The Progress., 1888-10-13

r. w. Rockwell (Rep.) renominatcd. Penn.
sylvania, First district, b. I Bin nrham.
Second, Charles O'Neil; Fourth, ~. D
Kelley; Fifth, A. G. Homer {all Reppb
licans); Sixteenth, q 7. Steck Dem
The State Executive COMMITTEES Of the
Union Labor party met at Little Rock
Ark, ON the 18th and nominated ful]
electoral ticket
DAVID Smith, q wealthy resident and
first postmaster Of Jersey City, N. T.. died
on the 18th Of old age. He was appointed
by President Harrison, and his commls.
sion bore the signature Of Daniel Webster.
Mrs. RACHEL STILLwAGGoN, OF Flushing.
Long Island, celebrated her one hundred
and third birthday on the 18th. She was
in good health and expects to live many
years yet
tion met at Dover and nominated Charles
81. Treat for Congress and General Henry
Dupont, James +. Hittaker and Joshua
Marvel for electors.
The United Labor State convention in
session in New York on the Goth indorsed
the nomination OF Warner Miller, tho Re.
publican candidate for Governor, and then
nominated ]. II. Blakeny for Lieutenant
Governor. 1T NJ IL
men on the Goth: Michigan, Fourth dis
trict, 9: i Yaples lDeml. Wisconsin,
Sixth district, 9. B. Clark (Rep.). Illinois.
Third district, z. g. Davis Gro. y Mis-
souri,, Eighth district, F. g. sNcdringhaus
(Rep.D Fourteenth, Moses WhyDark
(Rep.). Nebraska, First district, w. ].
.Connell (Rep.l 81.
Dn. EDWARD G. DYER. Of Burlington,
Wis, father OF ex-United 5tapos DistriCs
Judge Charles e. Dyer, died on the 21st at
the age Of eighty-two yoars. He was prom
inent in the early political history Of tho
Territory and State Of Wisconsin, and was
a member Of the State Legislature in 1887
So
GENERAL PARKHURs7, of Michigan, was
nominated by the President on tho 2lst to
be Minister to Belgium to succeed Lambert
Tree, who had been transferred to st.
Petersburg. @
+ CONFESSIONAL nominations were made
on the 21st as follows: Richard Crowley by
Thirty third New York district Republic
ans; P. S. Connell by First Nebraska dis
trict Republicans.
The President on the 21st received official
information Of the refusal Of the Chinese
Government to ratify the amended treaty.
& WILLIAM WARREN, the veteran Ameri-
can actor, died at his home in Boston on
the 21st aged seventy-six years.
The President on the 21st appointed
Walter G. Newberry postmaster of Chi
cago, vice s. Corning Judd, removed.
FOREIGN.
The Manitoba wheat crop was on the
18th estimated at from eight million to ten
million bushels. { .ss,
ADv1CEs of the 18th say that the number
OF deaths in Havana from yellow fever
during July was sc. During August 1l4
persons died of the disease.
FIVE Canadians were drowned on tho
10Th by the upsetting Of boat near st.
Anne, Can.
DURING the progress Of fire on the 10Th
in the store Of w. n. Desperos, at Mon
treaL his mother and brother were burned
to death.
A FIRE on the 10th at Brisbane, Eng, de-
stoyed two warehouses, causing a loss of
So, QUO, 600
By a train collision on the 10Th at Mep-
pen, in Hanover, twelve cars carrying
troops were derailed and smased, and four
recruits were killed and many wounded
A DISPATCH Of the Goth from Cairo says
q force Of four Thousand rebels was in the
vicinity Of Suakim. The Governor Lad
applied for additional troops.
SMITH, FIscHEL & Co., cigar r-dealers in
Montreal, failed on the Goth for 500, 600
ADvIcEs state that hurricane passed
over the Bahama Islands September 2 and
8 destroying a score of houses at Ragged
Island and wrecking all the shipping.
B ADvICEs of the 21st from Madrid, Spain,
state that terrible floods were prevailing
in the province Of Almeria. Hundreds Of
lives had been lost and great number OF
persons financially ruined.
JOHN JAMESON & Co. and Broodie
Jameson, oil merchants, Of Montreal, Can,
suspended payment on the 21st. Liabili-
ties, $4,000