Personal And Political

Wii,i,iam MiTciiKi.i., Statu Superintendent of l'ublie Instruction of North Dakota, died on tho lOth in his home at Bismarck. President Babkisonoii the nth nominatod Lleutenant-Colonel Wüliaui Smitli, of Vermont, to bo PaymasterGeneral of the ;irmy. John '1'. Lkstkb, a well-known Obtcago lioard of Tradie operator, dina of heart failure on the 1 lth, a,nd 47 years. IIo was wertfa over 1,000,000. JuDGK McCqmüS, who, as aeting (lovernor of Virginia, signed tl; death-warrantof John Brown, died on the 11 Ui at Port Scott, Kan., aprcd 74 ycaivs. Ax Washington on tha llth ex-Congressman W. Preston Taulbee, of Kintucky, dicd trom tho effoct of the wounds inflicted by Charles E. Kincaid, a nowspapor man, on Febrnary '28. IIk.nuv Bebabd, the newly-appoini ed postmaster of Iioohest r, N. Y., died on the llth. JUDOB Amiim-.u' .1. Davis died at Butte, Mont.. on tho ritli, acd 71 years. Ilis fortuno was estltnatéd at from Sj,000,000 to Í0,0Q0,000, Tuk Missouri Democratie State convention will bo held at St. Josoph on Juno 11. Lon V. SriiVKXS. of üoonville, was on the l'ith appointed State Treasuror of Missouri in place of Mi'. Xoland, removed for S32.71S. Thk llhodo Island Republican State convention met at Providence on the löth and renominatcd tho present State officers, with Ilerbort W. Ladd for Governor. The platform indorsos President Harrison's Administration and Speakor Reed's course in Congress.