by the pending
bill. Carpets also will secure an adj
vance. In many cases the rates fixed
in the house bill will replace those of
the bill reported to the senate by tho
finance committee. Another material
oD~oasrso, ,x,ht.1, will H. s..lS - A.
disatfected senators will be the restor-
places where the finance committee
changed the house bill by the substi-
tuition Of ad valorem duty. The man
u%facturers have made especial COM
plant of tho I'D valorem system be-
cause Of the opportunity which they
say it offers for fraud. Their senators
have supported them in this represent
alton, and the tinance committee, while
still retaining their confidence in the
fairness of ad valorem methods. nave
decided to yield the point in many in
stances, for the snke of harmony.
There will be no change in the rates
fixed on J. on ore. lead ore. or coal, and
wool will remain on the free list. The
whisky tax, as reported by the finance
committee, will also be undisturbed. 1t
is understood that the entire demo-
cratic majority of the finance commits
tee is in hearty accord upon the wis
dom of the proposed changes. Senator
Jones of Arkansas has taken the initia-
tive and performed the great work of
ctfecting the compromise, by getting
the dissatisfied senators to state what
they wanted and bring them together.
The conservatives with the one keep
ton of Senator. Hill, have been fully
consulted and it is understood that
with the amendments added to the bill
It will receive their cordial support.
They have given assurance to this Of
feet.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
MENACE TO ORGANIZED LABOR

The A. p. a. II Scheme to Divide and Con.
quer the Workingmen.
CHICAGO, May l.-Master Workman
Sovereign could not attend a mass
meeting at the Calumet theatcr, South
Chicago, which had been called on his
account, as he went to Minneapolis in
connection with the Great Northern
strike. Thomas McGuire, member Of
the general executive board, was dele
gated to make tho address in his stead.
The speaker called his talk "Religion
From a Labor Standpoint" In its
course Mr.. McGuire appealed to labor
ers to forget religious discussions while
pulling together for mutual better
ment. and declared Thai the American
Protective association was a menace to
the interests of organized labor.
The A. r. A. was organized" he
said, ito break the ranks of the
Knights of Labor. Whatever may have
been the motives of its founders, it was
spread as a shrewd scheme to divide la
Dor on petty prejudice ana render it
easy prey to the masters Of labor. Ed
itor Rosewater of the Omaha Bee told
me in 1891 that he knew positively
that the Union Pacific railroad was fur
nishing money to spread tho A. =. A..
along its line in order to split the X. of
l.. membership. In the light of devel-
opmenls believe Rosewater was cor
rect. You will remember that the X
Of l.. won tho first victory of organized
labor In forcing an increase of Is per
cent in wages among the Union Pacific
employees in 1884. To break the back
OF the organization would mean to re-
duce wages 10 per cent.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
HE HAD ElGH WIVES.
And Each of Them Put In II Claim ia
George Islands BODY,

And Each of Them Put In II Clam for
George Islands Body.
New York, April 2s.-Coney Island
hns been %quickened into life by the
coming Of nine claimants for the dead
body of George Island. Eight of them
claimed to be his wives: the ninth was
his father. Island, in partnership with
Eddie Loeber, the boxer. who recently
defeated George Siddons in this city,
kept the saloon that was ~freqnented al
most exclusively by pugilists aud men
who wanted to become fighters. He
died on Sunday morning. Tho women
began arriving on Monday and the last
came on Tuesday night. They found
Islands body in charge of his last and
eighth putable wife. One from BROOKE
Ign and another from Baltimore backed
mp their claims with marriage certiti-
Gates, but those of the wives who were
not supplied with documents of that
sort at first refused to give way.
Islands father, who has been tele-
graphed for, came in from Connections.
Only the two legal wives and the wo-
man in whose arms he died faced the
father. The others lowered round
the house weeping aud wailing, but
not daring to enter md face the stern
yet Borrowing father. There were
red headed wives and blonde wives
and brunette wives. All had healthy
tempers Il athletic tongues, but
lslnnd's father finally adjusted matters
by persuadinV The eight women to res
linquish their claims and permit him
to bury the body. The dead mans
effects were equally distributed by
wife No s
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
A LITTLE WORLDS FAIR.
New York Gctting up a Show for sout
America.

