People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

R. P. Keating was nominated for governor and G. E. Gignoux for congressman by the Nevada democratic convention in session at Carson. Candidates for congress were selected as follows: Wisconsin, Fifth district. Henry Blank (dem.l. Alabama, Ninth district, T. H. Aldrich (rep.). California, Fourth district, T. B. Shannon (rep.); Fifth. E. V. Loud (rep.) renominated. Virginia, Gardiner Tyler (dem.) renominated. The official result of the election in Maine gives Cleaves (rep.) for governor a plurality over Johnson idem.) of 38,424.

At a convention of the American Protective association held in Chicago O. H. Mann was nominated for state treasurer, S. D. Snow for school superintendent, and W. S. McComas, J. W. Pickens and J. B. Strubel for congress. The following cogressional nominations were made: Wisconsin, Seventh district, G. W. Levis (dem.). Colorado, Second district, T. M. Bowen (rep.). Virginia. Tenth district, Thomas Goode (rep.). New Mexico, T. B. Mills (pop.). Ex-Senator Doolittle declined the nomination for congress tendered him by the democrats of the First Wisconsin district. Bolters from the democratic party met at Carson, Nev., and nominated a state ticket headed by Theodore Winters for governor. Daniel Scully, who for nearly a quarter of a century was a justice of the peace of Chicago, died of pneumonia. Candidates for congress were selected as follows: Illinois, Fourth district, Charles W. Woodman (rep.). Ohio, Twenty-first district; T. L. Johnson (dem.) renominated. New York. Twen-ty-eighth district, C. A. Chickering (rep.). - Mhb. @*«sra Pierce (colored), of Indianapolis, Ind., claims to have passed her 126th birthday. She says she was born in Kentucky sLx years before the revolutionary war. Owens was said to have been victorious in the contest for the democratic nomination in the Ashland (Ky.) congressional district. His plurality over Breckinridge was estimated to be 410. At Monticello, 111., - Mr. and Mrs. George Clouser celebrated their seventieth wedding anniversary. Nominations for congress were made as follows; Illinois, Twelfth district, F. D. Rodeke (dem.). Michigan, Tenth district, William Marcoux (pop.). Ohio, Eighteenth district, E. J. Raff (dem.). California, Second district, Anthony Caminetti (dem.). Louisiana, Third district, Taylor Beattie (rep.). The republican central committee of Nevada requested Senator Jones to resign because of his change of political faith. Corrected and official returns from the eight counties of the Ashland (Ky.) district show a plurality of 310 for Owens for congress over Breckinridge.

FOREIGN. Capt. Adolph Frietsch. who sailed from New York August 5 in a schoon-er-rigged skiff 47 feet long, reached Queenstown in safety. Fifty-five Brazilians were executed at Montevideo by order of President Peixoto. Military and naval officers were among the unfortunates. At the Rosedale track, Toronto, F. F. Rad way, of London, lowered the 100-mile bicycle record to 5:01:10 1-5. A sirs. in the leather market in London caused a loss of 81,000,000. Thirty persons lost their lives and 2,000 buildings were destroyed by a fire in Chung-King, China. The Mexican congress was opened by President Diaz, who, in his speech, said that Mexico was on friendly relations with all nations. After being released from a reef in the Carimata straits the steamer Nam* yong sank with her crew of sixty-five men in sight of her rescuer. Tuf. Japanese gained a decisive victory at Ping Yang, 16,000 of the Chinese force of 20,000 being killed, wounded or missing, while the Japanese loss was trifling. Alexander L. Poller, American consul general at San Salvador, died there from yellow fever.

LATER. Armed guards frustrated an attempt to hold up a Santa Fe express train near Gorin, Mo. Engineer Prescott was wounded and one of the robbers fatally shot. William Jefferson, a colored man who claimed to have been 110 years old, died in Champaign, 111. The completion of the official count of tlie vote in the Ashland (Ky.) district shows Owens received a plurality of 270 over Breckinridge. James W. Ptjrdum, who captured the conspirator who had been detailed to kill Vice President Johnson in 1805, died at his home near Darnestovvn, Md.

Tele Logansport (Ind.) presbytery resolved to establish at Cedar Lake a resort similar to the Chautauquan assembly in New York. Bandits made an unsuccessful attempt to wreck the Chicago express of the Big Four at Hazelridge, Ind. Marshall Corey, a prominent farmer, and his wife and 18-year-old daughter were killed by lightning atOwingsville, Ky. John W. Stebbins, of Maryland, was elected grand sire of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at their meeting in Chattanoogu, Tenn. A spring of apollinarls water was struck at Radnor Forges, P. Q., which was said to far excel the well-known German waters. The official report of the French wheat crop of 1894 shows a total of 151,002,781 hectolites, against 97,792,080 hectolites last year. Mrs. Helen L. Grier, charged with poisoning her sixth husband, was found guilty at Spokane, Wash., of murder in the second degree. The National Association of Letter Carriers of the United States met in fifth annual convention at Clevelaud. The German coke workers of Pennsylvania have resolved to remove to Douglas county, Wis., and take up farms.

The sixty-fourth annual assembly of the grand council Royal and Select Masons opened in Columbus, O. In convention at Saratoga Springs the republicans of New York nominated Levi P. Morton for governor. The platform arraigns the democratic administration for its Hawaiian policy, its treatment of old soldiers, and says the most important achievement, the tariff bill, has been fitly characterized by the chief executive as one of perfidy and dishonor. An international agreement which shall result in the use of both gold and silver as a circulating medium is favored.