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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-05
GENERAL GRANT.
"A Message and Request to His Comrades i
Bluc--The Generals Condition.


BOSTON, May 1S.-A. S. Walker, of Cin1
cimati, and Lieutenant Holbrook, of Dor|
chester, Mass, visited General Grant
in New York a day OF two aso|
and presented an album with the|
autographs of the subscribers tOl
the joint memorial to be issued for tte|
West. Upon Lieutenant Holbrook's re-
marking that he was going to the G.. A. IL
encampment in June General Grant said,
with tears in his eyes: ''Tell the boys at
Portland that they probably will never loos
nto my face again or hear my voice
as you do now, but they are engraved on
my heart, and | love them as children.
What The good Lord has spared me for |
can not tell, but it IS perhaps to finish up
my book, which | shall leave to the boys in
blue. and in which they can not only see
me, but follow Inc in the acts in which they
helped me-"
NEW York, May 1S.-The consultation
OF DIS. Sands, Shrady and Douglas at Gen
eral Grants house yesterday afternoon
lasted nearly two hours. This was much
longer than usual, and was due to the
grave symptoms that have appeared
III the case within a few days. IL
m"' lloticeu carry III the week, WIG"
the General suffered from a return OF IN
somnia that the glandular swelling did I0s
materially increase as it had done during
former slight relapses. On this account the
trouble was not justly traceahle to vocal
strain, although that was at first de.
clared to be the chief cause OF
discomfort. Yesterdays examination DIS
closed a much graver condition than
has heretofore been intimated. Inc
doctors were disinclined to say
much about it beyond admitting that Inc
cancer had again become noticeably active
DR.. Shrady, in reporting the result of yes,
terday's consultation, said: eve found the
local condition 1.-THE cancer) neither better
nor worse than for the past three days.
The general condition is fair. considering
the local condition"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-05
Killed by Her Rejected Sutton.

LOCUST GAP, Pa, May 1s.-Miss JuNa
Kramer, eighteen years of age, was sLo'
and fatally injured yesterday morning ny
refer hnolbouch, a rejected lover. MIs'
hralner was conyersing with William NeM
man. an accepted sutton, when KnolbousA
approached and joined in the conversation.
A moment later he drew a revolver
and sent a ball through Miss Kramer's heau,
remarking that he would either marry ne.
or Kill her. A second shot passed through
the young lady's hand, and a third sllo.
aimed at Neuman, did not take eifee.
knolbouch was arrested, and an attellp.
was made to lynch him, but the oflice'
prevented it and lie was conveyed to jail
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-05
LATER NEWS,

LOUIS REL, the half-breed leader, was
captured on the 18th near Batoche by three
scouts. The rebel was unarmed, but was
accompanied by three armed followers.
he made no resistance, but asked that he
should be protected from the troops. His
wife and children, he said, were not far
off. He declared that he was on his way
to give himself III, and expressed a hope
that he would be given a fair trial. The
~half-breeds near Batoche surrendered
ninety-five stand of arms. It was believed
that the rebellion in the Northwest was
practically at an end.
ALONG the Detroit, Lansing e. Northern
Road ten stores and three mills were de-
stroyed by forest fires on the 18th at Nc
Brides Station, and ten houses and two
mills at Granville. On the West Michigan
Road flames were raging on both sides of
the track for miles. At Osceola and Bluff
ton over eleven million feet of lumber was
burned.
AFTER the usual consultation of phya-
clans on the 18th DR.. Shrady reported Cen
eral Grants condition as follows: "We find
the Generals local condition neither better
nor worse. In fact, there has been no
change during the last three days. The
patients general condition is pretty fair,
considering his local condition, but he is
no BETTER"
A CYCLONE passed through Rocks Coun-
ty, Kan, a few days ago, killing Rev. Mr..
Grimes, wife and child and two other
persons, and doing great damage to houses,
barns and fences.
ADvICEs of the 18th from Hermosillo,
Mex, say the Mexican troops attacked the
Yaquis near Misa. Three hundred Yaquis
We're reported killed, the Mexican loss be-
ing eighty killed and wounded.
The exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearinghouse in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 10th aggregated
$77337,s1 ,S2G, against SOL ,GS1, 100 the previ-
GUS week. AS compared with the corre-
spending period of 1884, the falling of
amounts to a. per cent.
A TERRIFIC storm the other night lust
south of Caldwell, Kan, demolished twelve
large tents belonging to the Oklahoma col
ony and destroyed several wagons. Near
ly the entire colony, numbering about two
hundred, sustained a heavy loss.
AT the joint session of the Illinois Leg
islature III the 10th five Senators and
twenty-five House members took part,
Scattering votes were cast for General
Logan, Lambert Tree and members of the
Legislature.
THE news of the Cars having presented
swords of honor to General Komarotf and
General Zakrjewski had on the 18th created
an uneasy feeling in Europe that the pres.
ent peace was only an armistice, and that
the arbitration proceedings were the
mockery.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-05
EoRElGN.

