Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-07
TERsE NEWS.

The Columbus Buggy Company, of
Columbus, O., recently made an
assignment to w. A. Miles & Co.
Assets 100000 to 81 900, 900. The
contingent liabilities are large
London dispatch: The rowboat
containing Frank Harbo and George
Samuelson, who left New York June 6
to row to Havre, France, has arrived
at Scilly island. Both men are in good
condition
The English house of commons
has adopted motion to appoint a
select committee to inquire into the
administration of the British Chartered
South Africa Company and into the
origin and circumstances of Dr.
Jameson's raid.
upon fusion with the populists. They
nominated John Lind for governor,
j. J. limerick for secretary of state,
and Alexander McKinnon for treas
urer, and placed four democrats and
one silver republican in nomination
for electors. The remainder of the
nne electors, the attorney general
and the lieutenant governor are to be
named by the popuists.
At Bath. Me-, a few days ago Arthur
Sewall, democratic nominee for vice
president, was interviewed as to the
story that he intended to resign in
favor of Mr. Watson. He said: ANY
man who for moment entertains such
an idea is not worthy of an answer.
do not know whether Bryan will retain
a place on the populist ticket. He
will come to Bath with Mrs. Bryan
Immediately after the notification,
which will take place in New York.
They will make their headquarters at
my house while in Maine.
Little Rock, Ark, dispatch: The
national democratic platform adopted
at Chicago, as certified by the official
stenographer, contains a clause in the
money plank which, according to
Sentaor James K. Jones, chairman of
the national democratic committee,
was rejected by the convention and
has no place in the official platform.
In the certified copy Of the platform
after the sentence demanding that the
silver dollar shall be full legal
tender equally with gold for all debts,
public and private, and we favor such
legislation as will prevent for the
future the decentralization of any kind
of legal tender money by private con-
tract appears the clause: But it
should be carefully provided by law at
the same time that any change in the
monetary standard should not apply
to existing contracts This latter
clause, according to Senator Jones,
was not adopted. 1t was offered asan
amendment by Senator Hill, of New
York,
Key West dispatch: Passengers
from Havana by the steamer Mascotte
report a rumor of a successful landing
of a filibustering expedition in the
vicinity of Cienfugos. Another expe-
dition is said to be organizing here
and to be almost ready to sail.
bt tSCIb u HS dlbl HuStI IT.
of the Stcnjeve band, numbering
thirty-six, charged with eighteen muir
ders and numerous assaults and rob-
berries, resulted in the condemnation
of nineteen, including two women, to
death, and the sentence of nine to i'm
prisonment. Eight were acquitted.
w. r. Burt, member of one of the
best families of the city of Austin,
Tex, murdered his wife and child
rem, aged two and four years, and
placed the dead bodies in cistern.
The crime was discovered when the
foul stencil led to an investigation.
He left the city after committing the
terrible deed, and informed several of
the neighbors not to drink the water,
e" It was polluted by a dead cat.
Fifteen people were killed during
Storm at Gloucester, a mining town
north of Athens, o., and nearly every
'hlns on one Of the principal streets
was destroyed