Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-10

the I'd, and eight women were burned 70
death. The women were in the attic,
picking over cotton, the only entrance 20
which was small scuttlA
H west
The vote in the Madison (wis.) distric.,
for Congress, At the late special election,
was for David Atwood, 4,S92; for all
others, To6.
A special election for Member Of Con-
eress 4 70 be held in the Tenth Ohio
District, on the-nrst Monday in April, to
al the vacancy occasioned By the death VI
Nj. HosS.
The Board of Supervisors Of the county
Of Milwaukee, Wis, have rendered the
new Court House, which h 70 cost nearly
. million dollars to the State, for Capt.
tai House, provided the Capital II moved
to Milwaukee
The Ohio House Of Representatives on
the oath refused to pass the bill repeating
the law Of last winter providing for taxa
ton Of United States bonds, notes, and
fractional currency.
The Missouri Senate, on the 24th. elected
Mis Nellie Raymond, of st. Louis, En-.
crossing Clerk
The Minnesota Senate has, by vote OF
IL to 9, concurred in the House bill pro-
viding for an amendment to the constitu-
ton allowing female suffrage. The bill
provides that the votes Of women may be
taken in separate boxes and counted for
and against this proposition.
According to late news received at st.
Paul the Indians throughout the region
north of Lake Superior were starving TO
death, owing to an unusual scarcity Of
game.
Mr.. Wilbur F. Storey, editor and pro-
prietor OF the Chicago Times, was assault
ed on the streets OF that city, on the oath,
by Miss Lydia Thompson and Miss Pau.
line Markham, members Of . Blonde Bur-
lesque Troupe performing at the Opera
House, who attempted TO publicly cow
hide their victim. Mr.. Storey received
some pretty severe blows, but defended
himself with q cane, when, as 1t Is report.
ed, three or four male friends of the as.
sailants Joined in the attack, and one OF
them inflicted quite severe blow on Mr..
Storey's face. Some bystanders interfered
and nut an end to the melee, and three of
the assailants were arrested. Tne attach
was caused by recent severe structures in
the Times upon the character Of the
blondes and their theatrical perform.
ances.
A Police Judge at San Francisco has
been sentenced to six months imprison-
ment for abusing Cinnamon.
Gen. j. L. Geddes, of Vinton, has been
appointed Military Instructor Of the Iowa
Agricultural College.
Judge McAllister, of Chicago, recently
committed two attorneys and an accom-.
plice husband to Jail for fraud and collu-
sion in procuring divorce.
The trial Of George Vanderpool, at
Manistee, Michigan, for the murder Of
Herbert Field, was concluded on the 28th
ult., with verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree. The prisoner solemnly
averred that he was innocent. He was
sentenced to solitary confinement for life
At the Police Court In Chicago, on the
28th ult., Miss Thompson, Miss Markham
and Mr.. Henderson were fined 500 each
for the assault on Mr.. Storey, of the
Times, and two lookcrs-on-G Gordon and
Eldridge-who belonged to the assaulting
party, were fined $40 each. The parties
were also held on q charge of riot--Mr
Henderson in bonds of $500, and the
others In $500. Mr.. Henderson was sub
sequently arrested on charge Of assault
with deadly weapon, with intent to do
bodily injury" and was held for trial in
bonds of $500. The blonde party left
Chicago, on the 9th, in q hack, taking
the cars at the Junction for Detroit.
In the Ohio House of Representatives,
on the 2sth ult., bill introduced to sub.
NIT the question of female suffrage to the
vote of the women Of Ohio over 81 years
of age, was rejected by vote of Al to 80
Orson Hyde has been elected Speaker
of the Senate, and Orson Pratt, Speaker
OF the House of Assembly Of the State Of
Dcseret, at Salt Lake.
The Supreme Court Of Ohio has grant.
ed the application for writ of error in
the Cincinnati Bible in schools case, but
set the case for hearing on the second
Tuesday in December:
The Ohio House, on the LIST, reconsid
cred It's action of the day previous, on the
Woman Suffrage bill, and allowed it to
be printed.
At the charter election of Rock Island
ILL.,, on the LIST, Porter Skinner, Democrat
was elected Mayor. The Council stands
six Democrats to three Republicans.
The south
The Republicans of Alabama will hold
State Convention In Selma on the last
Tuesday in June next.
The Texas Legislature adjourned sim
die on the 25th. al
The Tennessee Senate has concurred II
the House resolution rejecting the Fiji
tenth Amendment.