Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Gen. Green B. Baum, the United States Commissioner of Internal Bevenae, tendered hiS resignation to the President, which was accepted. It fa reported that within three hours after the resignation was accepted six applications were received by the President from ex-members of Congress for the petition. A prohibitory amendment was defeated in the Pennsylvania House by an overwhelming majority, but the Senate passed to third reading a bill to prohibit “treating. " Wilson, Bepublican, was given a certificate of election as representative in Congress for the Fifth district of lowa upon an ostensible majority of twenty-four votes at the November election. Frederick, his Democratic opponent, claims to have discovered errors in the count of votes that will reverse the result and give him a margin of 100 votes or more. The lowa Bepublican. State Convention fa called for June IL The Michigan House has defeated a measure making five years’ insanity in one of a married couple valid grounds far divorce. - • The Bepublican State Convention of Pennsylvania has been called to meet at Harrisburg July 27.