Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-03-02

is called to meet at Des Moines, on
Wednesday, June IA.
Rev. Joseph Chester, of Cincinnati, has
been appointed District Secretary Of the
Western Tract and Book Society.
On the 18th Bishop Whitehouse for
| mally suspended Rev. c. e. Cheney, Of
| Chicago, as q rector. Mr.. Cheney's
church, however, requested him TO con-
.inue TO oficiate as their pastor, and he
accordingly preached as usual on the 18th,
and would probably continue TO fill the
pulpit of Christ Church, which is not the
property of the Bishop or the Diocese.
Mr.. Cheney has solemnly protested against
the action of the Ecclesiastical Court and
the sentence of the Bishop.
The Michigan Democratic State Con-
vention met at Lansing on The 2lst and
nominated ID. Darwin Hughes, of Mar
shall, for Associate Justice Of the Supreme
Court; J NJ. Sill, Of Detroit, and c. b.
Fenton, of Mackinaw, for Regents Of the
State University.
An Omaha dispatch of the 21st says
there were still several thousand indians
in the vicinity of Fort Lamarie, being fed
by the government.
A terrible storm Of hail, thunder and
lightning visited San Francisco on the
night Of the 10Th. A fire wall, twelve feet
high and sixty feet long, was blown over,
and fell On top Of three-story frame
building adjoining, crushing it into ruins,
beneath which were buried fifteen or
twenty persons, four of whom were in
stantly killed and several others injured.
| Wilder d. Foster has been nominated
by the Republicans for Representative In
Congress from the Fourth District Of
Michigan.
A frightfnl accident occurred at the
Brookfield Coal Bank, near Youngstown,
Ohio, on the 22d. Fifteen men were de-
sccnding the slope in two cars, and through
the alleged carelessness Of the man whose
duty it was to attach the chain, and failed
to do SO, the cars with the men descended
at fearful rate, with nothing to check
them. A man named Redmond was killed,
and five others so badly injured that they
could not recover. The rest, with the ex
ception Of one, were more or less injured.
The South.
An entire block of buildings in Helena,
Ark, was destroyed by fire ON the 10Th, in
volving loss af $4,000.
Articles Of impeachment were presented
in the Arkansas House on The 10Th, against
Governor Clayton, charging that he has
conspired with members Of the Supreme
Court of the State maliciously and unlaw-
fully to deprive the Lieutenant Governor
OF his Office when he had been lawfully
elected by the people and qualih9 by the
constitution and laws has unlawfully re.
moved N. H. Lock, County and Probate
Judge and Clerk of Court who were
also constitutionally elected; has encour-
aged fraud in elections, has accepted pecu-
mary consideration for issuing State bonds,
obligations to and in favor of the Memphis
& Little Rock, and Fort Smith d Missis
sippi, Ouachita e. Red River companies,
in utter violation Of law, etc.
The joint conference of the two houses
of the General Assembly of Virginia met
on the 18th and determined to recommend
paying the interest on the 10Th of January
on what is known as the old debt of the
Commonwealth, amounting to about
$32, 100000
The Texas Legislature has voted 1895
to pay for portrait of Gen. Sam Houston.
A hurricane on the night of the 18th de-
stroycd or damaged a majority of the
buildings left by the recent fire at Helena,
Ark. Mrs Stewart, widow, was fatally
injured, and her little son instantly killed.
The Baptist church was demolished, and
large number Of other buildings were
either destroyed or badly damaged.
General J. b. Magruder died at Hous-
ton, Texas, on the 10Th.
Governor Clayton, of Arkansas, was no.
titled on the 21st, that articles of impeach-
ment had been presented against him.
The Governor stated that he would receive
the notice, but not officially.
A convention Of delegates, representing
the colored people of Tennessee, met in
Nashville on the 22d, the object being to
obtain information relative to the mental,
moral and pccuniary condition of the race
in the State, and to take steps for their
improvement. .l..I
Little Rock dispatches say that on the
22d there was again no quorum in the
Senate The case of Lieutenant. Governor
Johnson was commenced in the Supreme
Court
Foreign Intelligence.
The Liverpool steamer Pacific has been
lost in the Shetland Islands, with twenty
six of her crew. n
A Bordeaux telegram Of the 10th says
M. Grieyy had been elected President of
the Assembly. The total vote cast was
538, of which M. Grievy received go. At
q caucus held on the night of the 18th,
and composed of majority of the dele
gates, 1t was resolved to establish Pro.