Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-17
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The following Congressional nOnlina
lions were made on the Odd: Republican
Missouri, Eighth District, Henry Pine;
Louisiana, Third District, w. F. Kellogg
(renominated): Pennsylvania, Nineteenth
District, B. F. Seitz. Democratic-Wis-
%consin, First District, E. Merton; Massa-
chusetts, Tenth District, James E. Ester
brook.
F. T. NICHOLS, editor of the Memphis
(Tenn.) Aoolanche, died on the 23d of
paralysis while visiting Davenport, Ia,
with his family. He was fifty. four years
old.
THE Delaware Democrats met in State
Convention at Dover on the 23d. and chose
Presidential electors and a State Commit
tee and re.nominated Congressman Love.
GILLIE LEIGH, a member of the British
Parliament, lost his life a few days ago
in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming,
where he became separated from a hunt
ing party. His body was found at the
base of a precipice.
The National Temperance Society man
ayers, at a meeting or the 23d in New
York, adopted resolutions congratulating
Maine for the adoption of the Prohibitory
Constitutional amendment.
The Peoples party of Massachusetts met
on the oath in State Convention at Worces-
ter. NJ. j. McCaferty was nominated for
Governor and Colonel John F. Marsh for
Lieutenant-Governor. The platform adopt.
ed is the one presented by General Butler
in the Democratic National Convention.
The Republicans Of Texas met in State
Convention at Dallas on the 24th and
nominated Judge A. E. Norton, of Dallas,
for Governor, and John Haynes, of Webb
County, for Lieutenant Governor.
The Colorado Democratic Convention
met at Denver on the Oath and nominated
Alva Adams, of Pueblo, for Governor.
JAMES w. NEsMITH, who was United
States Senator from Oregon from 1861 to
1867, has been placed in an insane asylum
at Portland.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
as follows on the Oath: A. M. Webster,
Prohibitionist, Tenth Michigan Districts;
F. G. Bunnell, Republican, Fifteenth Penn.
sylvania District; D. w. Connolly, Demo.
crat, Twelfth Pennsylvania District.
The term of c. E. Coon, as Acting Sec.
rotary of the United States Treasury,
dent, expired at the close of business on
the oath. All business which by law
must be transacted by the Secretary
would therefore lave to be held in abey.
ance until an appointment was made to
fill the vacancy.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations made on
the Goth: Republican-Kentucky, Sixth
District, j. j. Landrum. Pennsylvania,
Eighteenth District, L. E. Atkinson IRE
nominated). Massachusetts, First Dis
trict, Robert T. Davis (renominated);
Fifth, James A. Fox. Democratic-Illi-
nois, Sixth District, Thomas Butterworth.
Iowa, Fourth District, .. Q. Aker. Penn
sylvania, Seventh District, George Ross;
Seventeenth, Jacob NJ. Campbell (renomi-
nated); Eighteenth, A.. ]. Patterson.
Massachusetts, Seventh District, r. S.
Spofford. Montana, Joseph K. Toole.
Observation-Disclosures, Sixth District, U.
O.. Meecham.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR on the 25th appoint.
ed Walter Q. Gresham Secretary of the
Treasury, whereupon Mr.. Gresham imme-
diately resigned the position of Postmast.
er-General. 1t was rumored that the APP
pointment was but temporary, and was
accepted merely to accommodate the Pres.
ident.
oAhonAiAh CMoLL uleu q lew uayS
ago at Sandy Lake, Pa, at the age Of one
hundred and five years.
THE South Carolina Republicans met in
State Convention at Columbia on the 25th
and nominated d. 7. Coibin for Governor
and D. A. Straker for Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor.
NELLIE HUBBARD, daughter of an ex-
Governor of Connecticut. having secured
q divorce from the coachman with whom