Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-29

TKE Democrats Of Missouri mot AZ Jeher.
son City on the 29d and nominated D. r.
Francis, now mayor Of st. Louis, Tor Gov
ornor
NOMINATIONS for Congress were made q
follows on tho 22d: Fifth Ohio district,
Wilson Vance (Rep); Second Indiana, 4.
n. Braxton (Rop); Tenth Indiana, Judge
Owens (Rep.); Fifth New Jersey, Mahlon
Hoagland (Dem.); Nineteenth New York,
James A. Holroyd (Rep); Ninth Kentucky,
Thomas Paynter Dem.).
The Iowa Republican State convention
was held at Des Moines on tho 22d, and the
following ticket was nomiuated: For
Secretary OF State, Frank D. jackson;
Auditor, ]. A. Lyons; Treasurer, o. P.
Twombley: Supreme Judge, G. T. Granger;
Attorney General, j. T. Stone; Railroad
Commissioners, F, T. Campbell. Spencer
Smith. John Mahin; Electors-at-large, OK
Governor Stone, Colonel Hepburn. The
platform Endorses the Republican National
nominees and platform; commends Gov
ernor Larrabee's administration; con.
graduates the people ON the temperance
legislation and the results of the Prohib-
ltory law, and favors, gold, silver and
greenbacks as currency.
Ex.CONGREssMAN j. B. EvERHARr, aged
sixty eight years, died at West Chester,
Pa, on the Esd. He was u member: Of the
Forty-eighth and Forty ninth Congresses.
GOVERNOR THAYER, Of Nebraska, was
renominated by the Republican State con-
vention at Lincoln on the 23l ~.
CANDIDATES for Congress were nomi-
mated as follows on the 23d Ohio, First
district, Benjamin Butterworth Rep.) re-
nominated: Second, John A. Caldwell
(Rep); Fifth, Nelson J. Vance (Rep. J..
Indiana, Second district, Thomas w,
Braxton (Rep). Kentucky, Ninth dis
trict, Thomas H. Paynter Dem.). Iowa,
Third district, David B. Henderson (Rep. J
renominatcd; Seventh, ". L. Carpenter
Union Labor). Virginia, First district,
II. b. Browne (Rep.) renominated Mary
land, Fifth district, Sidney E. Mudd
(Rcp.); Sixth, Louis f. McComas (Rep }
renominated. Idaho, James 6. Hawley
(Dem.).
j. II. MCGINNIs was nominated for Con-
gress on the Oath by the Republicans Of
the Third district of West Virginia. and g.
A. Mathews received like honor in Da-
kota.
FOREIGN.
FOREST fires were raging on the Goth
over an area OF two hundred kiiometers
on the Italian frontier and q number Ut
villages had been burned.
HARLAND & WOLFF, ship builders, Of
Belfast, Ireland, on the Goth closed their
yards owing to a partial strike of their ell
ployes Five thousand hands wore affected
by the shut down.
ADvICEs of the Dist say that the eruption
Of the volcano Bandaizan in Japan, fol-
lowed by earthquake shocks, killed $50
persons.
IT was reported on the 2lst that the
wheat crop in India would reach two hun.
dred and sixty million Bushels of sixty
pounds each.
ADv1cEs of the ed say . violent hurri.
cane swept over Balatony lake. Austria,
and boat containing number of reapers
with the fruits of their harvesting was
capsized and fifteen of its occupants
drowned.
ADv1cEs Of the ed from China say at
a Spanish priest was attacked by mob of
natives at Antique, and that his compan-
ion, Spaniard, shot and killed fifty of the
would be assassins.
ADv1CEs of the 23d say that one thousand
houses had been burned at Orenburg, Rus
STA, and ten thousand factory operatives
were made homeless by the fire.
IT was reported on the oath that force
of blacks and Krooboys, under three Ger
man officers, had occupied Addelar, on the
Gold Coast Of africa, hoisted the German
flag, built fort and named it Bismarck
burg.
DISPATCHES of the Oath say that cholera
broke out on the Portuguese transport
India, while bound from Macao to Mo-
zambique, and within forty -eight hours
there were thirtr eight cases, twenty-four
of which proved fatal
ADv1cEs Of the 24th say that eight hum
dred workmen at Teng- China, were
drowned by an inundation.
IT was announced on the oath that the
forces of the Congo State had rocaptured
the Stanley Falls station.
LATER NEWS,
JOHN WILLIAMS of Somerset, KY, re ach.
ed his majority on thu 25th AMI celebrate
the occasion by getting drunk and killing
IT, Omas Nnnnallv