Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Colonel Thomas Moonlight, of Leavenworth, Kan., has been appointed by the President Governor of Wyoming Territory; and Arthur L Thomas, of Pennsylvania, to be a member of tho Utah Commission. J. H. Skelly, of Lemont. Ilk, who is seeking a consulate for his health, made a remark in Washington that Congressman Lawler was “not much of a man,” and when the Congressman heard of it he set about defeating his appointment

The National Convention of Trades Unions, in session at Columbus, Ohio, adopted a resolution in favor of the organization of a national political labor party. The official canvass of the vote caat in lowa at the recent election gives the Republican candidates majorities hanging from 14,342 for Pray, Clerk of the Supreme Court, to 16,001 for Ebersole, Supreme Court Reporter.