Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Tljp Massachusetts .Democracy on the 9th nominated William Gaston for Governor and William S. Smith for Lieutdhant-Govemor. The resolutions favor specie payments and a suitable license law. * ’ The Minnesota Itepublican Convention which met at Minneapolis on - the 9th nominated J. R. McMillan for Chief-Jus-tice and F. It. E. Cornell for AssociateJustice. At the Michigan .State Reform Convention-, held at Jadkson on the 9th, the following ticket was nominated: For Governor, Henry Chamberlain; Lieuten-ant-Governor, Jerome W-Turner; Secretary ofj State, George H. House; Treasurer, William J. Hewitt; Auditor-Gen-eral, F. M. Holloway; Commissioner of the -State Land Office, Chauncey W. Greene; Attorney-General, Andrew T. Mcßeynolds; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Duane Doty; State Board of Education, Carroll 8. Frazer. The following ladies were f. selected officers of the lowa Woman’s Suffrage Association at a meeting held in Des Moines on the 9th: President, Lizzie Boynton Harbert; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Landess; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs.Orwig.

The Nebraska Independent State Convention on the 9th nominated J. F. Gardner fpr Governor, Henry Weib for Secretary of State and J. W. Davis for Congressman. The platform favors the resumption of specie payments; cheap transportation; opposes land grants to railroads; favors a reduciion of taxes and tariff; opposes the patent monopoly and favors a uniform license law. The New York Liberals met in State Convention at Albany on the 9th, bat decided to make no nominations. The resolutions oppose a third term, and favor specie payments and free banking. Alexander Mitchell, President of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, has written a letter to the Wisconsin Railroad Commissioners similar in import to the one previously sent by President Keep,,of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. The recent election in Colorado for Delegate -to Congress resulted in the election of Thos. M. Patterson (Dem.) by about 1,600 majority. Mrs. Stonehouse, of Grand Rapids, Ohio,'and Rose Dennis and her mother, of Sterling, 111., were burned to death on the 9th by the use of kerosene for kindling fires. The Chicago Inter-State Exposition was opened on the evening of the 9th, and the Indianapolis Exposition on the 7th.. Both were largely attended and promise to be altogether successful. According to telegraphic displtches received at the Executive office at New Orleans on the 9th, the parish officers of Bienville Parish had been waited upon by the White League and forced to resign.

The following Congressional nomina-. tions were made on the 9th: Democratic — Gen. John B. Clark, Eleventh Missouri District, renominated; Hon. Milton Sayler, First Ohio District, renominated; Gen. Henry B. Banning, Second Ohio District, renominated; Col. H. Casey Young, Tenth Tennessee District. Reform and Liberal —E. St. Julien Cox, Second Minnesota District; Prof. D. G. Pinckney, Fifth Illinois District; Freeman Kelly, Seventh Indiana District. The British ship Euxine, in a recent voyage from England to Aden, was totally destroyed by fire. Twenty-one of her crew reached St. Helena after a voyage of 1,100 miles in open boats. A State Convention of the Democrats of Nebraska was held on the 10th and the following ticket nominated: A. Tuxbury for Governor; John Atherly for Secretary of State; R. CVJordan for At-torney-General, and J. W. Savage for Congressman. Prof. Winchell, who accompanied the Custer expedition to the Black Hills as Geologist, in his official report discredits the rumors of the finding of gold in any appreciable quantity. According to a dispatch of the 10th, a' squad of United States troops had arrested seven of. the men said to have . been engaged in the recent massacre of prisoners at Trenton, Tenn. The following Congressional nominations were made on the 10th: Republican—Lloyd Lowndes, Sixth Maryland District, renominated; Wm. S. King, Third Minnesota; H. B. Strait, Second Minnesota, renoininated; S. A. Hurlßut, Fourth Illinois, renominated. Democratic—Henry Boyle, Sixteenth Ohio; W. A. J. Sparks, Sixteenth Illinois. Reform and Independent—Col. Jeff. A. Seay, Fifth Missouri; A. Y. Pendleton, Sixth Indiana; A. G. Cook, Second Wisconsin; Alexander Campbell, Seventh Illinois. The Democrats of Michigan held their State Convention at Kalamazoo on the 10th, and nominated the following ticket: Governor, Henry Chamberlain; Lieu-tenant-Governor, Frederick Hall; Secretary State, George H. House; State Treasurer, Joseph M. Sterling; Auditor-. General, John H. Graus; Commissioner State Land Office, Chauncy W. Green; Attorney-General, Martin V.’ Montgomery; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Duane Doty; Member of the State Board of Education, E. W. Andrews. The resolutions demand the abandonment of all efforts to rule States for corrupt party purposes; the repeal of the “grab” law and the “gag” law; the reservation of public, lands for the actual settler; the <yepeal of the Legal- - Tender act; specie payments and free banking. # The Nebraska Prohibitionists met at Lincoln on the 10th and nominated the foUowing ticket: For Governor, J. S.

