Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-12-01
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That Hanson tragedy, at Marshall
town, discovers disgusting antece-
dents back of il. Hanson himself,
pronounced by those who knew him,
"a thorough villain, gambler,
drunkard, brute" And his wife,
who murdered him, was a public
prostitute, seduced in the first place,
she says, by her own father. Says
the Gate city.
The Iowa Miller's Convention,
held at Waterloo the past week, Was
weak in numbers, and an adjourn
ment was made to the second We'd
nesday in January, when the Con-
Vention will reassemble at the same
place. - Register, 22d.
Not death has occurred among
the inmates OF the Soldiers Orphans
Hone at Davenport for the last
sixteen months.
The Register argues that this
country has not realized the expected
pecuniary profit from the European
War, but on the contrary has already
lost several hundred millions OF
dollars by it.
The Oskaloosa Herald of last
Thursday says that on the Tuesday
evening previous some Irish railroad
hands got into "A muss at Oskaloosa,
and one of them was stabbed in the
abdomen, receiving proably fatal
wound. His name was Owen King.
And the same paper says that on
,NondaE pight Of ss~week Mr.. ..
fJeweese was set upon bytwo persons
who demanded his money, and shot
him with a revolver, wounding him
in the hip. The robbers suddenly
fed, without waiting to get his
money.
The Hnwkeye learns that the scoun-
drel Holloway, who abandoned a
wife and child in Sigourney, is
preaching in Nebraska.
Secretary Belknap has very kindly
interested himself in the Soldiers
lCemetery at Keokuk. The house
land grounds are completed. An
Iiron fence will shortly be built, en-
Ielosing the six lots apper,aining 10
the house. and the grounds where
| the dead soldiers rest. Two csnnons
I will mount guard ut the flagstaff,
1.-TWO al the gate, and one In front Of
The building.
A gentleman, formerly Of this city,
now Connected with the widely
known commission house Of Mears
Il sSon, Philadelphia, in private
letter of recent date says: 1--WE are
shipping today twenty thousand
bushels Of Iowa spring wheat to Liv-
erpool. England likes the beautiful
amber wheat H your State. We
sent samples to Johnny Bull, and
Johnny said send more--so we are
trying 1t on now."-Register.
Foster Bros Planing Mill at Des
Moines was destroyed by fire on the
morning Of 23d ult. Loss 10000;
insurance $4,000. Supposed to be
the work OF an incendiary. The
Mill was owned by B. i. Allen; and
1t is supposed that he Is able to build
another.
The Register of the Land Office at
Sioux City says there are probably
15D, 600 acres OF land subject to Sol
diers' Homesteads now in the Coun-
ties Of Sioux, Lyon, Osceola and
O'Brien.
The Richardson Brothers, whoown
and run the Davenport Democrat.
which Is considered the solidesl
Democratic Daily In the State, also
own a s30, 600 farm near Davenport
Newspapers must pay, up that way
Over in Newton, as we learn from
the RepuLliacs, they have Music
!. taugh BIT az q regular branch Of study
initi,e pulsfc school. Prof. Wallace,
who g.sedaI g.sedaI y be, here awhile, iS the
teacher.
Clint. ,tsaikhnrst and J. v. Faith,
tof the Charlton Democrat, have dis.
solved partnership. Clint. retires
from the newspaper business. The
cause IL distressing enough: A rich,
old uncl9in Virginia has just died,
and left him $4,000. We sympa.
thixc most heartily.
The new editor OF the Garden
Grove Enterprise starts out upon his
career with the !aUdable intention oi