Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-11-16
RATES OF ADVERTISING

retire from the State Department.
Senator Scott has received dis
patches from several of the post COM
manders in South Carolina, announc-
ing that the Ku KluX in that State
are pretty thoroughly squelched.
New York is sending workmen OF
all kinds to Chicago.
A Lowell grocer has sagacious
dog that never sees half-barrel oii
flour weighed out on the scales hus
he goes and puts one foot on the
platform, carelessly looking out the
door to avoid exciting suspicion. His
foot weighs about 25 pounds.
Atcllison, Kansas, proposes to vote
$4,000, in subsidies, to be divided
between foundries, manufacturers,
hotels, streets, bridges, De.
Women edit FIVE daily and four
teen weekly papers in Germany.
The apparently most reliable state.
ment of French losses in the cam
paign of 1sTO-7l has it that 5000
soldiers either fell in battle or died
of their wounds.
The japanese Minister hasengaged
Gen. Geo. b. Williams, Second Dep.
uty Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue, with past experience as As
SCISSOR, Collector, and Supervisor, to
60 to Japan and teach them Ameri
cas- Internal Revenue system. II,
will sail from San Francisco on the
| lst Of January next.
Fifty-two miners were killed by "A
terrible explosion of fire. damp ia Il
coal mine near st. Etiennc, France
on the Sth inst.
NEW YORK, Nov. l0.-Thc pub
fishers Of the Spectator" an insur
ance Journal, have issued a table
showing the aggregate loss of Conn
panies by States, number suspended
and assessed, and the number umt'.
fected by the Chicago fire. The total
number of Companies In the United
States is 33j; aggregate capital $s4-,
930, ,2i6; total gross assets Si3j, 40, 10
total losses ss2,82i ,l02; Comlmni-~
suspended 81; number assessed, IS;
number not.in fire, 81.
1t is thought that the small poS in
Philadelphia was caused By buffalo
robes which were taken from indiar
camps where the disease prevailed,
three years ago.
A train on the Cincinnati and In
dianapolis railroad was thrown OF
the track near Liberty, Indiana, l"-t
Thursday, bya COW, and was tcrriblJ
smashed up. Fifteen persons were
injured, ten of them seriously.
CHICAGO, Oct. 10.--The Police and
Fire Commissioners Of this city have
determined to investigate the cause
Of the great fire here and ascertain II
possible the exact truth of its origin.
A fire in Mendoza, H., last Friday,
destroyed seven business buildings,
including one hotel, the Waverly
House. The loss is about sli 900.
The Eagle" Grand Rapids, Mich
igan, thinks that the idea is mis-
taken one that the recent great fires
in Michigan will cause II mnteriaI
rise in the price Of lumber. llsars
that probably onc-half Of all the rino
in the State, damaged BY the fire,
will be saved during this winter.
1t is stated that the Temperance
people OF Michigan have united their
labors for the enforcement Of th"
prohibiiory laws Of the State with
such success that the liquor-dca'crs
have fairly "knocked under" IN ma
ny places.
Judge Williams, of the Chicago
Criminal Court, charged the Grand
Jnry not to be IN any way influenced
by Gov. Palmer's oflicious instrnc-
tiops about the Gr0svenor affair.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 1.-Two cars of q
passenger train on the North Mis-
souri, Railroad were thrown from the
track near Wellsvile, Mo, last ever
ing killing two persons and wound
ing between 90 and 30-some IL Is
feared mortally.
WAsHIyGToN, Nov. f3th.--E. j..
Chandle: was today appointed C"i-
lector of Internal Revenue for the
Sixth Iowa District,
New York City has the smallpox
als0-42 cases last Saturday.
Heavy fall Of snow in Maine laSt
Saturday, and some in Nj ss'n hu-
setts.
pres't Grant has suspended l!nstss
Corpus in Union County ,S"lth tefo-