Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-27
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE report that Charles Seymour,
United States Consul to China, had been
assassinated was denied on the Sth. The
canard was started in an obscure town in
the north of England.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR returned to Wash
ington on the Sth for the winter.
The Houston & Texas Central Railroad
informed the Governor of that State on
the Sth chat as soon as possible separate
coaches would be provided for colored peo-
pie.
GENERAL SHERMAN, after travelling 10,-
678 miles, inspecting the military posts in
the far West, resumed his duties at Wash
ington on the 9Th.
IT was stated that "Plunger" Walton, of
New York, lost $4,000 by the defeat OF
Girofe in England on the 9th.
THE fourteenth annual meeting of the
American Women's Suffrage Association
opened in Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 9th, with
large delegations from all over the coun-
try.
THE Bankers National Convention as
sembled on the 10th at Louisville, KY,
President George s. Coe, Of New York, in
the chair. John j. Knox, Comptroller of
the Currency, made the principal address
of the day. showing the superiority of the
National banking system over all other
methods.
The demise was announced on the 10th
of Charles II. Crane. Surgeon-G Genera of
the United States army.
REV. SOLOMON PARSONS has been nomi-
mated for Governor of New Jersey on a
Prohibition platform.
The National Bankers Association in
session at Louisville, KY, on the 18th
elected Lyman J. Gage, of Chicago, Presi-
dent. Resolutions were adopted favoring
an equitable Bankrupt law and recommend
ing q d~iscontinuance of the compulsory
coinage of silver dollars.
EDGAR A. MARBLE, Commissioner of
Patents at Washington, rendered his resig-
nation to the President on the 18th, to take
effect November 1.
In an ARRAY OF the 18th between Demo-
cratic ward politicians at Baltimore, in
front of the City Hall, James +. Busey was
fatally shot by William F. Harrig.
The Woman Suffrage Convention closed
its sessions at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 18th.
May B. Clay, of Kentucky, was elected
President. Resolutions were adopted that
Congress and the State Legislatures be pc.
titioned for constitutional amendments
granting suffrage to women.
SECRETARY FoLGER received information
on the 18th from Port Townsend W. T., of
the capture of eleven Cinnamon, who, in
violation of the law had landed on the
coast Near that port. The United States
officers at that port were directed to return
the Cinnamon to the place they came
from.
THE Senate subcommittee on Labor me-
at Manchester, N. H., on the 18th. Colonel
Thomas Livermore, agent of the Amoskeag
Mills, testified that the mills turned out
annually about 6O,00O,o 200 yards of cloth, at
a cost of between s., 1000, 900 and $4,000, 900.
Cost of labor was about thirty per cent. of
the total cost of the goods, or about 81 $780,
600. The American operatives, he said,
numbered one-ffth of all employed. They
were the best operatives. The operatives
were not discontented. He did not believe
there was a labor union in Manchester,
though many efforts had been made to es-
tablish them. There had not been a n
eral strike in thirty years.
EX-GOVERNOR CoNLEY, postmaster at At.