The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-09-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE Missouri Republican State Com
vention was held at Mercantile Library Hall,
St. Louis, on the 18th. The following ticket
was placed in nomination.: For Governor,
David P. Dyer, of st. Louis; Lieutenant
Governor, Milo Blair, of Pettis; Secretary
of State, James C. Broadwell, of St. Louis;
Auditor, L. A. Thompson, Of Montgomery;
Attorney General, 81. H. Harding, Of JAS
per; Treasurer, W. @. Dollmeyer, Of Cole;
Railroad Commissioner, Howard Barnes
(colored), Of Cole; Judge of Supreme Court,
j. v. C. Karnes, of jackson; Register Of
Lands, George B. Herrenden, of Marion.
The Massachusetts, Republican State
Convention was held on the 18th. Gov. John
d. Long, Lieut. Gov. Byron Weston, Sec
rotary of State Henry B. Pierce and Attor-
ney.General George Marsten were all nom
mated by reclamation. Daniel A. Gleason
was renominated for Treasurer and Receiver
General, and Charles r. Ladd for Auditor,
both by reclamation.
The New Hampshire Democratic
State Convention, held on the 18th, nomi-
mated Frank Jones for Governor by acclama-
ton.
CAPT. ARCHIBALD THOMPSON, OF the
National Line Steamship England, was acct
dentally drowned during the last trip OF that
vessel from Liverpool to New York.
THE Republicans of the Second Mis-
souri, District have nominate Gustavus Ses-
singhaus for Congress.
COMMITTEES of the two Democratic
factions met in Virginia on the 10th to agree
upon some plan for the formation of mixed
Electoral ticket. The Readjusters proposed
that a special primary election be held
throughout the State on the 10th of October,
the ticket receiving the minority of votes to
be withdrawn in favor of the other. The
Conservatives agreed to this plan, with the
modification that only qualified voters
should be permitted to vote at the primaries.
This proviso the Readjusters refused to &C
cept, but insisted that all registered voters,
whether they had paid capitation tax or not,
should be allowed to vote, after pledging
themselves to support Hancock and English.
This amendment the Conservatives refused
to accept, and the negotiations thereupon
ended.
THE New Hampshire Prohibitionists
have placed State ticket in the field, head
ed by George D. Dodge, of Hampton Falls,
for Governor.
A NATIONAL Convention of Republi-
can Clubs was held at Indianapolis on the
18th. A lengthy address was issued, favor
ing the election of the Republican candidates
for President and Vice-President.
THE Rev. F.. P. Adams, of the Pres
byterian Church at Dunkirk, N. Y, was
formally deposed from the ministry by the
Buffalo Presbytery at its recent session. He
was charged with heresy.
OFFICIAL returns from all the coun-
ties in Arkansas except Chicot, Desha,
Green, Phillips and Pulaski, give Churchill a
majority of about 81, 900 over Parks for Gov
ernor.
j. H. NELSON, Paymaster in the
Army, is a defaulter to large amount and
has fed the country. His shortage is said to
be between sc, 1000 and $1OO. 200.
SENATOR CoNKLING addressed a Re-
publican meeting at the Academy Of Music,
New York, on the night of the 18th.
THERE is a report that the Pennsyl-
vania Greenbackers intend to make up an
Electoral ticket composed half and half Of
Republican and Democratic Electors. In
this way the Greenback men there assert
that they can show their strength better than
by separate Greenback ticket.
COMMERCE. AND INDUSTRY.
THE St. Louis Fair this year opens on
Monday, Oct. 4, and closes on Saturday, Oct.
g.. The premium list aggregates $4,000. A
general reduction of railroad and steamboat
fares to and from st. Louis will be made.
The annual parade Of the Yelled Prophets
will come of on the night of Tuesday, the
9th.
The 500 counterfeit note now in cir
culation is conceded to be the best counter
felt that has ever been known in America.
The plate is so arranged that it can be adj
justed to suit the issue Of any national bank.
This makes discovery of the fraud almost
impossible, except at the Treasury, and there,
strange to say, the cheat can only be proven
by the superiority of the workmanship ex-
pended upon it.
THE First Comptroller of the Treasu-
~ has decided that Government bonds be.
ing contracts to pay persons in whose names
they are drawn, or their indorsers, can not