Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-26
CURRENT NEWS.
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

The National Greenback party of Wiscon.
sin held a State Convention at Watertowr
on the 18th and nominated a full State ticket
headed by Col. May of Vernon County fol
Governor. The platform does not differ es-
sentially from that adopted last year.
The Iowa Prohibitionists met in State
Convention at Cedar Rapids on the 10th. An
Intellectual effort was made to exclude all
who had taken part in the Republican State
Convention. After quite q heated discus
| sion, q resolution was adopted-yeas Al,
nays 32-declaring it expedient, in view OF
the great questions Of the perpertuity of the
Government which are now prominent" to
nominate a third State ticket. After ad-
journment a meeting was called of those
dissenting from the action Of the majority,
and full State ticket was nominated, head
cd by Prof. G. T. Carpenter of Oskaloosa
for Governor.
The regatta of the Mississippi Valley Am
ateur Rowing Association was held at Keo-
kuk July 1911. The principal races were
the four -oared gig race, which was won by
the Peoria Club; the four-oared shell race,
won by the Shoe-wa- cae -mettes of Monroe,
Mich. the six-oared barge race, won by the
Peorias; and the senior single-scull race,
won by A. NJ. Butler Of the Minnesota Club.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad has
been peaceably turned over to the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Company, by or
der of the United States District Court.
Prof. Carpenter positively declines to ac-
cept of the Prohibition nomination for Gov
ernor of Iowa.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has epjoined the st. Louis, Kansas City and
Northern Railroad Company from giving
the American Union Telegraph Company
the right to erect wires along the line Of that
road. The American Union is jay Gould's
new company, and threatens to open up a
lively opposition to the Western Union,
which is controlled by Vanderbilt.
Gen. Miles's expedition left Fort Peck on
the 18th. 1t consists of seven small COM
panies Of cavalry and about as many in
fantry, together with 4 three-gun battery
and $50 Indian and white scouts.
Napoleon Bonaparte, colored, was hanged
at Sardis, Miss, on the 18th, for the murder
of Tom Butler, colored, in August last. The
execution was witnessed by a crowd Of 8, 900,
principally negroes.
The will of the late Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey
Of Mississippi, which bequeaths nearly the
entire property of testator, said to be valued
at S250, 200, to Jefferson Davis, is to be con-
tested by s. Percy Ellis Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
a brother of deceased, on the ground that
the testator was mentally incapable Of max
ing will and that she was subject to undue
influence and prejudice in favor of Mr..
Davis. 1t is not alleged, however, that the
latter used his influence with any Interior
design.
The furniture-makers of Chicago have
inaugurated an eight-hour strike.
Secretary Schurz will deliver four politi-
cal addresses in Ohio during the State cam
paign. Secretaries Thompson and Sherman
will also make several speeches.
One Of two Mormon priests who were &C.
lively engaged in preaching and proselyting
through Walker and Catooss Counties, Ca,
is reported to have been killed by a mob Of
indignant citizens, who undertook to run
them out of the neighborhood and met with
some resistance.