Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — Page 3

SEVENTH ON THE BENCH

Melville W. Fuller Eelected to Preside Over the Um’ed States Supreme Court. An Interesting Biography of the New Heal of the Federal Judiciary. [Washington special to Chicago News.l Th* appointment of Mr. Fuller to be Chief Justice xss not a surprise to those who have ■been in the confidence of the President, for he had nearly a week ago decided to appoint him, and told a friend so. There will be i o trouble about Mr. Fuller s confirmation, although the Senate will not take unbecoming haste in acting upon the nomination. It will go first to the Committee on the Judiciary, which is composed ■of Messis Edmunds. Hoar, Ingalls, Wilson of •lowo, Evarts, Pugh, Coke, Vest, and George.

To nearly all of these gentlemen Mr. Fuller is personally known, and I am assured that no objection will be raised to him on the Republican side. When Mr. Farwell went to the White House last week to carry some recommendations for Mr. Fuller from prominent Chicago Republicans, the President asked if he indorsed Mr. Fuller himself. “I am not recommending any Democrats to ■office," replied Mr. Farwell, “but I will tell you what 1 will do. If you will nominate Fuller I will get every Republican Senator to vote for /his confirmation, providing you will keep the Democratic Senators straight. All of our fellows will vote for Fuller, every man of them, for the only tjiing we know against him is that he is a Democrat." The President replied that it was a pretty difficult thing to get all the Democrats in the Senate to vote for auy one, snd he thought Mr. Farwell would have an easier job than he.

BIOGRAPHICAL.

Brief Sketch of the New Chief Justice of tho United States. Melville W. Fuller was born in Augusta, Me., Fob, 11, 1833. His parents were Frederick A, Fuller, son of the Hon. Henry W. Fuller, of Augusta, and Catharine Weston, daughter of Chief Justice Nathan Weston. The history of the family iu Now England dates back to the Mayflower. Mr. Fuller received his education in Augusta, and graduated at Bowdoin College du the class of 1853. He began the study of law in the office of his uncle, George Melville Weston at Bangor, and afterward attended lectures in the law department of Harvard University. In 1856 he began the practice of law in Augusta, and also acted as one of the editors of the Age newspaper. He was elected a member of the Common Council of Augusta, became President, and was also the City Solicitor. Be did not remain in Augusta more than two years, but camo West, and located in Chicago, and has for thirty years enjoyed a large and lucrative law practice in that city. Mr. Fuller’s practice has won for him the ■name of a learned lawyer and a faithful counselor. Politically Mr. Fuller has always been known as a Jeffersonian Democrat. During all his career he has taken the keenest interest in polities, but has persistently declined to allow the use of his name as a candidate for any office. In 1851 he was chosen a member of the Illinois Constitutional Convention. In 1862 he was elected to the l egislature as a Democrat from a strong Republican district. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1864, 18/2, 1876, and 1880. As an orator Mr. Fuller's diction is polished and elegant. He was chosen to deliver the address of welcome to Stephen A. Douglas in 1830, and has made many other public addresses. Mr. Fuller hes been married twice. His first wile was Calista O. Reynolds, whom he married in 1858, and after her decease he married Ellen, daughter of the late distinguished banker, William F. Coolbaugh. His family consists of eight daughters.

PERSONAL TRAITS.

