Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The President on the 9th appointed to be
United States Marshals Frederick H.
Marsh, of Ogle County, for the Northern
District of Illinois, and Henry c. Urner for
the Southern District of Ohio.
Ex-MAYoR Fox, of Philadelphia, was on
the 9th made Superintendent of the Mint
in that city.
The illinois Senate on the 9th passed the
bill making the minimum punishment for
burglary in the night time five years. The
maximum penalty is left at twenty years,
but if the burglar carries a deadly weapon,
deadly drug or anasthetic, the term of i'm.
%prisonment may extend to a life sentence.
The appointing clerk in the Treasury
Department at w ashington estimated on
the 9th that since the 4th of March forty
thousand changes had been made in the
Federal Offices in the United States.
THE Ohio Supreme Court has decided
that the assessments paid by saloon-keep-
ers before the Scott law was declared un-
constitutional can not be refunded. About
$2,o0O,ooO is involved.
AFTER an almost continuous service of
nearly forty years on the police force of
New York City, Superintendent Walling
retired on the 9th. He will have a pension
of $500 a year during the remainder of
his life.
. The remains of Alexander H. Stephens
were removed on the 10th from Atlanta to
Charlottesville, Ca, and there permanent
ly inferred in Liberty Hall.
A MESSENGER was dispatched on the 10th
by the Secretary of War to New York for
the Grant testimonials and presents given
to the Government by Mrs. Grant.
EDWARD, elias "Dutchy," O'Keefe was
sentenced on the 10th in Judge Moran's
court in Chicago to one year in the peni-
Tertiary for stealing the Third Ward bal
lot-box in April last.
Ex-MIN1sTER JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
sailed from England on the 10th for the
United States.
SIGNoR G.. F. SEccH1 DE CAsAL1, founder
of the first Italian newspaper in the United
States, died on the 10th at Elizabeth, N. J.
The New Hampshire Legislature on the
18th elected A. B. Thompson Secretary of
State, and Scion A. Carter State Treas
urer.
JAMES R. OsGooD, the Boston book pub.
Usher. who failed recently, has accepted a
long standing offer of employment with
Harper Brothers.
THE Ohio Republican State Convention
met at Springfield on the 11tA and nomi-
mated Joseph d. Foraker for Governor;
Robert P. Kennedy for Lieutenant-G Gov.
ernor; John c. Brown for Treasurer; j.
A. Kohler for Attorney-G General, and
George w. M%cIlvaine for Supreme Judge.
Resolutions were adopted a%rraigning the
Administration for appointing u%nrepent-
ant rebels to important offices. and for dis
eliminating against Union soldiers; de-
handing the rigid enforcement of the Civ
il-Service law, and an enlargement of its
scope; expressing sympathy for General
Grant, and denouncing the Democratic
party of Ohio for the destruction of the
Scott Liquor law.
GENERAL GRANT was feeling unusually
comfortable on the 18th, having enjoyed a
refreshing sleep on the previous night.
J. H. RUTrER, President of the New
York Central Road, died on the 18th at
Irvington, N. Y, aged forty nine years.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature has adj
journed sine die.
The Greenback State Committee of Iowa
have changed the date of their State Con.
vention from June 16 to July p.