The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-19
ln nomination the following ticket for STAT.

In nomination the following ticket for Stat,
| officers: Governor, General A. eaunden
Piatt; Lieutenant Governor, uu Preyor
Auditor. Andrew Ray; Treasurer, Charles
Jenkins; Supreme Judge, A. NJ jackson; At
torn-y- General, James c. Crgan; Membe
Of Board Of Public Works. George w. Plat
The platform demands the issue, BY the Gov
ernmeut, OF an ample volume of leyal-tende,
currency; opposes the issue of int. rest bear
ing bond; insists upon the abolition of thu
National banking system; favors . protective
tariff, and doing away with internal-revenue
taxes, substituting for the latter graduated
income tax: dem .nds the calling In for pay.
ment of all bonds; etc., etc.
The Ohio Democratic State Conven.
ton was held at Columbus on the 4th. Sam
uel F. Hunt, Of Cincinnati, was chosen per
manent Chairman. Thomas Ewing was nom
mated for Governor; A. v. Rice, for Li-uten
ant-Governor; ANTHONY Howells, for Treas.
urer; Charles Reemeln, for Auditor; w. ].
G lmore, for Judge Of supreme Court; Isaiah
Pillars, for Attorney General, and Patrick
O'Marah, for Member of Board of Public
Works. The platform adopted demands free
and fair elections, and to that end denouncet
all interference with elections bv the military
power; declares that the Election laws OF
Congress interfere with State elections,
under pretense Of regulating the manner Of
Congressional elections, and that the
same are unconstitutional, and ought to b<
rpealed; denounces the Republican minority
in Congress for refusing to vote supplies fol
the maintenance of the Gov rnment unleea
the majority would agree to the use Of troops
at the polls, etc, and condemns the President
for his unprecedented use of the veto power
in order to perpetuate the Objectionable Lawn
aforesaid; declares that not dollar should be
appropriated by Congress to pay soldiers,
Elections, to interfere with or control cleo
tons; reafirms the financial principles here
tofore advocated by the Democratic party Of
Ohio; etc, etc.
The Workingmen's party of Califor.
mia held their State Convention at San Fran.
cisco on the Sd and 4th. Dennis Kearney
was chosen permanent President. The plat
form adopted repudiates communism and
agrsriauism; advocates the enforcement Of
the letter and spirit Of the new State Consti.
tuition; demands the restoration to pre-emp.
ton and sale Of forfeited railroad lands; id.
vocates the election of President and Vice.
President and Senators Of the United States
by a d rect vote OF the people, and no second
term for President and Vice President. A
resolution was also adooted condemning the
President for his veto of the anti Chinese bill.
THE Supreme Court of Iowa has de.
cided that the law prohibiting the sale of beer
and wine within two miles of any municipal.
ty where such sale has been prohibited by q
vote Of the people, or within two miles of any
voting-pla at any election, is constitutional
and valid.
GOVERNOR CULLoM, of Illinois, has
vetoed bill passed by the late Legislature
making illegal the payment of wages in store.
orders or goods, instead of cash, on the
ground that 1t is opposed to public policy.
AT Rohrersville. Md, on the 4th, L.
8. Miller, aged fifteen, shot and killed Charles
Norris, aoout the same age. Miller had been
teased by the boys, who called him nick.
names. He procured q musket, loaded II, fol.
lowed his tormentors and shot Norris, who
died instantly.
The German Catholic Convention in
session at Newark, N. j., on the 5th, voted tc
meet in st. Louis nextyear.
The New Hampshire Legislature
was duly organized on the 4th.
Posr & Co.'s mandatory of railroad
supplies and electrical apparatus, located in
Cincinnati, burned on the 5th, involving q
loss variously estimated at from 100000 to
Sl5O.OOO. In the afterpart of the day, VIII lie
q number of men we're overhauliny the debris,
the roof near the elevator fell in, and a sec
ton OF the five floors under 1t, about twenty
two by twenty-five feet, fell into the cellar.
A dozen men were at work under the falling
mass and were borne to the basement. Ot
these five were killed, and the others more OF
less injured.
AT the Workingmen's State Conven-
ton, held in San Francisco, CAL, on the 5th,
Dennis Kearney was reelected permanent
President of the party. The following State
ticket was placed in nominations: Governor,
william F. White; Lieutenant Governor, W.
r Andrews; Secretary Of State, A. A. Smith !;
Treasurer. Charles Krug; Comptroller, Hugh
Jones; Attorney-Ge G. W. Cross; Sur
veyor-General, H. P. Stevenson; Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, H. D. Trout;
Chief Justice, R. F. Morrison.
THE United States Senate Finance
Committee took up the Warner Silver bill on
the 9th, and then decided to postpone further
action on the same until December next.
Tt ose voting to postpone were Messrs. Ferry,
Allie on. Bayard and Herman; against post
,onement were Messrs. Voorhees,, Beck and
Jones.
NEWS was received from Fort Bel
KNAPP on the 9th that 500 lodges of Sitting
Bulls Indians were reported to have crossed
over from Canada. Up to that time no acts
of hostility had been reported.
Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, of st. James
Church, Chicago, was chosen Episcopal Bsh-
90 Of Michigan on the 9Th, to succeed Bishop
McCoskry, deposed.
TIE iron manufacturers of Pitts
burgh, Pa, signed the scale of prices demand
Gu by the puddl. rs on the 7th, and declared
the lockout ended.
JUDGE BLATCHFORD, of the New
York District Court, has given a pro .torma
decision overriding the plaintiffs demurrer to
defendants amended answer in the suit to test
the validity of the reissue of legal tender
notes. and dismissed the complaint in order
that Al appeal may be taken to the United
States Supreme Court.
TIE five persons indicted in the
United States District Court for the Northern
District of Illinois were, by Jury, declared not
gu lty, on the 9TH, of fraud in the construc-
ton Of the Custom-House at Chicago. The
trial lasted twenty-eight days.
ON the afternoon of the 7th, as two
messengers from the II inois Central Railroad
Office were going to q Chicago bank to de-
post their days accumulation Of money, they
were met bV cOuple of thievea who threw