Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

WILLIAM WHITE, late Chief-Justice of the
Ohio Supreme Court, and recently appointed
Judge of the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Ohio, died at
his home in Springfield on the night of the
18th.
A BILL prescribing the whipping-post rs
the penalty for wife-beating passed the Illi-
nois House of Representatives on the 18th.
PATRICK EGAN, Treasurer of the Irish Land
League, arrived in New York on the 18th.
He denied the assertion that his departure
from Dublin was caused by fear that he would
be connected in any way with the assassina-
ton league, but said he came to America on
q commercial errand. Mr.. Egan further
stated that the money and securities of the
Land League were in safe hands.
THE Reformed Church of the United
States has deposed Rev. A. s. Keyser, OF
Pottsville, Pa, from the ministry for failure
to fulfill a marriage contract.
A HIGH-LIcENsE act has been adopted by
both houses Of the Missouri Legislature.
AN Independent State Convention" in
Rhode Island, on the 18th, nominated ex-
Governor William Sprague for Governor.
FATHER O'MALLEY. the priest who married
Mrs. Senator Tabor to her first husband, has
issued a card stating that, being a divorced
woman, her latest marriage is, according to
the canons of the Catholic Church. improper
| and illicit. He further states that Father
Cappelie. if he knew of the facts in the case,
would be suspended from priestly functions.
On the 14th David Davis, late United
States Senator from Illinois, was married,
near Fayetteville, N. c., to Miss Addie Burr.
THERE is no foundation for the report
started some time since hat the Prince of
Wales intended visiting the United States
this year.
W. H. UPsoN, of Akron, was on the 14th
appointed and qualified Judge of the Ohio
Supreme Court, vice Chief-Justice White, de-
ceased.
n. A. DUKES, on trial at Uniontown, Pa,
for numbering State Treasurer Mutt. was
found to be not guilty on the 18th. Judge
and spectators were amazed at the verdict,
and the popular excitement was intense.
Dukes and the jury were hung and burned in
et1igy.r
CLARENCE H1TE, one of the James gang OF
Missouri outlaws, %pardoned on account of ill.
health BY Governor Crittenden, died at his
home in Logan County, Kentucky, a few days
ago.
THOMAS j. BRADY was a witness on his
own behalf in the Star-route trial in Wash
ington on the l4th. He denied that he was q
%conspirator, and affirmed that James,
MacVeagh, Walsh and Rerdell were pcrjurers.
He had virtually become acquainted with
Dorsey since this prosecution was inaugur.
ated, never plotted with him, save touching
certain political affairs, and conducted his
department in the rost-office for the welfare
of the country and the good of the mail
service. He was cool and collected while
giving his testimony.
THE California Legislature has adjourned
sine die.
JOHN W. CORNING, Of Geneva, N. Y, has
been appointed Chief of the Bureau of En-.
craving and Printing at Washington.
The Rhode Island Republican State Conven-
ton met at Providence on the 18th and nom
mated Augustus Q. Bourne for Governor, and
Oscar N. Rathbone for Lieutenant.G Governor.
The present incumbents of the other State
offices were renominated.
The Maine Legislature adjourned sine da
on the 18th.
President ARTHUR on the 18th appointed
A. N. Wyman, Assistant Treasurer of the
United States, to be Treasurer, vice James
Gilfllan.
The bill to settle the Tennessee State debt
at fifty cents, with three per cent. interest,
has passed both houses of the Legislature.
Tie Massachusetts, Legislature has defeat
cl the bill to compel corporations to pay en-
ploycs every week.
The attorneys for Marshall 7. Polk, the de.
fau'ting State Treasurer of Tennessee, have
ma !c Il proposition for a full settlement of
his deficit to the State.
The Secretary of the Navy has cabled in
structions to Lieutenant Harder to continue
the search for Lieutenant Chipp andh his party
during the coming summer.
ST. LOUIS gave ex-Presid.nt Diaz, of Mex
leo, a public reception on the 10Th.
THE Republicans of Cincinnati have nom
mated L. l.. Sadler for Mayor.
The call for the Republican State Conven-
ton of Ohio, to meet in Columbus June 5,
next, WAS issued on the 10th.
FOREIGN.
The Social;stic disturbances in Paris are
attributed to the fact tn IT there arc 20 G0O