Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-08-03

D6holera.
. Serious labor troubles have occurred in
Washington, on accouat of an attempt being
made by strikers to prevent laborers work.
ing for less than S1.50 day. Gangs of strik-
ers visited various public and private works,
G2emanding that the men employed stop
TX, and Threatening the destruction of
perty in some casei. An extra police
e was called out, and several collisions
eurred in which number of persons were
wounded by pistol shots.
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
The Texas Democratic State Convention,
after long and exciting struggle over the
nomination for Governor, on the 23d agreed
upon Judge orrin M Roberts as COM
promise candidate, and he was accordingly
nominated. Judge Roberts is of Smith Coun-
ty, aged 63, and at pre,ent Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court. The other nominations
are: James d. Sayers, Of Bastrop, for Lieu
tenant Governor; b. B. Mccormick, of
Colorado, for Acknowledgement Stephen
II. Darden for ComptpIler, F. r. Lubbock
for Treasurer, and Wn. G. Walsh, for Conn,
missioner OF Land-ofiice. The ph:.ssr71.
adopted fsvors the investigation by Congress
of the ansge0 frauds commitsed ct the late
Presidenti&i election, but says thst the de-
cisfon OF the Forty fourth Congress, by
which Hayes was seated, should not be dis
turbed. The contraction Of the currency
and the decentralization of silver are de-
nounced, and the payment of all our obliga-
tions in legal tenders, except where other
wise specially provided by law, is demanded.
Additional Congressional nominations !:
nlinois-Fifth District,.J. NJ. Ogle, Nation
al-Greenback; Eighth District, t. NJ. Shaw,
Democrat, Greenbury L. Fort, Republican
(renominated); Tenth District, II. A.
Streator, National Greenback; Thirteenth
District, Thomas f. Upton, Republican (re-
nominated) = Fourteenth District, Maiden
Jones, Democrat, Joseph G. Cannon, Re-
publican (renominated); Eighteenth Dis
trict, LIB. Thomas, Republican, W. J.
Allen, Democrat, S. L. Davis, NATIONAL
Greenback. Indiana = Seventh District,
John Hanna, Republican (renominated).
Ohio Fifth District, William Allen, Repub-
lican; Eleventh District, w. w. Mcknight,
Republican. (Charles Foster has declined
the Republican nomination Seventh Dis
trict.) Iowa-Eighth District, w. w. Sapp,
Republican (renominated.)
The Ohio National Greenback- Labor State
Convention, held at Columbus on the 23d,
nominated Andrew Roy, of jackson County,
for Secretary Of State, Chiffon A. White, of
Brown County, for Supreme Court Judge,
and j. R. Falls, of Lucas County, for Mem
Der of Board Of Public Works. The Toledo
platform is indorsed.
Thcre were 405 deaths in Chicago during
the het week ending July 20, being 179 more
than during the previous week, and 167 more
than during the corresponding week last
year. Forty -four Of these deaths are classed
- sunstroke, lis from cholera-infantum
and g. from other infantile diseases.
- The United States Commissioner at Salt
lEakR forms Secretary Schurz that the Nor
mon cooperative stores supply hostile In
dians Though Utah and portions of Idaho
directly and indirectly with all kinds of am
munition, and that these stores, under the
management Of the Mormon priesthood, are
located along the Indian border and in all
the towns and hamlets in the country Of
Utah, and also in Idaho.
y @. s. Sauvinet (colored), ex-Civil SLerifl
of New Orleans, shot himself through the
kead with pistol on the 23d, fatally. The
At Nashville, Tenn, on the oath, a shoot
on one side and four sons of Judge Nathan
iel Baxter on the other. Hicks was killed,
also one of the brothers, named Jones Bax-
ter, while two others of the brothers were
slightly wounded, also negro girl who was
passing by. Judge Baxter is the Democratic
candidate for recollection as Judge of the
Circuit Court at the coming election, and
Hicks, who is an Independent, made some
remarks At puplic meeting derogatory te
Judge Baxter, which his sons took It upon
themselves to resent.
y Fourteen cases Of yellow fever had oc-
Acurred at New Orleans up to the oath, seven
of which were fatal.
Col. Forsythe's scouts had skirmish will
the hostiles in a canyon near Clear Creek OF
the 2ist, losing one man killed and two
wounded. . The indians abandoned theil
position before the troops came up. The!
are making for Malheur Agency.
The distribution of shad. the past season
on the western rivers has been the -larges
vet undertaken The reports to the Depart
ment at Washington from various points oil
the Mississippi during the shad season indi
&ate the presence Of shad. 1t Il proposed Z
Increase the amount, with the hope that Il
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the Mississippi will be able TO catch shad q
they are now caught on the Potomac.
- The, DeadEeod stage for Cheyenne wa
Sstopped by dix masked road d-agents, nea
Lightning Creek, on the morning of the 18th
The mail sacks were r,lundered of all tbei
valnables.. There was no treasure on board
and the on,v passenger was 1nfaister. VIII
was not molested.
George w. Burleigh, an intelligent bu
eccentric resident of Capron, Boone Coun
ty. Ill. barber by trade, advertised tn
announcement that on the evening of tn
/23d of July he would deliver a lecture at tn
public hall, his subject being ga Defens
of Suicide" at the conclusion Of which b
would publicly shoot himself through th
forehead. The price of admission to TIL
curious and novel entertainment ws