Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

WILLIAM HYDE, President OF the Missouri
Republican Company, was on the 10th ap-
pointed postmaster at st. Louis.
QUESTIONS recently sent out by a Washing
ton correspondent of the Louisville Courier
Journal to members of Congress elected
answers from $50 gentlemen. Sixty-four
of them favor and sixty-tive oppose chang
es in the laws governing silver coinage and
certificates. Fifty-seven members desire a
revision of the customs and internal rev.
II u laws and seventy-five oppose it.
TIE Governor of Indiana OH the 10th is
sued u proclamation quarantining the State
against infected cattle.
TIE National Conference of Free
Traders and Revenue Reformers met in
Chicago on the 18th. Ex-Governor Morton.
of Nebraska, was made permanent Chair
man.
STEWART MCKEE, a glass manufacturer
of Pittsburgh, ranking among the mill
icnaireS, died suddenly on the 18th, at the
age of forty years.
NORMAN j. CoLMAN, Commissioner of
Agriculture, addressed the National Butter
and Cheese Convention at Chicago on the
18th in relation to the manufacture of arti-
fetal butter, and advocated stringent Fed
eral legislation.
THE National Grange, Patrons of Hus-
at Boston on the 18th.
CAPTAIN A. M. MCGUIRE, the Cincinnati
merchant who was reported drowned in the
Tennessee River while attempting to save
a coioled boy, turned up in Chattanooga
alive on the 18th. He was swept down
stream by the current III washed ashore.
! Rev. J. J. HILL, the Oldest Methodist
minister in Ohio, died Oh the 18th at Lee
banon, aged eighty years.
BEVERLY KELLY, Coroner of Christian
County, Ky, died on the 18th. He was the
only colored man ever elected to office in
Kentucky.
TIE funeral of John Mccullough took
place at Philadelphia on the 18th.
GEORGE w. CLICK, Ex-Governor of Kan
sas, has been appointed pension agent at
Topeka.
TIE official returns Of the recent election
in Ohio, made to the Secretary of State at
Columbus on the 18th, give Foraker (Rep.)
for Governor a plurality of is, 1877.
THE ~Dairymen's Convention in session in
Chicago on the 18th elected Washington
Winsor, of New York, President for the en-
suing year. A resolution was adopted re-
questing Congress to pass a law s%uspending
the coinage Of silver dollars.
STONE CALF, the noted Cheyenne Indian
chief, and the leader of many assaults upon
the whites, died at ~Cantonment, Ind. T., on
the 18th, of spinal meningitis.
AT the closing session of the Free Trade
Conference in Chicago on the 18th David
A. Wells, of New York, was chosen Presi-
dent. The resolutions adopted declare that
under I'd p%retense Aall any countenance
be given to attempts to increase protective
duties, and that articles at the foundation
of great industries should be freed from
duty. Free ships are demanded, and the
abolition of restrictive navigation laws. In
the evening Rev. Henry Ward Beecher ad-
dressed a large audience.
TIE official canvass of the returns from
the recent election held for Judge in the
Ninth Judicial Circuit of Illinois shows the
following result: Dorrance Dibell (Rep.),
1l.047: Hiram T.. Gilbert (Dem.), $50.
EX-SENATOR SHARON died at his residence
in San Francisco on the afternoon of the
18th, aged sixty-four years.