Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-06-05
Minor Mention.

Minor Mention.
A. Mawcurath was killed near Junction City,
Wis, by kick from horse, on the 31st.
Two blll.posters belonging to Halls circus,
while out in boat at Manitowoc, Wis, on the
LIST inst, were capsized and drowned.
William Cook, William Debus and Eddie
Loven were drowned at New Orleans, on the
1st inst, by the capsizing Of boat.
During the thunder storm at Milwaukee. on
the LIST inst, Johnny Nlezerowski, aged z
years, was struck It: ,s BY lightning and killed. He
John A. Kern, freight brakeman, received
fatal injuries by falling from car near Mari.
nette, Wis.,, on the night of the 91st.
At Roxana, Del. on the 29th, a 5-year old
brother, aged months, in the forehead.
Col. j. O. P. Burnside, a distributing clerk
| in the Post-cffice Department at Washington,
was dismissed on the 29th on a charge Of hay
ing embezzled s45,OOO. He will be arrested.
The bill to abolish the contract system of
| labor in the Massachusetts, state prison was
defeated on the 29th.
| By the falling of q scaffold in Krupp's Tun-
nel on the South Pennsylvania Railroad, on
the 29th, eight men were instantly killed and
five seriously injured.
| runaway ice team wrecked Frank Sillers
buggy on Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, on the
28th, and fatally injured his wife, Mr.. siller
escaped unhurt.
Masked men overhauled the Benton coach in
canyon near Helena, NJ. T., on the 9th, and
robbed the mail pouch and passengers.
George Prentiss, son of VIM. A. Prentiss, of
Milwaukee, IS run over by an engine and in
stantly killed at Minneapolis, MINI. on the
2Sth.
The undertakers of Pennsylvania met in an
nual convention at Plttsburg, on the 2sth.
Henry Hurt, prominent Mississippi steam
boat pilot, died on the 28th, at Cairo, III.
William Lundburger was fatally hurt in
runaway at Palmyra, Wis, on the 9th.
Five men were instantly killed by the explo-
sion of bleacher in Wilson's strnwboa1d mill
Waterford, N. Y, on the 9th.
John Lawrence, Farragut's pilot In the battle
of Mobile Bay, died in the poor-house at
Mobile on the 25th.
| Political.
AT the second days session of the national
Greenoack convention at Indianapolis, on the
29th, a preamble and platform was adopted
setting forth the views of the convention on
the financial question. G. Z. Cunningham, of
Arkansas, placed before the convention as the
candidate of the party for president the name
of BENZ. +. Butler. On the first ballot Butler
was nominated for vce-president by acclama-
ton. The Greenback national committee Or
ganized, with e. A. Gillette, OF Iowa, chairman,
and d. W. Terlirde, of New Jersey, secretary,
The Minnesota state Democratic convention
assembled at st. Paul on the 29th, with Hon.
f. L. Baxter president and Capt. J. G. Wood
secretary. The following were chosen dele
gates at large: P. Fl. Kelly, r. A. Jones, C. F,
Mcdonald, NJ. Doran; alternates, w. G. Rob-
ertson, Geo. N. Fish, Z. P. Barnum, +. o.
Leary. The district delegates are: First Dis
trct-W. J. Whipple, B. S. Cook; alternates,
John Frank, NJ. s. Emery. Second-John G..
Wise, Henry Poesler, alternates, c. McKanna,
Gen. Myer. Third-Wm. Campbell, Geo. N.
Baxter; alternates, J. NJ. Spicer, II. A. Park.
Fonrth-R. A. Smith, 7. W. Durant; alternates,
l Wr, npiv
nan, A, Gurnon; alternates, L. Emmett, P. NJ.
Graf. They are uninstructed, but are almost
unanimously in favor OF "the old ticket"
The Wisconsin Democratic state convention
was held at Madison on the 29th. Hon. r. L..
Larson, OF Eau Claire, was made permanent
chairman, and Joseph Ray. of Jackson, II. Fl.
Cohn, Of Green, NJ. j Dullea, of Milwaukee,
and q. l.. Powers, Of Washington, secretaries.
platform favoring tariff reform was adopted.
Vice-presidents for each congressional dis
s. Greene, Jefferson; Second District, W. More,
Fond dn Lac; Third District, Nelson Dewey.