The American residents of Paris,
through Minister Morton, presented the
municipality on the 18th with a reduced
copy of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty.
SICKNESS was on the 18th creating great
havoc among the British and Egyptian
troops in the Soudan.
BATocHE was captured on the 18th by
Middleton's troops at the point of the bay
onet, the Canadians losing six killed and
fifteen wounded. Seven prisoners held by
the Indians were rescued. 1t was believed
that the rebels would disperse in bands
throughout the Western country, and that
Riel would escape into American territory.
A CROWD of ten thousand persons ASSEM-
bled on the 18th ut Trafalgar Square,
London, for a demonstration against the
proposition to increase the duty on liquors.
The police attempted to maintain order,
but the people drove them away and in
obliged in many riotous acts.
SOME prominent Cubans in New York
stated recently that a general uprising
would take place in Cuba in a few months,
which would obliterate Tire Madrid DOM
ination and make the country independent.
AN evicted farmer in Ireland recently
visited the bailiff who had elected him,
piled him with liquor until stone drunk,
and then keld him overa fire until he was
fatally burned.
IT was announced ON the 14th that the
Afghans demanded tlat England should
revenge their defeat by the Russians or
indemnify the Amer for his losses.
In the House of Commons on the 18th
Mr.. Gladstone stated that peace negotia-
ions were making satisfactory progress.
1t was considered that the trouble was as
good as settled.
REPORTS reached Winnipeg on the 14th
that Poundmaker's Indians captured a
train of thirty-one loaded teams near Bat
tleford, with most of the drivers. Two
men were killed in the fight, one of them
being q mounted policeman.
f. J.. FARGUs, well known as "Hugh
Conway" author of "Called Back" died
at Monaco, Italy, on the 10Th, aged thirty
seven years.
THE cholerain Valencia, Spain, was rap
idly abating on the 18th, owing, it was
said, to the incubation of thousands with
the cholera germ by DIR. Ferran.
COPIES of the revised version of the Old
Testament were given to the London
newspapers early on the morning Of the
18th. The work CT revision was COM
menced fourteen years ago.
In a recent collision off the coast of En-
gland between the steamers Numidia and
M~essina, ten of the latter's crew were
drowned.
IT was rumored at Ottawa on the 18th
that Sir John A. Macdonald had received
a private telegram from Queen Victoria,
urging that the Northwestern rebellion be
speedily brought to a close, and that the
demands Of the Indians be treated with
justice 1t was also reported that General
Middleton had written to Riel that he
would receive and protect him until the
Dominion Government decided upon his
case.
IT was said on the 18th that the loss of
the Canadian half-breeds in the recent
fight at Batoche amounted to over fifty
killod and nearly two hundred wounded.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-05
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

MAJOR Z. A. BURKE has rendered to the
Board of Management of the New Orleans
Exposition his resignation as Director
General.
The case against Commissioner Sparks,
of the Land Office at Washington, who
was charged with assaulting Colonel
D'Ahna, was dismissed on the 18th.
MRS. CATHERINE MAIN died on the 10Th
at Kalamazoo, Mich, aged 1lG years.
THE twentieth annual meeting of the
National Temperance Society was held in
New York On the 10th. Resolutions were
adopted congratulating the friends of tenn
perance Oh the greet advance the cause
had made, and upon the widespread and
rapidly increasing interest in it.
BAYL1ss w. HANNA, of Indiana, on the
18th declined the Persian mission.
GENERAL GRANT has been reelected
Commander of the Loyal Legion.
JAMES JANUARY, aged seventy, and
Julia June, thirty-five years old, were
married recently at Lafayette, Ind.
THREE leaders of the Mormon Church,
who visited the White House on the 18th
assured by the President that the Ed
AluuuS INV WOulu De ulparU1llly auulniS-
tered.
A DELEGATION from New York called
upon Hon. S. S.. Cox on the 14th to urge
him to retain his seat in Congress, where
he could be of the greatest service to his
constituents. Mr.. Cox reminded the
gentlemen that he had been appointed
Minister to Turkey without solicitation,
and could not decline the honor.
Ten ballots for United States Senator
were taken at the joint session of the ILL
nois Legislature on the 14th. After the
third ballot Morrison, who received 1O1
votes, the Republicans not voting, with
drew from the contest. The remaining
ballots were favorable to Judge Tree, of
Chicago. In the evening q recess was
taken to $3.50 the next morning. Mr..
Weaver, the member-ele elect from the Thirty
Fourth District, was sworn in, and would
his seat at the next joint session.
IT was reported on the 14th that ex-
President Arthur was in very poor healht,
he having been outside OF his houss bat
once since his returnto New York the mid
die of last March.
The Michigan House of Representatives
on the 18th passed over Governor Alger's
veto the bill allowing minority stockhold-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-05
ers in joint stock companies representa-
tion on honrdS of directors

