Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The President has nominated Henry Albert Johnson, of the District of Columbia, to be Consul at Venice; Mortimer A. Turner, of Arkansas, to be Consul at St. Thomas; and Commodore William T. Truxton to lx> a RearAdmiral. The Ohio Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court in refusing to grant a writ of habeas corpus to Daniel J. Dalton, ordered to be imprisoned for contempt by the House of Represeutatives. In the lowa House a report was adopted recommending the appointment of a committee to investigate the charges against Judge Walter L Hayes, who is accused of giving decisions in opposition to the purpose and intent of the prohibitive law. The Michigan Legislature has rejected a bill for the repeal of the law forbidding any State officer or legislator from accepting a railroad pass. The five companies of State militia sent by Gov. Knott, of Kentucky, to protect the convicts at the Greenwood Mines, Pulaski County, that State, arrived there early Sunday morning. The miners say they w ill do nothing as long as tho troops remain, but say the convicts shall go just as soon as tho soldiers are ordered away.