The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-01
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.

News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
TIE Maine Greenback Convention, to
nominate ticket of Presidential Electors,
met at Portland on the 21st, 465 delegates
being present. A resolution was presented,
indorsing the action of the State Committee
recommending fusion with the Democrats
and the nomination of joint Electoral tick
ct, to be composed of four Weaver and three
Hancock Electors. Considerable opposition
was developed, but the resolution was
finally adopted. f. NJ. Plaisted and Con-
gresham Murch were the strongest adj
vocates for fusion. After the adjournment
of the Convention number of anti-fusion-
lists, headed by Scion Chase, met and organ
lied, and nominated full Greenback Elec-
toral ticket.
The New Hampshire Prohibitionists
have nominated an Electoral ticket, besides
Congressman and full State ticket, and will
make an active canvass Of the State.
Mr.. MEYER A. R0sENBLATT has been
nominated for Congress by the Republicans
of the Second Missouri District (St. Louis).
Mr.. Rosenblatt is at present City Collector.
The reconciliation of the two rival
Democratic organizations of New York City
was celebrated with a grand union mass
meeting on the night of the 23d. The princi-
pal meeting was held in Tammany Hall
and was called to order by
dlphia, and Senator Bayard were the prin-
cipal speakers. Letters were read from
Samuel j. Tilden, Gen. Hancock, H. NJ.
Plaisted, of Maine, and others.
SENATOR BLAINE addressed large
Republican meeting at Newark, n. j., on the
night of the 23d.
THE Pan-Presbyterian Council as
sembled in Philadelphia on the 2sd. The
opening exercises were held in the Academy
of Music, which was filed to its utmost ca
pacity. About 1000 ministers and delegates
were in attendance. The Rev. VIM. NJ. Pax
ton, D. D., of New York, preached the
opening sermon. The regular business ses-
sions of the Council are held in Horticul-
tural Hall.
MAJOR NELSON, the defaulting Army
Paymaster, has been arrested at Kansas City
and taken to Fort Leavenworth. He will
be tried by court martial. His deficit is not
SO great as at first reported, and his bonds
men are said to be good for the entire
amount.
The Little Rock Gazette is authority
for the statement that the Fishback Amend
ment for scaling down the State debt, voted
upon at the recent election in Arkansas, has
been rejected by decided majority.
IT is currently reported the Gar has
contracted second marriage with the Prin-
cess Dolgorouki, with whom he has for years,
according to rumor, sustained intimate re-
lations, and who is the mother of five of his
children.
MAJOR MORROW, of the Ninth Cav
airy, who has passed the last eighteen
months in the saddle in the mountains of
New Mexico and Arizona, fighting Indians,
has been ordered to proceed to Paris to wit
ness the autumn maneuvers of the French
Army, and on his return will be given place
on Gen. Sherman's Staff.
S. NJ. WAITE, the defaulting Presi-
dent of the Brattleboro (vt. Bank, has been
arrested in Omaha and will be taken East
for trial.
PERRY II. SMITH, JR., has received
the Democratic nomination for Congress in
the Third Illinois District (Chicago).
JESSE GRANT, third son of General
Grant, was married in San Francisco, on
the 22d, to Miss Lizzie Chapman, daughter
of wealthy resident of that city.
THE Massachusetts, Greenback State
Convention was held at Worcester, on the
sry;th Ao1o ofac, R~u1>
was q woman. A full State ticket was placed
in nomination, headed by Gen. Horace Bin
ney Sergeant Tor Governor.
GENERAL HANCOCK has written let
ter in reply to one from Mr.. Theodore Cook,
Of Cincinnati, in reference to "Southern
war claims.'' It was published by the As.
ISOLATED Press on the 25th. In it he takes the
ground that all such claims are necessarily
invalid, and says that If he were President
be "would veto all legislation which might
come before me providing for the considera-
ton or payment Of claims Of any kind for
losses or damage by persons who were in re-
bellion, whether pardoned or not::''
MINISTER CHRIsTIANCY has gone
from Peru to Chilli to present to the latter
Government certain claims for damage
caused to the property Of American citizens
during the war.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
THE Missouri River Improvement
Convention, held at Kansas City on the 21st,
adopted resolutions urging upon Congress
the duty of bestowing upon the Missouri
River consideration commensurate with
the interests to be subserved by its improve
ment, and to this end thorough survey Of
the river should at once be entered upon,
with the view Of determining the speediest