ers in joint stock companies representa-
ton on boards of directors.
AFTER stormy scenes in the Joint session
of the Illinois Legislature on the 10Th the
Republicans and Democrats reached all
agreement whereby Weaver was admitted
No formal ballots will be taken for United
States Senator until the 18th.
GENERAL GRANTS condition on the 18th
was better than it had been for the pre-
vious two or three days. He took a ride in
a street-car, accompanied by DR.. Douglas,
and later had a short walk.
The New York Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 18th, but the Governor i'm
mediately convened it in extra session to
make preparations lfor taking the State
census,
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To the Editor of The EVENING STAR:
For years we have been without any ACCOM-
mediation, 1. e., mode OF public conveyance, be-
tween Brightwood and Washington. We had
one years ago, when a mall stage ran morning
and evening. From time TO time meetings
have been held on the subject of railroads, ON
nibuses and other modes OF conveyance, buI
none OF them ever reached focal point Last
summer lSs5) a colored man, Cherry, living
near Boundary and Sth streets north west, not
known TO the people OF Brightwood conceived
the idea OF running an old wagon, used In the
procession OF the emancipation celebration,
one heretofore had backbone enough Ca
attempt. Since that time ne has run night and
day with his quasi stage, and has been a great
accommodation TO the public, and the citizens
OF Brightwood especially feel very grateful to-
ward him. Being encouraged by the people, be
set about fixing something better, and through
his own ingenuity and labor he has constructed
a right comfortable fix, I'm appearance some
thing like a small car; but being a poor man,
and il naturally taking quite a time 10 accu.
mulate enough his horses have been and are
still OF the same type as his first conveyance.
Now 10 the point: Twice last summer he Was
arrested, bandcufied and imprisoned on. a
charge OF cruelty TO animals by some ofYicious,
out-ofwork public officer ca and ON SATURDAY
afternoon, 18TH inst, he was served the same
way. My idea OF q public officer Is one who
shall arrest vice and crime and protect hon.
esty, ingenuity and industry. Now, why is IL
that some of our officers seize the weak and
leave UNPUBLISHED the more wealthy, who break
the law by fast and reckless driving. and why
is IL that the street cars are still allowed to
become crowded? They operated by men of
influence and powerful corporations.
WHITE CITIZEN.
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Swindling the Ex.COnfederases.

From the Savannah (Ga.l News.
A Washington special says that q firm of
sharpers In that city is sending circulars south
directed 10 persons who were conscripted into
the confederate military service, offering forja
consideration TO secure legislation from Con-
gress remunerating them for the time they spent
In the war and for wounds and other injuries
ceived. The scheme seems TO be very in
geniously planned, and IL is proposed TO raise
a fund TO prosecute the claims The parties
who are at the head OF the game want the claim
ants TO contract TO give them q per centAge OF
any money that may be procured. This looks
want each claimant to send them i've
dollars In cash TO cover expenses necessary
to be incurred in obtaining the desired legisla-
ton. In order To give the scheme an air O.
plausibility, it is claimed that Congress
Is in honor bound TO compensate the conscripts
addressed as the Supreme Court has held that
the war was only an uprising against the gov
protection from the conscription officers OF the
public enemies. IL il TO be hoped that few ex-
confederates will be foolish enough to be caught
by this game. There il not the least probability
I'm the world, hardly a possibility, that Com
gress Will ever, even In the remote future, pass
such q measure as that contemplated There
seems TO be no desire now among true patriots,
whichever side they fought on In the late war,
to open the doors to claims OF any kind. Up
north the demand for pensions 20 all Union
soldiers appears TO come principally from politi-
cal demagOgues. camp followers and bounty
jumpers. The ex-confederate soldiers do not
ask for any relief from the general govern
accept aid from the states in which they live.
No representative Congressman from the south
would support measure looking 10 the com
penSation OF ex-conscripts.
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AUCTION SALES.
THIS AFTERNOON.
THos J. FISHER CO; b., r.,.,. . oct,o0ee,.