Judge Fuller as a Man, a Lawyer, a Litterateur, and a Politician. [From the Chicago Tribune.] He has always had a predilection for politics. Loving his profession well, and his home and his boons even better, he has found it impossible to keep away from the council fire and the hustings. Not that he has cared for office —he is the last man to think of himself. Always being “mentioned" for something, always declining, always working for some other man, he has now many friends and no enemies. AS A POLITICIAN. In politics he has never trained with “the boys, ’’ but his fairness, frankness, and generosity have made him a prime favorite among thjm. He believes in fair play even to one’s opponents, in straightforwardness and loyalty. as a litterateur. Mr. Fuller is first a gentleman and a lawyer, and he is more of a dilletante than a politician. He loves books—Macaulay and all the essayists, history, poetry, even fiction. His reading is as broad as it is incessant. How he manages to turn oqt such prodigious grists from his legal mill and at the same time keep familiar with the whole range ot current literature is a puzzle to his friends. Yet he does it, and he would rather talk of a new book than of a new client. He takes interest iu the reading of his friends, too, and when given half a chance makes suggestions to them which they are sure to thunk him for. He finds time to write a good many book reviews for a literary weekly, and once criticised a new opera for a daily newspaper. A poem of thought and beautj' on the death of Grant came from his pen, and he has on several other occasions dallied profitably with the muse. He reads all the more conspicuous novels that come from the presses, and if he had time would like to write one for himself AS A LAWYER. It is generally conceded that Mr. Fuller stands foremast at tne bar in the chief inland city of the country. There may be one or two lawyers in Chicago who make more money, but they are corporation attorneys, and Mr. Fuller regularly represents no corporation, and has aiways declined such connections. His learning is as broad as his clientage is diversified. Cases of his appear in fully one hundred Hlinois reports, and many of his cases are known among lawyers as “leading” ones, marking some new departure, settling some disputed point er confirming a doubtful one. For twenty years he has certainly exercised greater influence upon the decisions of the Supreme Court ot this State than any other lawyer. In the United States Supreme Court, too, he has met many of the leading legal lights of the country and iu the reports of that tribunal his cases ore quoted in scores of volumes. A hard worker, early and late in his office, still ambitious and energetic in his profession, he is nevertheless sufficiently independent to select his clients. Only a few months ago he was Offsrai a 95,000 f*e by a large corporation, but

h« replied :"I ean’t take it at any price. There la no case. * AS AN ORATOR. "Mel" Fuller, as he is almost universally called in Chicago, not familiarly but admiringly, is a son of Maine and a'native of Mr. Blaine's town of Augusta He came West in 1856. Almost frem the ‘first he took to the stump, and the audiences of that early day admired his ardency and rhetoric almost as much as they did the Little Giant, whose follower he was. Fuller was a good speaker even then, and though his voice was Ulin, as it still is, and though he indulged in literary illustrations and citations, whose point the common claas sometimes m.ssed, as it does to this day, he was happy in his choice of words and phrases, greatly in earnest, and full of the winning quality of sincerity. AS A CHRISTIAN. Mr. Fuller himself is orthodox, and for twenty years has been a vestryman of St. Mark’s. He loves to mingle with the doctors of the church, and is never so happy as when a lay delegate and measuring wit with the subtle and unctuous fathers. Returning from a national synod at Philadelphia, a year or two since, he met a friend in the street, and, in response to inquiry concerning his vacation, told where he had been, and added : “Egad, but it was glorious to sit there and hear the old doctors expound the law!" NOT TOO ARISTOCRATIC TO SMOKE A PIPE. “Mel" Fuller is one of the few men who are pointed out and spoken of on the streets of Chicago. His is always a conspicuous and welcome figure, though not from its size, for he is slight of frame and short of stature. His face is remarkably youthful for one of his age—he is 55—and though his hair is gray his eye retains all ot the brightness of a quarter of a century ago. He is active, vivacious, genial, approachable, quick with a smile or a sally, as intuitive as a woman, and almost as sympathetic. He is a man with sunshine in his face ant brains behind it. In his office he is neither sobitey as to require cards to be sent in on a silver salver nor too aristocratic to smoke a pipe. EVERYBODY IN CHICAGO PLEASED. There was no one in Chicago who had a word to say against the appointment. It was received with such general approval that no one can hereafter doubt the high regard and warm personal feeling entertained for Mr. Fuller as lawyer and man by all who know him, whether Democrats or Republicans. DECLINED OFFICE FIVE TIMES. It is an undoubted fact that the tender of the Chief Justiceship is tLe sixth appointment which the President has offered Mr. f uller. He wanted the Chicago lawyer to go abroad to take one of the first-class missions. This was declined. Then Mr. Cleveland wanted him to take a place on the Civil Servi e Commission, which was not acceptable. The place of Solicitor General was thought in keeping with his legal talents, but be wanted none ot it. The Interstate Commission was then suggested by the President without meeting with favor, 'finally Mr. Cleveland wanted him to become a member of the Pacific Railway Commission, which would not interfere with his private practice, but thia, too, was declined. It may be, for all any one knows, that there hav« been other tenders.

