Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-03-02
The East.


Gold closed in New York on the 2ist at
11i1s
The New Jersey Legislature in joint
session, on the 10th, elected A. q. Run
yon, State Comptroller, and Joseph Sooy,
Treasurer, and all the other State officers
nominated by the Republican caucus
Orders were received at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, on the 18th, from the Secretary
of the Navy, to fit out with all dispatch
the United States ship Supply, TO carry
contributions to the suffering inhabitants
of France.
The Republicans in the Fourth Con
grcssional District Of Connecticut have
nominated George Cofllng, of Salisbury,
for Congress.
The first of the spring elections will be
held in New Hampshire, on the nth of
March.
The bodies of Doc Simmons, engineer
Of the express train, and the stranger en-
gineer who was on the engine with him,
were recovered from the New Hamburg
wreck on the 10Th From letters and pa
pers upon the person of the latter, his
name was asccrtained to be James Hum
phrey, of Carmansville, Pa.
General Halpine, the liberated Fenian
prisoner, arrived at Boston, per steamer
Siberia, on the Goth.
The French relief fund in Boston
amounted to $4,000. on the 2lst.
~ n;hho NJ RhnIn To
land from 1921 to 1924, died at Newport
on the 2lst, aged "a.
At the annual election of the Delaware,
Iackawanna a. Western Railroad, held at
New York on the 21st, all the old officers
were elected.
r. Bret IIartc arrived In New York on
the 21st.
The funeral of Edward II. Simmons,
better known as "Doc" Simmons, engineer,
killed in the New Hamburg disaster, took
place in New York city on the 21st A
large number of people were in attendance,
and the greatest sympathy was manifested
for the family Of the deceased, and respect
for his heroism.
On the morning of the 22d seven fire.
men on the steamship Ismalia, on the
North River at New York city, were suf-
located by burning charcoal in close
room. Five were found dead, and the
Others were taken to a hospital, with but
little hope of their recovery. They were
all natives of Scotland.
In their verdict the Coroner's Jury in
the case of the New Hamburg disaster say
they "believe that the oil train could not
have been stopped soon enough to have
prevented the accident; that the employees
Of the oil train used all the means at their
command to promptly signal the coming ex.
press train; that the signalmen did their
duty in the premises; that the express
train was half mile from the obstruc'
tom when first signaled, and could have
been stopped, provided all the appliances
had bean effective; that for some reason to
tho jury unknown the patent brakes were
not effectively applied"
Earl de Grey, Professor Montague
Bernard and Lord Tenderden, of the Joint
High Commission, Viscount Frederick
Goderich, and Donald Mckay arrived at
New York on the 22d, on the steamer
Cuba.
The West.
General j. M. Hedrick has been APP
pointed Supervisor Of Internal Revenue for
the district of Iowa, cics Willis Drum
mond, resigned. stiel
Census returns for Michigan foot up as
follows: Number Of dwellings in the
State, 2Sb.887; number Of families, 1884,
Ms; number Of voters, 26S, 756 number Of
inhabitants, 1,164, 688. aii
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