Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

HON. DAVID j. BREWER, of Kansas, has
been appointed Judge Of the Eighth Cir
cult, to succeed Judge McCrary. He was
born in Asia Minor, where his father was
a missionary, and he is q nephew of David
Dudley Field.
CRowELL's Civil Rights bill, as amended
to give colored people a right to eat in all
restaurants and eating-houses, was made
a law in the Ohio Legislature on the 25th.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR on the 25th nomi.
mated Julius G. Burrows, of Michigan, to be
Solicitor of the Treasury, and the nomina-
ton was.confirmed by the Senate.
The Democrats of the House of Repre-
sentatives at Washington held q caucus
on the evening of the 25th to consider the
tariff question, but the two factions failed
to harmonize.
State Convention at Battle Creek on the
25th and adopted resolutions declaring
that in consideration of the colored voters
faithfulness to the Republican party their
right mad not received due protection; that
the recent Civil.rights decision sacrificed
the right of seven million citizens, and thai
a bill ought to be passed to appoint an Ed
ucational Commission of colored men. 4.
j. Martin and W. Q. Atwood were elected
dele gates to the National Colored Conven-
tion at Richmond, Va, July s.
IT was announced on the 25th that all the
Northwestern Pennsylvania Republican
district conventions had elected Blaine
delegates to the Chicago Convention, with
Edmunds for second choice.
MR.. PARNELL denied on the 25th that he
had bought his mothers residence in New
Jersey and that he had any intention of
doing SO.
A MASS meeting on the Goth at Lincoln,
ILL.,, adopted resolutions d~enouncing Orrin
A. Carpenter as the murderer of Fora
Burns, and demanding that he leave Logan
County without unnecessary delay.
The nomination of Minister Sargent,
now at the German Court, to be transferred
to st. Petersburg, was sent to the Senate on
the Goth and promptly confirmed.
BILLS favoring woman suffrage were re-
jeoted by the Iowa and Connecticut Legis-
latures on the Goth.
In the second trial at Washington. Hal.
let Kilbourne was on the Goth awarded
damages of $500 for false imprisonment
by John G. Thompson, ex-Sergeant-at-
Arms of the House Of Representatives.
JOHN M. HAMILTON, Governor of Illinois,
has written a letter declining to compete
further for a denomination.
THE bill prohibiting the buying or sell
ing of grain OF other produce on fictitious
contracts or margins passed the Iowa
House on the goth. The act had already
passed the Senate.
CARL SEIZURE, in a letter expressing his
gratitude, declined on the 9th to accept
the purse of 500, 900 which was being made
up by his friends in New York, and re-
quested that all contributions be returned.
AUGUSTUS ScHELL, the veteran banker
and politician of New York, whose death
had been expected for some time, passed
quietly away on the 9th.
MAY % has been selected as the date for
holding the State Democratic Convention
in Kansas.
H Legislature of New Mexico has
passed a bill fixing the capital at Santa
Fe, and appropriating $20o, 900 for a build.
ing.
H Texas Democrats will meet in State
Convention at Fort Worth June 10 to select
delegates to the National Convention, and
the State Convention will meet at Houston.
August 10 to nominate State officers.
MRS. S%TRArToN, the mother of the late
General Tom Thumb, died at New Haven
a few days ago.
A MOTION to strike out the enacting
of the bonded Whisky Extension.
bill was agreed to-131 to Sin Commit.
tee of the Whole-of the National'House of
Representatives on the 9th. This action