Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, Jr: was on the 18th
renominated for Congress by reclamation
at Cleveland by the Republicans of the
Eighteenth district of Ohio In the Fit.
teenth district General Grosvenor was re-
nominated
Rev DR.. NJ B. ANDERSON. for thirty-Rve
years president of the University of Roches-
ter, N Y, placed his resignation in the
hands Of the trustees on the 18th, owing to
i'll health.
Roscoe CoNHNa died at his home in the
Hoffman House, New York, at 1850 a m.
on the 18th. He was born In Albany, N.
Y, October 80. 1929 In 1S46 he entered
the law Office of Spencer 4 Herman in Utica,
in 1858 was mayor of that city, and in the
same year he was elected Representative
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 reelected twice. In 1881 he re-
signed his seat retired from politics and
resumed the active practice of the law: He
leaves a wife and one daughter.
MRS MANCEL TALC0TT, of Chicago. who
in the past ten years gave to charitable OBJ
jects $500, 900, died on the 18th, aged six
ty-etght years
The Maryland Democrats 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
large majority. end 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 Ceveland's tariff message was in
dorsed
DR. AaNEw. the celebrated New York
attend Roscoe Conkling when the latter en-
from an abcess in the peritoneal cavity. He
was in his tifty-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 frs, anti
slavery paper, the Philanttropist 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
The Alabama Prohibiuonists met at De-
catur ON the 18th and nominated State
ticket, with ]. G. Orr for Governor The
platform denounces the manufacture and
sale of Intoxicating liquors and oil 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 DR.. ISRAEL w. ANDREWS, ex-presi-
dent of the Marietta College at Marietta, O.,
and q teacher there since 1899, died on the
18th at Hartford Conn.
HON. E. g. WILLIAMS was on the 18th re-
nominated TOR Congress by acclamation 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 Dayton ON the 10Th 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 delegatss-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 a just and compreheu-
sive 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 TOR Congress by
reclamation.
TIE Republicans of the Fifth Illinois dis
trict met at Geneva on the 10th and re-
nominated Congressman Hopkins by accla-
nation. s-.
TIE Eighth Indiana district Republicans
on the 18th nominated James T. Johnston
for Congress- E- al
CONVENTIONS were held In each Con-
gTessiona district in Indiana ON the 10th