Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-11-24
r <ysssOWA NEWS.

an employee OF the Bridge Company,
accidentally fell into the river at
Keoknk last Thursday afternoon, and
was drowned. He was engaged to
be married, and his wedding was to
have taken place last Sunday, says
i the Gate city.
Il Senator Grimes was at Glyon,
Switzerland, on the 18th ult., and
considers himself about well again
with the exception Of a numbness
and lack Of circulation in his left arm
aud hand.
Among the newly elected directors
lof the Southern Transcontinental
!, Railway Company is General f. w.
Il Rice, Of Iowa. Among the other
directors are Gen. Fremont, John
Jacob Astor, Edward Pierrepont,
Gen. Banks, and other men Of polit-
ical and financial note.
i At one time the Treasurer of
Madison County kept the County
fundsin his wife's stocking leg. Some
one suggesting that that was an in
secure place for SO much money, the
Treasurer sublimely replied that "no
vault in the world was safer than his
wife's stocking"
A Des Moines boy only seven years
old ran away from home on the 9Th
inst, and was finally found at
Kalamazoo, Michigan, says the
Hegister. Fast boys there, about the
Capital.
Patent-Right swindlers up in the
north part Of the State gull farmers
! by selling them certain Township
Rights" &C., and taking in payment
the farmers notes written on paper
which has certain conditions printed
on the back; and then the swindlers
split the paper, and leave the notes
without conditions, and sell them to
third parties for collection.
Two more of our Iowa newspapers
have succumbcd and gone down for
want of the life that comes of money
the ST. Ansgar Guzette and the
GAINESVILLE Star. The press is feeling
the pinch of the tOngs of the present
tight times.--Isegister.
The majority against a Constitu-
tionaI Convention i'm this State was
1901, says the same authority.
The people Of Lyons are excited
over the recent death of a child from
the effects, as is believed, Of blow
from the hand Of his school teacher.
1t is alleged that the teacher struck
him heavy blow on the side of the
head and face with the palm Of his
hand, and that the boy went home
with severe headache, which was
followed by typhoid fever and, after
three weeks, death.
The Bee Keepers of Iowa are to
| hold their annual convention at Dies
Moines, commencing on the 10Th OF
December.
ot 1t appears that Prohibition was
defeated in Jasper County this year
after aIl-for lack, not Of majority,
but of majority Of the whole vote
cast at the election.
II An old lady named Bell, who
a resides in Cedar Township, in this
4 County, is SO years Of age. She is
the mother of seventeen children,
fourteen or fifteen of whom are living.
She has been living in Monroe Co.
over twenty years; and neighbor
who has been living near her for
seventeen years, says that he has
never known her to be sick. She
does all her own house work, and
also does her own gardening, and
bids fair to live many years longer
AiJia Union.
Same paper says that the meeting
held recently in Abba to organize
opposition to the payment Of the
Railroad Tax, was "composed of
some of the most respectable and
responsible citizens" and that they
propose to take the matter directly
to the u. s. Courts.
] Regular trains now run from Abba
to Oskaloosa over the Iowa Central
Railroad, whereat the Herald greatly
rejoices, of course. Well, next year
we can do likewise for similar cause.
Miss Mary Young, young woman
4 working in the family Of ]. Mckay,
at Des Moines, while going down
stairs last Friday, with large lamp
in her hand, fell, and broke the
lamp. The oil caught fire from the
burning wick, and she was enveloped
in flames. Her cries brought assis-
Etance Immediately, but her injuries
\ are 50 severe that but little hope is
Sfe1itertained Of her recovery. We
isglean from the Register IA
4. Same paper says:-We learn that
icouple of farmers got into an alterc.-
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