People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Congressional nominations were made as follows on the 22d: Massachusetts, Sixth district, John S. Williams (dem.). Missouri, Third district, A. M. Dockery (dem.). Texas, Twelfth district, A. W. Houston (dem.). Wisconsin, Sixth district, Riley Bishop (pop.). Kentucky, Second district, E. G. Sebree (rep.). Michigan, Fourth district, Dr. L. F. Weaver (dem ); Ninth district, Roswell P. Bishop (rep.). lowa, Third district, Rev. S. H. Basher (dem.); Eleventh district, .Bernard Graeser (dem.). Indiana, Fourth district, W. S. Holman (dem.); Tenth district. Dr. J. J. Hatch (rep.). California, Second district, Anthony Caminetti (dem.); Sixth district, GeorgeS. Patton (dem.); Seventh district, W. H. Alvord (dem ). Tennessee republicans in state convention at Nashville nominated H. Clay Evans for governor. Nebraska republicans in convention at Omaha nominated a ticket beaded by Thomas J. Majors for governor.

Nominations for congress were made as follows on the 23d: New Jersey, First district, H. C. Loudenslager (rep.) Tennessee, Third district, Foster V. Brown (rep.). Nebraska, Sixth district, Omar M. Kem (nop.). Kansas, Third district, W. T. Sapp (dem.). Pennsylvania, Fortieth district, D. S. Walton (rep.); Twenty-eighth district, Aaron Williams (dem.). North Carolina. Sixth district, J. A. Lockart (dem.). New York, Twenty-third district. W. T. Foote, Jr. (rep.). Missouri, Seventh district, C. B.Wisker (pro.). Virginia, Fifth district, Claude Swanson (dem.). Sixth district,O. C. Ruck *r (pro.); Tenth district, Edmund R. Cooke (pop.). Missouri. Fifth district, B. P. White (pro.). Florida. Second district, C. M. Cooper (demj; Mont Atkinson (pop.). Nebraska populists nominated a ticket headed by Silas A. Holcomb for governor. Democrats in state convention at San Francisco nominated Congressman James Budd for governor. John Newell, of Chicago, aged 64, president and general manager of the Lake Shore railroad, died of apoplexy at Youngstown, O. In convention at Reno the republicans of Nevada nominated A. C. Cleveland for governor. The democrats of the Fifth California district nominated J. P. Kelly for congress and Daniel G. McKinnon was nominated by the populists in the First district of Florida. Mrs. Rosamond Foldett, until recently editor and owner of the Gazette at Green Bay, Wis., died of cancer, aged 47. George B. Shaw, aged 40, c< ngressman from the Seventh district of W isconsin. and ex-supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, died at h s home in Eau Claire from malarial fever contracted in Washington. The terms of thirteen republican and nine democratic United States senators expire next March and the legislatures which choose their successors are to be elected this fall. Celia Leighton Thaxter, the authoress and poetess, died suddenly at Appledore, Isle of Shoals, N. H., aged 58 years.

FOREIGN. Christopher F. Frazer, of Toronto, until recently commissioner of public works in the Toronto cabinet, was found dead in bed. Americans and Englishmen arrested at Bluefields by Madriz consented to be taken to Managua for trial rather than submit to exile. Resolutions were passed by 70,000 persons in London demanding the abolishment of the house of lords. Chinese soldiers who murdered Rev. James Wylie, the Presbyterian missionary at Ligo Yang, will be beheaded. In her speech proroguing the British parliament the queen said strict neutrality would be observed in the war between China and Japan. Six persons were killed and much property destroyed by a dynamite explosion in the mines at Miniilos, Mexico. More than 8,000,000 feet of lumber, ready for the American market, was destroyed by fire at Ottawa, Ont., the loss being $200,000. A terrible Irurricane swept over the Sea of Azov, in Russia, and many vessels were sunk and over 1,000 persons drowned. In a wrestling match at Liverpool for the championship of the world Cannon defeated Mclnerney. Tawhiao 11., tfie Maori king is dead. His death was due to inflaenza.

. LATER. The last day of the second session of ■he Fifty-third congress was attended jn the 28th by just a score of senators. The committee appointed to call upon the president announced he had no further communication to make to congress. Resolutions of thanks were tendered Vice President Stevenson and the senate adjourned sine die. In the house the resignation of Representative Oates, recently elected governor of Alabama, to take effect December 3, was presented.' The committee appointed to wait upon the president reported that the president had no further communication to make to congress, and the speaker declared the second session of the Fifty-third congress adjourned. At an old settler’s reunion at Chandlerville, 111., Ed Oliver fatally wounded Anna Carlock and then killed hims.elf. Gov. Waite, of Colorado, and three Denver police officials were arrested, charged with opening a letter addressed to an ex-police matron. Fifteen thousand Knights of Pythias joined in the parade at the encampment in Washington. Nearly every house in Vesper, Wis., was destroyed by fire, together with 8,000,000 feet of lumber. The loss was put at $150,000. The democrats in state convention at Dover, Del., nominated Ebe W. Tunnel, of Sussex county, for governor Recent rains have so benefited corn that it is now believed it will be an average crop. Vegetation generally has been greatly improved. The League of American Wheelmen has decided to enter politics in the interest of good roads and to prevent the enactment of discriminatory laws. In a runaway near Fairland, Ind., Mrs. Lizzie Newton, aged 65, was j killed and James Gray, aged 73, was fatally injured. Tramps entered two Lake Shore trains at the depot at Erie, Pa., and robbed the passengers. Five were captured. The first direct steamship line between America and the west coast of Africa has been chartered in New Jersey. \V. C. Howells, consul at Toronto and Quebec under President Grant, and one of the oldest journalists in Ohio, died at his home in Jefferson, aged 87 years. Ihe date for the Torthcoming convention of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance union, to be held in Cleveland, 0., has been set for Friday, November 16.