Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-02-17

The Connecticut Republican State Con
vention on the 9th renominated the pres
ent State officers, except for Lieutenant
Governor, for which Office Hon. Morris
Tyler, OF New Haven, was nominated.
The Mormons are said to have made
large number OF converts on Long Island
scattered through q dozen towns, ma.
jority of whom are girls of Is to rs years
They are to be sent to Utah early in the
spring. A ship-load Of Mormon emf
grants, mostly from Wales, arrived at New
York on the 9th, and would start overland
Immediately.
The West.
Hon. David Atwood, Of the Wisconsin
State Journal, has been nominated for Con-
gress by the Republican Convention of
the Second Wisconsin District, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the recent death of
Congressman Hopkins. One hundred bal
lots were taken before this result was
reached. 13
Ex-Gov. Allen Trimble died at his resi-
dence, in Hillsboro, Ohio, on the morning
of the Bird. He was in his 87th year, and
has resided in Hillsboro since 1905.
In the Kansas Senate, on the I'd, the
memorial asking Congress to submit the
Sixteenth Amendment to the various
States, was tabled by the casting vote OF
the Lieutenant Governor.
A broken rail on the Chicago & North
western Railroad threw the train from
the north off the track near Oshkosh Wis,
on the 3D.. Two men were dangerously
and six or eight, including the conductor,
slightly injured.
The steam boiler In +. T. Slnker & Co.'S
foundry, at Indianapolis, burst on the
morning Of the 5tA injnring fonr men
very severely, and by suspending all
work throwing 1875 men out of work.
This is the firm whose boiler exploded at
the State Fair in October last.
The Legislature of Utah has passed the
Woman Suffrage bill
Miss Amelia Hobbs has been elected
Justice of the Peace for Jersey Landing
township, Jersey county, ILL.,, by ma.
jority of twenty-slx. This is the first
woman ever elected to office in Illinois.
There was report from Fort Benton.
Montana, on the 9Th, that in the camps on
the Maras the Indians were dying at the
rate of twenty-five per day, of smallpox.
At the recent municipal election in Bur-
lington, Iowa. Hon. VIM. Bell, Mayor,
Republican; Mr.. William Agutta, Treas
urer, Democrat, and Colonel ]. s. Halli-
day, City Recorder, Republican, were all
reelected without opposition. William
Endsly, independent, was elected Mar
shall
A hurricane passed over Virginia City,
New, on the 9th. Several persons were
injured, and one man killed.
Thorpe, who was convicted in Cincin-
natl, in December, of fraudulently using
tobacco stamps twice, has been sentenced
to pay fine Of $4,000, and to one years
imprisonment in jail .
The South.
Snow fell at Richmond, Va, all day on
the 9th, but the weather was too warm for
It TO remain.
The Texas Legislature met on the 9Th.
The Virginia Legislature met at Rich
mond on the 9Th. The House, by vote
of 100 to 10, adopted resolution asking
Congress to remove all political disabili.
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I The impeachment trial of State Auditor
Wickliffe, of Louisiana, commenced at
New Orleans on the 9th.
Revenue Collector Peabody, at Nash
vile, Tenn, has seized 100000 cigars in
the house of Campbell & Spore, of that
city for alleged violation Of the Revenue
law. RIO
The Louisiana Senate has passed
Registration bill. 8aa
In special message 10 the Virginia
Legislature, on the 9th, Governor Walker
recommends that Congress be 'petitioned
for a general removal of disabilities. The
Conservative members Of the Legislature,
in caucus, nominated James Mcdonald,
editor of the Richmond Wing, for Secre-
tary of State, and VIM. r. Taylor for
Auditor. .9s ..el
Foreign Intelligence.
1t has been fairly demonstrated that
vessels drawing no more than III feet Of
water are able to pass through the Suez
Canal with safety. ~
A Madrid telegram Of the 4th reads:
!" Official dispatches from Havana, an
nounclng the defeat Of the insurgents by
the national troops, were received last
evening, and are the occasion Of great re-
joicing.' ish9 4 * 2iishl h3stsi't
! A New York dispatch of the 9TH says
Additional details make General PuellO's