The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-06-04
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY,
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
A. III. LITTLEFIELD has been elected
Governor, and 81. H. Fay Lieutenant Gov
ernor, of Rhode Island, by the General As
sembly.
THE Colorado Republican State Con
vention, held at Denver on the 18th, in.
structed its delegates to Chicago to vote as {
unit for Gen. Grant.
An anti-Grant Republican meeting
was held at Chicago on the night Of the 18th
in pursuance Of call issued by the ninety.
two delegates from the Farwell Hall Con.
vention to Springfield. Central Music Hall,
where the meeting was called, was crowded
1t an early hour, and another meeting was
organized at Farwell Hall. An
address was adopted in the ma.
ture Of statement to be
presented to the National Republican Con-
ventioa, setting forth the alleged unjust and
arbitrary action of the State Convention at
Springfield, and asking that the so-called
disfranchised districts be permitted repre-
sentaticn in the National Convention by del
fgates of their own selection.
The West Virginia Decentralization
State Convention was held at Charleston on
the Goth Delegates to. the National Con-
yention were selected and State ticket
nominated, headed by Col. n. B. French, Of
Mercer County, for Governor.
The Kansas Democratic State Con-
vention, to select delegates to the National
Convention, was held on the 26th. Col.
Thomas Moonlight was chosen Chairman.
The Convention refused to instruct in favor
of any candidate.
The Missouri Democratic State Con-
vention was held at Moberly on the 26th.
EX-Gov. B. Gratz Brown presided. The
delegates to Cincinnati are uninstructed. and
are divided in their Presidential preferences
as between Tilden, Morrison, Seymour and
Hancock. The st. Louis Republican claims
nineteen out of the thirty delegates for Til
den; the St. Louis Times figures out twelve
for Tilden and eighteen anti Tilden dele.
gates.
LEON SAY has been elected President
of the French Senate.
The Mississippi Democratic State
Convention, held on the 9th, chose an un-
instructed delegation to Cincinnati.
THE friends of Hon. William r. Nor.
rison, of Illinois, held an informal meeting
ut Washington the other evening, and re-
solved to further his candidacy for the Pres
idency by holding meetings, organizing
clubs, etc. Among those present were Rep
resentatives Reagan, of Texas; Chalmers, of
Mississippi; Eppa Hunton and Harris, of
Virginia; Taylor and Atkins, of Tennessee;
Phillips, Clardy, Clark and Waddell, of Mis-
souri,; Thompson, Blackburn and Knott, O;
Kentucky; and Townshend, Springer and
Singleton, of Illinois.
The Delaware Democratic State Con-
vention instructed it's delegates to the Gin
cinnati Convention to present the name of
Senator Bayard as q eandidate for President.
THE Wisconsin and Minnesota Green
hackers both held State Conventions on the
9th and chose delegates to the National
Convention.
The National Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation, at it's recent session in indianapolis,
appointed q delegation to visit Chicago and
present their claims before the National Re.
publican Convention.
DENNIS KEARNEY has been released
from the San Francisco House of Correc-
ton.
The Nevada delegates to the Cincin.
natl Convention are said to stand three for
Tlden, two for Thurman and one for Field.
The Convention adopted q resolution in
favor of Tilden.
The Senate has rejected the nomina-
ton of S. Newton Pettis, of PENNSYLVANIA.
to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
for the Territory of New Mexico.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
The Ways and Means Committee
have instructed Representative Wood to re-
port favorably to the House the bill to abol.
ish the Freedmen's Bank Commission. and
to cover funds in their hands into the United
States Treasury.
The American Society of Civil En-.
gineers met in annual convention at st.
Louis on the 25th, for session Of four days.
Between 800 and 400 delegates were in at
tendance from various sections of the
country.
THE employees of the Philadelphia
1, 200 in number, have struck
for higher wages.
A RAILWAY line is projected from
Matamoras to Monterey and thence to Sal.
tillo in Mexico.
A CONVENTION has been arranoad no.