Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-04

OF ILLINOIS.
An Iowa brewer has made applica-
zion, under the prohibitory law CT Iowa,
iorthe privilege OF manufacturing beer
lor medicinal and culinary purposes.
This privilege if granted will no doubt
result in the establishment of a good
many DIR ug stores and c~ook-shops.
1t is estimated that the total depreci-
alton in the value of stocks. since Gar
fields assassination has been equal to
at least fifteen hundred millions.of dol
lars-a sum about. as largeias the ma
tional debt. 10 thiSshrinkage the fol-
lowing contributions are declared to
have been made: Vanderbilt, $4,000,
900; Gould, s%7o,Ooo,ooo; Huntington
stocks. $20,l00,OO0.
At Devils Lake the settlers catch
pickerel with pitchforks. One man
caught 700 pounds in an hour and a
half. The MinnewaMkon Siftings pro-
poses to weekly announce the results
and mention only fish weighing over
sixteen pounds, in it's account of the
season'scatch Itsays that h efarmers
have taken out thousands of pounds
and are sailing down the large ones fer
Cunnronr nrnvicionc
The Hand County Press gets off the
best thing 0 fthe campaign, inthe shape
of a King of Hearts an Jack of Clubs.
THERE'S a remarkable likeness between.
thccards and the republican candidates.
The Press makes a bad showing forthe
candidates, for no man ever won on
such a hand, unless it was a case of
bluff" and the Press would not be so
cruel as to admit that such is the game
this year.-Mitchell Mail.
At the examination of candidates for
final admission to West Point military
academy recently, William Hart, the
successful competitor among sixteen
who were examined at Huron for the
appointment, passed and will represent
Dakota in the school for four years if
ne can endure the severe study and dis
cipline. Out of one hundred and three
applicants from all parts of the country,
seventy-two were accepted. Mr.. Hart
is from Brown county.
s. w. Talmadge, Of Milwaukee, has
issued his annual estimate Of spring
and winter wheat, baslng his ~calcula-
tons Oh reports just received from sec
retaries Of state boards of agriculture
and statistical agents of the states and
territories. His estimates are, for
spring wheat: Minnesota, 3s,0oO,OOO
bushels; Nebraska, 32,O0O,O0O; Iowa,
%2S,000,000: Dakota, 23,OOO,OO0; Wiscon-
sin, 21,o00,000; total, 1%41,OOO,00O. Win
ter wheat: tota ,375,0oO,OOO; winter and
spring total, 5%16,000,OO0.
\ Bismarck dispatch states that "for
some time horse thieves have infested
Mclean county and the country along
the Missouri river. Sunday afternoon
one named James O'Neil was caught
by farmers and hanged to a telegraph
pole. He was foundhanging by a stage
driver, with a note in his pocket bear
ing the words O'Neil, the horse thief
y report reached this city tonight that
four more of the gang were pursued
north to Mouse river, where a fight en-
sued. One thief wasshot and the three
others hanged. The farmer$shavebeen
exasperated and rejoice over the news.
They will lynch horse thieves as fast
as they catch them.
The telegraph announces the death
of Bishop Matthew Simpson, in the
seventy-fifth year of his age. He was
a native of Ohio and was born June 10,
1910. He graduated from Allegheny
college, at Meadville, Penn, in 1882,
and at once began the study of medicine,
being admitted to practice in 1888. The
same year, however, he entered the
Methodist ministry and in 1887 became
prfessor Of natural science in Allegha-
ny college. Two years later he became
president Of Asbury university. Ind,
and in 1913 editor Of the Western Chris
tian Advocate. In 1852 he was elected
bishop, which position he has occupied
ever since. lie was a %confidant of
President Lincoln, who in many mat
ters affecting the conduct of affairs dur
ing che rebellion consulted with him.
70 Salmon p. Chase, Lincoln's secreta-
ny OF the treasury, is popularity attribu-
ted the o~rigination Of the greenback
currency and the great financial meas
ures of that time. But those whoknow
the inner history of the building Of the
wonderful fabric of public policy, by
which alone it was possible to maintain
the war and the national integrity,
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