The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-08-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
GIN. HANCOCK, in addition to his
present duties, has been assigned to the
command of the Department Of the South
during the temporary absence Of Brig. Gen.
Augur.
A FUSION has been effected in Maine
of the Democratic and Greenback Electoral
tickets, upon the basis Of four Greenbackers
to three Democrats.
The Ohio Greenbackers have nomi-
mated q State ticket as follows: Secretary
of State, Charles A. Lloyd, Of Seneca; SUI
preme Judge, Nv. C. Louden, Of Brown
County; Clerk Of Supreme Court, Charles
Bowsall, of Columbiana; Member Of Board
of Public Works, Amos Roberts, of Knox
County; School Commissioner, B. B. Smart,
of Ross County.
The Kansas State Labor reenback
Convention was held at Topeka on the 18th.
Judge j. A. Vrooman, of Greenwood Coun-
ty, was nominated for Governor; II. L.
Phillips, of Marion, for Lieutenant Govern
or; S. A. Marshall, Of Leavenworth. for
Treasurer; D. 1. Cole, Of Reno, for Auditor;
L. B. Hadley, of Wyandotte, for Attorney
General; and Charles Smith, Of Jefferson,
for Superintendent Of Schools. The resolu-
lions adopted indorse the platform and can
didates of the Chicago Greenback-L Labor
Convention and condemn the course of the
Kansas Representatives in Congress in OPP
posing the Weaver financial resolution.
The Democratic Convention of the
Sixth Missouri District renominated Con-
gresham Waddill.
The West Virginia Democratic State
Convention, held on the 18th, nominated
Col. j. B. Jackson, of Parkersburg, for
Governor; Joseph Miller, of Cabell County,
for Auditor; and Col. Thomas O'Brien for
Treasurer.
SAMUEL j. TILDEN presided at the
Democratic Mass Meeting at the New York
Academy Of Music on the 18th. He made .
brief speech upon taking the chair. Gen.
Ewing, Samuel j. Randall and Senator Jones
of Florida were among the orators.
A NATIONAL Independent Labor Con-
vention, held at Sharon, Pa, on the 18th,
Endorsed the Republican candidates for
President and Vice. President.
THE boiling Republicans of the TWEEN
tieth Ohio Congressional District, which
comprises the city of Cleveland, have NOM
mated C. B. Lockwood for Representative in
opposition to Hon. Amos Townsend, re-
nominated by the regular convention.
SECRETARY SCHURz addressed Re-
publican meeting in San Francisco on the
30th.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
THE St. Louis Merchants Exchange
has refused to lower its standards of wheat
grades, which it is claimed are nearly or
quite one number higher than those of COM
peting markets. A large number of dealers
favored the proposed change, for the reason
stated, and also on the ground that the pres
ent exacting system of grading was driving
large quantities of wheat into other mar
kets where . more lenient system obtains.
The argument of the majority, opposing any
change, was that the present system of grad
ing wheat in st. Louis Is now well known in
all the markets of the world, that under it
the trade of St. Louis Is rapidly increasing,
that the bulk Of the incoming wheat crop
weuh readily grade as No. 2, and that any
change calculated to degrade the standard
woaM in the end prove detrimental to all
concerned.
PROF. RILEY, In IN address before
the Mobile Cotton Exchange, said he had
Hound the axmy-worm In most cotton fields
throughout largeextsnt Of territory visited
by him. He says II the planters poison the
worm and the weather is good, however,
there may be . very good crop.
A MOST disastrous hail storm occurred
in the vicinity Of Stevens Point, in Central
Wisconsin, recently. by which strip Of
country four miles wide and ten long was
almost entirely denuded Of vegetation. The
damage Is estimated ct So, 200.
WIN. 81. CUsHMAN, President of the
defunct First National Bank, Georgetown,
Colo, indicted for embezzling upwards
500, 900 Of funds Of the bank, has been ar
rested in New York City and will be surren-
dered to the Colorado authorities.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
SIXTEEN persons were drowned on
Lake Brienz, Switzerland, by the capsizing
of q pleasure steamer.
JESSIE STEELE, aged 20, q beautiful
and accomplished young lady Of Paris, ILL.,,
was instantly killed near Cincinnati, O., on
fhe 9TH whero aha waa waiting anme