Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-30


vestigating Committee in Washington on
the 21st William 0. MsDowell testified gen
orally to the objects iof the knights of
Labor organization.
The charges against General Hazen of
fraud in the Signal-Senwice Bureau were
declared by the investigating committee
at Washington on thel 21st to be I'M
founded.
Mus. ELLA HART died Oh the 2lst at San
dusky, G., aged one hundred and three
years.
SECRETARY MANNING had so far recov-
cred from his illness on he ed as to be-
able to receive visitors. Hesaid he intend
ed to return permanently totthe Treasury
Department as soon as he w,s able.
On the 2sd Washington C@unty, one of
the largest in Georgia, elected the Prohibi-
ton ticket by a majority of ~.
FATHER ADRIAN j.. RYAN, the k'poet-priest
of the South" died at Louisville, Ky, on
the 22d, aged forty-six years.
THE President on the 22d sent a message
to Congress calling attentih to the
strained relations between cspital and
labor and recommending speedy legisla-
ton to settle the differences. He favors
voluntary arbitration, and hebappoint-
ment of a Labor Commission of hree per-
sons to be permanent officers of the Gov
eminent as a means for callyinSbut such
views.
The s~traight-out ~Greenbackers If Iowa
will hold a State'convention at Cedar Rap
ids on the 9Th of May.
Rev. DIR. W. r. HARPER, protector Of
II ol,,,on ~ -, %1,o p,,,+;ct T1rio, rSl,,l-:oo1
Seminary at Morgan Park, Ill, was on the
23d unanimously elected to the presidency
of the Chicago University.
The Republican State Convention in
Vermont will be held at Montpelier Jnne
16.
The Congressional labor inquiry closed
its session at Washington on the 23d and
would on the 23th leave for st. Louis.
ApvIcEs of the 23d from New York say
that the illness of ex-Prcsident Arthur is
of a very serious nature, and it was feared
that he could only survive a few days
longer. Bright's disease is the trouble.
FOREIGN.
AT Montreal 7,422 families, embracing
10000 persons, were driven from their
homes by the flood, which was receding on
the Goth. Some of the streets that were
covered by water had not previously
been inundated for sixty years. The losses
would be far greater than on any previous
occasion. E
The acknowledgements Association OF
London, Eng, failed on the Goth for $780,;
000.
FIFTY followers of a powerful Burmese
Prince set fire to Mandalay, the capital, in
several places early the other morning,
and one-third of the walled city was
ruined. The treasury, post-office and
other buildings were among the destroyed
TIE town hall and Jail at Cornwall, Ont.
oners perishing in the flames.
LORD SALISBURY, in a published letter
says he is convinced Gladstone's desperate
scheme for governing Ireland will be i'll
%dignantly rejected by the Nation.
BURMESE rebels recently captured tho
Meegandet police-station and massacred
twenty-three persons
On the 21st a defalcation of $4,000 wa.
discovered in the Crown Lands depart
ment at Quebec. Mr.. Gale, who hac
charge of the department. for thirty years
and who died recently, was the embezzler
GALEoTE, the assassin of the Bishop O
Madrid, said on the Ed that he did the
killing to avenge his honor, and that sec
decreed the crime.
A GREAT mass-meeting to indorse Glad.
stones Irish home-rule bill was held at st
James Hall, London, on the evening Of tn
22d.
FIVE of a band of robbers were killed
by miners a few nights ago at Vallecillo
Mex.
A PHYSICIAN sent by the Austrian Gov
eminent to Paris to investigate Pasteur'
system of treating h~ydrophobia has nd
vised its adoption by the profession.