Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-05-11


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LOCAL NOTICES. 81 fer ten lines or lees ons weee,
and ten cents for each additional line.
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A lawyer in Idaho a While ago got
mad at Judge Lewis, of that Terri
tory, and forged a letter Of Yesigna
ton for him, and sent it to Washing
ton. The Judge was greatly sur
prised to learn that his resignation
was accepted; and he forthwith went
on to Washington to see about it.
A Connecticut lawyer who wished
to cross the river on ice was told that
it would be entirely safe to make the
attempt if he crawled over Oh his
hands and knees. Anxious to so, he
humbled himself accordingly, and
had laboriously got half way across
when he was overtaken by q man
driving along leisurely in q buggy
Therapidity With which he assumed
an upright position was startling TO
the driver. rS
ST.. LOUIS, May -The.steanaboat
Great Republic, the finest on the
Mississippi river, was sold today hy
the u. S. Marshal for $4,000. She
cost 100000 three years ago.
The National Medical Association,
sitting at San Francisco, had two
stormy discussions last Saturday over
the question Of admitting female
Delegates, and finally postponed the
matter indefinitely, and then adj
IjourIed without day.
In the States Prison at Sing Sing,
New York, gallery gave way last
Friday, with Sc convicts on it, fall
ing with them 20 feet to the floor,
Two Of them were thought to Ia
fatally injured.
The Indian Bureau has reports
from many points throughout the
Indian Territory, and there are no
apprehensions felt of any organized
hostility during the season now
opening.
The Commissioner Of Pensions has
nearly perfected his arrangements
for; settling the new bounty claims OF
the soldiers of the. war of 1912, AS
provided by recent act Of Congress.
A man named Lafayette Fisher, at
Newton, Illinois, killed his mother
and sister with an AK 4 few days: ago.
He is said to be insane.
The Legislative Committee or
Elections in Connecticut has foul"l
an error Of 90 in the coun. Of vot' :.
for English, which throws the
Gubernatorial election into the Leg
islature, and has also found an evil
dent fraud by which Jewell's vote
i'm Hartford Yves reduced 100. The
matter will be fully investigated.
They had q big snow-storm III
Maine last Friday.
Both Prussian and French papers
are loud i'm their praises Of Clara
Barton, our noble American woman,
for her services in behalf Of the sick
and wounded during the late war.
The L. S. Senate met in special
session at Washington yesterday,
evidently for TIE purpose Of .copsid-
ering the arrangements made sy the
Joint High Commission for the set
Element of affairs between England
and the United States. What those
arrangements are, nobody outside
knows-but there are strong assur~
ances given that they viii prove
cminently satisfactory to the Ameri-
can people. Hopeso--and will prob
ably all know about it before long.
The fighting still goes on in Paris.
without decisive results as yet
Negotiations for compromise Were
still in progress at latest word, bNt
with little hope Of success. Gene.-
Rossel has been appointed to II Is
command Of the entire Communi-
(insurgent) army, and is prepariE"
for an offensive movement with az
600 Of his best men. CanEonading
assaults of barricades, and general
diminishing. seem to be the rule
thus FAR. One dispatch asserts that
the Prussians had announced theirin-
tentiop of entering Paris on Tuesday
last if the French Government troors
had not succeeded in entering tie
city by last Monday.
Gold l.11!, q ans
In Chicoso on the Sth, as per Gate
City's report, hogs selling slow at
81 80 to 1919; cattle steady and I'M
changed, prices not reported; wheat
firm, 81 .26l' cash; corn steady ana
moderately active, 81 to I cents c7tsf.
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