Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-17

caster for Ausitoy General, and Hon L.
A. Wheeler, of kercxr County, sos eaf'
veyo- Genera.
The West.
The Illinois Democratic sssse oenl's
Committee, q. q recent meeting, dscAceo
70 cal STATE Convention, TO be bell II
Sp,ingSeE on the slh OF October.
| A meeting of the managers Of the steam
hos, and railroad lines Of the So-th1est
At Milwaukee, on the 81, decided upon q
tariff Of twepty five cents per hUndrec
pounds for grain, and fly cents per bar
| rel for -four from all points on the Mis
issippi River to Chicago, Milwaukee and
| Duluth.
The Democratic State Central Commit
| tee Of Minnesota has called the State
| Democratic Convention TO meet &. St
Paul, September 10.
| After long discussion ia The CiDcln-
| natl Board Of Councilmen, on the IN, a
vote was reached On the repeal OF the
Sunday ordinance, resulting, % votes In
sktDI III Icpc1s W ~ oSoAASe.
The Montana Aerald Of July q con-
tains an account Of formidable Indian
raid In the Galla.in Valley. Two men
named James Nixon and George Shepperd
were killed, and between 200 and 800 head
ofs.ock and horses run off Two companies
Of cavalry, under Captain Ball and Cap
tain Norton, from Fort Ellis, and some
fifty citizens started in pursuit Great ex-
element prevailed. The citizens in all
parts Of the valley were arming and con.
centra.ing at Hamilton, where barricades
were being thrown up. The Indians are
supposed to belong TO the Bank Sioux,
under Sitting Bull, the main body OF which
Is cncamped between the Yellowstone and
Powder rivers. They are not treaty In
dams, being on no reservations, and war
Unfortunately upon other tribes and
whites They are supposed TO number
1860 lodges, and further trouble was ex-
pected from them.
Friends Of Clement l.. Vallandigham
held a meeting at Dayton on the 9Th, and
appointed committee to report plan for
erecting a suitable monument to his
memory.
According to the figures of the publisher
of the Chicago City Directory, who has
recently completed thorough canvass of
the city, the population of Chicago is 1884,
27O; the United States census gave 300 933.
There are 07,27s families in the city, of
which 28,S70 are Germans, q, 839 native
Americans, and ~, 145 Irish.
The third trial of George Vanderpool
for the murder, at Manistee, of Herbert
Field was begun at Hastings, Mich, on
the 9Th.
The New York Tribune Of the 9th has
dispatch from the United States Mar
shall at Helena, Montana, announcing the
election of Clagget, Republican, as Dele
gate TO Congress, by 1000 majority.
BY direction Of the President, the Dis
trict Land Office now located at Humboldt
Kansas, will, on and after September 20
next, be located at Independence, Mont
gomery County, Kansas.
At Salt Lake, on the 9th, in the Third
District Court, Mormon polygamist was
held to bail In the sum of $4,000 charged
by his first wife with adultery.
The SOnth.
A Charlestown, 3. G. dispatch OF the
Sd says the election of Gen. Wagner as
Mayor, and the whole of the citizens
ticket, was conceded by majority of about
500.
The returns from the North Carolina
election received on the 9th indicate u
Republican success in the State and the
defeat of the proposed convention.
The State election in Kentucky oc-
Cured on the 7th. A Louisville dispatch
on the morning Of the 9th says: The
Democratic majority in the State is vari-
ously estimated here at from 10000 to
10000. Disturbances are reported from
various parts of the State. At Frankfort,
after the polls closed, a riot occurred, in
which one hundred shots were fired. w.
d. Gilmore, clerk In the Auditors Office,
and Silas Bishop, both whites,were killed,
and several whites and four or five col
ored wounded, though not seriously.
General Allen Rutherford, recently re-
turned to Washington from North Car.
olina, estimates the Republican majority
In that State at from ten to twelve thou
sand.
On the morning of the 9th body of
armed men, about $50 In number, went to
the Frankfort, KY, Jail, demanded the key
from the jailor, and opened the jail door,
taking out negro that had committed an
outrage upon the person of Mrs. Pfeiffer a
few days before, also negro by the name
of Washington, who, 1t Is said, was the
first man that fred pistol in the riot OF
the 7th, and hung them both about half
mile from the Jail.
The first bale Of cotton raised in Geor-
pia this year was received at Savannah on
the Seh. 1t was grown in Decatur County,
and WIS sold at auction for 81 cents per
pound. It Is classed as strict middling.
Returns received at Louisville on the
9th from twenty-nine counties in Ken
Sr,r te 4 400