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


A Washington dispatch Of the % ssys
The Ku Klux Subcommittee las s'Se1
engaged In the examination a witnesses
Nothing Of interest hxs been elected oat
clAas Of witnesces testify to peace and CT
dex, and 10 the absence Of Ku-Klux L cer
tain Southern localities, while the othel
class testify IN the opposite direction Il
ID stated that the sub committee viii b.
sent, IN Ocsober. 10 investigate the facts
connected with the alleged Ku-Klux, oeS
az whom were indicted 81 the recent term
Of the United States Court al Oxford,
Miss.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has an
nounced, in the case Of the exsetion OF The
tonnage tax on canal boats, that If said TAX
did not fall due Until after July II, 1870,
the Collector must transmit with his re-
pUt certified statement, with view TO
sefunding tie rnoDey 30 collected
President Grant has appointed Matthew
NcDougsl United States Consul at Dundee,
Scotland; John G. Stevens and Orestes
Cleveland, Of New Jersey, and Thomas II.
Caldwell, ofTennessee, Commissioners Of
those States 70 the Centennial National
Anniversary at Philadelphia
A Washington dispatch OF the 9th says
Chief Justice Chase had written TO friend
there that he was rapidly improving, and
expected TO take his seat on the bench at
the approaching term Of the Supreme
Court.
The President, accompanied by General
Porter, returned TO Washington on the
evening of the 7th-
A Washington dispatch Of the 7th says :
"Tke subscriptions 10 the new loan TO day
were t22,G50 The amount of subscrip-
tions during the past week show consid-
ersble increase over that Of any other week
for nearly two mr. nths previous"
James Crutchel, an English resident Of
the District Of Columbia, has filed the first
claim against the United States under the
Treaty Of Washington. Our Government
seized his Mount Vernon cane factory o.
the commencement OF the war, for mil
itsry purposes, and damaged the machih.
cry.
A Washington dispatch Of the 9Th says:
"The report recently circulated that
Charles Francis Adams has declined the
appointment Of arbitrator under the Treaty
Of Washington Is incorrect. The Presi.
dent 10 day received telegram from that
gentleman informing him of it's accept
Ancc"
President Grant, on the 9Th, sent com
munication To General Pleasanton, form
ally suspending the latter from the office
Of Commissioner of Internal Revenue
On receiving the notification, Pleasanton
vacated the Office, and Deputy Commits
sioner Douglass Immediately entered upon
the duties Of the position.
The East.
Gold closed in New York on the 9th
at 111H.
The pestilential fly, said tc be certain
precursor OF cholera and other pestilence,
has made Its appearance in New York.
Those familiar with this fly say that 1t is
exactly like the insect that preceded the
cholera In Russia and that advanced az
the fly advanced. Its body is divided and
shaped like wasp's from the waist down
70 the tail, all the lower part Of the body
being covered with wings Of alternate black
and yellow. Its back, between the waist
and head, Is Of grecnish blue, while the
head Is dark brown, and perfectly round
and fat
Phoebe Cary, the poctess, died at New
port, r. l., on the 3ist ult., aged 40 years
Her death resulted from sickness brought
m by her constant care and anxiety during
the illness of her sister Alice, who died
about six months ago.
During the twenty four hours ending on
the morning of the 3D. no less than eight
murderous ARRAYS occurred In New York
city, several of which might prove fatal.
A record of steamboat boiler explosions,
kept In the Office of the Supervising Inspec-
tors In the Treasury Department, at Wash
ingtOn, show that there were more lives lost
by the Westfcld disaster than by all the
steamboat explosions that have occurred
In either of the two past years In 1859
there were 81 lives by explosion on steam
en OF all characters, including river,
lake and ocean crafts, and In 1870 the
number was but "a, of which 33 were
passcna ers and II crew.
The Massachusetts Democratic State
Convention Ia to be held at Springfield
on the 4th of September.
The celebrated trotting mare Purity,
while exercising, few mornings ago, on
the driving park at Buffalo, dropped dead
from heart disease. AT the time of the
accident she had trotted over the track in
S:26, and was on the second round on
2:2O gait
A New York dispatch of the It'll says:
"Seven vessels arrived at the lower quaran-
tine. within the past few days. with cases
of yellow fever on board. The threatened
approach Of cholera Is being met by every
precautionary measure on the part of the
health authorities in the city and at quaran-
tine"
Hon. George H. Pendleton arrived in
New York city, from Europe, on the 9Th.