The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-08-10
rERsoNAL AND POLITICAL.


THE President approved the act to enable
National Banking Associations to extend
their corporate limits.
REPRESENTATIVE RoBINsoN's bill relating
to Virginia military lands has passed the
Senate and will become law.
THE Prohibition Convention at Column
lumbus, Ohio, adopted platform setting
forth the principles that the manufacture
and sale of liquor is crime, demanding
total prohibition, and denCuncing as wrong
any license or taxation; that the policy
of taxation is q perversion of the prin-
ciples of our government; repeating
and reaffirming the principles of the party
for the prohibition of gambling in every
form, the prohibition of all speculation,
prohibition of class legislation, prison con-
tract labor, prohibition of the Star route
swindle, demanding the reduction of sala-
ries, asking the frequent investigation of
government affairs, opposing the adoption
of candidates from other parties, favoring
woman suffrage, approving the Womens
State Temperance Union, coDgratulating
the people of Iowa on the adoption OF
prohibition, approving the Smith law as a
step in the right direction, and promising
to assist in its enforcement. The ticket
nominated is: Secretary of State, Ferdi-
nand Schumacher, of Akron; Supreme
Judge, John N. Rosenborough, of Fulton
County; member of the Board of Public
Works, Carmi Alderman, of Lawrel ce
County.
THE River and Harbor bill is a law, with
out the Presidents signature. The two
Houses, August 2, by two-thirds major
ity, passed the bill over the Presidents
veto.
In THE South Carolina State Democratic
Convention, Colonel Hugh s. Thompson,
Superintendent of Education, was nomin-
ated for Governor; John c. Sheppard,
Speaker of the House, for Lieutenant
Governor on the first ballot, over w. G..
Coker, and J. N. Linscomb, of Newberry,
was nominated for Secretary of State.
THE platform of the Indiana Democracy
declares in favor of submitting the ques-
ton of the proposed liquor prohibition
amendment to the Constitution to an
election of the people.
GENERAL BARsTow, a retired army officer,
died at Oakland, Maryland.
THE President nominated Charles M.
Whitney for Surveyor of Customs at st.
Louis, Missouri, and William Waldorf
Astor, of New York, Minister to Italy.
The Republicans of Georgia held a
double-headed convention on the Sd. Both
nominated General l.. J. Gartrell for Gov
ernor, but nominated different ticket for
other State officers, including Congress
man-at-Large.
Dr-rrp
Ohio, has been seized by the Government.
IT IS stated that the income tax suit
against Ex-Governor S. ]. Tilden will soon
be discontinued.
The Senate confirmed the nomination
of w. w. Astor 10 be Minister to Italy.
ARTEMUs HALE, of Boston, said to be the
oldest ex-member of Congress. is dead
COLONEL G. B. c. CASH, who was tried
last year for killing Colonel Shannon in q
duel, announces himself as Independent
candidate for Congress in the Fifth South
| Carolina District.
| Mrs FRED DOUGLASS is dead
GENERAL U. S. GRANT and William
Henry Trescott have been nominated
Commissioners to negotiate commercial
treaty with Mexico.
CHARLES A. VoGELER, for eight years the
managing partner of A. Vogeler & Co.,
manufacturers of st. Jacobs Oil, died al
Baltimore, August 5, of typhoid fever
aged only 81 ye,rs. Mr.. Vogeler was well
known to newspaperpublisher throughout
the land as one of the best business men oi
his age in the country, and the success OF
the firm has been largely due to him.
Mrs. FRANCES NJ, SCovILLE has filed 9
petition for a divorce against George SEQ
vile, her husband, for alleged extreme
cruelty.