Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-26

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ter-State Exposition Building, on the lake
front, Chicago, were blown down during a
heavy wind-storm on the 18th, and five
men were seriously injured.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
THE Ohio Brewers and Maltsters' Asso-
citation met at Cleveland on the 18th and
passed resolutions denunciatory of the
Scott law, and empowering their Presi-
dent to employ counsel to test the statute
in the Ohio Supreme Court. They also
voted that every brewer and maltster, at
all elections, should support candidates not
pledged to enact laws destructive of their
business.
CHARLES L.. COLBY, of Milwaukee, was
on the 10th elected President of the Interna-
tional Young Mems Christian Association,
in annual convention at Milwaukee.
MuNFoRD G. BEEsoN, Representative in
the Indiana Legislature, committed suicide
on the 10th at his residence near Richmond,
by cutting his throat with a penknife.
Dependency over his wife's hopeless ILL
ness was assigned as the cause.
A WARRANT was issued on the 18th for
the arrest of P. j. Sheridan, of New York,
IN demand of the British Government, for
completely in the Phoenix Park assassina-
ton conspiracy. Sheridan could not be
found, and it was supposed he had fed.
PHIL B. THOMPSON, JR., who shot Walter
Davis near Harrodsburg, KY, a short time
since, was acquitted on the 10th, the jury
returning their verdict in one hour and
twenty minutes.
THE Michigan House on the 10th passed
the bill giving women the right to vote at
school. town and city elections.
THE Garfield Monument Committee of
the Army of the Cumberland at Cincinnati
has selected j. Q. A. Ward, of New York,
as the artist, and authorized him to pro-
coed with the monument, at a cost not to
exceed $4,000. A committee would visit
Westinghouse select a site fort the monument.
THE annual reunion of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac began at Washington
on the 10th. A procession, including about
seven hundred members of the society,
marched through the principal streets of
the city and was reviewed by President
Arthur and the members of his Cabinet.
The afternoon was devoted to q
business meeting. When the election of
i 1cSAuO1U was 1odCuCuS 0cIlcTu1 4cW.
ton and General Grant were put in
nomination for the office, the ballot
resulting in 155 votes for General Newton,
III for General Grant and seven scattering
votes. The evening exercises included a
poem by George Alfred Townsend, who
took Abraham Lincoln for his theme, and
an Grafton by Major Maginnis. There
were also speeches by Generals Sherman,
Beaver and Slocum. General Fitz John
Porter's. old corps-the F~itth-adopted a
resolution urging his restoration to the
army.
THE Kentucky Democratic Convention
on the 18th nominated j. Proctor Knott
for Governor. The platform, after indoors.
ing the principles enunciated by the Ma.
tional Convention of 1880, pledges liberality
toward the public schools, and recommends
the calling of a convention to amend the
State Constitution so that it shall be more
in accord'with the spirit Of the times.
THE Republicans in the Charleston wv.
Va.) Congressional District on the 18th
claimed the election of Brown over Snyder
for Congress by fifty majority.
JESSE PECK, the venerable Bishop of the
NJ. E. Church, died at Syracuse, N. Y, on
the 18th. Bishop Peck was born in Middle.
field, N. Y, in 1911, and was licensed as q
local preacher in 1929. He became u Bishop
in 1872.
THE State Department officials at Wash
ington stated ON the 18th thai there was no
truth in the statements that warrants for
the arrest of P. j. Sheridan had been is.
sned. Sheridan was i'll New York on the
18th, and stated that he had no idea of leay.
ing, ard when wanted could easily be
found.
In the Pennsylvania Senate on the 18th
the Prohibitiory Amendment was defeated
nays, 49,; yeas, 2l-less than the consti-
t%utional majority.
JERE DUNN, on trial in Chicago for the
murder of James Elliott, the pugilist, was
acquitted by the jury on the 18th.
MRS. LYDIA PINKHAM, whose face is ia.
miliar to all newspaper readers, died at her
home at Lynn, Mass, on the 18th, aged
sixty-four years. She spent $4,000 a year
advertising, and secured a trade netting
100000 a year profit.
VANDERBILT has purchased twelve thou
sand shares of Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
Railroad stock, paying $2,0o0,000, which
gives him a controlling interest in the road.