Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-04-07

4 Pleas, on TUESDAY, MAY IL.
| Fourteen vessels were sunk in HSver-
straw Bay, y. T., during the storm OF
March q, and much other damage was
done. One schooner was driven into the
streets Of the village Of Grassy Point.
An emigraRt ship is supposed to have
Nundered in Massachusetts, Bay, quaint
ties OF wrecked stuff, including bed sacks,
pillows, &c, having washed ashore On
Cape Cod
While four miners were descending the
shaft OF coal mine near Shenandoah
| City, Pa, ON the Goth, the rope broke,
precipitating them TO the bottom, over
sixty feet, and all were instantly killed.
Collector of Internal Revenue Pleas
anton, successor to Collector Bailey, took
the oath Of Office in New York, on the
29th. In letter received by the new
Collector Bailey Gays his determination TO
leave New York was made but half an hour
before he started, and he had no time to
put things in order. He confirms the re-
suit of the investigation 80 far as they
had gone, and says that none Of bis sub
ordinates but Deputy Collector Childs
knew anything Of the matter, ard he got
no personal benefit from using the money,
asserting it was used to ferret out fraud.
By an accident on the Erie Railroad,
about two miles east Of Wellsburg, on the
Goth, smoking car and two passenger
cars were thrown from the track and went
down an embankment. The smoking car
was occupied by emigrants bound for
Rochester, several of whom were serious
" injured. Three persons in the other
cars were also seriously injured.
The West.
The Mormon Conference has been post
poned TO the 9Th Of May.
-Four spans Of the Central Pacific Rail
road bridge over American river, near
Sacramento, were burned on the night OF
the 23d.
Arizona advices are that shock OF an
earthquake visited Prescott and its vicinity,
March Il, being the first since that coun-
try was settled by whites. The oscilla-
tions were southeast TO northwest No
material damage was done.
The Michigan eeKeepers' Association
has decided To call National Bee-Keep-
ere Convention at Indianapolis on August
10 and II.
The Lacrosse, Wis, Democrat of March
Is publishes letter from General G. G..
Washburn, percmptorily declining un-
der any circumstances, to be candidate
for reelection to Congress.
The Oregon State Democratic Conven-
ton met at Albany, on the 23d. j. II.
Slater, of Baker county, was nominated
for Congress by reclamation; L. f. Glover,
Of Marion county, for Governor; F. Chad
wick, of Douglas county, Secretary I;
Lewis Flcishcimcr, Of Multomah county,
Treasurer; l.. Patterson, of the Portland
Herald, State Printer.
Miss l.. M. Barkalow, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, student of the st. Louis Law
School, passed a very severe examination
on the 18th, before Judge knight, of the
Circuit Court, and was admitted to
practice.
The Missouri Legislature adjourned sine
die on the 25th.
Samuel Watson, on trial at Racine, Wis !,
for the murder of Mrs. Hanley, has been
found guilty Of murder in the first de-
gree.
BY an accident on the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy Railroad, at Quincy,
ILL.,. few days ago, three men were so
severely injured that they subsequently
died. Their widows have sued the rail
road company for damages.
Lieutenant Colonel Baker, command.
ing at Fort Ellis, Montana, reports, UNI
der date of March 20, that the mum.
Der killed at the Piegan village was
173, OF when 1870 were able bodied men,
and 90 women and children; and
that 14O women and children were after
ward captured and released. He says
he believes "that every effort was made by
the officers and men to save the nsn-com-
batants, and that such women and chill
dren as were killed were accidentally
killed"
MuJOI deucIhi uCOIpC II. uOIuos, SoAu-
mandin9 the Department Of the Pacific,
died in San Francisco on the evening Of
the 2sth Of March, of apoplexy.
The Oregon election will be held on the
first Monday in June.
Owing TO sudden rise in the river the
embankment at the lower lock of the Ca
nal at Keokuk, Iowa, gave way, on the
Goth, and the entire Government work at
that point was flooded, causing great
damage.
The south.
Pierre Soule died in New Orleans on
the Goth, aged 90 years.
The Tennessee State election occurred
on the 26tlr. Dispatches to the Nashville
Banner of that date ipdicate the ratifica-
ton of the new constitution by decided
majority. A Memphis dispatch Of the
Goth says, owing to the splitting Of the
ticket, it would require the official count
to determine the result.
During q severe rain and wind storm in
N NJ A. :a.Y.A A.. Nal.