North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-08-18
r. r. ACCIDENTAL ST. PAUL,

time; before reaching the depot, the
engine jumped the track-too high a
rate of speed probably-and dragged
the box car with the express and mail
car with it. The engine turned upside
| down, the box car smashed up against
the engine, and the mail and express
piled on top of both. In the mail and
express car were Chas. Weed, jr.,
baggage master, II. N. Crosset, route
agent of Exp. Co., Fred. Wilson, Post
master, Jerome Clark, of the U. S.
Express, and other persons. Weeds
shoulder was dislocated, Crossett was
badly scalded-both are doing well.
l.. Page, the engineer, and Patrick
Corners, the fireman, were found
under the reversed Locomotive and
tender. the former with one ofhis legs
cut square off at the calf, boot and all
his right arm broken at the elbow,
and otherwise bruised. He was cared
for, and will probably live. Corners
was found under a torn-up rail, very
badly bruised, and burnt up almost
with the inhalation of steam. He is
dead, we learn. DIR. Burnside, of ILL.,,
rendered signal service to the wound
ed, and it was fortunate SO able a
surgeon was on the train.
The leg of the Engineer, encased in
the boot, was found in the p. o. car
on arrival at McGregor, and shipped
to the owner! 1t was found behind
the stove, and until the train reached
its destination it was unnoticed.
WHAT MEANS THIs7
a ST. Louis, Aug. IL.
The Republican has a special from
Springfield, ILL.,, which says Governor
Palmer made speech yesterday at the
Republican Convention which was State
rights in politics. He avoided the suffrage
question and the fifteenth amendment, for
! the reason that he opposed the surrender
of the state control of suffrage to the
federal authorities.
Has it come to this, that the Republican
Governor of the great State of Illinois is
an advocate of State Rights, and so strong
|
Fifteenth Amendment, because he belicv-
ed the general government cannot control
the suffrage question in the States? Gov.
Merrill, in his Inaugural, spoke Of "the
pernicous doctrine of State Rights" a
remark that grated harshly on the ears Of
those who have studied the measure OF
powers between State AMI Federal action
| by the light of wisdom which the patriot
fathers reflected on the question. At the
time, we forgave Merrill for his hurry to
become eminent. lie said more foolish
things than this in the delivery of that
Inaugural, but We tell you he was in a
hurry to announce the crudities which
his extreme radical advisers demand
ed. We think he would now
like to take some of them back, if it
were not for pride.
What will the Illinois radical sheets
have to say Of Gov. Palmer's contemptu-
Gus treatment of the great hobby, "the
Fifteenth Amendment? We wait to see.
L
| THE Dubuque Times thinks Governor
Senter's administration will jibe we'll with
the administration at Washington, while
| other RADICAL sheets assume, in way OF
self consolation, that the Tennessee elec-
ton wasn't much game for us, and they
cant see why there is much cause for
democratic exultation, as it is republican
victory after all. 1t looks to them Just q
little sidewise, to be sure, but they fail tc
recollect that Grant and his cabinet, and
all else there is of the radical party, are
on record by speech, letter, resolution, and
in every other way possible, as being, W
to the time of counting the votes in tina
State, bitter, determined and uncompro
missing opponents to the Center ~ Ere
publican wing" and were, all the time
as anxious for the success of the Stoke
republican wing"-a little more republi
can-as they could possibly have been.
opposing straight out and out democrat
ic ticket in the success of which would b
plainly seen the initial step to their defea
throughout the fall elections. Thei
attempt to take this Center swing int
the common family is, clearly, an .evidenc
Of fear Of party tumbling. Assert you
rights, gentlemen, you are welcome to a
of the sweet morsel you can get out of GU
defeat in Tennessee now and hereafter.