Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-02-10

The remains Of George Peabody were
conveyed from the British ship Monarch
to the City Hall, at Portland, Me-, on the
Goth ult., with suitable public honors, and
the streets were crowded, although the
weather was unfavorable.
F.A. Stevens, an ex-gauger, has been
arrested in New York for making alleged
fraudulent certificates. He was bailed in
$1,000.
The Connecticut Democratic State Com.
mittee has designated the ed Of February
as the day Of meeting Of the State Con.
vention.
Early on the morning Of the 31st ult.,
q kerosense lamp exploded in the house Of
Nichols Bliss, at Buffalo, N. Y, setting
fire to the furniture In the bedroom occu.
pied by that family, consisting Of Bliss,
his wife and two children. All were
burned in dreadful manner. One child
died Immediately after the flames were
extinguished. The other was in very
critical condition. Bliss and his wife
would probably recover, but they will be
very much disfgured.
| Arrangements are making for holding a
National Convention at Pittsburgh, Pa,
early in March, for the purpose Of secur.
| Ing an amendment Of the Federal Consti.
tuition recognizing God and the Holy
Scriptures.
The final rites at Portland, Me-, In
honor Of George Peabody, took place on
the 1st, after which, with appropriate
ceremonies, the remains were escorted to
the cars, which left at o'clock for the
! town Of Peabody, Mass, where they ar.
rived in the evening, and were deposited
in the library room of the Peabody Insti-
tute. The principal buildings, particu.
larly the institute, were fest0oned with
Grape.
Funeral services over the late Gen. 10
seph A. Mower took place at New London,
Conn.,, on the LIST.
| Seventy.six new cases of new cpl
demic, the relspsing fever, were reported
to the New York Board Of Health on the
3lst ult. No death from the disease had
been up to that time reported.
The New Jersey Assembly, on the LIST,
rejected the Fifteenth Amendment, by q
vote of 80 to ~.
The Vermont State Female Suffrage
Convention was held in Montpelier on
the I'd, and was largely attended. The
meeting Is said to be the commencement
of lively canvass designed to be carried
on in the State prior to the election of
delegates to the Constitutional Conven-
ton, to be held in May.
The West.
The Iowa House passed bill on the
9th, striking the word "white" from the
code relating to qualifications for prac.
ticing law. The joint resolution ratifying
the Fifteenth Amendment was adopted
by both branches of the Legislature.
An expedition left Fort Shaw on the
10Th, against certain tribes of Indians
who had been stealing and numbering,
and 1t IL reported that on the 23d 1t sur
prised camp of thirty lodges and killed
all but six or eight.
The expedition of Col. Eugene Baker
against certain troublesome bands of In.
dams in Montana has proved q complete
success There were 173 Indians killed,
A lodges burned, winter supplies destroy
ed, and 800 horses captured and the Fed
eral loss is reported al only one killed
and one injured by falling from his horse.
Nho trnt Ia xryhsOH 0aN nvv~0 ho
for California on the 9th ult, ran of the
track two miles west of Aspen Station.
Six cars were thrown from the track. Two
passengers, named n. O'Sullivan, former
ly an Alderman of Chicago, and August
Buchler, of New York, were killed. Seve-
raj were injured.
Two hundred and ninety three chests Of
tea were shipped overland from Califor.
mia during the week ending January 20,
and the officers Of. the Union Pacific road
have advices that one thousand chests
more are to follow.
A dispatch, signed by Horace Cooke,
was sent from Chicago on the 31st ult., to
his wife in New York city, saying: II
uoV0 ACit Aol puAt0 uuAAOWA. AOu Will
never see me again."
On the first Of January there were 1904
convicts In the. Illinois Penitentiary at
Joliet, 546 of whom were received during
the year. Gov. Palmer issued 108 par.
dons in 1859, and $50 applications for
pardon were refused.
The Kansas House of Representatives,
by So to 0, asks Congress to initiate the
Sixteenth observation-disclosures suffrage.
Reports were received in st. Paul, on
the evening of the 81st ult., that General
Riell, Chief of the insurgents, had been
arrested by the Hudson Bay Company
eight miles this side of Fort Garry, and
taken to the Fort. This Is In accordance
with previous intimation that the Com
pany would soon resume sway in Rupert's
Land, but accounts of the matter were
meaQre and cOntradictOrY