Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-09
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

MOSES A. Dow, the founder of the Wavcr-
ly Magazine, died in Boston on the 22d,
leaving 100000, which he had accumu-
lated in thirty-five years as a publisher.
TIE Republican Committee decided at
Aberdeen on the 22d to hold the Dakota
Territorial convention at Yankton, Sep
tember %.
The Democrats of the Seventeenth Hi
nois district on the 22d nominated Judge
Edward Lana for Congressman.
THE Delaware Prohibitionlsts met in
State convention at Dover on the 22d and
nominated James R. Hoffecker for Gov
ernor n Richard NJ. Cooper for Congress
man.
The Governor of Louisiana has approved
of a bill for the better observance Of Sun
day. 1t will take effect at the commence
ment of 1887.
SAM JONES and Sam Small, the Georgia
Evangelists, closed their two weeks re-
vival meetings in Indianapolis, Ind, on the
22d, their exhortations resulting in the
conversion of twelve hundred persons.
THE Greenbackers met in convention on
the 22d at Meadville, Pa, and nominated
John Hull for Congressman.
TIE Democrats of the Twelfth Illinois
district on the 2d nominated George A.
Anderson for Congressman.
The Acknowledgement on the o3d re-
ceived the resignation of Sumner Howard
as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Arizona.
HENRY ~ONDERDoNK, author of numerous
historical works, died suddenly of heart
disease on tho 23d at Jamaica, l.. L. aged
eighty-three years.
THERE were two hundred and fifty dele
gates in the Illinois Prohibition conyen-
ton which commenced at Springfield on
the 23d.
JUDGE STANLEY MATTHEWS, of tho Uni
ted States Supreme Court, was married in
New York on the 23d to Mrs. Mary K.
Theaker, of Cleveland, o.
The Alabama Republican State convcn-
ton met on the Esd at Montgomery, butde-
clined to nominate u ticket, investing the
Executive Committee with full powers in
the matter.
The President on the oath sent to Con-
gress Twenty-Five messages vetoing that
many special pension bills.
On the oath tho Republicans of the
Twelfth Indiana district nominated Csx,-
Jain James B. White for Congressman, the
Prohibitionists of the Thirteenth Illinois
District nominated Rev. u. NJ. Bowder;
the Democrats of the Fifteenth Ohio district
renominated Beriah Wilkins, and A. C.
Thompson (Rep.) was renominated in the
Twelfth Ohio district.
P.T. BARNuM telegraphed from Bridge
port, Conn, to New YoSk on the 24th in
reference to a rumor of mis- death that he
was alive and as well as he ever was.
EX-PREsIDENT ARTHUR left New York on
the Gath for New London, Conn. In reply
to a question DR.. Peters said that his pa
tient was progressing favorably and with
out doubt would be benefited by a change
of air.
The Illinois Prohibitionists in State con-
vention at Springfield on the 9th noni-
mated Henry ". Austin, Of Oak Park, for
State Treasurer; and Prot U. q. Gilman,
of Quincy, FOR Superintendent of Public
Instruction. The platform adopted de-
clares That the manufacture, importation,
transportation and sale of Intoxicating
beverages ought to be prohibited; asserts
that prohibition to he effective should be
national in scope; deplores the dissertation
OF the Sabbath; argues that the suppress
sion of the liquor traffic will solve the
question of convict labor, and demands