Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-02-21
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The President on the 18th nominated
Adai Il. Stevenson of Illinois, now Assistant
Postmaster General to be Associate Justice
Of the Supreme Court of the District OF
Columbia, and Norman J. Colman, of Mis-
souri,, TO be Secretary of Agriculture.
COLONEL HENRY J. HUST retired, Gov
ernor of the Soldiers Home in the District
of Columbia, died ON the llth in his sixty
ninth year.
In municipal election on the 18th at
Ogden, u r., the Gentiles were successful,
beating the Mormons for the first time in
the history of the city.
GOVERNOR SAWYER on the 18th appointed
Gilman Marston, of Exeter, as United States
Senator for New Hampshire for the interim
between March and J une 10, when the Leg
islature will elect a Senator,
Rev. G. /. DEMEREsT, ID. D., secretary of
the general convention of the Univcrsalists
OF the United States, and wife celebrated
their golden wedding on the 18th at Man
chester, n. II.
MRS. EuSIcE P. HELMS, of Lydonyille, n.
T., died on the 18th aged few months over
one hundred years. Up to within few
weeks of her death Mrs. Helms enjoyed the
best of health.
GOVERNOR BIGGs of Delaware, on the 18th
appointed Mrs. Ella f, Brown, OF New York
City, a Commissioner Of Deeds. She now
holds that office from thirty -four of the
forty States and Territories
SIDNEY BARTLETT LII d., of Boston, cele-
brated his ninetieth birthday on the 18th.
He is still an active member of the bar, and
his practice is said TO be worth sl00,0 600 a
year.
The galleries of the National House of
Representatives were thronged at noon on
the 18th with visitors who watched with in
terest the proceedings attendant upon the
official count of the electoral vote for Presi.
dent and President Senator Ingalls,
presided After the certificates from each
State had been announced the presiding Off
Ger declared Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana,
the next President, and Levi p. Morton, of
New York the next Vice. President of the
United States.
ABNER PRUGH, born IN Frederick County,
Md, died at Dayton, o., ON the 18th, at the
age of one hundred years
COLONEL RUTH GOSHEN, Barnums giant,
died In New York on the 18th OF dropsv. He
weighed about $50 pounds
WILLIAM f. LovETT, millionaire capital
ist, land-owner and old time tobacco manu-
facturer of Detroit, Mich, died on the 18th,
aged sixty years.
GEORGE HILL the biggest man In Rhode
Island, died on the 14th at Providence He
weighed 554 pounds, and had several times
picked up a live COW by the hind legs and
tossed her across his shoulder.
EDWARD WIILETT, editor of the New York
Sunday Dispatch, died at his home in that
city on the 18th
KATE CLAYTON, the well-known actress,
having acquired q fortune, retired from the
stage ON the 18th.
CoLoNEI. w. d. DuNE, prominent citizen
and lawyer of Mobile, Ala, died on the 18th
at the age of eighty one years He was
noted for his knowledge of the political and
constitutional history of the United States.
DR. F. NJ URouHART, of the United States
Marine Hospital Service, died at Evans
Vile, Ind, on the 18th of pneumonia con-
traetcd through oyerwork in the South
during the yellow fever plague. He was
thirtv-th wears old.
DIR HOLLAND y McTyErERs, senior Bishop
If the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
lied on the 18th at his residence in the
Vanderbilt University campus at Nashville,
Tenn
JOHN W. STREET, the inventor of the stable
car, and a prominent man in railway circles,
lied In Chicago ON the 18th aged iifuy-two
years.