The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-06-27
West and South.

West and South.
The following ticket was nominated by
the Indiana Republicans in State Conven-
ton at Indianapolis on the 10Th: For Gov
ernor, w. III. Calkins, of La Porte; Lieu
tenant Governor, Eugene Bundy, of Henry;
Secretary of State, Robert Mitchell, of Glib
son; Auditor, Bruce Carr, of Orange;
Treasurer, R.'R. Shiel, of Marion; Attor-
ney-General, w. G. Wilson, of Tippecanoe;
Superintendent of-6chools, B. c. Hobbs,
of Parke. Resolutions were adopted rati-
flying the platform and nominees Of the
National Republican Convention; indors-
ing the administration of Governor Porter;
approving the movement for the erection
of monument to the Union soldiers; IA
voring the administration of charitable,
educational and benevolent institutions,
regardless of politics; and condemning
the system of prison contract labor.
ILLINOIS Prohibitionists met in State
Convention at Bloomington on the 10Th
and nominated the following ticket: For
Governor, James B. Hobbs, of Chicago:
Lieutenant Governor, DR.. James Perry.
man, of st. Clair; Attorney General, Hale
johnson, of Jasper; Treasurer, Uriah
Copp, of Iroquois; Auditor, A. B. Irwin,
of Sangamon; Secretary Of State, G. w.
Enos, of Jersey. The resolutions call for
the prevention of the manufacture and
sale Of intoxicating beverages; condemn
the proposition that the revenue from
whisky be given to the States for educa.
tional purposes; demand civil-service re-
form, the granting of the ballot to women,
and oppose competition between convict
and honest labor.
GOVERNOR BATE was renominated by
the Tennessee Democratic State Conven-
ton on the 10th. The platform adopted
condemns the present tariff system, favors
a limited taxation and the encouragement
of popular education:
JOHN R. THOMAS has been renominated
for Congressman by the Republicans Of
the Illinois Twentieth District, and the
Republicans of the Eighteenth Ohio Dis
trct have nominated Fl. Taylor.
+. A. WOODWARD has been nominated
for Congressman by the Democrats of the
Second District of North Carolina.
The Cincinnati saloon-keepers at meet
ing on the 10Th resolved to refuse payment
W.
thus compelling suits in all cases.
In st. Louis on the 10Th carload Of
Yew wheat from Texas, in good milling
order, was sold at auction for $1.21 per
bushel M
On the 2Oth the steamship Excelsior
reached New Orleans from New York,
making the fastest trip on record-five
days, fourteen and half hours.
The National Convention of the Ameri-
can party was held at Chicago on the Goth,
s. G. Pomeroy, Of Kansas, was nominated
for President, and John A. Conant, of Con-
necticut, for Vice President The platform
manufacture or sale of Intoxicating
liquors; declares against secret societies;
opposes prison contract labor; favors
woman suffrage, a reduction of the tariff,
the suppression of polygamy, and de-
mands direct vote of the people for Pres
ident and Vice President.
GARDNER Sc YATES, of Mobile, cotton
dealers, have suspended payment ON $780,
900 of liabilities.
AT White Cloud, Kan, Lizzie Bradley on
the Goth finished her forty fifth day of de-
liberate fasting. She is thirty-six years
of age, and the daughter of a well-to-do
Englishman. On account of a quarrel
with her father she had refused to eat or
speak.
BY the explosion of boiler in Fields &
Co.'s brick-yard at Albany, Ca, few
days ago four negroes were killed.
MISS ALICE M. WELLS, of Boston, while
viewing the machinery at Armour e. Dole's
elevator in Chicago, was caught and
crushed to death in an instant. She was
eighteen years of age, and was visiting the
family of H. N. Greedy.
lTwss estimated by the California Board
Of Agriculture on the goth that the dam
age to the wheat crop by rain would be
twenty-five per cent
1T was claimed on the Goth by the Nor
mon press aud leaders that the bill recent
| ly passed by the United States Senate.
governing affairs in Utah, sis cruel, revo-
lutionary and unconstitutional" and
formulated for the purpose of " destroying
their religion"
AT Orrsburg, No., Miss Mary A. Oil
plant, aged seventeen, the daughter of a
clergyman, committed suicide few days
ago by hanging. No cause was known for
the deed.
THE Second Indiana District Democrats
have nominated Thomas r. Cobb for a
fourth term in Congress.
SIX saloon1keepers of Salina, Kan, who
were serving sentences, were pardoned ON
the 21st by Governor Click, on the ground
that the juries which convicted them were
packed by the Prohibition attorney, with
the aid of the Judge.
PAT CAIN and Billy Wilson, of Silver
ton, Col, fought duel on horseback a
few days ago to settle a dispute. Wilson
and his horse were both shot dead, but
Cain was uninjured.
A WOOD CHOPPER across the Virginia
line, opposite Romney, w. Va, recently
found 81, 900 in gold concealed in hole in
a tree. 1t was supposed that the money
was placed there during the war.
AT Port Arthur, Manitoba, the Queens
Hotel was destroyed by an incendiary
commercial traveller of Winnipeg, was
burned to death.
THE other day Isaac B. Sharp. formerly
Circuit Judge at Wyandotte, Kan, killed
himself with revolver, because of illness.
FRANK PIszEzEK, a Milwaukee policeman,
was fatally shot early the other morning
by suspicious person whom he was tax
ing to the station.
In the southern portion of Grant County,
w. Va, recent rain-storm swept away
bridges, washed out roads, and seriously
damaged crops.
THE police of Chicago on The evening of
the 21st raided the gambling Sc
curing eighty seven inmates. This was the
fourth successive raid.
AT Fort Madison, Ia, twelve buildings
were unroofed by tornado on the Esd.
In the Hooking Valley and Shawnee dis
trict, iii Ohio, all the coal mines were idle