THE GREEN DIAMOND.

The Battle for the Base-Bail Cham* pnshioip of the United States. In the League Boston Makes a Brill* iant Start—St. Louis Takes a Tumble. [CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.] Beautiful weather, higher temperature, grand ball-playing, and enthusiastic crowds of spectators have combined to make the opening days of the base-ball season of 1888 an auspicious one. What a surprise Anson's colts have given the base-ba]l world since the championship season opened ; what a wonderful tumble the hard-hitting League champions of 1887 have taken within the past ten days; how Boston’s work has tickled and delighted the residents of Sodenville ; how sadly the Hoosiers and Phillies are handicapped with disabled men at the outset of the race ; and wnat stiff and determined games Washington and Pittsburgh are playing, are the topics that are just now being enthusiastically‘discussed by the lovers of base-ball everywhere. New York has, beyond doubt, felt the absence of Tim Keefe, its great pitcher, and the news that on Saturday last be had finally bridged over his differences with his club and signed a New York contract, must indeed have been welcome news to the base-ball lovers of Gotham. Keefe is to New York what Clarkson is to Boston, what Van Haltren is to Chicago, and what Baldwin and Getzein were last year to Detroit; and now that his strong arm will once more send the ball over the plate for the Giants, they may safely be expected to make a better showing in the race than they have made during the past fortnignt. Of Chicago’s work one can only speak with praise for the good judgment of Anson; the quiet, determined manner in which his old ’•wheel-horses” have settled down to business, and the brilliant work of his “colts and yearlings.” Among the Chicago colts young Farrell has probably made the most brilliant showing. His work from the very outset has been of a character to challenge admiration everywhere, and if he continues as he has begun he will fill Mike Kelly’s shoes within a year’s time, so far as public regard and ball-playing ability is concerned. Just as Kelly was, Farrell is a fine back-stop, an übiquitous fielder, a clever trickster and base runner, a cool-headed and sure thrower to bases, and a batsman who hits the ball for a purpose and with effect. No young player in the country has a brighter future before him to-day than has FarrelL And now just a word about Detroit. The team that swept everything before it last year seems absolutely worthless this year, so far as its record thus far has demonstrated. “What is the trouble?" is a question that is being asked with concern in every base-ball center in the country, and with despair in Detroit. Well, it looks as though the team was demoralized through and through. The listless indifference that has characterized its work thus far shows this. It has been asserted that the pl avers are opposed to Manager Watkins, and have entered into an agreement among themselves to do no earnest work so long as the Directors retain him in his position. If this is so, the sooner the Directors put Mr. Mans ger Watkins upon the pension list the better will it be for themselves and the chances of the team in the race. The record of the League and Association teams up to Wednesday, May 2, is as follows: League. Won. Lost.iAssociat’n. Won. Lost. Boston 9 .. (Cincinnatiß 3 Chicago 6 2 Athletic 7 4 New Yorks 3;St. Louis 5 3 Pittsburgs 3,Baltimore 6 4 Detroit 3 5 Brooklyn 7 5 Indianapolis .. 2 6 Louisville 4 7 Philadelphia.. 2 7|Kansas City... 2 6 Washington... 1 7|Cleveland 2 9 GOSSIP HERE AND THERE. Chicago played its first four games of the season at Indianapolis and won them all, much to the discomfiture of the Hoosiers. “The chagrin of their defeat brought forth the following wail,” says Harry Palmer, in the Evening JowneJ,: Baby’s left the town, Baby’s gone away. And we’re praying in Hoosiervill* That Baby’s gone to stay. They told us Babe was aged, That he was growing fat; But verily he scored a run Whene’er he came to bat. They said he'd lost his teeth, And could not catch a ball. But just the same we think “Old Anse" Will be there in the fall. We'd like to see him old. We wish he'd lose his hair. Take his harp and climb, with “Birdie," Up the golden stair.

