Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-19

Nv ia 10, 1
CIllens. In Chicago many Of the
street cars were blockaded with the
snow. At Milwaukee there were
snow-drifts ten feet deep in the
streets. Reports from other portions
of the Northwest pronounce the
storm the most severe one In the
history Of the country.
CHEYENNE, Wy, Jan. lS.-A
telegram from Fetterman stat0 Mat
Red Cloud is there, and wants the
Great Father to send provislans to
Fort Laramie for his tribet BE- He
reports his people In . starving
condition. ssie 81 1''l !
Senator wade. Pres't White ol
Cornell College, and DR.. s. Howe oi
Besbo6, The San Domingo Commis-
sieuer6, 1elt NNashingi6n lsst 0uuduy
ni16t lbxNow York una the ship
.'Teunessee was expected to sail
freM there with them day before
" Grday.
a s"hg strike' Of Pennsylvania
coal miners occurred last week,
throwing about 100, 900 men out oi
employment. On account of the
interruption Of Communications by
the great storm, further word has
not been received.
LoUlsvILLE, Jan. 12.-It Is report.
ed that . party of nineteen masked
men yesterday afternoon attacked a
party Of negroes at the camping
ground In Scott County and killed
three; then went to the Forks oi
Elkhofn, same County, and In fight
with . party of armed negroes, three
of the latter were wounded and one
masked man killed.. The corpse wa,
identified ~ that Of young mar
named Force. The Henry County
negroes are excited and frightened
and are hocking in large crowds Il
Frankfort.
And . correspondent Of the New
York Herald, writing from Rich
mond on the 10th inst, gives thu
particulars Of other outrages BY
masked men, in Union County, South
Carolina. He remarks that hs cau
zee no way OF escape from the exist
ing terrible state Of affairs but for the
people Of the country to ''shoot down
on sight the first disguised man who
IL seen prowllng about"
IVA NSVss. =
The Gate cry Of last Thursday says
that the works Of the great railroad
bridgV acroas the Mississippi al
Keokuk were damaged, on the Tues.
day evening previous, to the amount
Of. over 5000, by the breaking uT
and moving Of tho ice In the river.
The Iesgister announces that Gen.
Baker has some thoughts Of publish.
iug . History Of Iowa Regiment
and Officers. The work IL yet to be
done-at least in some respects-and
wa think Gen. Baker IL the man to
doit.
Clayton County's jail, at Elkader,
recently completed, cost twenty -one
thousand dollars.
Jsper County IL sorely troubled
by the hog cholera.
Twenty-Five enterprising Citizen
| Of Bellevue, -Lackses- County, have
subscribed 8l,000 each toward build
Ing railroad from there to Cascade
The Hasakvs say.-"The only
daughter Of q rich old miser Ia Clay
ton County, who has been living In
. h0vel with her dad, has received
twv hundred and thirty Offers ol
marriage since the old gent became
very i'll. She broke two earthen
vessels on the heads Of . couple ol
the hsproposers."
Moreover the same paper remarks
andaPyy: .fThree large-sized scholsra
l1Gtclhd is46 . school-ma'am, at
EosApge, black kbawk County, one day
Last wsek.e' The assailed lady seized
IL poker,, and-the school has been
the most orderly one In the County
ever SINCE"
Speaking Of Mr.. John Voorhees,, Of
Black Oak Tp., Mahaska County, the
last Herald sayE-"Mr. ", is one oi
our wide-awske, reading farmers,
and told us that he saw one little