Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Carter H. Harrison was nominated for Mayor by the Democratic City Convention at Chicago, William M. Devine was nominated for City Treasurer, John G. Neumeister for City Clerk, and Peter J. Ellert for City Attorney. The Texas Legislature passed a bill to compol railroad companies to keep their principal offices in the State, under a penalty of SI,OOO fine for each month of neglect. The Ohio House passed bills prohibiting the employment of children under 12 years of age, and providing that corporations or others employing women or girls shall procure seats for their uee when not engaged in active duties, and making a fine of $lO to $25 for each violation of the law. The New York Assembly has passed a bill providing for a reservation at Niagara Falls. Notwithstanding that saloon-keepers throughout lowa are closing up their places, the lowa Brewers and Bottlers’ Association has been incorporated at Marshalltown' with

the avowed purpose of raising funds to further test the constitu-Anality of the liquor law. Three clergymen of Washington called upon President Cleveland and presented a memorial with 1,000 signatures asking the enforcement of the Edmunds act in Utah.