Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-10-12

spread ont horizontally, then doubled up ano
turned over. then slaughtered ont head dovn.
ward Az be struck the earth he fell upon bis
head. and the back OF HE head was mashed ihto
A indistinguishable mas. and hie body bruised
and crushed horribly. The concussion was 60
grea, that half gallon Of clotted blood was
thrown from his mouth and his body msde an IN
ceIture In the ground eight inches deep. and re-
bounded TO about four feet fron where II struck
the Professors young wifi and little daughter
were on the ground, and witnessed the terrible
AFFAIR. The remains OF the unfortunate man were
properly cared for, and buried at Paoli OF the 70
A Salt Lake dispatch OF the I'd says;
Brighman Young Was arrested this after
noon at 4 o'clock, upon the Indictment
of the Grand Jury, charging him
under the Utah statute with CO.
habiting with sixteen different women.
Owing to the sickness Of the prisoner, ne
was allowed to remain at his home to
night in charge Of deputy marshal. The
penalty of the statute for the conviction Of
this charge is Imprisonment for not over
ten years, ard not less than six months,
and fine of lot over 81 900 nor less than
800. II Is reported add generally be-
lieved that indictments have been found
against Brigh4m Young for murder"
Both branches Of the Tennessee Legis-
lature met and organic d on the "a. John
G. Vaugh han was elected Speaker of the
Senate and james d. Richardson, Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
November 16 has been selected as the
day for laying the corner stone of the new
Iowa State Capitol.
President Grant held public reception
at the fremont House, Chicago, on the %.
Grca. fires were reported as prevailing
in different sections Of the country on the
3D.. The prairies in the western part Of
Minnesota were on fire, the cOnfiagration
extending from Breckenridge to Sail Lake,
q distance of one hundred and sixty miles
A fearful fire was raging in the woods
north Of Green Bay, Wis, and it was re-
ported that Oconto, Wis, was burning
A great fire in the woods and FIELDS was
also prevailing between Defiance, O., ana
New Haven, Ind.
A Salt Lake dispatch of the 3D., says ::
Brigham Young was too i'll to appear in
court this morning, and his arraignment,
therefore, was postponed. He remains in
his residence, in the custody of United
States Deputy Marshals." Daniel IL.
Wells, Mayor of Salt Lake City and Third
President Of the Mormon Church, was
also arrested on the 3D., by United States
Marshal Patrick, upon an Indictment by
the Grand Jury charging him with po-
ligamy.
Hon. Henry Snapp, of Will County, has
been nominated for Congress By the Re
publicans of the Sixth Illinois District.
An Omaha dispatch Of the Attn says the
official canvass shows majority Of Ga
against the new constitution of Nebraska
The Illinois State Democratic Conven
ton, which met at Springfield on the 4th,
nominated Hon. s. s. Hayes, of Chicago
as candidate for Congressman-at-Large.
A dispatch from Green Bay, Wis, on
the 4th, says the fires then prevailing in
the six or .even northeastern counties Of
the State have never had parallel since
the settlement of the country. Dwelling
houses, barns and their contents, hay
stacks, cordwaod, and other property, to
ge, her with hundreds Of mffes of fences
| were burned, as no resistance could be of
fered to the approaching fires. 1t was es
timated that an area of 1900 square miles
was being burned over.
The South.
Grant Oliver and Anderson Holland
colored, were taken from j Ill at Winches
ter, Tenn, on the night of the 9th, and
hanged, by party Of ten disguised men
They had been committed on the charge
of burning a Methodist church, and the
residence Of Henderson Wagner. The
church was burnt In retaliation for the
burning of negro church. Wagner had
made himself obnoxious to the negroes BY
contest to get possession Of negro girl
hired by him.
A Washington telegram Of the 1st says
| information has reached there from York
vile, s. G., that several days before, under
warrants issued by the United States Com
missioner, eight or nine persons were ar
rested on a charge of having whipped a
negro woman. The prisoners were brough,
to town by squad Of United States sol
diers and lodged in Jail. After an invest
CATION by the Commissioner, they were
required to give bail in the sum of $4,000
each for appearance before the United
States Circuit Court. The arrests are
said to have been made under the Ku-
Klux act.
A frightful accident occurred at Wheel
ing, w. Va, on the 1st. One OF the cables
of suspension bridge over Wheeling
Greek broke with nine persons on it, six
of whom fell to the creek bottom, dis
lance of about thirty feet Three men,
Thomas Callahan, James Kline, and
Charles Coyle, were instantly killed. AL.
bert Elliott, Joseph Hague, and George
Akers were badly hurt, and would proba-
bly, die. The other three fortunately
caught to the other cable and got of.
The Agricultural Congress assembled in
Nashville on the Sd, representatives being
present from Tennessee, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Arkansas. Missouri,