The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-05-12
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

WILLIAM MCKINLEY, Jr, was on the II tn
renoninated for Congress by acclamation
at Cleveland by the Republicans of the
Eighteenth district of Ohio In the Fiji
tenth district General GrosvenOr was re-
nominated
REV DIR. NJ B. ANDERSON. for thirty five
years president of the University of Roches-
ter, N. Y, placed his resign alton in the
hands Of the trustees on the 18th, owing to
i'll health.
Roscoe CoNzL1Nci died at his home in the
Hoffman House, New York, at 1:5O a. m
on the 18th. He was born in Albany, N
Y, October 80, 1929 In 1916 he entered
the Wv office of Spencer & Herman in Utica,
in 1858 was mayor of that city, and in the
same year he WIS elected Represen tative
in the Thirty-sixth Congress, was reelected
in 1860, 1864 and 1866 He took his seat
in the United States Senate March 4, 1867,
and was re- elected twice. In 1881 he re-
signed his seat, retired from politics and
resumed the active practice OF the law. He
leaves wife and one daughter.
MRS. MANCEL IALCOTT, OF Chicago, who
in the past ten years gave to charitable OBJ
jects $500 900, died on the 17th, aged six
ty-eight years.
The Maryland Dem ocrats will meet in
Baltimore May 10 to elect delegates to the
National convention.
In the Louisiana election on the 18th
Nichols Dem. was elected Governor by a
large majority, and the Legislature is DEM
ocratic in both branches.
In Washington on the 18th Mrs Belva A.
Lockwood gave notice that she was in the
field again as q candidate for the Presi-
dency
The Democrats of Washington Territory
met at North Takoma on the 18th and
elected delegates to the St. Louis conven-
ton Clevelands tariff message was in
dorsed.
DIR. AGNEw. the celebrated New York
physician who was the first to be called to
attend Roscoe Conkling when the latter en-
tered upon his final illness, died on the 18th
from an abcess in the peritoneal cavity He
was in his ffty-eighth year
Ex-SHER1FF B. f. MILLER, of South Bend,
Ind, died on the 18Th, aged seventy seven
years. He was one of the Oldest journalists
in the country, and founder of the first anti
slavery paper, the Thilamthropist, which he
started in Western Pennsylvania in 1885
The Republicans of South Carolina met
at Charleston on the 18th and elected dele
gates to the Chicago convention who favor
Senator Sherman for President
HE Alabama Prohibitionists met at De-
catur on the 18th and nominated State
ticket, with j. c. Orr for Governor. The
platform denounces the manufacture and
sale of Intoxicating liquors and all forms OF
license; demands the repeal Of the inter-
nal-revenue and license laws; requires that
| saloon-keepers and others respect the Sab
bath, and favors residence OF twenty-one
years for foreigners before voting
Rev DE-. ISRAEL W. ANDREWS, ex-presi-
dent of the Marietta College at Marietta, O.,
and teacher there since 1890, died on the
18th at Hartford, Conn.
Hon. 3. S. WILLIAMS was on the 18th re.
nominated for Congress by reclamation by
| the Republicans of the Third Ohio district
The Georgia Republican convention met
| On the 18th at Atlanta and elected dele
gates to the National convention who were
regarded as supporters Of Sherman.
The Ohio Republicans at their State con-
vention in Dayto on the 19th nominated
Joseph p Bradbury for Supreme Court
Judge and Daniel J. Ryan for Secretary OF
State Governor Foraker, ex- Governor Eos
ter and Congressman Mckinley and Butter
worth were chosen as delegat4s-at-large to
the Chicago convention. Instructions for
Sherman were adopted. The platform de-
nounces Democratic election frauds; de-
mands protection for American industries;
censures Cleveland's free-trade message
commends the administration of Governor
Foraker; demands just and compreheu-
siye pension bill, and pledges support to the
Soldiers and Sailors Home
For the seventh time the Republicans OF
the Sixth Indiana district on the 10Th nom
mated General Tom Brown for Congress by
reclamation.
IHE Republicans Of the Fifth Illinois dis
tr1ct met at Geneva on the 10th and re-
nominated Congressman Hopkins by accla-
nation.
HE Eighth Indiana district Republicans
on the 18th nominated James 7. Johnston
for Congress
CONVENTIONS were held in each Con-
gressional district in Indiana on the 10th