Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-04-11
Personal AND POLITICAL

CAPTAIN HENRY WILSON, United States
Navy, was placed ON the retired list on
the I'd
ALEXANDER McCUE, ex-Assistant United
States Treasurer Of the United States, died
in Brooklyn on the I'd from a stroke OF
apoplexy, aged sixty three years.
A TICKET composed entirely of ladies was
on the I'd placed in the field at Cottonwood
Falls, Kan, by the 'bum" element of the
town as an insult TO those who were leaders
in all good work The better class of citi
zens at once voted for them, and the result
was that Mrs Minnie ID. Morgan was
elected mayor, and full board of alder
men, composed OF the most prominent
ladies in the town. will aid her in admins
teitng affairs
THE Democrats OF St Louis elected f. A.
Noonan mayor on the I'd. but the Repub-
icans gained control of the city govern
ment except its municipal board
DEWITT C. CREGIER DEM was elected
mayor of Chicago on the I'd over John A.
Roche, the Republican nominee.
THE Florida Legislature convened on the
I'd at Tallahassee.
The Tennessee Legislature on the I'd
passed bill providing for the Australian
system OF voting. A registration bill. which
applies to every city and village in the
State, was also passed.
EDWIN BOOTH, the famous tragedian, was
stricken with paralysis at Rochester, n. Y,
on the 3d. and it was feared by his profess.
sional associates that the wOrld-renowned
actor had played for the last time
w. .. BRADLEY, of Kentucky on the Sd
refused the C0rean mission to which he
was Nominated by the President, saying
that his business interests would not per-
nit him to exile himself to such distant
land
MRS. MARGARET SARGENT, daughter OF Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, died at her fathers
home in Boston on the 4th
REV. Dir. EDWARD BEECHER, u brother of
OF the late Henry Ward Beecher, who was
recently injured in Brooklyn by the cars,
suffered amputation of his left foot on the
4th- He is eighty-fiye years old
JAMES 4. VosE, of Maine, was on the 4th
appointed to his old place as appointment
clerk of the Post Office Department at Wash
ington.
GOVERNOR STEVENSON, OF Idaho on the
4th issued call for a constitutional con-
yention at Boise City July on assurances
from Delegate Dubois in Washington that
Idaho would be made State next winter
ROBERT 4. LINCOLN, Minister to England,
called on Secretary Blaine in Washington
on the 4th and received his commission.
Later he called on the President and for
mally accepted the office.
THE official figures given ON the 4th of the
recent election in Rhode Island were as fol-
lows: Davis DEM for Governor, 81, $50:
Laid Rep.) 1859; Chace fInd), 3,435;
Richardson pro-, i,5ll. Davis lacks 54s of
an election, but has plurality OF 4,39S. The
Legislature, which is Republican, will name
the Governor
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celebrated her one hundred and seven
teenth birthday on the 4th. She was born
in Knockmahon, Ireland. In l772, and was
still in good health.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 9Th appointed
Joel II. Erhardt to be Collector OF Customs
at New York, and Cornelius Van Colt post
master at the same place.
DANIEL BAUGH pioneer of Seymour,
Ind, reached the age of one hundred years
on the 9th. He was in good health.
ADRIAN GALE, aged ninety three years, one
of the Oldest residents of Chicago, and a
veteran of the war of 1872, died at the home
of his son on the 9TH.
REPRESENTATIVE RYAN of the Fourth Con-
gressional district of Kansas, resigned his
seat In Congress on the 9Th having been
appointed Minister to Mexico.
PHILo REMINGTON, head of the WELL
known firm OF f. Remington 4 Sons, whose
armory at lion, n. Y, is one of the largest
In the world, died ON the 9Th at Silver
Springs, Fla He was in his seventy third
year.
WILLIAM GALLERY, president OF the Pitts
surgh Western Railroad Company, died
suddenly at his home in East End, Pa, on
the 5th
LUTHER DEARBORN, one of the best-k known
lawyers in Illinois, died at Springfield on the
9th aged sixty-nine years.