l. Real Estate Auctioneera
CHANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE REAL Ex.
TATE, SITUATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF
* STREET, A SHORT DISTANCE WESI OF
CONNECTICUT AVENUE, IMPROVED BY A
SMALL FRAME DWELLING.
BY virtue of decree of the Supreme Court or sssR
Inc District of Columbia, passed in Equity cause nH
No. 1857, on the 14th day of November, lSSo. 49,
wherein Francis F. Butler, Lucy Butler. Eli n A. BUT
ler Walter Butler and Martha Butler are complain
ants and Mary Ann Butler, May Bell Gwin and VII,
lam Gwin defendants. the undersigned Trustee, will
sell sell I at FOUR O'CLOCK F N on MONDAY; e TIE
TIL RT1ETH DAY OF NOVEMBER. A. ID. 1850
In 'front.' of the premises the following prop
number one hundred and sixtythree 1887 containing
three thousand two hundred and ninety (3,29S)
square feet of ground
Terms of sale: Onethird of the purchase money for
said real estate and in cash at the time OF sale
and the residue in two equal instalments, payable
respectively in one and two years from the day OF
sale with interest the said deferred payments to be
secured by deed Of trust the premises sold; all
cash. at the option Ofthe purchaser purchasers All
conveyancing at cost of purchaser deposit of $500
will be required day Of SALE and terms Of sale
are not complied with within days from the date
OF sale the trustee reserves the right TO resell the said
property Ct the risk and cost Of the purchaser
EDWARD j. STELLWAGEN, Trustee
MS d&ds 1924 st. NV.
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TOMORROW.


GPLENDID CORNER BUILDING LOT, CORNER
DOE FIFTH AND STREETS NORTHEAST, AT
AUCTION.
ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER.ne
FIRST, AT HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK, we3
will sell, in front Of the premises, @
LOT g. IN SQUARE S35,
fronting so feet ON 9th street and So 6-12 feet
street, and can readily be subdivded into smaller
building lots.
Terms: One-third cash; balance in one and two
years. notes to bear six per cent interest, payable
semannually, or all cash, at option Of purchaser.
ancing, ETC., at purchasers cost.
DUNCANSON BROS,
nZS-d&ds AuctiOneers
WALTER b. WILLIAMS 4 co, Auctioneers.
VALUABLE PAINTINGS
BY Eminent Foreign and American Artists.
NOW on Free Exhibition, from m. until 10 p.
AT our Art SalesrOOm, cor 10th and Penn. ave.
TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY,
DECEMBER FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD,
AT EIGHT O'CLOCK p NJ.
Artists represented in this sale:
Mascart, Paris.
Dnarnos, Madrid.
QuintOn Paris.
IndOn Rome.
MelrOse, New York.
VOlkhardt, Munich
kOek-kOek, Amsterdam.
And many Others of equal eminence.
portion of this collection is from q celebrated Col
lectOr of paintings, and portion of the by an
importing frm who Is closing business and to be sold
without reserve.
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TTHOMAS DOWNING. Auctloneer.
EXECUTORS SALE OF FINE HOUSEHOLD
EFFECTS BELONGING TO THE LATE
LEVIN NJ. POWELL.


