The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-09-17
September elections

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THE Arkansas State election, held on
the 9th, resulted in the election of Thomas
j. Churchill for Governor, together with the
entire Democratic State ticket, by the usual
Democratic majority. There was no
Republican State ticket in the field. The
Republicans, however, elected their Sheriff
in Pulaski County which includes Hitchcock,
and also elected their local ticket in some
other counties. The Constitutional amend
ment proposing to repudiate portion of the
State debt was probably voted down.
The British Parliament was pro-
rogued on the 7th.
THE New Hampshire Republicans
have nominated Charles C. Bell for Gov
ernor.
The Georgia Republican State Con-
vention, which met at Atlanta on the It'll,
adopted resolution not to make any nomi-
nations. They however recommended
certain Republicans as candidates for Con-
gress.
GEN. GRANT attended the Wisconsin
State Fair at Madison on the 18th.
MISUNDERSTANDING EUGENE HALE
has completely broken down under his la
bors in the Maine campaign.
E. B. HALL, County Treasurer of Luz
cas- County, O., which includes the city of
Toledo, is defaulter to the amount of $780,
600, and has absconded. It is thought his
sureties are good for the amount.
X. o. ADAMS, the defaulting Post
master of Deaawood, D. T., has been cap
tured at Fort Sully.
GEN. GARFIELD attended the North
ern Ohio Fair at Cleveland, on the 9th, and
made a brief address.
PRESIDENT HAYES and party arrived
at Sacramento on the 9th and were Informally
received by Gov. Perkins. There was no
public reception.
SENATOR BEN HILL denies the report
that he is suffering from cancer on the
tongue.
The Massachusetts Prohibition Con-
vention nominated full State ticket, head
ed by Charles Almy, of New Bedford, for
Governor, together with an Electoral ticket.
D. w. CALDWELL, General Manager
Of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st. Louis
Railroad, has been made General Manager
of the Vandalia Line, vice Gen. Simpson,
deceased.
DIR. BUCHANAN, the bogus medical
diploma man of Philadelphia, who fed to
Canada to escape trial, has been captured
and will be taken back to Philadelphia. He
was induced to cross over to the American
side by a skillful ruse of detective, when
he was Immediately placed under arrest.
UNOFFICIAL election returns from 238
towns in Vermont, leaving three yet to be
heard from, received up to the 18th, gives
Farnham. Rep, for Governor, 4S,OO1 /;
Phelps, DEM, 1921; Heath, Greenbacker,
1872. Farnham's plurality, 26,754; ma
jority, q, 1852. The same towns gave in 1876:
Fairbanks, Rep, A, 402; Bingham, Dem,
2O,662; scattering, 70; Fairbanks majority,
2s,7Oe.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
THIRTY thousand ail-makers in East
Worcestershire and Staffordshire, England,
have struck against repeated reductions of
their wages, amounting, they claim, to 20
per cent.
The Mississippi Valley Horticultural
Fair was successfully inaugurated at the
Merchants Exchange Hall, in st. Louis, on
the evening of the It'll. The display Of
fruit comprised samples of nearly every va
riety grown from the Upper Mississippi to
the Gulf.
ILLINOIS leads all the other States in
respect of the revenue it contributes to the
support of the Government, the amount con-
tributed for, the last fiscal year being $23,
100000. Ohio comes next and contributes
SIS, 900. New York State paid Sl6, 0OO,-
600, Kentucky $S,SO0, 900, and Virginia ST.
zoo, 1000, Of which s., 800 900 was duty on to-
baceo. The greater portion of the internal
revenue receipts is realized from the tax on
whisky.
TIE Mississippi Valley Horticultural
Society pernaa-ently organized at st. Louis
by the election Of Parker Earle, of Golden,
ILL.,, for President; Gov. Furnas, of Nebras-
ka, First Vice.President; Prof. S. M. Ira
cey, Of Columbia, Mo-, Secretary, and H. G.
McPike, Of Alton, H., Treasurer.
The National Cotton Exchange gives
the total production Of cotton in the United
States for the year ending August 81, 1880,
at 8, 200, 161 bales. ~
FINER BROTHERS tobacco manufac.
tory at Louisville, KY, was burned on the
10th. Loss about 500, 900. nearly covered by
insurance. Two hundred and fifty hands
are thrown out Of employment.