Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-10-28
IOWA NEWS.

IOWA NEWS.
1t appears that Des Moines and
keokuk school-boys are in the habit
of carrying loaded revolvers to school,
to a considerable extent.
Thomas Fouts, of Abba, has fallen
heir to 81, 240, says the Union.
Same paper says the walls Of the
new brick School-house at Abba are
nearly completed.
The Democrat tells how a fellow
calling himself DR.. Turner, and sell
ing some quack medicine, came from
Mt. Pleasant to Charlton few days
ago, and got drunk, insulted women,
and cut up so many didoes generally
that crowd of men and boys finally
gathered and started him off out of
town in great hurry.
A man named Holman advertised
for Lecture in Muscatine, on the
Pacific Slope. The Lecture wasn't
well attended; and he made a pacific
slope out of town without paying his
bills; says the Jo,nndt.
1t appears that negro named
Charley Mash was elected Road Su-
pervisor in one of the Townships of
Polk County atthe late election. The
Register pronOunces him the first col
ored Office holder in Iowa.
Miss Julia c. Addington is the new
County Superintendent of Schools
elected in Mitchell County, says a
correspondent of the Dubuque Times.
A sensation story-how true we
can't SAYS going the rounds, about
a "wild man" or hermit livingon i'm
island in the Mississippi near Ian
sing, Iowa; and it is now reported
that his relations have heard of him,
through the newspapers, and that he
is the heir to a large fortune, &C., &c.
One j. G. Ford has "confidenced"
the people of Atlantic, the lively
railroad town i'm Cass County, to u
considerable extent, but finally was
arrested.
The Episcopalian ladies Of Du-
bu4ue are going to build Il church,
and have nearly money enough on
hand. They made hy Snriahi@s and
Fairs.
Jay Cooke owns fifty thousand
acres Of land in Iowa; Seward owns
the sameamount; and dSeymourowns
several thousand. That's all right;
and all other poor but respectable
persons, coming here to buy homes,
will be heartily welcomed.
Gen. Bclknap was to start for
Washington on Tuesday, to assume
his new duties as Secretary Of War.
So demGralized are the Democracy
in this State that at the late election
the Democratic vote of Tama County
was cast solid for a Mr.. Glidden for
one of the State offices, instead ofthe
regular nominee.
The Washington branch Of the G..
II. l. & =. Railroad is positively to
be extended to Leavenw0rth, as per
official sureties filed.
A negro committed an outrage on
a little girl in Davenport a few days
ago, and was bound over and COM
mitted to Jail. The other prisoners
in the Jail organized a Lynch court,
tried him, and then hung him in the
Jail. The Sheriff happened along
just in time to save his life.-This by
way Of the Registers Iowa News.
The Counties that are mixed up in
the Railroad Bond business don't
seem to be getting out of hot water
at all. The Washington County
Board OF Supervisors were placed un-
der arrest last week, by order of the
State Court Of Judge Sampson, I'd
Dist. The Henry County Board Of
Supervisors were also arrested under
orders from Judge Springer's State
Court, and, refusing to give bonds,
were committed to Jail. Two or
three Boards have been or will be
brought to Des Moines to appear be-
fore the u. S. Courts now in session
there; and the Register, from which
we CLEAN, remarks that although one
OF the Counties has been released,
yet "those remaining on hand seem
to be the knOttiest Of these knotty
cases, and bode more trouble than
some folks dream Of" While SYM
pathizing heartily with others in their
misfortunes, we cannot but feel
thankful that Marion County isn'tfn
this Inuss.
..g gas, CINCINNATI, Oct. 20.