One cow which gives 5,003 pounds ol milk in a season will bring in more net profit than three cows producing only 3,000 pounds sack.

ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS.

The State Convention Adopts a Resolution Indorsing Judge Gresham for President Private Fifer Nominated for Governor — Other Nominees of the Con* vention. The Illinois Republican State convention assembled at Springfield on Wednesday, the 2d inst., and organized by the election of Congressman Louis E. Payson as Chairman, and Daniel Shepard, George C. Rankin, Graeme Stewart, G. W. Harper, and George I. Stewart, as Secretaries. The following resolution from R. A. Albert of St. Clair County, indorsing Gresham for the Presidency, was received with roaring cheers and a tossing of bats: Resolved, That we declare our preference for Judge Gresham as a candidate for President and recommend our delegates to the Republican National Convention to give him a hearty and faithful support. A. H. Reed, of Clay County, presented the following: Resolved, That the Republican party of Hlinois recognizes the just, honorable, and right public career of Shelby M. Cullom; that it approves his course as a Senator of the United States; and that it has full faith in his wisdom, patriotism, and integrity. These resolutions disposed of, the convention proceeded with the nominations. For Governor, Private Joseph W. Fifer, Gen. John McNulta, Cok Clark E. Carr, Maj. James A. Connolly, Gen. John L Rinaker, Gen. John C. Smith, and Mr. Francis M. Wright were placed in nomination. The first ballot resulted: lifer, 288; MeNulta, 136; Carr, 115; Connolly, 100; Rinaker, 98; Smith, 58; Wright, 48; Oglesby, 4. Second ballot: Fifer, 249; McNulta, 133; Carr, 110;'' Connolly, 96; Rinaker, 77; Smith, 45; Wright, 33; Oglesby, 4. Third ballot: Fifer, 398; McNulta, 144; Carr, 97; Connolly, 89; Rinaker, 62 ; Smith, 36; Wright, 21. On the fourth ballot Fifer was nominated. The ballot resulted: Fifer, 606; McNulta, 111; Connolly, 58; Rinaker, 32; Smith, 17; Wright, 14; Carr, 9. For Lieutenant Governor the names of W. H. Collins of Morgan County, Robert H. Sturgis of Fayette, Lyman B. Ray of Grundy, and James S. Cochrane of Stevenson, were presented. Ray was nominated on the second ballot. For Secretary of State. W. F. Calhoun of Clinton, 1. N. Pearson of McDonough, J. N. Reece of Sangamon, Thomas C. MacMillan of Cook, and G. H. Harlow of Sangamon were named. Pearson secured the persimmon on the fifth ballot. For Auditor ten Richmonds were entered, namely: E. C. Lewis, ot La Salle; C. R. Swigert (the present incumbent), of Kankakee ; Harrison Black, of Clark; A. W. Berggren, of Knox; Jonathan N. Hyde, of Lee ; Frank Hitchcock, of Peoria; C. W. Pavey and John Yost, of Gallatin; H. F. Reuter, of Washington; Dan Hogan, of Pulaski. Pavey cap ured the nomination on the fourth ballot For State Treasurer and Attorney General Charles Becker, of St. Clair County, anl George Hunt, of Edgar County, were respectively nominated by acclamation. Judge O. A. Harker, of Jackson County ; L A. Ballard, of Sangamon; Alexander McLean, of McDonough; and F. M. McKay, of Cook, were nominated for Trustees of the State University. The committee to select delegates-at-large to the National Convention proposed the following, and they were unanimously elected : Col. George R. Davis and Senator Charles B. Farwell of Cook County, Horace S. Clark of Coles, and W. F. Hadley of Macoupin; alternates. John H. Lott of Kendall County, H. D. Judson and Peyton Robert of Warren, and L. 8. Wilcox of Champaign. The report presented this list of electors, which was ratified by unanimous vote: At Large—William H. Robinson and J. M. Frute. Dist. Electors. iDist Electors L... John Crocarllßobert O. Moore 2.. Michael C. K, earne y 12.. T. Worthington, Jr. 3John R. Wheeler 13D. c. Smith 40. W. Potter 14 5.. Harvey A. Jones 15W. R. Jewell 6.Dunoan D.Makay.Jr. 16. .Ethelbert Callahan 7James Dinsmore 17J. A. McTaggart Blsaac C. Norton 18Emery R. slate 9J. A. Hanna 19Allen Blakeley 10 R. A. Bancroft 20Henry C. Homer The new. State Committee is as follows : Dist. Com Dist. Com. IPliny B. Smith 12J. A. Coatee 2.. .Harry Westerfield 13Samuel Bivorast 38. A. Echart 14E. D. Bllnn 4S. B. Raymond 15James H. Clark 5.. Walter S. Frasier 16Ed Ryan 6A. M. Jonesil7H. M. Minor 7Charles Bent:lß..Thomas B. Needles BC. C. Duffy|l9James 8. Mastin 9E. A. Wilcox 20P. T. Chapman 11H. F. McAllister! The convention adopted the following : “Resolved, That it is the sense of the Republicans of the State of Illinois assembled in convention that in the of John A. Logan thd State has lost one of its most eminent citizens, distinguished soldiers, purest patriots, and the nation one of its ablest statesmen. “Resolved, That the sympathies of this convention be tendered to Mrs. Logan in her sad bereavement.” The platform reaffirms the principles laid down in the national platform of 1884; denounces the Democratic party for its “failure to reduce the surplus in the Treasury or to relieve the people of unnecessary taxation ;" declares in favor of an aggressive, not a defensive campaign, and for a leader in such a campaign we turn with one accord to Walter Q. Gresham."

