Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-11-17

During the grand ''L0rd Mayors
Procession" in London last week
Wednesday, the fog settled down on
the city 50 dense that objects could
not be seen at twenty feet distant,
though all the street lamps were
lighted. Some of the citizens re-
marked that it was ''rather a foggy
day."
INDIANAPoLIs, Nov. 10.-The
Woolen Mills Of Jacob Swain & Co.,
burned last night. Loss $1OO, 600.
Small insurance.
BUFFALO, Nov. 1O.-About half
past one this morning, a fire broke
out in the large transfer house of the
N. Y. G. r. II. Co.,, at East Buffalo
nsax the -ea&Alo yards, destroying the
building with three hundred empty
cars. The loss Is estimated at $3.50,
600. 1t Is supposed to be the work
of an incendiary.
Is paralysis becoming more COM
mon In the United States: 1t would
seem SO from the increased news
paper notices Of deaths from this
cause. 1t suggests. an interesting
theme of inquiry for the medical
profession.
Mr.. Ralleston, n pioneer of the
Cape of Hope diamond diggings, has
arrived i'm England. He justities
the glowing accounts Of that country
lately published.
WILKEsBARRE, PA, Nov. I9.--
The Luxerne Powder Company's
mill and drying houses were de-
stroyed this morning by terrific
explosion. Thomas Burns was killed,
and Oscar SchOenmaker fatally
injured. Loss $4,000.
The reduction of taxation since
July, 1886, has amounted TO $25l,-
SiS ,S27 .33. The number of articles
formerly taxed and now free Is over
10000.
Cincinnati's eight-f0ot Norwegian
giant is said to be undergoing a
process Of petrification on sulphuric
acid whisky, with a view If marry
ing into the eminent Cardiff family
The London Weekly Examiner of
last Saturday has somehow got the
idea that Gen. Schenck Is to be Y. =.
Minister to England, and 1t rcjoices
thereat, and wants the Alabama
business settled forthwith.
Six workmen were drowned MT Sc.
,Cnarles, Missouri, last Friday aftsr-
noon, by the breaking of some of the
machinery connected with the bridge
they were building.
A private dispatch from Jackson
vile, Florida, dated Sth inst, says:
"A band of 200 men, mounted and
armed, took possession Of Lake City
last night and drove the white and
colOred Republicans from the town,
including the Republican candidates
for Lieut.. Governor aud Legislature.
Five colored men were shot. A
desperate attempt was just made to
Kill the Sheriff Of Madison County,"
Field, Potter & Co.'S Touring mills
Mt Peoria, Illinois, weredestroyel by
fire last Sunday morning. Loss
about scO, 900; fully insured.
There a.e many .spcculatiops now
about prospective Cabinet changes.
The New York Tribune's Washing
ton correspondent telesraphs that
'it il understood that Creswel4. will
retire from tle Cabinet, and be sue
ceeded b. somebody f.QN Pennsyl.
vania; and. 1t Is agaia. reported that
Fish will also have 9, a,succcssor before
many rlonth.
New Orleans dispatches say that
ne gro mon Of about 500 took posses
sion 2f Donaldsonvillc, Louisiana,
last Thursday, set fire to the place,
killed several white citizens, and
worked devastation generally. III o
accounts are conflicting; but 1t OPP
pear that the rioters were speedily
arrested by U. s. troops, and that
little damage was done by tho fires.