The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-11-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
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NEW 1oRK, NOV. z.
Official returns show 61, 8Os votes regis
tered in this city yesterday. Total number
registered, LOG, ,290; total registration last
year, l02, ,42o. The registration closes this
evening
PROVIDENCE, Nov. 2.
Weston, the pedestrian, reached this city
at Is minutes before o'clock last evening.
The crowd was 90 great the police had to
omen a passage for him through the streets.
He stopped al the City Hotel Is minutes and
proceeded. In response to cheers OF the
crowd, be said be he'd walked thlrty:two OF
the one hundred miles TO be done, IN twenty.
four hours, and was eighteen minutes ahead
of time. He was in excellent spirits.
ToRoNro, Nov. 2.
Hon. and Rt. Rev. Jno. Straithen, Bishop
Of the Church Of England, died yesterday
morning, aged SO years.
K1xosroS, Nov. 2.
The trial Of the Driscall murderers termin.
sted Yesterday. Sake Allen vas sentenced
TO be hanged on the llth Of December. His
sccompices, Gsmmel, Howard and Whalen,
we're respectively sentenced 10 ten, nine and
Eve years to the penitentiary.
NEW YoRK, Nov. 2.
The Heralds New Orleans special says the
removal Of the ex-rebel Gen. Hayes this af,
ternoon, and the appointment Of ex-marshal
Cptherell Built, personal friend of Mr..
Lincoin, as She,ie, has created Intense ex.
citenent here While Gen. Mover esteemsd
nayes socially, he felt that his removal vas
necessary to the peace and security OF the
community. Gen. Mower, making This
charge, was solely influenced BY public veal.
he felt 1t necessary 10 have q man as Sheriff
who could be depended upon In event Of an>
other riot being attempted when the Con-
yention meets on the 23d.
CHICAGO, Nov. |.
In the suit Of Dion Bourcicault against Col.
Wood Of the Museum, TO recover damages
for Infringement Of the copyright law. in the
presentation of sundry of the PLAINTIFF .
plays without his consent, found for the plains
tiff in the Courts of common law and as
aessed the damages at $4,000. The case
will 70 to the Supreme Court Of the United
States for final decision.
The two men who manned boat Thurs
day evening TO rescue the mate of the
schooner Clipper City, who had fallen over
board, and who was supposed with them to
hare been drowned, we're driven ashore FMS
day morning few miles north Of the city in
an exhausted condition.
OLSEr, Ill.,, Nov. 2.
John kranger has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for life for the murder Of I. I.
Smith in this city last March.
LAWRENCE, Kas., Nov. 2.
The FIRST engine and train Of cars crossed
the Kansas river to-day, on o temporary
bridge.
The first section Of tho Lawrence and Gall
weston Railroad, eighty miles, is to be cons
pleted to Ottawa by January lst. President
Sturgis intends 10 push the road vigorously.
The route of the road passes through the
great pine region Of Illinois, Arkansas and
Red Rivers.
Hon. Sidney Clarke has Just completed .
| thorough canvas of this State. He has made
about seventy speeches and thinks that ne
gro suffrage will be adopted at the coming
election.
! Grant clubs are being formed all over the
State. Governor Crawford, Senators Pom
eroy and Rosa and Sidney Clarke. are under.
stood TO be in favor Of Grant, and the Laws
renee Journal, Leavenworth Bulletin ard To-
peka Record support him.
CAIRO, Nov. 2.
A little girl, daughter OF Mr.. Still For,
who resides near Villa Ridge, had both oi
her hands crushed by sugar mill. Ampu-
tation has been performed. Itis thought ths
| little sufferer may recover.