People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The Pennsylvania state prohibition convention at Williamsport nominated Charles L. Hawley, of Scranton, for governor; H. L. Castle, of Pittsburgh, for lieutenant governor; Charles Palmer, of Delaware, for auditor general, and E. K. Kane and Rev. L. G. Jordan for congressmen-at-large. Maj. E. N. Morrill, of Hiawatha, was nominated for governor of Kansas in the republican convention at Topeka, and W. A, Johnson was nominated for associated judge of the supreme court. Rhoda Irwin died at Battle Creek, Mich., aged 101 years. She was born a slave on the plantation of Alexander Irwin in Bedford county, Va. Congressional nominations were reported as follows: Indiana, Ninth district, J. F. Hanley (rep.); Thirteenth, Lewis W. Boyse (rep.). Kansas, Sixth district, William Baker (pop.) renominated. Maine, Third district, Seth S. Milliken (rep.) renominated. The Arkansas republican state convention will be held in Little Rock July 24. NaGj»_nab, chief of all the Chippewa Indians, died at the Indian reservation at Fond du Lac, Wis.. tiged 99 years. In 1826, through his effoi ts, the treaty was made by the Sioux and Chippewa Indians by which they acknowledged the sovereignty of the United States. William Dwight Whitney, professor of the combined chairs of Sanscrit and comparative philology at Yale, died in New Haven, aged 67 years.

Ex-Gov. Rodman M. Price, of New Jersey, died at his residence in Oakland. He was the first person to raise the stars and stripes on California soil. The Wisconsin republicans will hold their state convent’on in Milwaukee July 25. The Ohio prohibitionists in convention at Columbus nominated the following ticket: Secretary of state, Mark G. McCaslin; judge of supreme court, J. W. Rosenborough; state school commissioner, Prof. F. V. Irish; member of board of public works, H. T. Earles. The platform favors equal suffrage; money issued by government alone; tariff as a defense against foreign governments; government control of railroads and telegraphs; one day’s rest in seven; pensions; revision of immigration laws; extension of time of naturalization; public schools in English language; and opposes all forms of license, local option or taxation of liquor traffic. Candidates for congress were selected as follows: Illinois, Eighth district, A. J. Hopkins (rep.) renominated; Seventeenth, A. F. Smith (pro.). Indiana, Third district, R. G. Tracewell (rep.); Tenth, Rev. S. M. Hathorn (pop.); Eleventh, A. F. Benson (pop.). Kansas, Fifth district, John Davis (pop.) renominated. Kentucky, Eighth district. Phil Roberts (rep.). Colored republican clubs will meet in national convention in Washington J uly 2. Official returns from the Oregon election give Lord (rep.) for governor a plurality of 14,588. In Pennsylvania the populists nominated S. S. Karns for congress in the Twenty-second district, J. H. Stevenson in the Twenty-third and D. W. Hutchinson in the Twenty-fourth. Mrs. Lois Tritton, who was the last slave sold at auction in New Haven, Conn, (in 1825) is dead at the age of 95.

FOREIGN. Lord Rosebery’s Ladas won the English Derby amid the cheers of over 100,000 people. Ihe first constitutional convention of Hawaii was formally opened in the legislative chamber in the old government building in Honolulu. Kaslo, a town of 1,200 population in British Columbia, was entirely destroyed by a flood. Queen Victoria entertained the delegates to the Young Men's Christian association in her private gardens at Windsor. The Cape Breton coast was swept by a hurricane, resulting in heavy loss to shipping, but no lives were reported lost. In a race lasting six hours on the Thames the American yacht Satanita defeated Wales’ Britannia by seven minutes. The flood -in the Frazer river valley in Columbia left over 15,000 persons homeless. Burglars opened the safe in a private bank at Bridge, Ont., and stole $4,000. A plague that was prevailing in China had caused the deaths of over 60,000 persons in Canton and thousands had died at Hongkong, Paklios and other places. Five women, including a member of the Salvation Army, were suffocated in bed at Glasgow by an escape of gas. Muley Hassan, sultan of Morocco, died suddenly at Tadla and it was believed he was poisoned. His son had succeeded him. S. F. Frank, a Pole, who had been a resident of Buffalo, N. Y., for twenty-five years, was seized when on a visit to his native country and sent to Siberia.

LATER. Senator S-quibe, of Washington, introduced a bill in the United States senate on the 12th for the free coinage of silver. The wool feature of the tariff bill was discussed. In the house a bill was passed setting aside SIOO,OOO from the fund belonging to the estates of the deceased colored soldiers of the war for the purpose of erecting in the District of Columbia a national home for a zed and infirm colored people. The Ind an appropriation bill was further eonsidere i and a bill was favorably reported to restore to the pen ion rolls the widows of soldiers who had been dropped because of remarriage, and whose second husbands have died. Lack of rain was injuring the crop prospects in nearly all of the western states. Eleven persons were injured in a collision between two trains near Stillwater, R. 1., and the property damage was heavy. The Kansas prohibitionists met in state convention at Emporia and nominated E. O. Pickering for governor. Bill Dalton’s brother, Littleton, has identified the remains of the bandit at Ardmore, I. T., as those, of the notorious and much killed Bill. The Isaac D. Sinead foundry company at Toledo, 0., failed for $250,000. John T. Andrews died at Dundee, N. Y., aged 93 years. He represented the Steuben district in congress from 1833 to 1837 and was believed to have been the oldest ex-member of congress in the state. Isaac Hanks, of Rutland, Vt., was fined SI,OOO for causing the death of his wife by starvation. The Rhode Island legislature unanimously elected ex-Gov. G-eorge P. Wetmore to the United States senate to serve six years from March 4 next. Sir Matthew Baillie Degbie, chief justice of British Columbia, died at his home in Victoria. Miners in Ohio were greatly dissatisfied with the stride settlement and refused to accept it. In Illinois and Indiana the miners were preparing to return to work. An earthquake at Grenada and Almere, in Spain, destroyed a number of buildings and killed several people. Congressional nominations were reported as follows: Illinois, Ninth district, R. R. Hitt (rep.) renominated. Indiana, First district, J. H. Hemingway (rep.); Fifth, George W. Cooper (dem.) renominated. Ohio, Eighth district, L. M. Strong (rep.). Kentucky, Ninth district, L. G. Pugh (rep.).