The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-09-03
THE WEST.

COMPLETE returns from the Choctaw
Gubernatorial election held August
show that ]. W. n. Jones received l. 100
votes and B. T. Smallwood (, 49S-a ma
jority of 292 for Jones. Governor Small
wood is rather sore. He claims that a
revised count will give him majority.
THE Republicans of the Fourth Cali
fornia district have renominated Con-
gresham Morrow by reclamation. He
positively declines the honor.
McV1cKERs Theater, Chicago, was
destroyed by fire on the Goth. Loss.
$500, 600; insurance, 500. 600. Suspected
incendiarism.
The Democrats of the Tenth Ohio dis
trict have nominated John Quincy Smith
for Congress.
IT is now regarded as absolutely GER
tain that the Milwaukee Railroad Com
pany will begin work on their extension
from Chamberlain. S. D., to the Black
Hills this season.
The Democrats of the Ninth Iowa
Congressional district nominated Hon
Thomas Bowman, of Council Bluffs, for
Congress on the fifth ballot Mr.. Bow
man is proprietor of the Council Bluffs
Globe.
JOHN T. HAMILTON of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, was nominated for Congress on
the first ballot by the Democratic con-
vention.
JOSEPH BERRAN, a stockman from
Minneapolis, was killed at Kasota,
MINI. He attempted to board a moving
train.
The new count of the st. Paul Pho
neer-Press building shows no people liv-
ing there. The first, or padded, count
enumerated 10.
IDAHO Democrats have nominated E.
A. Sherwin, of Shoshone, for Secretary
of State.
THE Farmers Congress in session at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, voted to meet in
Missouri next year.
COLONEL WILLIAM A. PHILLIPS, of Sa-
lima, has been nominated for Congress by
the Fifth Kansas Republicans in place
of John A. Anderson. Phillips was born
at Paisley, Scotland, in 1896
WISCONSIN Democrats have nominated
George w. Peck, mayor of Milwaukee,
for Governor. The resolutions especial
" denounced the Bennett Educational
law.
THE new United States war ship San
Francisco on it's first trial trip from
Santa Barbara made an average OF over
1917 knots per hour in a four-hour run.
Disc KIRKNIN and wife and Miss Belle
Collins were drowned near Caldwell, O. g,
recently by the sudden rising of creek.
The Oklahoma Legislature was I'M
able to organize on the 2sth for want of
quorum
CONGRESSMAN CANNON has been re-
nominated by the Illinois Fifteenth
district Republicans
THE National Greenback convention
met at Indianapolis, Ind, with Colonel
Jones in the chair. Steps were taken
looking to thorough reorganization of
the party for the campaign of 1892.
DURING the races at Oskaloosa, Iowa,
fire broke out in the grand stand where
5000 people were congregated. The en-
tire structure was a total ruin. The
loss was $4,000. The occupants of the
stand escaped without injury.
lNr USStIOScu Guc OlO During lOn
warehouse, occupied by the Knapp
& Stoddard Furniture Company and con-
tanning about $40, 600 worth of goods.
THE Republicans of Arizona have
nominated George w. Cheney. of
Cochise, for delegate to Congress and
have demanded admission of the Terri
tory as a State.
THREE cable cars collided in the Wash
ington street tunnel in Chicago early
the other morning and all were badly
wrecked. Frank Metzger, an express
agent of ST. Paul, was killed.
THE sw. tchmen's strike at the Chicago
stock yards ended on the 29th.
THE leading horticulturists of the
United States, at a meeting in Chicago,
took steps toward appropriate repre-
sentation at the Worlds Fair.
GOVERNOR MELLETTE, of South Da.
kota, has been renominated by the Re-
publican convention.
CLAUDE MATTHEWS was chosen by
Indiana Democrats for Secretary OF
State.
MICHIGAN Republicans have nomi-
mated James NJ. Turner, of Lansing, fol
Governor.
.iE SOUTH.
GENERAL NJ. l. BoNHAM. eX-membe,
of Congress and lately Railroad Com
| missioner of Snnth Corol,ra n,