The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-01

HE Democrats Of Missouri met at JeRer-
son City on the 22d and nominated D. H.
Francis, now mayor Of St Louis, Tor Gov
SernOr.
NOMINATIONS for Congress were made -
follows ON the ed: Fifth Ohio district,
Wilson Vance (Rep.); Second Indiana, z.
N. Braxton (Rep.) Tenth Indiana, Judge
Owens (Rep.1; Fifth New Jersey, Mahlon
Hoagland (Dem.); Nineteenth New York,
James A. Holroyd Rep); Ninth Kentucky,
Thomas Paynter (Dem. BIZ d $85s
The Iowa Republican State convention
was held at Dess Moines on the 3d. and the
following ticket was nominated: Fbr
| Secretary Of State, Frank d. jackson:
Auditor, J. "A. Lyons; Treasurer, o. n.
Twombley; Supreme Judge, CT. Granger;
Attorney General, j. T. Stone; Railroad
Commissioners, r. 7. Campbell. Spencer
| Smith, John Mahin; Electors at-largp, ex.
Governor Stone, Colonel Hepburn. The
| platform indorses the Republican National
nominees and platform; comnends Gov
ernor Larrabee's administration; con-
graduates, the people on the temperance
Legislation and tho results Of the Prohib-
tory law, and fayors, gold, silver and
greenbacks IS currency.
Il IL
sixty eight years, died at West Chester,
Pa, on the 23d. He was member Of the
Forty eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses
4 GovERNoR THAYER, Of Nebraska, wa.
renominated by the Republican State con
| vention at Lincoln on the 23d
@ CANDIDATES for Congress were nomi
mated as follows on the 23d: Ohio, First
district, Benjamin Butterworth jRep.) re-
nominated; Second, John A. Caldwell
Rep.); Fifth, Mason J. Vance (Rep i
Indiana, Second district, Thomas w
Braxton Rep). Kentucky, Ninth dis
trict, Thomas II. Paynter Dem Iowa,
Third district, David b. Henderson i{Rep.l
renominated; Seventh, w L. Carpenter
(Union Labor. Virginia, First district,
B. Browne (Rep.) renominated Mary
land, Fifth district, Sidney II. Mudd
(Rep.); Sixth, Louis E McConas (Rep.) j
renominated Idaho, James G. Hawley
Dem.
J. b. McGINNIs was nominated for Con-
gress on the oath by the Repul lcans Of
the Third district Of West Virginia, and g.
A. Mathews received like honor in Da-
kota. esja Efs a3 FL
FOREIGN.
/ FOREST fires were raging on the Goth
over an area Of two hundred kilometers
on the Italian frontier and number Of
i villages had been burned
HARLAND & WOLFF, ship builders, Of
4 Belfast, Ireland, on the Goth closed their
! yards owing to a partial strike of their en-
] ployes. Five thousand hands were affected
/ by the shut down. .}. ST ~ .s ssa
5s5 ADvICEs Of the 21st say that the eruption
Of the volcano Bandaizan in Japan. fol-
lowed by earthquake shocks, killed $50
| persons.
| IT was reported on the 21st that tho
dred and sixty million bushels Of sixty
pounds each
ADvICEs 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 3sz
ADvIcEs of the I'D from China say til at
q 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.
ADvIcEs 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. II
IT was reported on the oath that a 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. s#5
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 thirty-eight cases, twenty-fou
of which proved fatal
ADvIcEs of the oath say that eight hun
dred workmen at Teng Leon. China, were
drowned by an inundation.
IT was announced on the 9th that the
forces OF the Congo State had recaptured
the Stanley Falls station
LATER NEWS,
JOHN WILLIAMS Of Somerset, KY, reach
ed his majority on the 25th and celebrated
the occasion by getting drunk and killing
Tomas Nunnelly. q.
MRS. EVA KLEIN, aged seventy eight was
found hanging to a limb Of a tree, on the
18th in the town of Eastman, Wis s4