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WEST AND SOUTH. THE Iowa democrats in state convention at Marshalltown nominated the following ticket: For governor, Judge W. I. Babb, of Mount Pleasant; lieutenant governor, S. L. Bestow, of Chariton; superintendent of publie instruetion, Lyman B. Parshall, of Maquoketa; railroad commissioner, Col. George James, of Dubuque; supreme judge, Senator Thomas G. Harper, of Des Moines. The platform reaffirms the national platform of 1892, indorsing the money plank therein adopted, urges the repeal of -the mulct law and the enactment of a local option measure, favors the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people and favors just and liberal pensions to all deserving veterans. WHILE drunk EL Hix, a laborer at Bigstone Gap, Va., fire to his home and he and four of his children.were cremated. A SCHOOL census of Nashville, Tenn., shows the population to be 82,374, of which 37,654 are negroes, an increase in one year of 8,268. ON Monday and Tuesday, September 16 and 17, 1895, the twenty-seventh reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee will be held in Cincinnati. MISSISSIPPI democrats in convention at Jackson nominated A. J. McLaurin for governor. L. F. ELLIS, of Cleveland, was elected commander in chief at the national convention in Lima, 0., of the Union Veterans' union. IN a wreck on the Atlantic & Pacific railroad at Grant Station, N. M., twelve persons were reported killed and twenty-five wounded. THE Nebraska republican convention will be held at Lincoln October 2. AT Toledo, O., the old established book and stationery house of B. F. Wade & Co. failed. IN mass meeting the miners rescinded a resolution expelling all negroes from Spring Valley, III. AT a railway crossing in Decatur, Ind., Mrs. Henry Johnson and her three children were struck by an engine and one child was instantly killed and the others were fatally injured. FLAMES at Pendleton, Ore., consumed the Transfer hotel and several buildings and four persons lest their lives. IN Logan, Trego and Thomas counties in Kansas, black rust was said to be ruining hundreds of fields of spring wheat AT Peoria, III., Hearst, Dunn & Co., a large agricultural implement firm, failed for $133, 435; assets, $115,649. IN a railway wreck near Denver, Col., Rev. E. C. Wheeler, a Baptist evan, gelist, who had been in California with his car Emanuel; was killed. Several other persons were hurt. IN session at Minneapolis the United Typothete elected E. R. Andrews, of Rochester, N. Y., president and decided to meet in Rochester in August, 1896. AT his home in Lowell, Ind., Peter Surprise celebrated his 102d birthday. a AT Jacksonville, Fla., E. A. Smith, barber, dropped dead. Since his death it has developed that he was married to seven women. AT Rome. Ga., the Merchants' national bank which suspended payment April 27, 1895, was authorized to resume business. IN the 64th year of his age Howell Edmunds Jackson, associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, died at his residence at West Meade, Tenn., of consumption. BETWEEN the summit of Pike's Peak and army headquarters in Denver, a distance of 60 miles, heliograph communications were exchanged.