EXECUTORS SALE OF FINE HOUSEHOLD
EFFECTS. BELONGING TO THE LATE
LEVIN NJ. POWELL.
EMBRACING:
French Plate Manlel and Pier Mirrors, one
pieces q China and Bohsmian Ware, Marble:
table Covers; Hsndsoms Dwarf BOOK Case
Ps1er S faar
Furniture il separate pieces Window and door
%nq eerd rases and 0ussf saa
Moquet and Body Brussels carpets lin fine con-
so4ks aq r Hs nu seae aSc '
Chamber Furniture. Walnut n. r. Chamber
ahsfp asd hh
Elegant Old Mahogany Wardrobe Mahogany
Walnut Dining Chairs. fine assortment Of China
and Glassware fine Silver plated Goods. Knives
and FORKS together with many other articles
BY yiTsgs Of the Court Of
late Levin NJ. Powell will sell at the residence No.
dS3 sissss sss e a SESa
very superior collection Of Household effects
n2sa,s VIZ. B. z WEE hSAkk' Executors.
CTAT TrS SS nj TH TR sTEEET SETWEES
MSFMa s8sssal iioy T GEpS k & 81 BEING
Sis Il Ma in s
public auct on, IN ont Of the premises WEDNES
DAY, the SECOND DAY OF DECEMBER, A. d.,
1885, at FIVE O'CLOCK p NJ, all that real estate
known as part OF Lot two CO. IN subdivision Of square
NO $685. beginning On Third street west, distant 70
feet nom the southwest corner OF said square and lot
and running thence north Third street Ia feet and
inches thence east 55 feet thence south ID feet and
Sinches, thence west 90 feet 10 the beginning, and
improvements.
Terms OF sale: one-third purchase money cash; bal
ance thereof IN SIX twelve and eighteen months
whole 70 bear interest from day of SALE and ment
thereof to be secured by the promissOry notes the
purchaser, the purchaser nay all cash on day OF
sale or ratification thereof by the court. No deed
given until all purchase money and interest be paid.
lien Is reserved on the property for the purchase
deposit will be required when property is knocked
down. The terms Of sale must be complied with In
ten days. WILLIAM J.MILLER, Trustee,
THOS. E. WAGGAMAN. Auct. n2l-d&ds
FINHOMAs5 BOWLING, Auctloneer
TKUsTEE,s SALE OF IMPROVED PROPERTY
EIGHTH STREET NORTHWEST.
By virtue of deed Of trust, dated the third day 80
OF February 1883, and daily recorded I'm Iiber No. s
iO2I folio 3O1. ct seq. one of the Land Records -
for the District Of Columbia, by direction the
premises ON THURSDAY. DEGh.MBlsR Third,
1850. ut FOUR O'CLOCK r. M Lot 80, in GrOfs sub
DIVISION OF part of original Lot N. in square No Alt
together with the improvements.
Terms: One-third cash; the residue in two equal
payments at six and twelve months with notes bear
ing interest at six per cent per unit! paid and
secured by deed of trust on the property sold
convey ancing &c2 at purchasgEs cost 500 deposit
hZI-d&ds Surviving Trustee
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Driven Crazy by Prohibition.
oAp Err OF fhf fif'IioN kNtlTtAkNT
CITIZEN OF ATLANTA.

CITIZEN OF ATLANTA.
ATLANTA, GA, Nov. 30.--The recent red-hot
prohibition agitation here has had the effect oI
unsettling the mind OF well-known citizen,
Mr.. W. :. Blackman. He was ardent tempe
rance man and was enthusiastic and untirfug
I'm his support Of Prohibition. As election dan
drew near he abandoned his private business
entirely ana devoted all his time 10 working
for the prohibition cause. For two
days before election he worked almost
without sleep and without food.
On the night of the election ne went wild with
delight and pettioned on his knees for the vic
tory. Thursday his family became uneasy about
him. He continued to talk much about the
cause that they began TO fear that his mind
would give way. Thursday night ne became
SO violent and vehement i'm his talk and con-
duct that DIR. Tanner was called in. The doctor
saw at a glance that Mr.. Blackman's nervous
system was shattered, and that he was on the
verge of insanity. The next morning he was
worse. At breakfast he stated that he Intended
to give a grand banquet To the prohibition
party and that from that day on his
home should be a home for all prohibitionists.
He instructed his family to prepare the banquet
and then picking up an axe he walked out ~
the front fence and began knocking IL down to
let the prohihitionists i'm as ne said. He was
placed under restraint, and will be sent TO an
aSylum.e
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Gen. Lees inaugural Ball.

PREPARATIONS FOR BRILLIANT EVENT AT
RICHMOND NEW YEARS EVENING.
A dispatch from Richmond to the Baltimore
american says: Mr.. Charles l.. Siegel, who has
charge OF the arrangements for the grand ball
to be given when Gen. Lee is inaugurated, left
for New York Sunday. The city democratic
committee has turned over the details to COM
mittee Of leading citizens, who will be assisted
further by a committee of ladies. The ball will
be the largest affair of the kind ever given here
the plan contemplating the use OF the large reg.
mental armOry and Sanger hall adjoining two
large buildings, which are to be connected by
bridges. The Sanger building will be used as
the banqueting hall. A liberal guarantee fund
has already been subscribed 10y prominent men.
A grand music stand is to be erected i'm the mid
die OF the ballroom floor. Richmond society is
very much excited over the prospective bali. 1t
is about the first OF the kind since the days Of
the royal governors Of Virginia. 1t takes place
January 1St
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LADIES GOODS.

WAMsLEY & Newell.
80 North Charles street. Baltimore I'D,
Have hand a full and desirable stock OF the
Latest French Novelties. III dress goods, silks,
SatinS, NelVetS all the shades. splendid
of goods for Bridal, Dinner and Reception
Dresses. Wraps Mantillas, New Markets Jackets,
Opera and Night Cl0aks from The best European man.
ufscturers- Kid Gloves for reception, evening and
street wear from tn so button French Fans, Neck
Wear and Christmas Goods samples and estimates
for dresses sent and orders promptly executed
n23-6t WAMSLEY Il NEDWELL.