PENNSYLVANIA PROHIBITIONISTS.

They Declare for Protection and the Repeal of Internal Taxes. The Pennsylvania Prohibition State Convention met at Harrisburg with about four hundred delegates. The Bev. John A. McConnell of Pittsburg was made permanent Chairman without the usual speech. The platform pledges the party to the policy of total prohibition by constitutional amendment; opposes all forms of license and denouncesthe high-license law as a delusion and a snare ; demands the repeal of internal-revenue tax on liquor and tobacco; favors the election of President, Vice President, and United States Senators by direct vote of the people ; advocates the settlement of national differences by national arbitration, and the settlement of differences between capital and labor by courts provided for such purposes; demands such correction of the tariff laws as will give full protection to the manufacturers and producing laborer against the competition of the world; asks such change in the immigration laws as will prevent the introduction of convicts, paupers, and those physically disabled, and the enforcement of laws prohibiting the importation of contract laborers, and declares for woman SuffrageDelegates to the National Prohibition Convention were elected.

KENTUCKY REPUBLICANS.

Delegates to Chicago Elected by the State Convention. The Kentucky Republican State Convention organized at Louisville with Gen. W. J. Landrum of Lancaster as permanent chairman. W. O. Bradley and George Denny of Lexington ■were chosen delegates-at-large. The district delegates chosen follow: 1. W. J. Debo of Marion and M. S. Allison of Mayfield. 2. George W. Jolly of Owensboro and E. W. Glass of Hopkinsvile; alternates, T. XV. Gardner of Hopkinsville and A. H. Cabell of Henderson. 3. Judge Taylor of Mergantbn and E. M. Fordice. 4. Charles Pendleton of Hartford and Judge Thompson of Springfield. 5. A, E. XVilaon and XV. B. Hampton of Louisville ; alternates, Burton Vance and Henry Johnson of Louisville. 6. John M. XVilson of XVilliamstown and John P. Ernest of Covington; alternates, Paris E. Morgan of Pendleton and D. B. XVallace of W ELl*B 7. William Cassius Goodloe of Lexington. CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS. The State Convention Elects Delegates and Demands Tariff Reform. The Connecticut Democratic State Convention met at Hartford, and organized by electing Col. Charles M. Joslyn, of Hartford, permanent Chairman. Col. Joslyn made a speech in which

