Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01
FOUR NEW STATES.
NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA. MON
T4NA IND WASHINGTON,
Roth Houses of Congress Agree at Last orr
the Omnibus Bilt-SoMth Dakotc to Come
Il, at Oncc-A Hartford Calamity Cabinet
Speculution-Other Matters Of Interest.

After many hours consultationth the con-
gressional conferrees on the omnibus
territorial bill reached conclusion Tues
day evening. The bill as agreed to bv the
conferrees fixes the name of the two Dako-
tas as North Dakota and South Dakota.
People of South Dakota are to vote upon
the adoption of the Sioux Falls consti-
tuition May ii, and tho location of the capt.
tai will be settled by that election. On the
same date the residents of North Dakota,
Washington and Montana may vote for tho
election of dcleg ties to constitutional
convention and for full list Of state
officers On the first Tuesday in October
the people may vote upon the consti-
tutions proposed by the convention.
AMI if adopted after the presidents
proclamation to that effect, the govern
ors of each may order an election of
members of the legislature and represen-
tatWes in congress. The legislatures may
meet and elect two senators, each in time
TO take their seats at the beginning OF the
| fifty-tlrst congress, in DecembeI;neNt. at
which time the representatives snail also
be admitted to seats. The proviyions APP
ply also to the senators andregresentatives
of South Dakota. l,. 80
| Both houses Of congress on the Goth
adopted the revised omnibus bill, without
division. The presidential signature alone
is now needed to swing the door open
through which the four territories may at
once become states.
| A boiler in this Park Central hotel at
Hartford, Conn. blew up with terrfl force
early Monday morning. totally wreckng
the entire front o. the structure which was
five story brick. The ruins Immediately
caught fire and The work of the tlremen
was greatly impeded by dense volumes Of
smoke and steam which hung over the
tho streets in tho vicinity and the spec
tators were appalled, by the shrieks and
groans of many human beings who
were imprisoned in the mass Of timber and
masonry, from which the flames were burst
ing. When the flames were subdued the
rescuers began search for the victims.
Some were pi1ioned beneath heavy tim
bcrs. upon which rested heavy masses of
masonry, rendering the WORK of rendering
most horrible catastrophe that has ever
been known III Hartford. The list of the
dead and wounded complete will exceed
fifty. No less than forty are known to be
dead or dying while score of others es-
capped with injuries more or less severe.
The political wisacres in Washington
who claim to have "a dead straight tip"
had President Earrison's cabinet fixed up
by Sunday in about this order: Blaine.
secretary Of state; Window. secretary of
the treasury; Rusk. secretary of war;
Platt, secretary Of the navy; Foster. of
Ohio, secretary Of the interior; John Bax-
ter. OF Tennessee, son of Judge Baxter Of
the supreme court, attorney general; Pal
mer, OF Michigan, secretary of agriculture;
Wannamaker. postmaster general.
Sixty Scandinavian converts to Nor
monisn. who had been enlisted by Elders
Marvin and Greedy. were aboard a train at
Cheyenne. westward bound. when Chris
Jansen. one of the most prominent con-
verts, ascertained that his two pretty sis
tiers were to marry Elder Martin when
Utah was reached. He objected A free
light ensued, in which a good many heads
were battered. Jansen, his sisters, and
twenty others who had money left the con-
verts in body and boarded the train for
Denver.
1t is now said that Cole Younger has
lately admitted that Jesse james was in
the gang at Mortified, Mnn.-an admis-
sion which is probably due to the fact that
Jesse is dead No admission has beon OBJ
tanned from the Youngers duplicating
Frank James. Frank Still lives,
Thomas Stevens arrived at Zanzibar on
the steamer Alden on the 18th. and antici
pates no serious difficulty in organizing the
expedition to search for Stanley. He hopes
to set out on the trip by the first of March.
No information whatever exists at Zanzi-
bar regarding Stanley or En,in Bey. 1t is
thought strange there that no messenger
has come through from Yambuga.
A score or more of cattlemen met in
Kansas City on the Goth for the purpose of
e1fecting plan of organization for the
proposed cooperative commission COM
pany. preliminary meeting was held a
lew weeks ago at which the scheme was
fioated and since that timo it has received
SO much encouragement that it is believed
that 100000 head of cattle annually could
be handled by the company. All who take
stock in the concern are compelled to
pledge themselves to do all their business
through it alone,
The Savannah river is thirty-throe feet
above low water mark ;lt Augustn Ga.
Many portions of the city lying near the
river are submerged. Rain has been gem
eral throughout the state, and all streams
are swollen. threatening railway bridges.
A Berlin report of the goth saws the
Cologne Gazette is authority for the state
ment that Germany de mands that the
united States government arrest and nun
lsh Correspo ldent k,ien for his actions in
samoa. charging that he was an active
participant in the fighting.
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