Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-09-16
The West.

States Court for Indiana.
The Wisconsin Republican Convention
on the ID completed their nominations 4:
For Attorney General, S. S, Barlow; State
Prison Commissioner, Geo. F. Wheeler /,
School Superintendent, A. J. Craig,
The Secretary Of the State Of Indiana
has forwarded to Washington certificate
of the ratification by Indiana Of the Fif-
tcenth Amendment.
The propeller Boscobel, bound for Chi
cago, was totally destroyed by fire, on the
morning OF the Sd, three miles below St.
Clair, on the Canada shore. She had ten
passengers, all Of whom were saved. The
second engineer, George Ely, jumped over
board and was drowned, and it is sup
posed that one of the firemen shared the
same fate.
The news from the California election
on the 2d is to the effect that the Demo
cratic local tickets throughout the State
are generally elected by decided majorities.
The next Legislature will be emphatic
against the Fifteenth Amendment. San
Francisco returns full Democratic Legis-
ative delegation The vote Of the city
was light The count of straight tickets
for Mayor last night, gave McCoppin,
Democrat, nearly / 400 majority; but the
count of scattered tickets, at o'clock this
evening, shows that Selby, Independent,
is about 125 ahead, with "a prospect of an
increased majority"
The Jury in the case of Mccoy e Co.,
distllers, of Omaha, have brought in a
verdict confscating all the property owned
by the firm, amounting to nearly $4,000,
for dcfrauding the Government.
Ex-Sccretary Stewards speech at sitka
has been published. He gives complete
review of the resources and productions
of the new Territory, expresses sanguine
hopes of the future prosperity of Alaska,
and says the people need a Territorial
Government.
At the election in Wyoming Territory
on the I'd, Stephen f. Nuckolls Democrat,
was elected delegate to Congress, over W.
w. Corlett, Republican.
The resignation of Senator Grimes, of
Iowa, to take effect December Is, has been
received by Governor Merrill.
Mayor McCoppin and other Democratic
candidates in San Francisco have ap.
pearcd before the Board of Supervisors
and demanded recount Of the votes
claiming fraud made in the count by the
Commissioners.
Vice President Colfax and party reached
Portland, Oregon, on the 9th. Governor
Seward was at Salem, Oregon.
A dispatch received at Detroit on the
Eth, from Mr.Powell, of the Powell Expo
ditien, announces his safe arrival at Fort
George, Utah, and says the expedition has
been successful.
Chayes Republican, has been elected
Delegate to Congress from New Mexico,
The Wisconsin Democratic State Con
vention met at Milwaukee on the Sth and
nominated c. d. Robinson, of Green
Bay. for Governor; G. J.. Park, of Stevens
| Point, Lieutenant Governor A. c. Cook,
of Columbus, State Secretary; John
/ Black, of Milwaukee, State Treasurer; s.
/ w. Penney of Madison, Attorney Gener-
! al; Carl Burdeau, of WaukoSha, State
/ Prison Commissioner; Peter J. Cannon,
Of Ccdarsburg, Superintendent of Public
/ Instruction.
4 Helena telegram reports that the
coach which started on the ith for Co.
rinnc was stopped about midnight on
the evening of the 9th, fifty miles north
of Corinnc by robbers, who quietly Sc
cured the driver and obtained possession Of
about thirty thousand dollars worth o.
gold bars, They afterwards caused the
passengers to give up their arms ant
about two thousand dollars in currency
The coach was then allowed to proceed
The Cincinnati Old School Presbytery
at the meeting which closed on the sth
ratified unanimously the plan Of thu
General Assembly on the subject of re
, union
r The Mississippi Valley Commercial
a Convention, in session at Kcokuk, on III
sth, made a permanent organization b.
5 electing Gen. Nandcyerc Of Dubuqu,
President, and long list of Vice preSi