New York Getting up a Show for South
America.
New YORK. May New York is to
have a sort of worlds fair at the Grand
Central palace at Lexington venue and
Forty-third street. 1t 10 the outgrowth
II n Of the schemes devised by the
ate Secretary Blaine in connection
With his pan-American aud reciprocity
policy. At his instance a bill was laid
before congress- and passed by
that body in 1890 providing for the
'stablishment of u permanent CONNER
:ial exhibit either in New York or
Washington. The sum appropriated
~ congress proved to be insuffi-
ient for the purpose, but it was
.pplied to the gathering together
" some of the foreign and American
Exhibits ut the worlds fair. The princi-
,al object of the exhibition is the
Encouragement of trade with foreign
countries and primarily with the South
american republics. There win be an
American manufacturers exhibit which
will contain samples Of export goods
which our manufacturers wish to intro
luce to foreign buyers. The United
States government will have a section,
ff which the state departments ex-
tibit at Chicago will form n part. 1t
will contain a collection of merchan-
lise such as is imported in large guam
titles by the South American repub lics,
but which the United States does not
produce for export.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
a SOCIALIST DREAM.
Cooperative Scheme TO Include til. Who'll
a.. Nation

Cooperative Scheme TO Include the Whole
CHICAGO, May ]. "A scheme which
:ontemplntes bringing the entire
United States under the cooperative
sway was sprung at u meeting of the
White City Cooperative association, mn
organization of known socialistic ten
lencies. The plans for the proposed
move .nent were discussed with clabor.
ate detail. John II. Copeland, the
president of the association, address,
ng the meeting, said that the associa.
sion proposed the placing OF it's cooper
alive communities in one state. so that
they could multiply, and eventually
control the legislation of that state TO
the establishment of Il complete state
cooperative machine, and then the
conquest Of the balance OF tho world
would bc the more easy and more
quickly secured. through the example
of its practical operation OH so large II
scale as u state. Colorado is the state
upon which the associations members
are casting longing eyes, though it will
be some time before tho onward move.
nent begins. This state, it WAS con-
ended, offered advantages over others
'or the feeding of the infant growth Of
he movement.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
Iowa state Appo,ntment.,

Dies MONIES. May l.-Governor jack
son has made the following appoint
mems: For additional judge supreme
coart, Il. L. Deemer. Montgomery
county; state librarian, Mrs. Laura
Creighton, Polk county; mine inspect
ors, Morgan G. Thomas, Mahaska
county: James w. Miller, Polk county:
James a. Campbell, Wapello county;
pharmacy commissioner, W. L. Leland,
Sioux county; member Of the board of
health, DR.. j. A. %Scroggs. Lee county.
Visiting committee of the hospital for
the insane, Mrs. Julia Young, Wood
bury county; w. P. Gibson, Marion
county. Commissioners for tho loca-
ton OF position of Iowa troops in the
battles near Chattanooga, j. d. Pagan,
Clinton county: R. p. Garrison. Polk
county: F.B. Spencer, Fremont county;
AlexanderJ Miller, johnson county;
John Young, Washington county.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
CAME OFF THE PERCH.

~tialvin's Men Climbed Down When the
Calling Gun Cnrne-Coiorbearcr stood
Firm.
CoLuMBus, o., April 2s.-A special
from Mt. Sterling at 1920 p. IN. says the
whole Calvin army surrendered to Col
onel Colt of the Fourteenth regiment
MS soon as the troops were drawn up
pnd the Ratling guns planted. Colosel
Eoit made an address urging them to
quietly leave the train. He was followed
by superintendent Peabody of the
Midland rond and Colonel Calvin of the
army. Colonel Colt then gave the men
three minutes to leave the train. At
the end of that timc he would order the
troops to fire. AS the expiration of
that time drew near the hobos began
to climb down and when the three min
utes We're up only one remained on the
train, the colorbenrer. The whole
army was then captured, and the train
steamed for this city. Not II shot was
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
|BUNK0EO THE GoTHAMITEs
Wall Street Men Taken in in Chi.
cago Gas.
A Bogus Opinion Attributed to Attorney
General Moloney the Bait That
Caught Them-They Drop
ped About u Million.

