Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-05-11
A lawyer in idaho a while ago got

mad at Judge Lewis, OF tnat 1eTrl-
tory, and forged a letter Of resigna-
tion for him, and sent it to Washing
ton. The Judge was greatly sur
prised to learn that his resignation
was accepted; and he forthwith went
on to Washington to see aboutit
A Connecticut lawyer who wished
to cross the river on ice was told that
it would be entirely safe to make the
attempt if he crawled over on his
hands and knees. Anxious to go, he
humbled himself accordingly, and
had laboriously got half way across
when he was overtaken by man
driving along leisurely in buggy.
The erapidity with which he assumed
.an.apxight -pOsition was startlng to
the driver.
ST. LOUIS, May 6.-The steamboat
Great Republic, the finest on the
Mississippi river, was sold today by
the u. s. Marshal for $4,000. She
cost $500, 900 three years ago.
The National Medical Association,
sitting at San Francisco, had two
stormy discussions last Saturday over
the question of admitting female
Delegates, and finally postponed the
matter indefinitely, and then ad-
journed without day.
In the States Prison at Sing Sing,
New York, a gallery gave way last
Friday. with Sc convicts on it, fall
ing with them 40 feet to the floor
Two Of them were thought to be
fatally injured.
The Indian Bureau has reports
from many points throughout the
Indian Territory, and there are no
apprehensions felt OF any organized
hostility during the season now
opening.
The Commissioner Of Pensions has
nearly perfected his arrangements
Tor settling the new bounty claims of
the soldiers of the war of 1912, rs
provided by recent act of Congress.
A man named Lafayette Fisher, at
Newton, Illinois, killed his mother
and sister with an aX a few days ago.
He Is said to be insane.
The Legislative Committee on
Elections i'm Connecticut has found
an error Of 20 in the count Of votes
for English, which throws the
Gubernatosial elections inta-t 4~gs.
islature, and has also found an evi
dent fraud by which Jewell's vote
in Hartford was reduced 100. The
matter will be fully investigated.
They had big snow-storm in
Maine last Friday.
Both Prussian and French papers
are loud in their praises of Clara
Barton, our noble American woman,
for her services in behalf Of the sick
and wounded during the late war.
The L. Senate met in special
session at Washington yesterday,
evidently for the purpose Of consid-
ering the arrangements made by the
Joint High Commission for the set
tlement Of affairs between England
and the United States. What those
arrangements are, nobody outside
knows--but there are strong assur-
ances given that they will prove
eminently satisfactory to the Ameri-
can people. Hope so--and will prob
ably all know about it before long.
The fighting still goes on in Paris,
without decisive results as yet.
Negotiations for compromise were
still in progress at latest word, but
with little hope Of success. General
RosseI has been appointed to the
command of the entire Communist
(insurgenD army, and Is preparing
for an offensive movement with 40
900 of his best men. Cannonading,
assaults Of barricades, and general
skirmishing, seem to be the rule
thus far. One dispatch asserts that
the Prussians had announced their in
tention of entering Paris on Tuesday
last If the French Government troops
had not succeeded in entering the
city by last Monday.
Gold LII.
In Chicogo On the 9Th, as per Gate
Citys report, hogs selling slow at
a, 90 to $5,7O; cattle steady and un-
changed, prices not reported; wheat
Arm, sl.26l cash; corn steady and
moderately active, 54s to 4 cents cash.
In st. Louis, same day., by same
report, hogs quiet at s. to, s5.25; cattle
steady at $3.50 to $3.50; wheat dull,
good middling grades Of fall range
from $1.45 to SLIGO; corn slow at 80 to
81 cts. mixed on track.
The treaty just made by the Joint
High Commission sitting at Wash
al 1ack MnrAaxy Tho