Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-07
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The Grand Jury of the District Of Coluln
bia on the 9th returned three additiena
pr~esentments in connection with the Sta
Mail-route frauds. In one James T. Brad,
is charged with %unlawfully receiving $500
from j. b. Price, the contractor: in til
second ex-senator Kellogg, of Louisiana
and Brady are Jointly accused of conspir
ing with Price to defraud the Government
by the expedition" Of routes; and in tn,
third Kellogg, individually, is alleged t.
have unlawfully received from Price so,
NO in consideration Of the exercise of his
influence in securing certain advantages
for Price from the P%ost-ofice Department
The indictments were found upon the evi
dence OF Price. who claims to nave made
the payments to Brady and Kellogg incasl
and post-office drafts.
MIR. DUKES, the slayer of DR.. Mutt; was
served with a notice by citizens of Union
town, Pa, on the Goth, that he must leave
the city within twenty-four hours. Mr.,
Dukes paid no attention to the warning up
to the 9th, although he had kept his room.
The report was current at Uniontown that
DIR. Nuts eldest son and daughter (the lat.
ter the subject of the controversy which &C.
casioned her fathers death) were watch
ing for an opportunity to kill Dukes.
Ex-CoSGREssMAN CHARLES STErsoN died
at Bangor, Me-, on the 2Gth, aged eighty.
two years.
REV. Mr.. Hicks, of Washington, Gui-
teau's spiritual adviser, has entered suit
against the Baltimore american for Ss35, 900
damages for a publication asserting that
Hicks diSYnso1 rc Guita,,9, ho,,. o.. 4.
money consideration.
Ex-PnEs1uHNr- UIAZ, or Mexico, was
FORMALLY presented to President Arthur on
the 9th by the Secretary Of State. He was
accompanied by several members of his
suite, Minister Romero and General Foster.
A LETTER was received by the Pennsyl-
vania House of Representatives on the
2sth from Dukes, the murderer Of Captain
Mutt, declining to accept the seat to which
he had been elected, and requesting the
House to declare the same vacant. The
House so declared.
H libel suit of George B. Hite, of Ken
lucky, father OF Wood and Clarence Hite,
late members of the James gang, against
the Louisville CoMrier-youraal has been
decided in favor of the defendant, Hite
claimed $4,000 damages.
H funeral of the late Postmaster-Cen-
eral Howe at Kenosha, Wis, on the sSth
attended by a large number Of dis.
tinguished people from all parts Of the
United States and by a great concourse of
citizens OF Kenosha. The remains were in.
TERED at Green Bay.
THE Massachusetts House has passed the
bill for biennial elections and sessions of
the Legislature.
THOMAS H. HERspoN, Cona1essman.elect
nom the First Alabama District, died "a
few days ago at Mobile.
FRANK BYRNE, the Irish suspect recently
arrested in Paris, but whose e~xtradition
was refused by the French authorities. ar
rived i'll New York on the anSth. accomDa-
med by his wife, whom the approver Carey
also charged with participation in the
Phoenix Park assassination conspiracy.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th saws
kellogg processes ability to
dlsprove the allegations in the affidavit of
Price III a statementthat he was
preparing and would soon publish.
HE Wisconsin Legislature has defeated |
the proposition to restore the death nenal.
by for murder.
~ DoFOttDs u distinguished I
officer OF the late war, died in Chicago a
days ago. He was seventy-seven wears
I'D.
II tennessee Legislature has passed a
'lll making it a felony to keepa gambling
house or to rent rooms to be used Cor gam.
bling purposes. The penalty for violating
he law is from one to three wears in tho
HE direct testimony of ex-senator Dor.
ley IN his own behalf in the Star-route trial
washington was concluded on the Goth.
ND the cross-examination Of the witness
vas begun by BIZ. Merrick, of counseI for
he Government.
Il. I. GRAVES, Superintendent of the Ma.
lonal Bank-note Redemption Division of
he Treasury Department, has been an
Assistant Treasurer of the United
tates, yice Wyman, promoted to be Treas
rer. Captain j. N. Burril, Of New York.
lcceeds the late Q. H. Irish as Suuerin.
endent OF the Bureau OF Engraving and
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FOREIGN, {
In order to appease the demands of the +,
--Alng people OF Paris for cheaper rents,
le French Government has awarded q con. !
act 1or the erection Of q largo numbe, of v
~ellings.
AT q meeting of the Irish National :.
Dublin on the 2Sth q resolution :