Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-06-01

The fenneylVauin -,
Convention met at Harrisburg on the 24th
The following nominations were MADE
Auditor General, General VIM. McCand'
less. of Philadelphia; Surveyor General
Captain ]. n Cooper, Of Lawrence County
william A. Wallace was elected Chairman
Of the State Central Committee.
Al Cleveland, on the oath, the Fores
| Citys of that city, defeated the Rockford
Forest Citys in game of base ball-il 70 ~
The Boston Red Stockings and the Wash
ington Olympics played game in Boston
on the oath, which resulted in tie on tn
ninth inning to A.
A Binghamton letter says Rulion
grave had been opened three times in tn
hope Of getting his head, which had beer
taken off before burial. His brain weigs
ed ten ounces above the average, ano ~
skull was the thickest on record. - -,
The arguments were concludezml u w
Foster murder trial in New A U -
on the oath, and the case 'uO
TO the jury.
Tho
d1 m1 IL A chiess the evening of the
171 m cn,c.<on the 10th, the White
N that city, defeated the Olym-
o. Washington, in q game of base
plst Z.
oe first spike on the Pacific side of the
Iorthern Pacific Railroad was driven at
Kalama, Oregon, on the 18th, with appro-
pirate ceremonies.
At Chicago, on the ed, the White
Stockings, Of that city, defeated the Rock
ford Forest Citys-15 to6.
Bishop Davis w. Clark, of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, died in Cincinnati
on the evening Of the 23d.
Alfred Zeigenmeyer, arrested in Ger
many for the murder Of William N.
Gumbleton, at Chicago, last winter, ar
rived in that city on the 23d, in custody
of the officers who were sent after him.
Major Powell and his party left Greene
River, Utah, on the morning Of the 33d.
They will be absent two years exploring
the canons of the Colorado and some Of
its tributaries.
The Wisconsin State Temperance Con-
vention has been called to meet at Water
town on the 9th Of June, to nominate can
didates for State officers.
The Illinois Legislature met in special
session at Springfield on the oath.
The South.
Gov. Senter, of Tennessee, has appointed
Mrs Peralle Haskell, widow Of the late
w. T. Haskell, State Librarian.
In the United States Circuit Court, at
Richmond, Va, James NJ. Simms, col
ored member of the Georgia Legislature
has obtained verdict of $500 damages
against the Richmond, fredericksburg &
Potomac Railroad Company, for ejecting
him from, the white peoples cabin of the
steamer Keyport, between Washington
and Richmond.
Horace Greeley arrived at Galveston,
Texas, on the morning Of the 10th. He
was formally received by the Mayor and
City Council.
A violent tornado and hail storm passed
over belt of land one mile wide in New
Kent County, Va, on the 10th. Trees and
houses were blown down, and persons in
the road were knocked senseless by the
hail stones. Hail was found in some places
nine inches deep. Much damage was
done to crops.
The cornerstone of a monument to the
Confederate dead at lakewood Cemetery,
Richmond, Va, was laid on the afternoon
of the Oath.
The Grand Lodge Of Good Templars
of North America recently in session at
Baltimore, elected the following officers
for the ensuing year: r. w. G. Templar,
Rev. T. Russell, of Michigan; r. w. g.
Councillor, ]. J. Hickman, of Kentucky |;
r. w. g. Templar, Sister Anna Raymond,
Of New York; R. w. q. Secretary, julius
A. Spencer, of Cleveland, O., and r. w.
G.. Treasurer, John Campbell, Of ST. Louis.
Foreign Intelligence.
Six hundred persons, mostly women, are
reported to have been killed in Paris, on
the night Of the 18th, by an explosion near
Avenue de Trocadero.
A Versailles dispatch Of the evening of
the 18th says the Assembly had adopted
the entire treaty signed at Frankfort be-
tween France and Germany.
The German Parliament has agreed to
the additional clauses Of the postal treaties
Of 1867 and 1870 between Germany and
the United States.
Gable dispatches of the 21st announce
that the Versailles forces had entered
Paris late in the afternoon of that day, at
two points, the gate of st. Cloud, near
Point du Jour, and the gate of Montrouge,
on the Boulevard Bruno. The insurgents
had abandoned the ramparts There was
said to be panic in the city, and many
Of the insurgent leaders had disappeared.
Rochefort had been arrested In attempt.
ing to escape from the Commune. and was
taken to Versailles on the Goth.