Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-11-01

make no serious effort to have the vote
otherwise counted. This will give the
democrats seven of the Silver Bow dele
cation and majority OF three On joint
ballot. There is tie IN Beaverhead
county on the member of the house, and
the republicans will be allowed this mem
Der. This will make the vote on Joint
ballot Democrats, 81; republicans. IS.
Three democrats have been found who
will vote for Sanders for senator and thus
end the long and bitter warfare to the
satisfaction of the leaders of both parties.
Some Probable Recommendations by the
Postmaster General.
Postmaster General Wanamakers forth
coming report is anticipated with much
concern in postal circles. 1t is expectedto
make some original recommendations. es-
pecially in reference to the connection of
the postal system with the telegraph, an
extension of the free delivery service to
cities having $4,000 postal incomes annu-
ally, and the construction of buildings at
the expense of the government for post
membered that Senator Paddo k, in the
early part of the last congress, introduced
bill providing buildings for second class
postoffices, and that it went through the
senate with a whirl, but the economical
house cut the allowances for these build
ings down to about two-thirds the amount
provided in the Paddock bill, and the
measure finally failed to secure compile
ton. The democrats wante to'give about
sixteen or eighteen thousand dollars for
ground and buildings in cities where Sec
ond-class postot1ices are located, antici-
pating charity on the part OF citizens for
the building.
The republicans 10 the senate wanted to
make this amount nearer So. 200 or $780,
600, and held that if the people in any of
the cities wanted to give the ground they
could simply get Il better building as the
full amount of the appropriation would be
expended. There is very little doubt now
that the Paddock bill will go through both
branches of congress at the approaching
session, as it IS one Of the most popular
measures ever proposed. 1t is not proba-
BILE that Postmaster General Wapamaker
will propose parcel post-a limited ex-
press system in connection with the postal
service-but the subject will undoubtedly
be agitated by its friends.
Five of Il Kind. Not Counting the Baby.
A woman named Sallie Webb was adj
mitted to the Ohio penitentiary at Column
bus. tie other day, carrying 3-weels- old
baby in her arms. She has two husoands
in the prison and two sons in the Ohio re-
form school. They all come from Ports
mouth. She married Eirman Webb nearly
twenty years ago. but they did not live
happily, and he abandoned her. A few
years after she met Lafayette McGraw,
whom she married, never having secured
divorce. They had just begun 10 SET along
nicely when Webb turned UP and began to
make things warm for them. Prosecution
for bigamy was begun against Mrs. Webb.
and i'll the course OF the trial NIctilaw was
caught committing perjury. For this he
Mrs. Webb was given one year for bigam,.
Webb committed burglary and sentenced
to the states prison for seven years, and
preceded the other two to prison. His two
sons, Charlie and William. were implicated
in the same burglary and were sent to the
reform school at Lancaster.
Anucrrccfl DiSf..iJ.nti,,, ,r..,.
The Johhstown state flood relief COM
mission at Philadelphia held a recent ses-
sion with closed DOORS The secretary
was given very elaborate instructions about
the payments of money awards to ap-
proved cases Of sufferers After the i'd
Journment it was explained tbat the com
mission had distributed $500, 600 of the
S5oo,000 in the first appropriation, and in
addition to the balance OF $50. 600 thus
remaining the commission had the sum of
$l,000,0OO, and this is now being dis
tributed among the five classes. The first
three classes comprise no property hold
ers; the fourth class includes those who
lost all their property. and the fifth class
Sle1hS auu OtQerS VINO lost more Or less
large sums.
Growing Popularity of Arbor Day.
In the closing session of the American
Forestry congress at Philadelphia, B. G..
Northup read an essay on Arbor Day" in
the schools in which he showed that the
vernal holiday is now being celebrated very
generally. He said the children are plant
ing millions of trees, California taking
the lead. resolution was adopted ask
ing congress to withhold public lands from
sale until the timber is old enough to cut.
Hon. James A. Beaver, of Pennsylvania.
was elected president, and the meeting
then adjourned sine die
Postotfice itobbing at Fargo.
A Fargo special says that two men gained
entrance to the Fargo postot1ice the other
night, bound and gagged the night clerk,
Harry Milton, placed red OF poker to
the soles of his feet and compelled him to
give up the combination of the vault In
the vestibule of the vault were FORTY or