he eulogised President Cleveland, after which the following delegates to the National Convention were ohoeen and given power to appoint their own alternates: At Large—Alfred E. Burr of Hartford, James T. Piggott of New Haven, Charles M. Allen of Putnam, and W illiam H. Barnum. The district delegates are : 1. Congressman R. J. Vance, of New Britain, and George L. Phillips, of Coventry. 2. Charles A. Tomlinson, of Milford, and Clinton B. Davie, of Haddam. 3. 8. O. Bowen, of East Ford, and Alexander C. Robertson, of Montville. 4. Milo P. Richaruson, of Salisbury, and Henry A. Bishop, of Bridgeport. The platform demands a readjustment of th* tariff laws ; calls on Congress to revise the in-ternal-revenue laws in regard to tobacco; indorses Cleveland's administration: and instructs the delegates to vote and work for his renomination. With three cheers for Cleveland, the convention adjourned.

IOWA DEMOCRATS FOR CLEVELAND.

A Resolution Indorsing Him for Renomination Adopted by the State Convention. An Anti-Prohibitory Resolution Gives Rise to an Animated Debate. CoL Charles A. Clark presided over the lowa Democratic Convention, which met at Des Moines on the 2d inst. The Committee on Resolutions reported as follows : 1. The Democrats of lowa in convention assembled indorse the administration of President Cleveland ana commend his enforcement ot all laws and his manly and courageous declaration for a reduction of useless war taxes, and his clean, honest, and economical administration of puolic affairs and the liberal, prompt and generous payment of all deserving pensions on meritorious claims. 2. We are opposed to the exercise of the taxing power for any but public purposes, and fully and unqualifiedly declare President Cleveland's message as the views of the lowa Democracy on the tariff question. In the interest of American homes we demand free coatsand blankets. In the interest ot temperance and morality we oppose free whisky and tobacco. 3. In appointments to all offices the duties of which may reflect the policies of the administration, persons should be selected whose principles harmonize with the party having the responsibilities of such administration. But subordinates should be selected and retained for their efficiency. Levying assessments upon officeholders for partisan purposes cannot be too strongly condemned, and we commend in the fullest extent every effort which President Cleveland has made in the direction of the reform and elevation of the civil service. 4. We again declare our opposition to all prohibitory liquor laws in State or nation. On the last plank there was a division of sentiment, and a minority report was presented which opposed the introduction of Stat* issu*s into a convention called to select delegates to a national gathering. A warm and bitter debate followed, and resulted in the adoption of th* plank and the sustaining of the majority repoit by a vote of 383 to 170. For delegates-at-large to the St. Louis convention the following were chosen: F, W. Lehman, Des Moines; J. C. Kelley, Sioux City ; P. M. Ballingall, Ottumwa, and W. H. M. Pusey, Council Bluffs. For district delegates : First Distrlot—W. W. Baldwin, J. D. Hamilton ; Second District—Moses Bioom, Thomas Lambert; Third District—Cato Sells, J. H. Scoles; Fourth District—G.T. Bellamy, L. L. Ainsworth; Filth District—C. A. Clark, J. E. jHennques; Sixth District—B. 8. Caruthers, L. J. Anderson; Seventh District-—W. H. McHenry, A. E. Morrison ; Eighth District—W. E. Sprout, F. 8. Whitmore ; Ninth District—J. 8. Tam, D. M. Wyland ; Tenth District—J. J. Wilson, A. D. Keith; Eleventh District—F. D. Higgs, W. A. Willis. A full set of alternates was selected. Some tableau effects were given prior to the regular proceedings, in which the portraits of Washington, Jackson, Jefferson, Tilden, Hancock and Cleveland were successively displayed. the band playing an appropriate air as each portrait was uncovered. The convention fairly went wild when Cleveland's portrait apveared, and then cheers were given for the first lady of the land. Other than the speeches of the temporary and permanent Chairmen there were no oratorical efforts. The business of the convention was quickly dispatched and the meeting adjourned in the best of spirits.

