Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-21
PERSONAL n POLITICAL.

The United States Senate Committee in
vestigating the Copiah County (Mississip-
ply election outrages at New Orleans adj
journed on the 9th, after examining 152
witnesses.
THE Indiana Democratic State Central
Committee met at Indianapolis on the
9th and issued a call for a State Conven-
ton to meet in that city u %.
R. D. HUBBARD, Ex-Governor of Con-
necticut, died at Hartford on the 9th, aged
sixty-six years.
w. H. HUNT, United States Minister to
Russia, and Secretary of the Navy from
March, 1878, to April. 1882, died at st.
Petersburg on the 9th from dropsy.
IT was announced on the 9th that the
late defendants in the Emma Bond trial
were ostracised in their homes in Chris
tan County, IL. Merchants and business
men declined to have anything to do with
them.
FATHER ScHAUP, of indianapolis, who
contracted smallpox while at the DEATH
bed of a parishioner, died Of the malady a
few days ago.
The time for holding the New Jersey
Republican State Convention has been
changed to April II.
The Ohio Republican State Convention
will be held in Cleveland April "a.
S. M. WEAVER, a disabled member of
the Iowa House, was on the 28th taken to
the clerks desk in a reclining chair and
wrapped IN a buffalo overcoat, in order to
record his vote on the Prohibitory Liquor
| bill.
WASHINGTON advices of the 2Sth state
that the House Committee on Public Lands
had decided to report in favor of forfeiting
that portion of the Northern Pacific grant
where the road had not been completed
July 4, 1879. This would restore to the
public domain about $500, 900 acres.
The Pleuro-P Pine umonia bill which was
passed by the National House of Repre-.
sentatives on the 2Sth ult. provides as fol-
lows:
The Commissions of Agriculture shall organ
iZe a Bureau of Animal Industry and appoint a
chief, whose duty it shall be to investigate
and report upon the number. value and con-
dition OF the domestic animals of the United
eases among them, and the means for their
prevention and cure. He is authorized to an
point W competent agents, whose duty shall
be to reDortupon the best methods of treating,
transporting and caring for a. gnals, and the
means to be adopted for the suppression and
gNtlrpation OF contagious! pleur6-pnenmonia.
LIZ SOullIllSolOLci u 1SrICulCur0m may eXDonO
SO much OF the money appropriated as may
be necessary in paying for the animals it is
deemed necessary to slaughter, and in such
disinfection and other means as may be nee
essary to extirpate the disease. The authori-
ties Of the States shall pay one-half Of the ex-
penses OF the animals it is deemed necessary
to slaughter, and One-half of the cost of dis
infection and care of herds or cattle. The
transportation from one State to another Of
an n 1fve-stock affected d with any contagious
vision is made for the prosecution OF any per
son violating this prohibition.
THE Rhode Island Republican Conven-
ton will be held at Providence March 90.
M. I. POLK, the d%efaulting State Treas
urer of Tennessee, died quite suddenly on
the 295h ult. at East Nashville.
ORRIN A. CARPENTER, charged with kill.
ing Fora Burns, was taken from the Lin
coin (1ll.) Jail OH the 10Th ult. to Pc.
would begin March 10.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR on the Goth ult. sent
to Congress the report Of the Civil Service
Commission. The document admitted that
there had been several violations of the
law in regard to political assessments, but
the amount collected was not one-fourth
as much as formerly. The act was consid-
cred a success.
The widow of the immortal John Brown,
of Harper's Ferry, died on tho Goth ult. at
Son Francisco.
CHIEF NIMMo, of the Bureau of Statistics
at Washington, stated on the Goth ult., in
reply to the charges of manufacturing en-
igration statistics. made by John Law,
Secretary Of the Department of Agricult-
ure of Canada, that the statement was q
fabrication of the hasest sort
THE Republican Editorial Association of
Indiana, at its meeting at Indianapolis on
the 29th ult., deprecated making prohibit:
ton an issue in the coming campaign.
RODNEY D. WELLS has been appointed
postmaster Of st. Louis.
The National House Committee on Com
MERGE agreed on the 29th ult. to report
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