Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

SISTER MARY GABRIEL SEMMEs, who has
been an inmate of the Convent of the Wis
itation at Baltimore for forty-five years,
died Oh the Doth, at the age of eighty five
years.
EX-ALDERMAN JOHN GEIGER and wife, of
Cincinnati, were drowned during a rain
storm OH the night of the 2Sth. They were
out riding and drove into a culvert under
the railroad, through which the swollen
stream was running. The current caught
them and bore them away. The wagon
was found a mile away, but the bodies had
not been recovered.
The annual meeting of the American
Unitarian Association was held at Boston
on the Goth. Henry P. Kidder was elected
President, and George William Curtis was
made Vice-President.
Ten THOUSAND children attended the
twenty-third annual meeting of the Bap-
fist Sunday.schools of New York OH the
29th.
THE result of the elections in Virginia
was on the 30th ult. believed to foreshadow
the loss of the State Legislature to the Re.
adjusters. There was q general desertion
of Malone by the negro voters.
GENERAL G. P. BUEL, U. S. A., died at
Nashville on the 31st ult.
N WALTER EVANS, the new Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue, was in.
stalled in office at Washington on the 31st
ult.
THE National Conference of Free Trade
met at Detroit on the 31st ult. David A.
Wells, of Connecticut, was elected Presi-
dent, and in his opening speech said they
had come together to affirm the right to sell
and buy without restriction. He referred
to the depression in business, the preva-
lence OF labor strikes, and said that
the pressure of events would compel an
answer to the question why, in this land of
plenty, there was such s%tagnation and dis
tress. 1t was only a question of time
when the element of liberty involved in
this free-trade question would assert itself.
RICARDO MENocAL, who fled from Cuba
seven years ago with $500, 900 of the public
funds, has been recaptured.
MRS. PHIL B. THOMPSON, ofHarrodsburg.
KY, published a statement in the Cincin.
natl papers on the 31st ult. that Walter
Davis, whom her husband killed, was in.
nocent Of any wrong toward her.
SIR STAFFORD NoRTHcoTE, the Conserva-
tive leader in the House of Commons, ar.
rived in New York on the 31st ult. to attend
the marriage of his son to Edith, the daugh.
ter of Hamilton Fish.
DR.. GALLAGHER, Whitehead, Curten,
Ansburgh, Wilson and Bernard Gallagher.
the dynamite conspirators, were indicted
at London on the 31st ult. for treason
felony.
The Board of Overseers of Harvard Col.
lege at Boston voted on the 31st ult.-ff-
teen to eleven-against comforting the de-
gree of LII. D. Oh Governor Butler.
IHE Pennsylvania Legislature on the 1st
passed a bill which deprives the Standard
Oil Company of the monopoly it has vir-
tually enjoyed in the pipe line.
THE Free-Trade Conference at Detroit
closed on the LIST. An address to the peo-
pie of tho United States was adopted.
which declares the tariff question to be tho
paramount issue in national politics, and
sets forth the benefits that might be ex.
pected to result to the country from the
adoption of the free-trade policy. David
A. Wells was elected permanent President.