Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

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the murder of Walter Davis commenced at
Harrodsburg, KY, on the Sth.
Mrs. E. B. WEST, wife of Rev. Josiah
West, Of Brooklyn, N. Y, while visiting
her daughters grave in Greenwood Gene
terry on the Sth, was taken suddenly ill and
died before a physician could be called. .
GEORGE BLISS concluded his argument
for the prosecution in the Star-route trial
at Washington on the Sth, having spoken
for seven days.
The one hundred and fifteenth anniver-
sary of the New York Chamber of Com
merce was celebrated by a banquet OH the
evening of the Sth.
THE New York World has been sold to
Joseph Pulitzer, of st. Louis, for $780, 900.
Mr.. Pulitzer assumed control of the paper
on the 9th.
THE Tennessee State law making gam
bling a felony went into effect on the 9th,
and all the gambling-houses in Memphis
closed their doors.
THE President on the 9th designated John
Jay Knox, Comptroller of the Currency,
as Acting Commissioner of Internal Rev.
emu for ten dSys.
The Minnesota Republican State Conven-
ton has been called to meet at st. Paul,
June 81.
THE Georgia Legislature on the 9th
opened the election returns for Governor
to succeed the late Alexander H. Stephens,
and found that Henry D. Mcdaniel had
received 2S,6S0 votes, while all his oppo-
nents had only received 334.
JOHN EGAN, ex-Speaker of the New Jer-
sey House of Representatives, has been ar
rested at Elizabeth upon the charge of at
tempting to bride Assemblyman Armitage,
of Newark, at the late session of the Legis-
lature.
The Pennsylvania Senate has passed the
use of devices for destroying life or prop
erty by explosion or fire.
SOME of the Dakota Legislators were on
the 9th indicted for crooked work in con-
nection with the Capital Removal bill. -Four
Legislators swore before the Grand Jury
that they were offered money for their votes.
The membership of the society known as
the Catholic Knights of America is a little
above ten thousand.
The National Temperance Society at it's
annual meeting in New York on the 10th
elected Bishop Hopkins, of Massachusetts,,
President, and reelected John N. Stearns
Secretary.
CHARLES LYMAN, Chief Clerk in the office
of the Treasurer of the United States, has
been selected as Chief Examiner under the
Civil-Service Commission.
HENEY D. MCDANIEL was inaugurated
Governor of Georgia on the, 10th.
AMAsA STONE, the millionaire, of Cleve-
land, O., shot himself through the heart in
his bathroom on the afternoon of the 18th.
He had for some time been troubled with
insomnia, and became Respondent, believ-
ing himself to be incurably affected.
HANNAH S. GRANT, mother of ex-Presi.
dent Grant, died quite suddenly on the 18th
at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Mary
Corbin, at Jersey City, N. j., aged ninety
four years.
ANDREW ]. SMITH, President of the Man.
haitian Fire Insurance Company, was ar.
rested in New York on the 18th on the
charge of perjury, in making oath to a
false statement of the condition of the
company.
COMMODORE SHuFELDr has been pro.
NOTED to be a Rear Admiral in the navy.
and Captain T. E. Fillebrown to be a Com.
modore.
THE Chief-Justice of the Colorado Su-
pSeme Court decides the act void under
which Packer, the cannibal, and other muir.
derers were recently convicted, and thew
would be released.