Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
THE Ohio Republican State Convention
met at Columbus on the 9th. Judge j. B.
Foraker, of Cincinnati, was nominated for
Governor, and William G.. Rose, of Cleve-
land, for Lieutenant-Governor. The plat
form adopted favors a tariff which will
provide a revenue for the Government and
protect American producers and laborers;
approves the taxation of the liquor traffic
for revenues; favors Civil-service reform;
approves the action of the State Legis-
lature in submitting Constitutional amend
ments to the peoplein relation to the liquor
question, and indorses the administration
of President Arthur.
DIR. KN1cKERBocKER, of Minneapolis,
was on the 9th chosen Episcopal Bishop of
the Diocese of Indiana.
The Iowa Democratic Convention, in
session at Des Moines on the 9th, nominated
L. G. Kline, of Tama County, for Gov
ernor; Justin G. Clark, of Montgomery
County, for Lieutenant-G Governor; Judge
Hayes for Judge of the Supreme
Court, and Edgar B. Farr, of Page
County, for Superintendent of Public
Instruction. The platform declares in
favor of Civil-service REFORM denounces
gance; pronounces for a tariff for revenue
only; opposes constitutional prohibition,
and favors a w~ell-regulated License law.
The New Hampshire Legislature organ
lied on the 9Th by electing Republican
officers in both branches.
The Pennsylvania Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 9Th.
DR.. ALEXANDER MEANS, the prominent
Southern divine and scientist, died recent
ly at Oxford, Ca, aged eighty-five years.
REBEccA HAMILTON (colored) aged II
hundred and fourteen years, five months
and twelve days, died in New York City a
few days ago. She went to that city when
Canal street was filed with boats, and
Fourteenth street was considered out Of
town.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed Will
lam S. Roulhac, of North Carolina, Secre-
tary of the Civil Service Commission.
A CIRCULAR has recently been issued by
the Chairman of the Kansas State Central
Committee of the National G~reenback-
with other + after consultation
many prominent men in the party, the con.
clusion had been reached that :" as a party
organization we ought not to send dele
gates to the approaching Chicago Conven-
ton, the Convention having been called
by individuals and not by authority of the
party, and its avowed object being the
formation of a new party" The circular
states, however, that there is no objection
to Greenbackers and individuals taking
part in that Convention, and suggests that
all Autobiography men unite and hold
mass-meetings in each Congressional Dis
trlct and elect four delegates to the Con-
v%ention, and ':if the Convention does what
is expected, indorses our Chicago platform
OF 1850, we as a party will heartily indorse
it."
A RECENT Washington special to the
Cleveland Herald states that POSTMASTER.
General Gresham denies the published
statement that he has decided to exclude
patent insides' from the mails as second.
class matter" In view of the law of Con-
gress passed in 1874, providing "that news.
papers, one copy to each actual subscriber,
residing in the county where the same are
printed, in whole or IN part, and published,
shall 60 free through the mails" such a
decision by the Post-ofice Department as
that limited at would be in violation of law
and of no binding force.
MISS EDITH FISH, daughter OF Hamilton
Fish, ex-Secretary of State, was married
in New York on the 18th to Mr.. Hugh Oliver
Northcote, son of the Parliamentary leader
OF the British Conservative party.
CHARLES c. FULTON, the editor and pub.
Usher of the Baltimore american for MANY
years, died on the It'll, aged seventv.two
years.
AT a meeting of the Indiana Greenback
State Central Committee, held in Indian.
apolis on the 7th, H. G.. Leonard was elect.
ed Chairman, vice G. G. Post, resigned. It
was decided not to join with the Anti-Mo.
nopollstic movement, but to at once begin
the work of Strengthening the party in the
State.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed Will
lam w. Thomas, of Maine, Minister resi-
dent in Sweden n Norway.
: H Wisconsin State Total Prohibition
Convention, in session a few days ago at
Madison, adopted a resolution "that in
view of the developments of the past two
JN"i"s VIZ uCS4d1 ~ W DC our con.
viction that no real friend of prohibition
can consistently support any man for pub
lie office or any political party that is not
fully committed to the prohibition of the
liquor traffic."
Lolita, the actress, sailed from New York
on the tn for Europe, where she will re.
main one year.
IHE International Typographical Union,
IN session at Cincinnati on the 9Th, elected
as President Mark L. Crawford, of Chica.
go, an employee of the A. N. Kellogg News.
paper Company.
MIR. MERRlcK, after speaking ten DAYS.
finished on the Sth his concluding arg1.
ment for the Government in the Star.route
trial at Washington.
EL1PHALET CLARK, the Oldest homeopath.
lst physician in Maine, died in Portland on
the sth, aged eighty-two. He was founder.
with DIR. Gray, of the New York American
OF Homeopathy.
WILLIAM STEVENS, the noted oarsraan.
missing since last December, was found
drowned on the 9Th, at P~oughkeepsie, N. Y.
The lower House of the Illinois Legisla. J
ture on the Sth passed the Harper High.
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