New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-03-10
Personal and Political

MCN!ClPAL ClCCtlOuS were uClu III
Maine on the 1st. William Senter (Rep.)
was elected Mayor of Portland by ma
jority Of 1884. The Republicans Tar
red Farmin@ton, Skowhcgan, Lewiston.
Auburn, Gardner, Bath, Saco, Decrng,
Cape Elizabeth, Brighton, Falmouth, Cor
ham, Kcnnebunk, Kennebunk Port, Carmel,
Fryeburg, Hiram and Rockland. Standish
gave a Democratic Majority, and the Dem
ocrats also elected their candidate for Mayor
of Ellsworth.
In West Virginia some months ago
negro was convicted of murder. The
Judge presiding, in accordance with the State
law, excluded colored men from the jury,
and the Court Of Appeals sustained the rul-
ing. On the 1st the United States Supreme
Court reversed the ruling of the courts be-
low, and pronounced the trial and conviction
OF the prisoner Illegal, because he was, BY
the exclusion of his own race from the jury,
denied the equal protection of the Law
guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
In the Virginia case where = negro
murderer had been tried by jury
composed entirely Of white men, the State
laws containing no prohibition on colorea
citizens from 90 serving, the Supreme Court
pronounces the action OF Judge Rives, OF tn
Federal bench, IN removing the case to his
court for trial, wrong. In the case of the
State Judge who presided in the last-men-
toned trial, who was arraigned for persist
emily excluding colored men from juries,
The law not requiring it, it was held
that the complaints against him were well
founded. In the case of Davis, Depu y Col
lector in a Tennessee district, who while on
a raid killed moonsEiner and was indicted
for murder in State court, it was decided
that the killing was done by him as an Of
licer of the United States in the discharge
of his duty, and that, if the provocation had
not been sufficient, he would have been anne
nable to Federal and not State law. Justice
Field dssented.
CowLEY, ex-Superintendent of the
Shepherds Fold in New York City, was taken
to the Penitentiary on the I'd, an institution
Of which he was once the chaplain.
In the Wisconsin Assembly OH the 1st
joint resolution proposing an amendment to
The State Constitution prohibiting the manu-
tacture and sale Of Intoxicating liquors as a
beverage, except native wines and beer, was
nembers-elect not voting in the affirmative.
The Republican members of the
Maine Legislature met on the evening of the
81 and chose the following delegates to the
Chicago National Conventions: Eugene
Hale, Joseph R. Bodwell, E. 7. Gill and Al
mon A. Strout Resolutions were adopted
"eaffirming the principles of the party and
urging the nomination of Blaine.
The Iowa Republican State Convcn-
ion, for the selection of delegates to the
National Convention at Chicago, has bccu
called to meet at Des Moines on the 18th Of
April.
The Iowa Legislature has passed an
sct making the manufacture and sale of
olcomargarinc as butter punishable BY fine
and imprisonment.
THE President has withdrawn from
the Senate the nomination of Mr.. PinchOack
to be Naval Officer a. New Orleans.
THE Kansas Republican State Con-
Convention, will be held at Topeka on the
Goth of May.
Tie Wisconsin State Senate on the
4th concurrcd in joint resolution passed nv
the House in favor Of a Constitutional
amendment providing for biennial sessions Of
the Legislature.
THE National Union Grecnback La
Dor Convention met at St. Louis on the 4tl,.
Ralph E. Iloyt, of Indiana, was chosen per
manent President, and George W. Brewster,
Of Iowa, Secretary. Twenty States were rep
resented by about $50 delegates. At the
evening session platform was adopted. AM;
stephen g. Dl!aye, of New Hampshire, w"s
nominated for President, and B. j. Cham.
'crs, OF TcX"s, for Vice President. A res,
luton was adopted that when the Convcntio,,
adjourned it would be to meet at Chcac
June Q, and q Special Committee nf one tr..,.
,'ch State was appointed to meet there ut
the same time.
On the 4th the Indiana Republican
State Central Committee met at Indianapolis
and elected four Delegates at Large to the
National Convention. It Is stated that three
Of them favor Blaine's nomination., and one
Grants.
Two ASSESSORS at Wilmington, DEL,
have been arrested by the United States
Marshal on the charge of refusing to- assess
Republicans who desired to pay their taxes
and qualify as voters.