Grant: Fourth District, Enoch Chase, Mllwau-
kee; Fifth District Louis Bremen; Sixth Dis
trict J. .: Jones, Columbia: Seventh District,
Mr Mr. ABs4op Bishop of Juneau G.r Eighth ht District
trist !s /. ). Cunningham, a' o, Nan chippeTs D's
A list of delegates and alternates, in order of
precedence, are as follows: At large, Edw. s.,
Bragg, W. +. Villas, j. NJ. Morrow, J. G. Jen-
kns; alternates; ). ": Cary. n: D. Frat, T.
Doolittle. Anson Rogers; alternates, F. Robin
son, M: Fl. Boyee; Second District, A. K. De-
laney, B. s. Potter; alterna'es. r. Mertz, e.
Hurlbut; Third District, ID. S. Rose, R. Nj.
Bashford; alternates, Thos. Kennedy, W. P.
Bragg; Fourth District, John Black, 9. F.
freeman; alternates, F. Rietbrock, Thos. Shea;
Fifth District, A. l.. Gray, Carl Ziellier alter
mates, @. Il. Schmidt, ]. Darbelloy; Sixth Dis.
trict. G. W. Pratt, Geo. Kriess; alternates, A.
q. Krueger., Seventh District,
J. ". Lusk, J. IL. McCullom; alter
Eighth District, W. Il. Smith. G. Y Freeman; !;
alternates, J. D. Putnam, II. 81. Hayden; Ninth
District, Alex. Brazeau, l.. Marchetti: alter
mates, II: NJ. Loomed, Peter Doyle. Presiden-
tiai candidates: At large, Fred Muller, John
LaWier CraTford; First District, NJ. L: Ayers,
Waukesha; Third District, Nelson Dewey,
Grant; Fourth District, Geo. A. Albert, Milwau-
kee; Fifth District. Tbeo. Karschen, Calumet
Sixth District, P. j. Stroud, Columbia; Seventh
District, s. NJ. Dckensop, Monroe; Eighth
District, J. W. Hancock, Pierce; Ninth District
]. n. Woodruff.
The committee Of one hundred provided for
by the resolutions adopted by the recent mass
meeting CT business men Of New York in favor
of President Arthur, has been appointed, and
contains such names as David Dows. H. O. Ar
mour, Legrand B. Cannon, r. G. Dun, VIM.
Dowd, Chas II. Tiffany, Jno. Austin Stevens,
Thos. Holthouse, Solon Humphreys, Erastus
Wiman, Edward s. Pierrepont, Thos. Rutter
E. A. Quintard and Lloyd Aspinwal
The Kansas Democrats met in convention at
Topeka on the 28th and elected delegates to
| Chicago. The sentiment of the convention WAS
in favor Of Tilden.
| The Democrats Of Washington County met in
! convention at West Bend on the 26th, and
selected Wareham P. Rix and II. W. SAWYER
delegates to Madison.
Jefferson County Democrats selected as dele
gates to Madison James W. Moore and William
W. Woodman.
| The Democratic delegates from Winnebaeo
| County are Senatorial, G. W. Pratt, A. H,
| Kruger; First Assembly District, r. ). Harvey,
and Vim. Wall; Fourth District, VIM. Trott and
Joe Klockner. All are for Tilden.
The following counties chose delegates to the
Democratic state convention on the oath
Portage County-Thos. WEIGH and E. r. Herrin
were chosen delegates to the state convention,
and II. W. Lee, Owen Clark, John Zen, Henry
Cate and James Meehan to the assembly con-
yention. Marathon County-W. Kickbush and
Judge Louis Marcheth have peen elected dele
| gates from Marathon County to the Demo-
cratic state convention, with John Ringle anc
Samuel Krorenwelter as alternates. Manitowoc
Connty-C. p. Schmidt, w. A. Walker, I. Gratis,
John Robinson, John Francis, Fred P. Mueller,
Jos. Mueller, W. F. Hahn. A majority Of the
delegates favored Tilden. Brown County
First Assembly District, P. Moran. P. Kolb;
Second District, B. Gutber, E. LawIer; Second
Senatorial District. L. r. Hudd, A. L. Gray.