Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-05

sociate Judges, Chas. A. Rapelle, OF New
York, Rufus W. Peckham, of Albany,
Martin Grover, Of Allegheny, and VIM. F.
Alien, Of Oswego.i M
Ihe west tN
A report of Che officers st the Grand
River Agency, Dakota, Tor March, states
that there arrived At the agency 1,127 In
dams, al in . starving condition. Many
had to kill and eat their horses. The
agent sent them provisions TO assist in
cutting them there, and on their arrival
cIothing wss issued. The Indians con-
duct themselves very well.
Soatheru Arizona advices to the 10th
state that the Indians were nvaging the
country.
General Sherman received on the oath
o1lcial dispatches confirming the advices
hesetoeore q hand, which indicated that
The Indians in Dakota IRE on the war-path
| In good earnest A Telegram Mys they
hAd appeared near some al the forts in
that Territory with frcah paint and dane
ing the variance. At one point they
were estimated II s.oo0 to 5000. and were
bent on hostilities.
The iron railroad bridge across the Wa
bash river Il Terre Haute Wa completed,
an d special trains passed over it on the
e6th.
Tho Gas Works 1t Virgins City, Neva.
da, were destroyed by Gre on the 26th.
A Lawrence, Kansas. special Of the
9Th states that the Indians had recently
attacked the settlers near Independence,
and wounded two. The whites resisted,
and the ftacas was for the time ended by
Friend Gibson, Agent Of the Osages, call.
ing out the military and driving eighteen
families out Of the country. It IL stated
that the government agent had been en-
gagged in settling the tribes on settlers
claims, for which the settlers had made
snicable arrangements with the Indians,
and that the immediate cause Of the dis.
turbance seems to have arisen from the
settlers refusing to allow the Indians to
cultivate square patches from their clear.
ings.
Tho south.
A resolution was adopted by the Mis-
sissippi Legislature, on. the 21st, toappoint
. joint committee TO prepare an address
to the Governor asking the removal from
Office and impeachment Of Judge 6hackle-
ford for releasing Yerger on bail.
The Red Stockings Base Ball Club, Of
Cincinnati, IN routS for New Orleans,
stopped over in Louisville on the 21st, and
best the Eagles "a tot.
A horrible tragedy occurred In Balti.
more on the afternoon OF the 21st. A Mrs.
Catherine Marsh left her home, borrowed
butcher knife, went to school near by,
called ont her son James, aged 8, and cut
his head nearly of. She then rushed for
another little boy, named Barnett, who ran
and escaped. She then returned home,
went into the yard, seized another son,
William, aged Z, from swing, cut his
throat, and then grasped her daughter,
Mary Jane, aged 4, and cut her head com.
pletely off, She then went into the house
and cut the throat Of her youngest child
George, aged 2 years, nearly severing the
head from the body. She then cut the
throat of her own mother, Mrs. Durycs,
aged "a. 80 badly that she would die. Mrs
| Marsh was arrested and taken to the Sta
ton House. She had always borne an ex.
cellent character, and was doubtless in.
sane at the time of the tragedy, although
on the evening of the 21st she appeared
conscious of the terrible deed.
An immense concourse attended the
funeral of the murdered Marsh children,
in Baltimore. on the Oath. The mother,
who was confined In the city Jail, was a
raving maniac.
A special dispatch to the Louisville
Courier Journal of the 25th indicates the
election OF General j. H. Lewis, Democrat,
to Congress, from the Third Congressional
District Of Kentucky, by considerable
majority.
| h Nine hundred and forty officers and
men belonging to the Fourteenth United
States Infantry, who have been stationed
at Nashville, Tenn, for some months, left
on the morning of the Goth, on special
train for Sioux City.
The decoration Of the graves Of Con.
fedcrate dead took place at Mobile, Ala,
on the Goth. aH af
A terrible calamity occurred at Rich
mond, Va, on the 27th. The Court of
Appeals was In session, and the room was
crowded with eminent citizens, many To-
cal politicians, and . great many of the
public at large, drawn there by curiosity
to hear the decision upon the question Of
the Mayoralty. At II o'clock the galleries
of the courtroom, which were crowded,
fell in. The floor followed, and descended
thirty feet to the floor below, which was
the floor Of the House of Delegates Of
Virginia, in which some few Of the mem.
bers of the court were waiting. The list
of killed ID given ~ follows: a
Patsick II. Aylstt, Captaia Charters, Chief Of the
Fire Brigade; e. N. echo6sld. City Assessor; DR..
J. b. Brook, editor Of the EaQutsr Julius A. Hob
son. City Collector 3. Dug ger member of the HOnse
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