Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-05-10
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PRoHIDITIoNIsTs of Pennsylvania met at
Harrisburg on the 2d and elected delegates
TO the National convention at Indianapolis
Tho platform pledges the party TO the
policy of total prohibition by constitutional
amendment; opposes all forms Of license I;
favors the election of President, Vice Pres
ident and United States Senators by direct
vote Of tho people; demands full protection
to American industries, and declares for
woman suffrage.
THE Prohibitionists Of the Fourteenth
New York district nominated Rev. V. w.
Benedict for Congress on the I'd.
THE Anti Saloon Republicans met in
second annual convention In New York
on the I'd with delegates from all the
States in attendance. In the opening ad
dress Of the chairman it was stated that
seventy-five per cent Of Republicans were
opposed to saloons, fifteen per cent cared
more for political success than for the sa-
loon question, while ten per cent favored
saloons.
DEMOCRATS Of Connecticut met in Hart
ford on the Cd and chose delegates 10 the
National convention.
THE Methodist Bishops address read at
the general conference in New York on the
I'd showed that in four years $4,000 souls
had been brought into the church and the
membership increased from 1884, 34 TO q
O93,935 The Bishops are opposed 10 high
license and In favor Of total prohibition Of
tho liquor traffic.
THE little village Of Mcintyre, Pa, was
wiped out by fire on the I'd.
The strike Of the Edgar Thomson steel
works at Braddock, Pa, was declared of
on tho Sd, the men resuming work at the
old rates.
ON the Sd Thomas b. Reed was renomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans Of
the First district Of Maine
AT the closing session of the Anti-Saloon
Republican National conference in New
York on the Sd q platform was adopted
which denounces the saloon, declaring
that as public enemy II ought to be abol-
ished, that IL Is doomed and must 20, and
asks tho Republican National convention to
insert a plank in the party platform that
shall be clearly hostile TO the saloon
The New Jersey Democrats held their
convention at Trenton on the Sd and elected
delegates instructed to support the renom-
nation Of President Cleveland
THE Republicans Of Rhode Island met at
Providence on the Sd and elected delegates
to the Chicago convention. No instructions.
The platform declares for liberal pensions,
a lItO UdtkOL anu lhlA SQaAb anu BAObIAbASh4
THE National Pure Food Association held
its first convention In New York on the Sd.
A FREIGHT train on the Pennsylvania
railroad was partly destroyed by fire on
the 4th at Wayne Station, Pa, causing a
loss Of 100000.
In New York on the 4th the Progressive
Labor party, formed in opposition 10 the
Henry George party, was declared dis
solved by its general committee.
On the 4th seven thousand immigrants
arrived at Castle Garden, New York Tho
record for the year up to date is l2l, no, an
Increase Of II ,2s5 over the same period last
year.
on the 5th a car load Of dynamite and ono
Of giant powder blew up at Locust Gap, Pa,
causing the loss Of seven lives, the wound
ing Of twenty five persons, the demolition
Of twenty houses and the SCATTERING Of glass
for miles around.
For tho week ended on the 5th the record
of the baseball clubs in tho National
League was as follows: Boston games
won), IL; Chicago, Il; New York, s; De
troit. Z; Pittsburgh, .; Philadelphia, 8;
Washington, q indianapolis, 2.
A PACKAGE containing al, 0OOi In currency,
shipped by tho American Exchange Bank
of New York 10 the Treasury in Washing
ton, was found on reaching its destination
on the 9Th 10 contain only brown paper.