Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-06-29


showed little signs Of fatigue.
A horrible tragedy occr -red in New
York city on the 18Th A DR.. Connolly,
while in an inebriate. condition, took his
two children int, his bedroom, fastened
the door, and then deliberately butcaered
the lite ones with q carving knife, after
WI ,ch he cut his own threat from ear TO
ear. The wife and mother was rendered
| insane for time on the discovery Of the
terrible affair.
In New York city, on the i9;h, the Mu-
tual Base Bali Club defeated the Cleveland
Fores. Ci,ys-10 TO 6. A game was pisy-
ed at Troy between the Hsymakers, OF
that city, aud the Kekiongas, Of Fl
WAYNE. The score stood on the sixth
inning 6 TO 3 In favor of the latter club,
when the former demanded the subssitu-
ton Of a new ball, claiming that the one
in use was ripped This the Kekiongas
refused TO aocede to, when the umpire de-
cided the game In favor Of the Haynakers
p too.
In the United States Circui. Court at
Canandaigua, Judge Woodruff hasdecided
that the extension Of the Mellier patent
for making paper pulp was improperly
granted and void, and that the patent is
now public property.
At the Norwaik, Conn, city election, on
the Goth, the Republicans elected their
ticket by an average majority Of $50.
A New York telegram of the 10Th says
the epidemic which broke out among the
he-ses in that city, some three weeks be-
fore, was rapidly sbating, and it was be-
lieved by the veterinary surgeons, who had
been fighting i. since the beginning, that
: 1t would soon almost totally disappear.
In a game of baseball played at Phila-
: dephia on the Goth, the Mutuals, Of New
York, defeated the Philadelphia Athletics
-s too. In New York city, the Cleve.
, land Forest Citys defeated the Stars, of
. Brooklyn--6 too.
I Governor Jewell has appointed j. X.
Hawley, OF Hartford, and Professor Will
. liam p. Blake, Of New Haven, Commits
, sioners for Connecticut, under the act of
Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876.
, In a game Of baseball at Philadelphia
, on the 21st, the Athletics, of that city,
7 defeated the Washington Olympics 10 TO
2. At New York the Cleveland Forest
Citys beat the Resolutes, of Elizabeth, N
J.-A TO 3. At Boston. the Red Stock.
} ings, of that city, defeated the Kekiongas,
Of Fort Wayne-21 too.
The West.
Chief Justice Chase was in Cincinnati
on the 10Th. He is said to have been ben
, Gifted by travel.
The Wisconsin Democratic State Con-
vention has been called to meet at Madison
on the 23d of August.
The recent Iowa Democratic State Con-
, vention made the following nominations
! For Governor, j. G. Knapp, of Van Blu
rem County Lieutenant Governor, M. N.
Ham, of the Dubuque Herald; Superin-
, tendent of Public instruction, X. NJ. Num-
> of Lee; Supreme Judge, John +. Dun
, comb, of Webster. John p Irish was re.
elected Chairman of the State Central
Committee.
A Lebanon, Ohio, dispatch of the 10th
: says Hon. Clement L. Vallandigham, one
of the counsel for the defense of Thomas
Mcclellan, had accidentally shot himself
Ut the Lebanon House, and 1t was feared
the wound would prove fatal. One &C
count says
ut appears that no one was present with
Mr. Vallandigham when the accident oc-
Cured bat ex.Lieutenant- Governor Nc
: Burney, who has been associated with him
In the defense Of Mcclellan, the murderer.
McI3urney had expressed some doubts as
TO the theory that Meyers had shot him
self, and Vallandigham picked up pistol
from the table, saying he would show him
In half second. Two pistols were on
the table--one unloaded-and he, by mis-
take, picked up the loaded one. He put
1t in his pocket, keeping the muzzle next
his body. just as 1t was leaving the peck
ct It was discharged, the ball entering, 1t ia
said, near the same place Meyers was shot.
He at once calculated, 'Oh, murder! and
said he had taken the wrong pistol"
Gov. Austin, Of Minnesota, has appoint
ed Gen. A. K. Edgerson, of Mantorville,
EAllIOou COluulhbeIOu&f VI ZIG DtAlc, uUucT
the law passed by the last Legislature
Mr. Vallandigham died at Lebanon, o.,
at 0 40 on the morning of the 18th. The
remains were taken to Dayton, where they
arrived on the evening Of that day. Mrs.
Vallandigham, who was at Cumberland,
Nd, where her brother, Hon. John L.
Mcmahon, had just died, was completely
distracted when she received the news Of
the death of her husband.
An extraordinary suicide occurred in st.
Louis on the morning Of the 18th. Mrs.
Isabella w. Stricklong, who had exhibited
evidences Of insanity, was prevented from
drowning herself, when she returned to
her house, and changed fine dress for a
calico one, took we'll filled coal oil lamp
and some matches, went into the cellar,
saturated her clothes with oil and set the m
on fire. She was buried so badly that she
died In few hours. She was AZ years
old, and the mother Of several children.
The C,nara1 IF tho Hon q T. Vallan.