Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-07
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

AMI POLITICAL.
The trustees of Vassar College, at
Poughkeepeie, N. Y, on the 21st elected
DIR. Galusha Anderson, of Chicago, as
President.
THE special commission sitting at Phila-
delphia returned a verdict on the 22d that
John Mccullough, the tragedian, had been
a lunatic for six months, but enjoyed some
lucid intervals. The value of his estate
was placed at 81, 1904.
JUDGE T.. LYLE DICKEY, of the Illinois
Supreme Court, died at Atlantic City, N.
j., on the night of the 22d, aged seventy
| four years. He had been O resident of
! Chicago since 1854.
GENERAL GRANTS death, which oc-
Cured at Mount MacGregor at sos on the
morning of the 23d, was painless and tran
quill. Within twenty minutes after he ex-
pired a plaster cast Of the face was taken.
The news of the sad event was received in
all parts of the country with profound sor-
row, bells being tolled, flags hung at half
mast and the emblems of mourning dis
played from public and private buildings.
President Cleveland issued a proclama-
tion testifying to the magnitude of the
National loss, and ordering the payment
of appropriate honors to the memoir of
the deceased by the several departments
Of the Government.
The Ohio Democratic State Central Com
mittee met on the 23d at Columbus and de-
cided to hold the State Convention in that
city August 10 and 90.
WALT WHITMAN, the poet, was pros
trated by the heat on the evening of the
22d while sitting on the steps of his resi-
dence in Camden, N. j. He was consid-
cred out of danger on the 23d.
PETER H.. WATSON, ex-President of the
Erie Railway and Assistant Secretary of
War during Stanton's term, died in New
York on the 23d.
SUPREME JUDGES CRAIG and Slope
granted q supersedeas on the 23d in the
case of Joseph e. Mackin, of Chicago, COD
victed CT perjury, but refused bail to the
prisoner.
THE Grant Monument Association filed
articles of incorporation on the 23d at
Springfield, ILL.,, the object being to con-
struct and maintain a monument to Cen
eral Grant. Among the Board of Directors
are Senator Cullom and Ex-Governor
Palmer.
THE family Of General Grant on the 9th
formally accepted the offer of the city of
New York to give the great soldier a
burial-place in Central Park. 1t was
promised. also, that when Mrs. Grant died
she would be allowed burial beside her
husband. The body of General Grant
will be taken from Mount MacGregor
August 4, thence to Saratoga and Albany,
at which latter place it will lie in state
in the capitol until noon Of August 5,
when it will be taken to New York, and
will lie in state at the city-hall until the
Sth, when the public obsequies will take
place.
MEMBERS of 2. H. Scott Post, 279, went
on the Oath, to the house near Point Pleas
ant, O., where General Grant was born,
draped the doors and windows, and placed
at half-mast over the west gable the post
flag.
BY authority Of Mr.. Joseph Drexel it
was stated OF the Oath that the cottage in
which General Grant died would never
again be occupied by any family or per-
sons. The house and its appurtenances
would be presented to the State or Nation.
MRS. CRAMER, sister of General Grant,