Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-11-09

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-Delegate
Hooper, now here, denies that his
business with the President IL con-
corning Utah matters.
Information has been received from
South Carolina that 200 Kuklux have
made voluntary confession and sur
rendered to the authorities, disgust
ed with the kian. 81 Of them con-
fessed i'm writing on Monday. 1t is
estimated that 800 Of them have fled.
100 are confined in Jail at Yorkville.
The prisoners speak we'll of their
treatment. \ number We're also re-
leased on parole until their confess
sions can be heard. Examinations
before the Commission will soon be
commenced.
Judge Richardson writes from
London, Oct. 2lst, that the whole
syndicate business il a complete sue
cess. The members Of the syndicate
are doing everything In accordance
with the agreements. The bondsa
delivered us fast rs practicable. He
thinks the transaction will be closed
by the first of December.
The President has revoked the sus-
pension OF habeas corpus SO far as 1t
applies to Marion County, South Car
Olina.
The Commissioner of Pensions has
returned from his Investigations at
Philadelphia, and reports the defal-
cation of the pension agent, Forbes,
to be So, 900. He will be removed.
CHICAGO, Nov. 3.--The Post says
there are $500 wooden buildings in
the North Division, $50 in the West,
and 600 in the South, in course OF
erection. Permits for building per-
manent structures continue to be
granted every day. The demand for
abOrers still exceeds the supply.
At Lewiston, Maine, last Thurs
day, two girls ieaped into the deepest
channel of the falls, with their arms
intertwined, and drowned. They
left their clothing on the rocks.
The North Pacific Railroad by DE-
cember lst will be completed 256
miles west of Duluth. There are
l 500 miles to finish after that.
Henry Clay Dean denounces the
st. Louis "Isepublican's" plan of not
nominating n Democratic Presiden-
tial candidate next year; whereupon
that Democratic paper quietly OBJ
serves: ave cannot resist the tempt
alton to say that we should pause to
reconsider our course In this matter
If 1t received the appreciation OF Hen
try Clay Dean.n = Which looms very
much like snubbing the said Dean.
| Unusual preparations were made
in New York City for the election OF
last Tuesday. Business was almost
entirely suspended during the day.
CHICAGO, Nov. 4.-Howard Whites
Commercial Bulletin to-day publish
rs a table showing the number Of
hogs six months old and over, listed
for taxation, April LIST, In the States
of Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa
and Miss0uri-the only Western
States that have compiled these sta
tistics for three years past. 1t shows
an increase Of "a per cent; and re-
ports from Indiana, Kansas. Nebrns-
ka and Wisconsin indicate q similar
ratio of increase in those States.
LONDON, Nov. 4.-The amount re-
ceived ut the Mansion House up to
last evening for the benefit Of tho
Chicago sufferers was E46, 500. Con-
tributions continue To be received
from individuals aud from Commit
tees In provincial cities and towns.
LONDON, Nov. 4.-Letters from
Paris say that the Offering to Wash
burne on Thursday was n very agree
able affair. Dinner and tea services
of fine silver, the product OF Ameri-
can mines and American mabufac-
ture, were presented to him by q large
number OF American gentlemen.
Appropriate addresses we're delivered
10 which Mr.. Washburne replied la
o few graceful remarks.
The boiler OF the old locomotive
"W'ashington" exploded with terrific
violence ut Portsmouth, Ohio, last
Saturday morning. Two men were
killed and two others injured.
Collector Rehh, o. the US Gus
tom House at Savannah, Georgia, is
under bonds to answer to an indict-
rDeDt for embezxlement and aiding
in conspiracy to defraud the Gov
ernmeDt.
Two hundred col0red people from
the interior Of Virginia took passage
last Saturday at Fortress Monroe for
Liberia.
Frederick Douglass has been NOM
mated for the Assembly from the
the Rochester district.
The burned Chicago. buildings, II :
placed side by side, would reach lCO
miles. sixty miles Of streets wsre
desOlated.
There have been IL ,260 3T pounds
Of tea transported over the Union
Pacific Railway, 30 far, this year.
Latest dispatches concerning Brig
ham Young, received here up TO last
Tuesday, state that he. was still NOV
ing santh award from Salt Lake, bav-
ing with him eleven wagons and 100