Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

A FIGHT took place on the 31st ult. on.the
floor Of the Illinois House between Crafts,
of Cook, and Baker, of Moultrie. Difference
of opinion on the Stock-yards bill caused
tie trouble. Crafts struck Baker in the
face, and in return received q blow and q
kick. In joint session only one vote wa
cast for United States Senator.
AT a caucus of Republican Senators
held in Washington on the 31st ult. a de-
cision wa reached to resist removals
from offices which lave a fixed tenure by
law, except for cause, until the expiration
of the term.
The body supposed,to have been that of
s. S. Conant, the missing editor of Hay-
! per's Weekly, recently found in the river
at Trenton, N. j., has been positively iden-
titled as that of Michael Corliss, of Bor-
dentown. Corliss had been missing since
Christmas.
AT Springfield on the LIST General Logan
addressed many Legislators and others in
favor of a Soldiers Home near Spring
field, Ill.
A BILL to remove the State capital of
New Jersey from Trenton to Newark was
lost in the lower House on the 1st bv one
vote. .
GEORGE PEABODY WETMoRE, of New
port, was on the LIST elected Governor of
Rhode Island by the customary Repub-
lican majority.
REPORTS that Mrs. Garfield, widow of
the late President, was about to marry a
pennsylvania minister, having been widely
circulated, that lady on the LIST Indignantly
denied that there was n truth in them.
EARLY on the morning of the 1st General
Grant was seized with q fit of coughing
and threatened with s%uffocation. He was
relieved after a time, but became very
weak, his condition causing the gravest
fears. During the day he occupied alter
nately his couch and easy-chair, being
able to breathe more freely while in a sit
ting position. In the evening it was
thought by the doctors that the General
had only a few hours to live.
The President on the Cd informed the
Utah Commission that his administration
would lend all the aid possible to purge
Utah of the practice of polygamy.
The Senate of Tennessee has passed a
bill prohibiting the playing of baseball or
cricket on Sunday.
THE ests.se of G. n. Mccormick has made
another gift Of 100000 to the Presbyterian
Theological Seminary at Chicago.
MRS. EZEKIEL T. Cox, mother of S. 8.
Cox, Minister to Turkey, died at Zanes-
vile, O., on the Sd.
EX-GOVERNOR FLETCHER, of Missouri,
whose disappearance created a sensation,
arrived at Laredo, Tex, on the Sd from
Matamoras, and Immediately left for
home, entirely nawar that he had "mys-
teriously disappeared" as he telegraphed
his wife as to his whereabouts, but she
failed to receive the dispatch.
ONE D AND sEvENTY-THREE
nominations were sent to the United States
Senate by the President before that body
adjourned. OF this number 1853 were con-
firmed, two were rejected and twelve were
left Enacted upon. On the Sd John r. Gar
rison, OF Virginia, was appointed Deputy
First Comptroller of the Treasury, and John
3. McCalmont, of Pennsylvania, Commits
stone of Customs.
THoMAs Nook, the oldest surviving vet
eran of the wal of 1872, died at his resi-
dence in New York on the Sd. He wa
born in that city November II, 1883.