Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

The Grand Jury in New York, without
summoning O'Donovan Rosa to testify,
found an Indictment against Yseult Dud-
ley on the 24tt for assault with intent to
kill.
MRS. ANNIE SULLIVAN, wife of John L..
Sullivan, the Boston pugilist, begun suit
on the 9th for divorce, charging kabusive
treatment and drunkenness.
The findings of the court-martial in the
case of Judge Advocate-Genera Swain
and the sentence as formally approved by
President Arthur were made public on the
oath. The court finds General Swain
guilty of conduct p%rejudicial to good order
and military discipline and sentences him
to suspension from rank for twelve years
on half-pay.
The Michigan Prohibition State Conven-
ton met at Lansing on the 25th. Resolu-
tions were adopted favoring a non-parti-
san judiciary. Judge Thomas NJ. Cooley
was unanimously nominated for Judge of
the Supreme Court, and Rev. T. B. Cres-
sey, of Detroit, for Regent of the State
University.
COUNSEL for ex-senator Sharon on the
25th filed notice of appeal at San Fran
cisco against the recent decision of the
Superior Court in the divorce suit.
THE Democratic State Convention of
Michigan met at Bay City on the 25th and
nominated A.. B. Morse, of Ionia, for Su-
preme Court Judge and Charles R. Whit
man, of Ypsilanti, for First Regent of the
University. The Greenback State Conven-
ton met at Lansing and resolved to fuse
with the Democrats. Moses w. Field, of
nofr0it uao noyninotod fo. Cooouj J3oro,%
of the University.
FRANCIS E. WARREN was on the 25th
nominated by the President to be Governor
of Wyoming. He is a merchant and
banker in that Territory.
The Minnesota Prohibitionists met in
State Convention ut Minneapolis on the
25th and adopted resolutions severely con-
demning the license system as q failure in
doing away with intemperance, and de-
claring that the majority of the people of
Minnesota do not want high license as pro-
posed by the Legislature.
THE National Temperance Society will
hold mass temperance meetings in tn Ex-
position building at New Orleans March
- and 10, to be addressed by Rev. DIR. T.
L. Cuyler, of Brooklyn; George w. Balm,
ESQ.,, of Kentucky; General G. B. Fisk,
Rev. G. H. Mead, J.. N. Stearns, of New
York, and others.
REPRESENTATIVE R. E. LOGAN, a Repub-
lican member of the Illinois Legislature
from the Nineteenth District, died in the
Capitol from heart-disease at 9:45 O'Clock
on the morning of the Goth. Both houses
adopted resolutions of sorrow. 1t was de-
cided to take no regular ballot for United
States Senator until March 3. Governor
Oglesby issued a order for a special cleo
ton for Senator in the Nineteenth District
on March 81.
The Rhode Island Prohibitionists met in
State Convention at Providence on the
Goth and nominated a full STATE ticket, with
George H. Slade, of Providence, for Gov.
ernor. A platform was adopted recon-
mending the withdrawal of true Prohibi-
tionists from the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties; demanding the suppression
of pc!ysamy, reform of the civil-service,
and the repeal of such laws as exclude
people of any particular nationality from
the enjoyment of political rights.
GROVER CLEVELAND, in answering a let
ter from Democratic congressman, states
that the Treasury is heaped with silver
coin. that the flow of gold into the Treas
ury has steadily diminished, and that only
by ~suspending the silver coinage is it pos.
sible to continue in use the mass of our gold
coin.
The Michigan House on the 9th ult.
passed a bill to renew the death penalty
for murder in the first degree, and 1t wa
said a majority of the Senators were
pledge to tha measure. :.