Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-23
GENERAL,

y icy ~ ~ Wy III tOlOIcu people.
4. Conclusion Of the commercial treaty be-
tween Spain and the United States. Resignn-
ton of Henry Willard from the Presidency Of
the Northern Pucitic.
Z. Delmonico. the New York rcstauranter,
myStcriouSly disappears.
IA. DclmOnico'S body found frozen near
Ornngc Mountain. n. j.
Unwilling Of the memorial statue to the late
senator Morton at Indianapolis, Ind.
II. Election of Robert Harris to the Presi-
dcncy of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
"a. resignation OF John G. New, Assistant
Secretary Of the United States Treasury.
Marriage OF Frederick Douglass to Helen NJ.
Pitts.
EBRUARy
Montreal.
Official retirement of General Sherman from
the Federal army by President Arthur.
IL. Signing of the Commercial Convention
between Spain and the United States.
III. Tho Supreme Court at Mount Vernon,
H., affirms heconstitutionality of the Harper
Liquor law.
II. Prince Bismarck returns the resolutions
OF coincidence passed by the United States
House OF Representatives on the death of
Herr Lnskcr.
Commander W. S, schlcy, of Maryland, Sc
lectcd by Secretary OF tho Navy Chandler to
command the Greedy relief expedition.
The United States accepts tho steamer
Alert, presented by England, for the Greedy
relief expedition.
20. Arrival Of the remains of tho Jeanette
victims ut New York.
MARCH.
3. The validity Of the legal-tcnder notos sus-
tanned by Al decision of the United States Su-
premc Court.
4. The Kennedy Prohibition bill adopted by
the Iowa Senate.
Meeting OF the Woman National Suffrage
society at Washington, D.. c.
Is; Passage OF a bill by the Ohio Legislature
abolishing the convict contract system.
II. Devastating snow-storns Throughout the
25. Damaging cyclones throughout the
Southern and Middle States.
APRIL.
&. Resignation Of John Jay Knox, Comp
trOllcr OF the currency.
10. Resignation of General Adam Badeau,
United states Consul General ut Havana.
Is: Charles Il, Coon, OF New York, nominal
ed for Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury,
vice John z. New, resigned, by President Ar
thur.
25. Uprising of the Ute Indians in New Mex
leo.
10. The Alert, of the Greedy relief expedi-
ton, sails from New York City.
IA. Conclusion of a treaty between Siam and
the United States for the regulation of the
liquor traffic when conducted by American
citizens.
Is. The Mexican Senate ratiics the reciproc-
ity treaty with the United States.
q: dwelling Of a colossal statue OF Martin
Luther at Washington, ID. C.
~. The shore end of the Muckcy-Ncnnctt
cable laid ut ROckpOrt, Mass.
y. Rev. Or. Worthinyton, of Detroit, elected
Protestant Episcopal Bishop.
JUNE.
II. Ey-CongrcsSmnn Hcist"r Cly1ncr, of
Pennsylvania, commits suicide.
30. Poriirio Diuz elected President of the
Mexican Republic.
4. Formal presentation of the Bartholdi
statue by France to the United States.
John y. kaSSOn, CONGRESSMAN from Iowa,
nominated by President Arthur Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plcnipotcntiary of the
United States to Germany. u
10. An earthquake shock visits the Eastern
and Middle States.
ID. Refusal of the Canadian Government to
extradite John Z. Emo, the dcfaulting bank
| president.
IS. News received of the discovery of Greedy
and his furnished party i'll the Arctics by Com
maLlcr Schley.
Is. Arrival at New York City of the advance
| ship of the Greedy Relief Expedition.
AUGUST.
S. Arriva. at New York City of the bodies of
the unfortunate members of the Greedy expo
ditiOn.
10. The Eastern and Middle States visited by
Il slight earthquake shock.
II. The south coast of Long Island and New
Jersey again visited by an earthquake shock,
\ New York paper charges the members OF
the Gr:cly expedition with cannibnlism.
~. The United States steamer Tullapoosl
sunk in collision with !, sailing boat.
y. The city of Lima. Peru, is captured by
Caccres and IL gang OF outlaws. Government
troops: however, rally and drive the invaders
from the town.
SEPTEMBER.
10. An earthquake shock visits Michigan,
Ohio and Indiana.
p. Judge Gresham appointed Secretary Of
the Treasury by President Arthur.
OCTOBER
5. John II. Mclean. of the Cincinnati En-
quHTT, married at Washington.
II. MiScrcantS attempt to blow up the new
Parliament building ut Quebec by dynamite. .
~. MIR. McCullOch appointed Secretary OF
the Treasury by President Arthur.
10. J. Schuyler Crosby, Governor OF Mon
tana, appointed Assistant administrations
eral.
~. News received of the death of Il large
number of persons in Buchanan, Wise and
Dickinson Counties, w. Va, from an unknown
disease. +. H. Bignell, of Quebec, who during
The summer commanded an expedition to
lake MiSstnsSini,r reports that body OF water To
De as large rs Lake Superior.
-. The Federal Grand Jury at Omaha, Ncb.,
indi cts fifteen persons for fraud i'll connection
with the sale OF the Otoc indian reservation
lands, by which the red men were defraudcd
10 the amount OF S20,OW.
DECEMBER.
!. Suicide of DR.. Ferdinand De Castro.
.. Publication OF the text OF the Spanish
treaty.
Ii. Opening of the Cotton and Worlds Expo
sition ut New Orleans.
q. The statute Of Admiral Dupont Is un-
Yelled ut Washington.