NEBRASKA DEMOCRATS.

The State Convention at Omaha Elects Delegates to St. Louis. The Nebraska Democratic State Convention assembled at Omaha, and R. A. Battery was elected permanent Chairman. He made a brief speech in which he supported free trade, and said that Nobraska would send a solid Cleveland delegation to St. Louis. After a stormy struggle between the opposing friends of James E. Boyd and the Hou. J. Sterling Morton the iollowing delegates-at-large were chosen to attend the St. Louis convention : Janies E. Boyd, J. Sterling Morton, James E. North ana Tobias Castor. The following district delegates were elected: J. C. Crawford, J. E. Sherwin, J. J. McAllister, J, J. Meals. The delegates were instructed to vote as a unit for President Cleveland’s renomination. The platform urges legislation against trusts, and the forfeiture of unearned land grants; sympathizes with the oppressed of Ireland and other countries ; recommends liberal pensions for Union veterans, and reprehends the keeping alive the hatreds of the civil war.

IDAHO REPUBLICANS.

Delegates Named and Delegate Dubois Indorsed. The Idaho Republican convention met at Boise City. Col. Charles A. Wood presided. The Hon. W. B. Heyburn, a jiromlnent lawyer of Coeur d'Alene, and George A. Black, a mining man of Hailey County, were elected delegates to the Chicago convention, with Willis Sweet and Joseph Pinkham as alternates. Delegate Dubois' action in Congress was strongly indorsed. Col. George L. Shoup was named for member of the National Committee. The delegates were not instructed. The platform opposes the division of the Territory and denounces “the efforts of Senator Stewart to eliminate Idaho from the map of the United States”; opposes the placing of lead on the free list; favors the Mormon test oath and opposes Chinese immigration.

DAKOTA DEMOCRATS.

A Split in the State Committee Results in Two Conventions, The Dakota Territorial Democratic Committee convened at Watertown, and, the supporters of Governor Church being in the majority, it passed a resolution that the chairmen of the different delegations submit their credentials to the committee. The Dav members of the committee denounced, this as an outrage. Chairman Ban.gs growing particularly indignant, as he claimed the right to pass upon ttha credentials of delegates himself. It was decided to hold the Territorial Democratic Convention at Jamestown July 11. The result of this action was two conventions were held. The Day Convention chose as delegates to St. Louis Judge Hungs and T. J. Walsh, while the Church party named as delegates Col, Steele ai d Col. Maguire. Both bodies indorsed Cleveland's administration, and declared for tariff reform. Union Labor Party of Kansas. The Kansas Union Labor party held its State convention at Topeka, and elected eight delegates to the National Convention at Cincinnati on May 15. Th.ey were instructed to oppose the nomination of a Presidential candidate by their party, A meeting of the State Central Committee was culled early in June for the purpose of devising ways and means to propagate single land-tax ideas, in view of the present agitation on the subject of taxation in Kansas. Utah Republicans. At the Utah Republican Territorial Convention held in Ogden C. 8. Varian of Salt Lake and John J. Daly of Park City were elected delegates to the National Convention at Chicago, No instructions were given.

INDIANA NEWS.

