Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-10-05

States District Court OF UsAn, INSTRUCTOR
them TO indict persons guilty of violsting
any of the laws of the land, including
bicasny or adultery. When the Grand
Jury vas selected al polygAmous Nor
mons were r. jec.ed-
Henry G. Bostwick has been appointed
Chief Clerk of the Mint at C-rson City,
and John Bonfeld Inspector OF Customs
at Chicago.
California will vote again on Wednes-
day October 4, choosing two Justices OF
the Supreme Court, superintendent OF
Public Instruction, and various local
judges.
Orders have been issued at Washington
discontinuing Fort Gibson, Indian Terri
tory, as military post. Two companies
of its garrison have been sent to Fort
Dodge, and the other two companies to
Fort Hayes. Fort Gibson will be retained
BY small force Of the Quartermasters
Department.
The Colored National Convention at
St. Louis, on the 23d, effected perma-
nent organization by the election OF T. X
Williams, of Nebraska, President, and W.
q. Robinson and G. L. Derandemie, Sec
retaries.
A fire in San Francisco on the 23d de-
stroyed property to the value Of sl'ooo,'
600.
A Salt Lake dispatch Of the oath says:
"The Grand Jury has adjourned until
Tuesday. There are exciting rumors that
high dignitaries Of the Mormon Church
are TO be indicted. Squads of men are
arriving to. night, said to be the Mormon
militia. 1t is generally thought there is
crisis. The Mormons laugh and keep
their own counsel"
The extra encampmen, of the Grand
Army of the Republic, Department OF IL
linois originally called to convene at
Springfield, September 81, has been post
poned on account of the State Fair, 70
October IT,
The amendment to the Constitution OF
California, prohibiting an appropriation OF
money by the Legislature for any pur-
| pose whatever for. longer period than
two years, was ratified at the late election
by large majority. The act proposing
the refunding of the State debt in new SIX
per cent. twenty year bonds was lost.
A Santa Fe, N. NJ, dispatch OF the 28th
says the official counting If votes shows
that Gallegos, Democrat, received 7,67Oi
Cheeves, Republican, 5,2S5; Sena, indie
pendent, 1884. -Four precincts thrown
out for informa.ities would probably have
increased Gallegos' majority. The Legs
lature stands: Senate-Democratic, q;
Republican, 5; Independent, 2. House
Democratic, IL; Republican, II; indie
pendent, 4. Both parties claim power.
Recent gales on the Likes have caused
great loss of vessels and in some instances
loss of lives. The bark G. Il. Hurd, Cap
tain w. o. Harrison, was wrecked OH the
Manitous. There were twelve persons on
board, nine men, the captain and his wife
and child, and all persisted except the cap
tain, who managed to clutch a floating spar
to which he held On until he was drifted
ashore on the Southern Island, where he
was picked up In an exhausted condition
by some of the inhabitanis. He was re
suscitated, but 1t is feared he would not
live long. aa..a
President Grant and family accompa-
MED the Chicago g. Southwestern Rail
road excursionists to Kansas on the Goth.
The excursion was given in honor OF the
formal opening of the Chicago d South
western Railroad from Chicago to Ltaven-
worth.
An Omaha dispatch of the Goth says
Official and unofficial returns have been
received fsom all bat fourteen counties
upon the vote upon the new constitution,
showing that, without doubt, the docu-
ment has been rejected by from 1000 to
800 majority. #o'
The large lake propeller Nebraska was
burned In the Chicago River on the night
of the 9th, and almost totally destroyed.
She had on board at the time of the fire a
cargo of about $4,000 bushels Of wheat
and oats, which were total loss. The
value Of the boat and contents was about
| $4,000.
The South.
The Coroner of Louisville, KY, has
issued warrants for the arrest of VIM
Witty, conductor, and George Patrick
engineer, of the passenger train on the
Louisville g. Nashville Railroad which
recently ran into another passenger train
at Randolph station. killing three and
wounding large number. The Coroner'i
Jury In their verdict fixed the blame upon
these parties. They will be tried for man
slaughter.
The majority in favor of the constitu
tional convention in West Virginia ID
$780, ae m
| A telegram was received in Washington
on the 2lst announcing the result in the
first trials under the Ku-Klux act al
Raleigh, N. 9. The case was that Of Shot
we'll and others, charged with taking Hon
]. M. Justice out of his bed, at Ruther
for,ton, on the 18th of June last, and re-
moving him to the woods, where he wa
assaulted. and afterwards allowed to 70