Carrollton, 111., April 12.—An en
thusiastic Republican convention for
Green conn y was held yesterday to
select delegates to State,Congressional
and Senatorial conventions and to
nominate a county ticket. No instruc
tions were given for Governor, hut the
delegates, with one or tvyy I
are tor f’lfer. The resolutions adopted j
indorsed the National and State ad- I
ministration, the McKinley tariff, and I
the foreign policy of the government. I
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Democrats Gain a Representative.
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Providence, R. 1., April 12. —The
second election in Charleston resulted:
senator, Joseph C. Church,Republican;
Representative, Herbert A.Gates, Dem
ocrat. The Representative is a gain
for the Democrats.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The Lehigh Iron company of Allen-
Pa., made an assitrnment.
The B richer block at Belding, Mich.,
was burned. Loss, $29,000; insurance
about $15,000.
The Non-partisan W. C. T. U. of the
Fourteenth Illinois district held a con
ference at Decatur.
Sim Scott, colored, of Franklin coun
ty, Miss., murdered his wife because
she didn’t have dinner on time.
The Standard Oil company, of New
York, filed a certificate of increase of
capital stock from §5,000.000 to
$7,000,000.
At New Bedford, Mass., the steam
ship City of Fitchburg was partly
burned. Loss on vessel and cargo
about $25,000.
Clarance I*. Marts, alias Robert
Spencer, at Valparaiso, Ind., was sen
tenced to three years in the peniten
tiary for bigamy.
Ramsey Johnson, Treasurer of the
Sch 00l Board at Graymont, 111., was
knocked down and robbed of §2,t500 in
school funds.
A panic was caused in a Finleyville.
Pa., church by an alarm of fire. No
one was injured. The church was
valued at §3.500.
Rumors are current of the failure of
Borrowman, Phillips & Cos., London
grain merchants. Americans are the
chief sufferers.
