The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-05-07
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE:
A lR1Ky suuuARY OF THE WORLDS WORK

4 BRIE1 sUHnARY OF TIE WORLDS WORK.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
PROF. II. r. PALMER conducts the
Nay Musical Festival at Marion, Iowa.
JUDGE Connolly F. TRIGG, of the
United States Circuit Court of Eastern
Tennessee, is dead. Postmaster General Key
IL spoken of as his successor.
Mr.. FELIX CosrE, of St. Louis, has
been appointed U. S. Marshal for the East
ern District of Missouri.
JOSEPH SELIGMAN, SR., head of the
well known New York banking house OF j.
& w. Seligman, died on the 18th Of heart
disease, while on his way home from q
Southern tour, undertaken for the benefit Of
his health.
DR.. JOSEPH F. WEBB, a brother of
Mrs. President Hayes, formerly of Ohio but
for two years resident of Minneapolis, died
in the latter city on the Attn, of apoplexy.
The Arkansas Republican State Con-
vention was held on the 2sth. There was
spirited struggle over resolution intro
duced to call future Convention for the
choice of Presidential Electors, but it was
finally voted down and Electors chosen.
The delegation to Chicago is instructed to
vote unanimously for Gen. Grant.
The South Carolina Republican State
Convention, held on the 2sth, was composed
of one hundred and twenty delegates, eighty
of whom were colored. The delegates
chosen to the National Convention were in
structed to vote as unit for Gen. Grant.
The Connecticut Democratic State
Convention elected an unpledged delegation
to the Cincinnati Convention. The Tilden
men claim ten of the twelve delegates.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention, which met on the 18th, har-
monized the conflicting elements in that
State and chose an uninstructed delegation
to Cincinnati. The delegates are
said to stand twenty each for
Tilden and Hancock and eighteen for
Bayard. The unit rule was rejected by a
vote of 125 to 122. Tilden's friends claim
stronger showing than is here given
them.
The California Republican State Con-
vention instructed for Blaine and adopted
the unit rule.
The new British Parliament was
formally opened on the 3Oth.
D. w. MIDDLETON, for twenty years
Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United
States, is dead.
The Indiana State Greenback Con-
vention, held on the 10Th, elected delegates
to the National Convention and also nomi-
mated full State ticket, headed as follows:
Richard Gregg for Governor; Thomas De-
Brule, Lieutenant Governor; j. B. Yeag-
ley, Secretary of State; George w. Demarre,
L. Miller, Attorney General.
HARTMANN, the Socialist elected from
Hamburg to the German Reichstag, is a
journeyman shoemaker.
POsTMAsTER-GENERA KEY has been
rendered and has accepted the United States
Judgeship for the Eastern and Middle Dis
trict Of Tennessee, made vacant by the
death Of Judge Trigg.
The Congressional exodus investiga-
ton has closed. 1t has cost $4,000 exclu-
sive of printing, which will swell the
amount to about S. 200 more.
KEMBLE and companions, the con-
yicted Pennsylvania bribers, have been par
doned by the Governor, upon recommen-
dation of the Board of Pardons, so far as
their imprisonment is concerned. They paid
their fines and have been discharged from
custody.
DENIS KEARNEY has obtained
writ of habeas corpus, returnable May IL.
JUDGE A. w. SWEET, many years
ago q resident Of Illinois, Missouri and
Iowa, and since then Of California, commit
ted suicide by taking opium at Dallas, Tex,
on the 10Th.
EARL CowPER has been appointed
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
OFFICIAL announcement is made that
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail-
road Company has secured control of the
Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs
by the purchase Of majority of the stock.
REPRESENTATIVE WELLS of Missouri
has introduced bill to establish an assay
Office at st. Louis, and to set apart rooms
In the Custom-house and Post-ofice
building for that purpose. The bill
appropriates $4,000 for purchase of
needed machinery. This is reported to be
upon the recommendation of the Director of
the Mint, who has said that an assay Office
ought to be established at st. Louis.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
WILLIAM P. GILLESPIE, of Colum-