Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-22

held on the 18th, j. B. Eustice was nominated
for the United States Senate, to succeed 6ena-
Tor Jonas.
The Second Massachusetts District Demo-
Gratis, on the 18th, chose delegates to Chicago,
and instructed them to work for Butler.
a The representatives, Of New York, Maryland
and the District OF Columbia, at the Anti.
Monopoly convention at Chicago. claimed that
the convention WAS manipulated in the interests
OF Butler, and Was not representative. They
Withdrew from the ccnvestion.
The National Anti Monopoly convention met
at Chicago on the 14th, and organized blythe
election Of o. ]. Streeter chairman and B. F.
Shiyely secretary. Fourteen states were rep
resented by 800 delegates. After somewhat
stormy session, BENZ. F. Butler was declared to
be the choice Of the convention for president.
The Democrats Of New Jersey held their
state convention at Trenton on the 14th. A
long platform was adopted, delegates chosen
to the national convention, and resolution
adopted favoring presidential ticket bearing
the names Of Tilden and Hendricks. The del
egates were uninstructed.
The Dakota Democratic territorial conven-
ton met at Pierre on the 14th inst, with 116
delegates present. James s. Foster Of David
son County was made permanent chairman.
Delegates-atlarge: F. N. zeibach and L. NJ
Mccormick. TIE delegates are uninstructed,
but it is understood that they favor Tilden for
president.
At the Virginia Democratic state convention,
held at Richmond on the 14.h inst, district del
egates and delegates-at-large were chosen. A
platform fayoring tariff for revenue only was
adopted, and Tlden and Hendricks declared to
be the choices Of the party for president and
yice-president.
The Democrats of the Sixteenth Congress
sional District Of Illinois met IN convention at
Olney on the 18th. Four candidates for Con-
gress were put in the field and after 1893 ballots
without choice the convention adjourned till
the next day.
THE Third Massachusetts District Democrats
at Boston, on the 18th, elected T. o. Prince
and Patrick Mcguire delegates to Chicago.
L winor Mention.
An old lady named Betsy Mynard, residing
near Racine, was fatally gored by COW on the
18th.
Secretary Folger, on the 18th, forwarded
Sc, 0O0, 600 in legal tenders to New York, to be
used in case of necessity.
dispatch was received on the 18th inst,
from New Orleans, announcing the finding OF
the body of Tully II. Smith, who disappeared
from his home in Milwaukee week previous.
Suicide.
The Legislature Of New York adjourned on
the 10th inst.
By a railroad collision on the plain of st,
Denis, near Paris, on the 18th inst, two per-
sons wore killed and thirty-one injured.
Antoine Hof, of Indianapolis, was run over
" u .haAi " ot. 1otiiS, Ou luo 1tt1, huu III
stantly killed.
Eight hundred miners in tho Pittsburg coal
region, struck against a reduction in wages on
the 14th.
Thomas Higgins, an old resident, dropped
dead at his home in Milwaukee on the 14th
inst. @
A Wabash train decapltated switchman
named Van Alten at Cairo, H., on the 18th.
Cyrus Mccormick, the great harvester man
ufactnrer. died at Chicago, on the 18th inst,
aged rs years.
Christian Konst, aged GO years, was run
down and killed by train in covered railway
bridge, Milwaukee, on the 18th inst.
The roof OF q railway tunnel in process of
construction Mt Dexter, Pa, caved in on the
18th, killing two men and badly injuring three
others.
Henry Stevenson died at the Armory police
station, Chicago, on the night of the 12th. He
fought desperately when arrested and was
probably dubbed too vigorously.
lunacy commission at New York on the
18th, declared Benjamin Wallace, soap manu-
facturer, insane. He is worth $500, 900.
About 150 pounds of gycerile exploded at
the Dunbar works, Port Colborne, on the 18th
inst: wrecking the building. No-on was in
jnred.