NEW YORK, May 1.-Some queer
stories have been circulated in Wall
street in the past few days in regard
to the decision of Attorney General
Molonev of Illinois against the Chicago
gas trust. There have been several
versions of the why's and whcrefores OF
the decision, but gradually these have
crystalized into one story to the effect
that two decisions were drawn by the
Illinois attorney general, the first be.
ing favorable to the trust, while the
other and final finding took the oppo
site view.
This yarn is based on information re.
celved by several leading operators in
Wall street from their Chicago friends.
They were assured last Monday that
Attorney General Moloney would decide
in favor of the trust. The information
was apparently so leliable that the
Wormsers and their friends went into
the market and bought heavily of Chi
cago gas stock, taking upwards Of $780,
900 shares on the rise from 81 to 90.
Bull points on gas were quietly cir
culated, and predictions hat it would
touch as in a few days were
freely made. When gas touched
60, however, the New Workers en-
countered an avalanche of the
stock. Its source was enveloped in
considerable mystery, but there was
plenty of it to be had ut the ruling quo
%tations, and before they were fairly
aware of it the market had slipped out
of the hands of the bull pool.
Then came the adverse decision OF
the attorney general, with its bearish
influence on gas, The New Workers.
were taken entirely by surprise. They
were loaded up with stock which they
had purchased on the strength OF n
straight tip" from Chicago. and the
course of the market pointed IN but
d Observation-Disclosures.
A hasty consultation was held and 1t
was decided to support Chicago gas and
trust to luck to sell out gradually. The
scotched brokers firmly believe Attor-
ney General Moloney drew two de-
cisions. The idea seems never to have
occurred to them that they were tricked
by the Chicago crcwd, who sent out the
secret information about a favorable
decision with no other purpose in view
than to create n market for Chicago
gas, which they, knowing the logic of
the situation pointed to an adverse de-
,lsion, could manipulate to their own
profit. However that may be, it is GER
sain thai the New Workers stand to lose
4 cool million, and they will lose
heavily unless they are able to sustain
The price OF Chicago gas until they can
rot ~,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
A RANK
The Charge Brought Against John Jacob
Aston,

Aston,
New York, April 26.-Along with
the joys Of authorship John Jacob
Astor must bear the regulation bur-
dens of literary fame and success. He
is charged already with rank plagiar-
ism. it is a notorious fact that from
Sh~akespeare's plays to Mark Twain's
Jumping frog there is nothing new
under the sun, but as Mr.. Aston has
gone far beyond and above the sun in
his book, it might be supposed that his
effort had at least novelty.
Not So, however. There is n very
close resemblance between Mr.. Astor's
book, "a Journey in Other Worlds"
the critics of the author say, and n book
called across tho Zodiac" by w.
Gregg, which appeared in 1892, This
was a story of II trip to Mars with the
mysterious "Apergy," of which Mr.
Astor speaks as if he were the originn-
tor of the idea, rs tho motive power.
Others &c still further back and find
the original apergy in reports of Prof.
John Fiske's lectures at Harvard in
1869 and 1870. Yet Mr.. Astor displays
a certain originality where he makes
apergy responsible for Christ's walk
upon tho water ana for Eliiall's flight
TO enven in the chariot of fire,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
SEVERE STORM IN TEXAS.
Great Damage Reported Throughout the
State-Raln and Hall.

