Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-13
PERSONAL m POLITICAL.

The business men of New York gathered
on the evening of the Goth at Cooper Union
in vast numbers to indorse the Administra-
zion of President Arthur. The chief
speakers were g. H. Bristow and Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher.
The House Committee on Military At
fairs at Washin gton agreed on tho goth to
report a bill providing that honorably dis
charged soldiers and sailors shall be given
preference in appointments to civil offices.
The Republicans on the Goth nominated
General James S. Negley for Congressman
in the Twenty-second District of Pennsyl-
vania and T. NJ. Bayne in the Twenty third
District.
THE Missouri Prohibition Home-Protec-
ton party met in State Convention at st.
Louis on the 20th, elected thirty-two dele
gates to the National Convention at Pitts
burgh, II nominated an Electoral ticket,
but postponed the nomination of a State
ticket until August 10. Resolutions were
adopted indorsing the platform of the party
passed in Chicago in 1852, declaring in
favor of equal suffrage and wages for
women with men, and ~denouncing the
liquor-license laws as c~o-partnership with
crime.
THE Democrats of New Hampshire held
their State Convention at Concord on the
21st and elected delegates-at-large to the
National Convention. The platform adopt
ed demands q reduction of the war tariff,
and insists that the Democratic majority
in the House continue their efforts to es-
tablish tho revenue system on an honest
basis. Tilden and Hendricks received
unanimous Endorsement.
Ex-SPEAKER RANDALL stated on the
21st that he thought Congress would be
ready to adjourn July Is.
THE New York Democratic State Con.
vention has been called for June. IS at
Saratoga.
A STATUE Of Martin Luther w~as.unveiled
in front of the Memorial Lutheran Church
at Washington, D. c., on the 2lst. About
1000 persons witnessed the ceremonies.
THE following Congressional renemina.
tions were made on the 21st: Kansas,
First District. E. N. Morrill,. Republican;
Fifth District, John A. Anderson, Repub-
lican; Indiana, Fifth District, C. G. Wat.
son., Democrat.
FERDINAND WARD, of the firm of Grant
& Ward, was arrested in New York OF the
21st, on a suit by the City Chamberlain,
bail being fixed at $4,000. Ward, not
having secured bondsmen, was in custody
of the Sheriff.
A LARGE delegation from the African
M. E. Conference, in session at Baltimore,
visited Washington on the 21st and paid
their respects to the President.
AN Industrial Congress, representing the
sugar., wool, rice and other industrialin
tereats of the country, met in Chicago on
the 21st in mass convention. A platform
was adopted claiming protection as the
true policy of the United States until 9th.
er nations shall pay equally high wages to
workmen as we do.
HORACE +. TAYLOR, Past Grand Master of
the Masons of New York State and a lead
ing banker of N.w 70 k City, dropped
dead in his office d few days ago.
A MORTGAGE on General Grants farm.
south of st. Louis, to secure the Wander
bilt loan of $4,000, was recorded at st.
Louis on the 22d.
TIE Democrats of Nebraska met in State
Convention at Lincoln on the 22l and
elected delegates to the National Conven-
ton favoring Tilden for President. The
platform declares that tho administrative
reforms needed by the country are impos-
sible SO long as the Government is in the
hands of the Republicans; advocates such
a revision of the tariff as wi | prevent as
far as possible unequal bur lens, and the
heaviest taxes to be place | on luxuries.
The West Virginia Greenbackers as.
sembled in State Convention at Buckhan-
non on the 22d and nominated Judge Ed
win c. Maxwell for Governor.
The Fourth Indiana District Democrats
on the 22d renominated William s. Holman
for Congress, and Congressman Thomas A.
Ryan was renominated by the Republicans
OF the Fourth Kansas District.
Ex-JUDGE w. r. BEEBE, the oldest
practitioner in the United States District
Court, was killed by the cars at Evona
Station, N. j., on the 22d. He was seventy
five years of age.