Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
An Interesting Summary OF the
Important Occurrences OF
the Week.
A Budget OF News Cleaned From the
Latest Dispatches From Far
and Near.
ADVICES BY TELEGRAM.

The resignation of Hon. j. d. C.
Atkinson, Com missioner OF Indian affairs,
is likely to be rendered soon after the holl :
DAYS. Mr.. Atkins, like the late Secretary
Folger, is nervous, active, scrupulorsly
honest man, and overworks himself by
looking into the minute details Of all the
affairs of his Office.
The president has signed the commits
sions of the following named officials,
whose appointments were recently con-
frmed by the senate: c. S. Fairchild,
Secretary of the Treasury; Bayliss w.
Hanna, Minister to Argentine Republic:
Alexander r. Lawton, Minister of Aus
:ria.
Not a single coal train started out on
the Frackvills branch at st, Clair. Pa, the
other morning. The Reading Railroad
company employ some twenty-five crews
and engines on this branch in the trans
portation OF about / $50 cars of coal daily,
which are hoisted over the Mahanoy plane
when in operation, and sent through st.
Claire.
Trains we've moved as usual on the
Philadelphia and Reading road the 2Sth,
the places of the strikers who were dis
charged, and those who refused to return
until the DISCHARGED men were rein stated,
being filled with non union men. The Or
der to again go out had not been received
at Reading at noon, and it was not known
what eff ct it would have, although anoth-
er tie up was feared.
THE Kansas state prohibition conven-
ton has closed. Not over thirty persons
were present from outside of Topeka. An
effort was made to raise $4,000 to start
prohibition paper in Topeka, but it failed,
and the subject was referred to the execu-
tive committee,
Reports have reached Glenwood
Springs, COL, from the White river country
that the Utes are off their reservations east
of the Utah line, and that they are buying
all the rifles and other firearms that they
can obtain. 1t is feared an outbreak will
soon occur. They have been informed
that they are breaking their pledges given
last summer in again coming into the
Garfield country.
Herr Eserna torny, an intimate friend
OF Herr TisZa, writes to Mem yet as fol-
lows: 1.-The guiding spirits of the German
army are in favor Of war, in order TO stop
Russian designs. They apprehend nothing
from an attack by France and are conf
dent of success in case of war against Rus
STA. If it were not that Prince Bismarck
favors peace, the German Army would al
ready be fighting the Russians in company
with the Austrian and Italian armies
The Manchester Courier states that
Lord Stanley, of Pres on, has accepted the
governor generalship of Canada.
Hugh NJ. Brooks, alias Maxwell, the
young Englishman under sentence OF
death at st. Louis, for numbering Arthur
Preller, has embraced the Catholic faith
Last year the Catholics were given per-
mission 10 celebrate Christmas mass in
the Jail annually. At the services recently
thirty prisoners knelt to partake of COM
munion, and the first TO receive the conse-
Grated wafer was Maxwell. 1t was admin
istered by the Rev. Father Then, of S.
Johns church.