Great Damage Reported Throughout TN
State--Raln and Hall.
TENARKANA, Ark, May lone O,
h heaviest hail and rain storms that
ever visited this section struck here
yesterday afternoon. The hail com
mcnccd at 4 p. IN. and lasted nearly an
hour. The wind blew with c~yclonic
force. The greatest damage is
reported AZ Parks, four miles west of
here. As year old son of Rev. J.. NJ.
McDougal, pastor of the Methodist
church, was killed by the falling tim
bers of his fathers house. The resi-
dence OF w. q. Blocker was blown
down and he was fatally injured. The
other occupants escaped with minor
bruises. a number of other residences
were swept away, Including the house
of w. +. Bentley, John Pelt, II. f.
Bentley and j. A. Quorker. The Meth
odist and Baptist churches We're also
blown into splinters. The storm trav-
eled from southwest to northeast and it
is feared heavy damage was done in
the timber sections north of here, which
are not reached by wire.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
Laborlnrmen Protest.

Sioux FALLS, S. D., April a9.-The
laboringmen's club, consisting Of about
two hundred members, has adopted res.
olutions %condemning the present sys'
TEN OF collecting blnckmail from sa-
looms and demand that hereafter I'LL ga
loon men be required to pay fine in the
police courts. A committee OF three
has been appointed to make a monthly
inspection of the police records and to
proceed against and close the saloons
that have not closed in this way.
This action will seriously cmbarrass
matters, as this money Is now being
used to pay off q $40, 900 bonus to the
Sioux Falls and Yankton road recently
completed. Only about 81 5000 of thi,
has been paid, and the citizens who
guaranteed the amount under the orom
ise that it would be paid out OF thil
fund are growing v The motive.
Of the club in taking up the matter q
this time Is to get a fund with which te
reopen the street work.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
RAMsAY's TRIAL HAS COMMENCED
Chief of the Railway Tsl~egrsphers 4.
Court as A WIre Crosxar


Court as a Wire Crosser,
MARION. Ia, April 26. The Ramsa,
case began at y O'Clock Wednesday morn
ing, But a short time was spent in 81
lecting Il jury, which was mostly com
posed of farmers. The county attorne,
presented the case for the state, and sa;l
1t would be proven that Grand CHI
Samsny, OF the Order Of Railroad Tells
eraphers, furnished money and virtual,
ordered the emitting Of the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids and Northern wires.
The defense denied the charges ans
said it would prove a case of ~conspirac,
OF the Rock Island and Burlington road,
to ruin Ramsay. The first witness wa.
w. j. Taylor. agent at Plato. He wa,
chairman of the grievance committe.
when the strike was ordered, and wa.
present at the conference. He said they
thought spoilers were in their councils
and when addressing strikers in genera
Ramsay would caution against over
acts. but when in secret councils o.
leaders. he said:
"By God. boys, we must win the strike
by fair means or foul" He said he saw
Fleage have a spool of wire which be
shovel Ramsay. who gave him S witt
a caution net to get caught. .Whe,
court adjourned Taylor was still on tn,
stand.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
Clerk Thorne.s Case.

SIOUX FALLS, s. D., April Goth.
county commissioners have abandoned
their efforts to have Albion Thorne.
clerk Of the courts removed and have
instructed the states attorney to begin
a suit against him for the amount
claimed to be due the county. This
will bring the case to u trial on its
merits and will settle a question of
large Importance over the state as to
whether or not the clerk has the right
to the fees on land entries or whether
these must be turned In with other fees
to the county.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-05-05
Van Nice Sees a Loophole.

SIOUX FALLS, s. D., April 3G,-Henry
Van Nice Of Flandreau, the Sunday
school superintendent who was recently
sentenced to one year in the peniten.
tiary for adultery, hopes to be able to
escape the punishment fixed by Judge
Jones. The sheriff of Moody county
has been served with n writ OF hu6eas
corpus obtained from the supreme court
and the hearing will take place in a few
days. The attorneys for Van Nice
contend that the law against adultery
In this state is invalid on account OF
certain Irregularities and errors made
when the law was amended. Several
circuit judges have held that the law
is not good and the defendants uttor.
neys hope TO be able to secure a favora-
BILE decision from the supreme court.
Van Nice is still at Flandrcau in the
hands Of the sheriff.