The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-05-14

The New Jersey democrats in conyen-
ton at Trenton elected four Delegates
at large to the national convention.
The platform declares for gold money
Nandard and indorses ex-Gov. Russell,
of Massachusetts, for the presidency.
The republicans OF the First district
Of Iowa renominated S. NJ. Clark for
congress. -
In convention at indianapolis the In
diana republicans nominated the fol-
lowing ticket: For governor, James A.
Mount; lieutenant governor, w. S. Hag-
gard; secretary of state, William D.
Owen; auditor, A. C. Daley; treasurer,
Fred j. Scholtz; attorney general, W.
a. Ketcham; superintendent of public
instruction, D. NJ. Greeting; state sta
tistician. S. j. Thompson. Tho dele
gates at large to the national conve1l.
ton are II. w. Thompson, C. w. Fair
hunks, f. NJ. Milliken and Gen. Lew
Wallace, and they were instructed to
vote for Mckinley for president. The
platform declares for ''sound money"
and favors the use of both gold and sill
yer ut parity.
Clifton b. Beach was renominated for
congressman by the republicans of the
Twentieth Ohio district.
The Tennessee democrats met at
Nashville and nominated Robert L. Tay-
lor for governor. Delegates were chosen
to the national convention and free
silver platform was adopted.
Arkansas prohibitionists in conven.
ton at Little Rock nominated J.. W.
Miller, of Philadelphia, for governor,
and selected delegates to the national
convention.
At Montpelier, VT, the prohibition
convention nominated Rodney C.'Whit'
temore for governor and elected dele.
gates to the national convention.
FOREIGN.
Col. j. T. North, commonly known as
"the nitrate king" died suddenly ut bis
Office in London, aged 81 years.
a dance hall was set on fire in Huevia,
Spain, and six persons were burned to
death.
The university riding school at Held
elburg, Germany, was burned and four
persons were suffocated and - horses
also persisted.
Eleven natives were recently burned
alive at Timpany, Sierre Leone. on the
score of witchcraft.
The city of Puerto Viejo, Ecuador, #
10000 inhabitants, was destroyed by an
earthquake and many lives were lost.
Col. Piano was elected president 81
Bolivia in succession to Senior Mariana
Baptista, whose term of four years ex-
pires on August of the present year.
The trial by court-martial at Havana
of the men captured on board the Amer
lean schooner Competitor, of Key West
Fla. by the Spanish gunboat Mensajera,
resulted in a verdict of guilty.
Chancellor Won Hohenlohe's resigna'
ton as a member of the German reich
stag was accepted by the emperor.
The sum of SAC. OO0, 900 war indemnity
from China to Japan was transferred ia
the latter's agents in London.
William Reynold Salmon, member OF
the Royal college of surgeons at Cardiff,
Wales. celebrated his 106th birthday.
Dispatches from Havana say that
the five men captured OH board the
American schooner Competitor have
been sentenced to death. It pas also
said that President Cleveland had mott
fed the Spanish government that sum
mary action in the cases of the men
would be resented by the United States,
and that the Spanish government had
cabled u Gen. Weyler to delay the ex'
ecutions. IS.
News was received in San Francisco
CT the wholesale massacre of traders
and missionaries by natives of the
islands of Manning Straits and the Solo
mons.