Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-03
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

GOVERNOR PIERCE on the 9th vetoed
The bill for the removal OF the capital of
Dakota from Bismarck to Pierre, holding
that it impairs the obligations of u con-
tract. On charge of bribery in connection
with the bill, three members of the Terri
torial Legislature were arrested and held
to bail.
In the Dakota Legislature on the 10th the
House, by a vote of % to 90, refused to pass
the Capitol Removal bill over Governor
Pierce's veto.
SERGEANT PLuNKETr, of the Twenty.
First Massachusetts Volunteers, who lost
both arms in heroic work ut Fredericks-
burg and made a brilliant record in seven
other battles, died on the 10th, in his forty
fifth year. Since the war he had been q
messenger in the State-house at Boston.
THE Woman Suffrage bill has passed
both houses of the Dakota Legislature.
j.. G. HUDG1Ns, member of the Arkansas
Legislature, was arrested on the 10th al
Little Rock, charged with arson in Georgia
nineteen years ago. Hudgins was later
set at liberty, the Governor having quashed
the warrant issued on the requisition.
THE California Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 18th.
A CoURT-MARTIAL for the trial of Gen.
eral Hazen convened on the 18th in Wash
ington, General Hancock presiding. The
accused entered a plea of not guilty to the
charge of criticizing the action of Secre-
tary Lincoln in refusing to send a sealing
steamer to the relief of the Greedy party
after the failure of the Proteus expedition.
The President on the 18th made the fol.
1o,ps~r continuation. El.--.l n r1.s1. -
Mississippi, to be Assistant Secretary of
the Interior; Sidney D. Jackman, to be
United States Marshal for the Western
District of Texas.
AT the Republican State Convention on
the 18th at Lansing, Mich, Judge Cooley
was renominated by reclamation for Su-
preme Court Judge, and c. S. Draper and
Aaron V McAlvay were named for Re.
gents of the University.
GENERAL GRANT continued on the 18th
to improve, and worked for an hour on his
book. His appetite appeared to increase,
and in the evening he retired in excellent
condition.
MAJOR j. NJ. HAwoRTH, superintendent
of the Indian schools in Indian Territory,
died at Albuquerque, N. NJ, on the 18th.
AsCtuOAACduS y / UnC 4N1ucUecuUu 11lls
nois District on the 18th nominated D. S.
Spafford for the Legislature, to succeed the
late R. E. Logan.
GENERAL j.. S. NEGLEY, President of the
National Union League, has issued a call
for a meeting Of the National Council at
Philadelphia the 2Sth inst.
THE National Temperance Association
met at New Orleans on the 18th. Ad-
dresses were delivered by Miss Frances P.
Willard and Others.
In the United States District Court at
Chicago on the 18th, after listening oil day
to arguments relative to a new trial for ].
c. Mackin and w. J. Gallagher, the cleo
tion c~onspirators, Judge Blodgett formally
sentenced them to two years. imprison-
ment in the penitentiary at Joliet, and i'm.
posed upon them fines of $4,000 each. He
ordered them into the custody of the Mar
shall, and deferred their removal to prison
for ten days.
The POST Office Appropriation bill recent.
ly passed by Congress makes the following
important changes: The weight of all sim
gle.rate letters is increased from one.