—A clerical-looking man palmed off t worthless check on Del Rising, of Cumberson <fc Co., jewelers, Lafayette. The man bought $l5O worth of goods (three watches) and tendered a $250 check on the Fourth National Bank of Louisville. It was made payable to Thomas Harrison, and was signed D. B. Mooney. Rising gave the firm's check for SIOO and let the man have the goods. The fellow had the check cashed and has not been seen since. The $250 check on the Louisville bank is bogus. —At Lafayette Bennett Dasher fell through a hatchway and was seriously, if not fatally hurt. He struck on his head. —An unknown man was killed, near Goldsmith, Tipton County, by being run over by a Lake Erie and Western passenger train. He is supposed to be a man - from Fowler, Benton County, as papers were found on him pointing to that fact. —An attempt was made at Union City to blow up the residence of Frank McClintock. It is believed to have been the result of recent prosecutions by McClintock of violators of the liquor law licenses. —A dividend of 5 per cent, has been declared to the creditors of the Richmond National Bank, of Richmond. —The Governor has withdrawn the commutation of the sentence of John Parks, at the Boy’s Reform School. Parks was first sentenced to the penitentiary, but the sentence was commuted. At the Reform School, however, he proved too tough a citizen, and the penitentiary seems to be about the right place for him. —The Crawfordsville Council has entered into a contract for seventy electrio lights of 1,200-candle power each, for three years, and for which the sum of $5,» a 000 a year is to be paid, the lights to be in running order by August 15. —The Bellaire Window-glass Works, of. Bellaire, 0., are to be moved to Muncie. —The mother of Ed Chamberlain, who killed Ida Wittenberg at Delphi, has gone insane by the crime of her son. —George Fitz, a farmer residing in McCutchanville, while returning home, was violently thrown from his buggy, his horse having been frightened by an approaching locomotive. His wounds are internal and are pronounced fatal. —Knox County peach, cherry, and strawberry crops have been damaged by recent cold weather. —The new and handsome Vigo County Court-house has been opened up permanently for business. —The largest white oak is growing in Pike County. It is twenty-two feet in circumference and fifty to the first limb. William Fellingham, a wealthy farmor residing near Wheatland, was killed by a falling tree. He was going through a field, when a dead tree on fire suddenly fell upon him, crushing him to death.' Fellingham was one of the most prominent men of Knox County, and leaves a wife and several children. —A strange circumstance is reported from Boone County. Not far from Zionsville there lives J. H. Valentine, a colored man who, from all appearance, is turning white. About twelve years ago, he says, white spots appeared over his body, and that these spots, small at first, have become larger until he is perfectly white from his neck to his waist, as also is a part of one arm. The man is not sick, and enjoys the best of health. —Barney Turpin was attacked and lacerated by a mad-dog nt Indianapolis. —The mother of Ed Chamberlain, the Delhi murderer, becomes a raving m auioo because of her son's crime. —Miss Dora Davis, who lived with Mrs. Mary Koontz, near Vincennes, was accidentally shot by-John Benson, who was carelessly handling a revolver. The baltook effect in her abdomen. Miss Davis lingered in great agony a few hours when she died. Young Benson is almost crazed over the sad accident. Benson was in the act of removing the cartridge from the revolver when the weapon was accidentally discharged, just as Miss Davis was entering the door. —The large tile mills, owned and operated by William Caldwell, of Burkville, was the scene of death and desolation occasioned by the explosion of the boiler, which had been standing idle since last fall. Caldwell, the owner, had given orders to have the boiler filled, which was done, and operations began. Shortly after the explosion occurred with frightful and deathly results. At the time of the explosion Caldwell was making a tour of inspection and had found the inspirator somewhat defective. Norman E. Conde, who owned land adjoining, had called in to see the operations begin, and was conversing with Caldwell when the explosion occurred. Both were almost instantly killed. Joseph. Larkin, a laborer connected with the mills, was fatally injured by having his skull crushed. He has since died. Five others were seriously injured. —Walter Seivers, a 21 -year man, and Charles Davis, colored, a 22-year man, were almost burned to death at the Southern prison recently. Seivers and Davis are cupola-tenders. At pouring-off time, the tapping-bar became chilled and could not be removed from the aparature through which the molten iron flows. The only remedy was to knock out the bottom, and, this being done, the molten iron, 10,000 pounds or more, fell with a splash. The clothing of the two tenders, who had not retired a proper distance, became ignited from some of the iron falling upon them, and in an instant they were enveloped in Homes. They ran like wild men through the yards, and it was with great difficulty they were caught and the flames extinguished. Both are burned from head to foot, and will, it is thought, die.