Church; Secretary of State, W. G. Ollonger; Treasurer, Thompson Bissel; Attorney-General, present incumbent, ¥. R. Webster; Superintendent of Public" Instruction, J. N. McKenzie; Prison Irf -spector, C. B. Parker; Congressman, J.. G. Miller; contingent Congressman, J. A Fairbanks. .- * __ fX f The Arkansas State Democratic- Contention was held on the 9th and Gov. Baxter, the jpresent Incumbent, was unanimously nominated for Governor. He refused to run and A. H. Garland was subsequently nominated in bis place. Five suits have been brought at Burlington, lowa, against the C. B. & Q. Railroad Company for violation of the lowa Railroad law. A terrific collision occurred on the Great Eastern Railway near Norwich, England, on the morning of the 11th, in consequence of which twenty persons were Wiled outright and fifty injured, some of them very badly. Elsewhere appears tjie rubstance Of the reply of Mr: F. _D. Moulton to the allegations of Mr. Beecher in his recent ; Statement to the Investigating Committee of Plymouth Church. The full text of the reply covers twenty-one newspaper columns. A telegram of the 13th announces the death of M. Guizot, the distinguished French scholar and statesman.

On the 12th the operators in the cotton mills of Bolton, England, to the number of 13,000, struck for higher wages. Seventy-four mills were forced to suspend operations. The Captain-General o Cuba has ordered a draft of 8,000 men and a forced loan of $500,000 in gold and SIOO,OOO ifi paper. In order to secure the consideration of a claim for a pension under the permanent disability act of June 18,1874, it isnecessary for the applicant to show that he requires the • aid and attendance of i another person. Col. Whitely, Chief of the Secret Service Bureau, has been indicted, with several of his assistants, for the bogus safe burglary affair which occurred several months ago. Additional Congressional nominations: Republican—Col. C. W. Thrasher, Sixth Missouri District. Democratic —Col. John F. Phillips, Seventh Missouri; Dan. B. Woods, Nineteenth Ohio. In his official report Gen. Custer, for military reasons, takes strong grounds in favor of the immediate opening of the Black Hills to settlement. He indorses the report of the gold discoveries. On the 12th the South Carolina State Republican Convention nominated D. H. Chamberlain for Governor and R. H. Gleaves for Lieutenant-Governor. R. B. Elliott was appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee.

A London telegram of the 14th says the Standard had received information that the Schleswig-Holstein question was assuming a serious aspect in conse•quence of daily expulsions of Danish subjects and the hostile tone of the German press. On the 14th Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, demanded of the President aid to repress domestic violence. The election in Maine, on the 14th, resulted in the success of the Republicans by from 9,000 to 12,000 majority. The Legislature is largely Republican, and the Republican candidates for Congress were successful. According to a report from the Indian Agent at Ponco Reservation, white men were coming into the Black Hills from Montana and elsewhere in great numbers. The Democrats of the Eighth Ohio District nominated J. E. Pearson for Congress on the 14th. The recent outbreak and fighting in the streets of New Orleans will be found elsewhere fully described. The International Postal ConljreSs' convened at Berne, Switzerland, on the 10th. The delegates from the United States had not arrived. The President issued a proclamation on the 15th, in relation to the Louisiana affairs, concluding as follows: t‘ Now, therefore, I, U. S. Grant, President of the United States, do hereby make proclamation and command said turbulent and disorderly persons to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective '‘"abodes within five days from* this date, "and hereafter to submit themselves to the laws and constituted authorities of said State. I invoke the aid and co-operation of all good citizens thereof to uphold the law and preserve the public peace.” According to a Washington telegram of the same date, troops would be sent to New Orleans in such numbers as should be necessary to save life and preserve peace. On the 15th the Supreme Court of Wisconsin rendered a decision in the injunction suits brought by the Attorney-Gen-eral against the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the Chicago & Northwestern Railroads. The court maintains its original jurisdiction in cases brought by the State, but holds that it would not extend to private suits; affirms the constitutionality of the Potter law; rejects the theory that this law was repealed by the act of March 12, prescribing that the railroads shall make reasonable rates; and, finally, grants the ipj unction asked for the State compelling these two railroads to comply with the provisions es the Potter law. The roads are given till Oct. 1 to make arrangements to this end. It is said Mr. Keep, President of the Northwestern, has stated that compliance with the law will necessitate a reduction of expenses on all sideSj fewer traits and second-class coaches will be run, that work wil be suspended in the shops, and

that the number of employes will be reduced. Mr. Mitchell, President of the Milwaukee & St. Paul, says that trains wilj be run on his road as usual, and only cut off as it' becomes obvious that they a3rd unprofitable. The following Congressional nominations were made on the 15th: Demo-cratic-Fourth Michigan District, Allen Potter; Eighth Michigan, George F. Lewis; Eleventh Illinois, Scott Wike. Republican—Sixth Wisconsin, A. M. Kimball; Twentieth Ohio, R. C. Parsons, renominated. Reform—First Wisconsin, N. D. Frait.