The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-06-16
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
SENATOR'S CHANDLER and Hill, in the
capacity Of n subcommittee of the sem
ate immigration committee heard
further from John I. Davenport respect
ing naturalization frauds in New York.
During the inquiry Senator Hill asked
Mr.. Davenport II he was the author of
the force bill" socalled, to which tho
latter replied that he knew of no such
bill He had drafted an election bill
presented in the last congress- lie be-
lieved in the bill as a generality. AS
IL passed the house It was not entirely
satisfactory to him, but he would like
to have had 1t become a law. He prom
ised to renew it at some time.
THE president has approved the act
for bridge across the Mississippi river
at Moline, Ill.
PRESIDENT HARRISON was renomi-
mated for president on the first ballot
by the national republican convention
at Minneapolis The vote stood: Har-
rison, 535 1-6; Mckinley, 1872; Blaine,
1S2 10; Reed, 4; Lincoln, I. Whitelaw
Reid was nominated by acclamation for
vice-president.
THE report that Senator Hill has
withdrawn from the contest for the
democratic presidential nomination is
cmphatically denied.
The condition of winter wheat, as
reported by the department of agricul-
turc, has slightly advanced, the per-
ccntage being 1873. In the middle
states a slight advance is noted and
generally in the southern states. In
the central west strong advance is
seen in Ohio and Kansas, with increase
by two points in Michigan and Indiana,
the percentage of principal states being
Ohio, 81; Michigan, SO; Indiana, 81; IL
lipois, SO; Missouri, IS; Kansas, 81;
condition is high on the Pacific coast,
81 in Washington and 9S in Oregon and
California
Coll l.. l.. Polk, president of the
Farmers Alliance, died at Washington.
THE EAST.
TIE colored citizens of Boston held a
mass meeting in fremont temple and
adopted strong resolutions denuncia-
tory of the alleged outragcs upon mem
bers of their race in the south and in
New York, and demanding the punish
ment of the perpetrators; also that the
word white" be eliminated from the
Chinese exclusion bill. Among the
speakers were Bishop A. Grant, of
Texas, and George w. Bryant, of st.
Louis.
TwENTY-oNE tramps were arrested in
! Oil City, Pa, and driven from the town.
They nre suspected Of robbing the dead.
MIss. H0BERT r. LINCOLN, wife OF the
United States minister TO England, and
Mira. Warner Miller were passengers on
the Inman line steamer City Of New
York, which reached New York from
Queenstown the other day.
DIR. BUCHANAN was arrested at New
York charged with having murdered
his wife with poison.
Mn. LEWIS II. GREENE, acting presi-
dent of the whisky trust, has been ar
rested at Boston upon the indictments
recently found there against the officers
of that organization and when required
IN i've. bond for his appearance at Bos-
I'm 'sed to do so. The United States
commiss;one.- thereupon put him in
custody of depu''tv United States mar
,shal. His attorney ned W.T.. Oh ma
.beas corpus, which was ailo"Sa py
Nudge jackson, of the Unit" otatos
court :,
LOUIS +. ANDERSON, for the last
eight years cashier in the Long Island
city office of the Long Island Express
r., is missing So is a sum of money,
s,io by the company to be $4,000, but
renort, ID by his fellow employees to be
$1,000.
Wopxvry' cxcavating in the ruins Of
the D;ngbe;,n sr building at Titusvillc,
Pa found tho bodies of two children.
one TINT of "A b. W of years, partly
burnt. and the 9th, " the remains OF II
young child. They Ve,e ,neo' n,ns W'!
heimer's youngest niinren. ny, tw'
bodies were buried in mis- axe ~ n,ns
heimer, who lost his wife ap" e's"'
children.
BEFORE MIR. Blaine left Bos ~" iof
Bar Harbor, Me-, he gave this co. "n,u- ~,
nication to the Boston journal: VIC
resolution, energy and persisten,
which marked the proceedings of the
convention at Minneapolis will, if
turned against the common foe, win
the election In November. All minor
differences should be merged in the
duty of every republican to do all in his
power to elect the ticket nominated"
THE Maine delegation to the national
democratic convention are uninstructed.
A MEETING of international exhibitors
was held at New York, and it was
agreed to appoint an agent resident in
Chicago to represent exhibitors from
that city in the matter of allotting