Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-26
GENERAL KWs summary.


puipg yeaS. The vote for Grand Com
rasnder-in. Chief resulted n : total vote
u Is; necessary 70 . choice, %. General
Ltkan received - !; Pieannton, 10; Hart
mi, II 'Densison, . !; ecAenck, I. Gen
atal Leqa W. then declsSed unanimous
81 chosen.4 The other officers elected
w9s: Governor Lueien Fairchild, Of Wis
cpnsin, Senior Vice Commander /; General
Lewis Wagner, Of Pennsylyanias Junior
Vice Commander; DE- Samuel A. Greene,
a Massachusetts, Surgeon General and
Rev. DR.. g. W. Collier, Of Ohio, Chaplain
General with 4 Membe. Of Council Of
Administration from each State.
The following nominationS were sent 10
1hE6essse on the 18th George W. Dent,
AppsaissSas San Frsnclsco; Postmasters
IN. b. Stone, San Francisco; 9JsAse
Mosss, Oweusbpro. KY; Susan Il Bur
hjdge, Hopkiasvills. Ky. IN ld9i4d III
,lncluding the balance IN the Treasury
na December 81, namely. 412s. 4s3, 237,
ehe receipts, Of the Government for the
quksssf ending March 81 were $224, 1884,.
Sls, and expenditures $1O6. 005, 029.
"A Washington dispatch Of the 18th
syy the Wsys and Means Committee did
~ agfss with the action Of the Senate
FINANCE Oommitaee IN reducing the IN
come tax TO 8 per cent They were dis
posed y leave Il Ats per cent, but to in
cr4se the exemption TO % 500. fn,.9g
The President has nominsted p. B. Haw-
kins Postmaster at Bowling Green, KY;
&. Philip jacobson, United States Attor-
sney tot the Southern District Of Misds-
'dppL ga FSyi''' ''f7 .'- ~
rs 8Mg0r - ~ aead ilf ~
te1,7a4ae ,, The East. - ss4l4ae4a
:. Gold closed In New York on the 18th
q rs, man $3.50 t,~ G,.l,.a-.
Judge Thos. r. Butler has been elected
Chief-J Justice OF Connecticut by the Leg
mature, etcy Hinlan, deceased. ~ '''
The Maine Democrstic State Conven-.
3on n called 70 meet IN Portland on the
90tA of june. - ;d45s b asd gifjpf
TIE Lodge u Masons At Boston. of
which Gen. Jos. Warren was first Grand
Master. celebrated its one hundredth an
niyeEsasy on the 18th. Id, ma.
An election was recently held In Yer
mont for members Of 9 Constitutional
Convention. The woman suffrage ques-
tion wss the main issue A dispatch says !:
~The convention viii be composed Of the
strongest men in the State, and win be
strongly, II not unanimously, opposed TO
woman suffrage" g9nisa ~ 8aaa
az The recent municipal election in Povi-
denoe, r. l., resulted in the choice Of
Thomas A. Doyle, Republican, for Mayor,
- 966 majority, over Clark, Citizen, and
Beech. DsmocEat. 80 81 31il t.ob ~
. Ths New York pspsrs Of the 18th give
graphic, accounts Of . terrible confagrs-
ton then raging In the woods and among
the mountains Of Sullivan, Orange, Msdi-
son, and other counties In New York
0tAte. The confsgration extended over
one hundred miles of territory, aad the
los was already estimated at t5,000,0 900.
In the night the spectacle Of the burning
mountains was grand and startling. It
was feared . family near Deposit, . sta.
ton on the Erie Railroad, had been roasted
alive.
A State MAss Temperance Convention
will 10 held ut Auburn, Maine, on the
18th of june, to nominate candidate, for
Governor.
"a large number Of Mormons' passed
through New York city on the 10Th. for
- West 50 ~iaTy IS 99i1g 5bie'g0
ia, New York dispatch Of the 10th says
thst, from the best authority that could 30
Obtained, several hundred men belong.
mr. to the Fsnian organizations had left
the city on the war; path within the pre-
cedipg forty eight hours.
Thefe were several cases Of sun stroke
IN New York city on the 18th. = lh'a z
- TIE total vote d New York city u the
Ulection on the nth WIS 104. 2e7, or which
Church, Democrat received 81 101 and
Selden, Republican, 22,1S8. Brooklyn
gsvs about 1900 Democratic, majority on
tie State ticket, and elected . Democratic
city ticket by between 5000 ard 1000.
The Indications On the 18th were that the
Democratic majority ihtthe State would be
about $4,000. The total vote was COM
psraavsly light. ~ ,uo1i sqdgl.qsld
iioets 10 Ths west i3iiae7i oil
A game Of base. bali wss played IN DIN.
eia4A, on the 18th, between The I Red
6tQckipgs,". Of that city, and the |. Forest
Oitys," or Cleveland. Score, IL for, the
former to Q epr the latter. : ' - -
N The St. Pail Pssss o. the nth publishei
aletter from Duluth, (which seyso large
bands Of Fenisps, numbering from two to
tour hnndred, we're oohgfegating there
ibr Sisrvice III the Red River country
s1sainst the British Invasion. They were
reported well armed, and undef command
ioeap - Confederate officer. They pro
'peped 70 reach Fort Garry by the Rainy
Lake route, capturing Fort Francis On
Is. r. way. The Prsss does not vouch FOL
liz truth Of this intelligence. fi,,,
''aiB ~ direction ta Of the United States au
thdktisS, Tie Governor d Michigan hal
instrnnted the Superintend ent Of the SAUL