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

milwaukee, I1NeT. LIZ SlIl was hDCuU
twelve years of age, and, as there is no
reason known why she should have COM
mitted suicide, it is supposed she accident
ally fell into the river.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
AT the municipal elections held in Illinois
on the 18th the question of license was
made an issue in forty-eight towns, thirty
one Of which pronounced in favor of license
and seventeen against.
SENATOR FAIR, of Nevada, denied on the
18th that his son had attempted to shoot
him, and published a letter showing that
his son was not in San Francisco.
THE charges preferred against Supervis-
ing Architect Hill, of Washington, made
public on the 18th, allege corruption, x
travagance and Incompetence in the man.
agement,ofh his Office, specifying contractors
to whom special favors were shown, n
affirming the existence of a ring in the
office of the Supervising Architect which
exacted fees, commissions and percentages
from contractors.
The Scott bill, which became a lazy of
Ohio on the 18th, prohibits the sale of liquor
to be drank on the premises. 1t fixes the
license for the sale of alcoholic liquors at
5000 per annum, and for the sale of malt
liquors at 800 per nun It exempts
cities of the first class from the operation
of the Sunday aw.
THE City Council Of Minneapolis, Mimi,
has advanced the rate of saloon-licenses
from 500 to $500.
THE hearing of testimony in the second
trial of the Star-route conspiracy cases at
Washington was concluded on the 18th.
During the day the Grand Jury returned
two additional indictments, one charging
William Pitt Kellogg with %corruptly re-
ceiving money while United States Sen
ator, and the other alleging a similar Of
Tense against Thomas j. Brady while Sec
ond-Assistant Postmaster-General.
The National Academy of Sciences, in
session at Washington on the 18th, elected
Prof. o. C. Marsh, of Yale College, as
President.
MINES. CHRISTINE NILSSON and Albani,
who during the past winter have been sing
ing in opera i'll this country, left New York
for Europe on the 18th.
The New York State Woman's Suffrage
Convention, held on the 10Th at Troy, elect
ed Lille Devereaux Blake, President. The
resolutions assert that woman's co-opera-
ion is necessary to the maintenance of So
cial rider.
THE Ohio Democratic State Central Com
mittee on the 10Th decided to hold the next
State Convention at Columbus, June 81.
The statue of the late Prof. Henry, of the
Smithsonian Institute, was unveiled at
Washington on the 10Th by Chief-Justice
Waite. A large number of distinguished
persons were present.
IT has been discovered that the legisla-
tive enactment creating the Dakota Capital
Commission conflicts with the act organic
ing the Territory, and therefore have no
power to remove the capital.
In order to test the co~nstitutionality Of
the Scott Liquor law, a case will be imme-
diately made up for trial before the Su-
prene Court of Ohio.
INVESTIGATION of the charges against
Supervising Architect Hill was begun at
Washington on the 10Th by a special Treas
ury Commission. Disappearing Archi-
tect Mullett alleged that Mr.. Hips incom-
petence and dishonesty had cost the Gov
eminent $1o,O0o,Oo0, and promised to fur
nish proof of what he said.
The deadlock in the Illinois House of
Representatives occasioned by the Brad
well-McNally contested election case was
broken on the Goth. Rock refused to enter
the House, and the Republicans, recogniz-
ing the impossibility of seating Bradwell,
abandoned the fight.
THE Prohibition bill was defeated in the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
on the Goth, the vote upon its passage being
81 to 151.
Ex-CoSGREssMAN ROSWELL HART, Treas
urer of the Rochester IN. " Savings
Bank, died on the 20th, aged sixty years.
SOLOMON GRAY, the pioneer manufact-
urer Of paper collars, died on the Doth at
Natick, Mass.
EDWARD Mock, the first man vino pud.
died iron in the United States, died at
Youngstown, O., on the Doth, at the age of
eighty-one years.
EDWARD JUMP, a caricaturist, who had
earned a wide reputation, committed sui
eide in Chicago a few days ago by shoot
ing. Whisky and family troubles were
said to have been the cause.
WILSON, Republican, was given a certif.
cate Of election as representative in Con.
gress from the Fifth District of Iowa upon
an ostensible majority of tw%enty-four votes
~ 'ho ->oNeinpel e4ecIlon. FREDERICK, his
Democratic opponent, claimed on the Doth
to have discovered errors in the count of
votes that would reverse the result and
give him Il margin of one hundred votes or
more.
FOREIGN.
IHE prohibition placed Upon certain
brands of American lard by the Cuban au-
thorities has been removed.
The Princess Isabella, of Bavaria, and
Prince Thomas, Duke of Geneva, were mar.