Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-11-23

&c, erai News Esreyities.

i AttiitiUlIt'i GloS" Htit III thES P'PNA'
Three negroes named Squire Taylor,
Charles Davis and George Johnson,
were found to have committed the
murder, for money. They were ar
rested and imprisoned in the Charles
town Jail; and last Friday morning
a mob Of 20 masked white men forci-
bly, took them from the jailandhune
them.-Sec'y Belllnap started for
Iowa last Saturday evening, for a
Fshort isit.-Three soldiers were
killed, and many wounded, by AZ
explosion of ammunition in the for
tress of Ehrenbreitstein, on the
Rhine, last Saturday morning
The total amount of subscriptions for
Chicago relief fund received ut the
Mansion House in London up to last
| Saturday night was GlS ,500~equal
to s2i22 800. Full returns from the
| State of New York make the Repuh.
| iican majority something over 8 600.
About 70 acres of ground in Hyde
Park, Pennsylvania, over the Dia-
mond coal mine, caved in last Thurs
day, making immense assures in the
principal streets. Many buildings
had TO be pulled down. Damage 10
property over $50, 900. 1t is posi-.
! lively asserted that Tweed mas ten
dered his reoignation rs Head OF
Department Of Public Works OF New
York City, on condition Of uaming
! his own succcssor!----i00 Chinese
have been engaged to work in the
Raritan Woolen Mills, New Jersey.
Terrible suffering continues i'm
Persia, in consequence of the famine.
The Turkish Government has
begun grand system Of public im-
provemcnts, including railroads,
liver and harbor improvements, DC.
"A Mrs. GARNER, of Titusville,
| Penn'a, is so good billiard player
that she has challenged Joseph Dion,
he great professional" to match
game Nine revenue districts have
oeen abolished by consolidation this
year, saving 100000 TO the Govern
nent. Of Brigham Young =
| sons in New York says there Is no
ruth in reports Of his fathers hight
rom Salt Lakc.-Reverdy Johnson
j. to defend the South Carolina ku-
ilux. 1t is reported that n great
grain ring" has been formed ~
chicago, with branches ull over the
.ountry, for the purpose of controil-
inc the grain trade. The inhabit-
ants Of the west coast OF Africa are
reported to be dying Off with small
oOx like rotten sheep.
storm in the region around New
York City on the night Of 18th inst,
destroying many buildings. The
losses at Hudson City, New Jersey,
we're alone estimated ut 800, ,00O.----
It. Louis now has Railroad conncc-
ZION with Bonita, Indian Territory,
distant 365 miles. .-Thos. Nj. Nor
wood is the new Democratic L. >.
senator from Georgia, elected on
l4lh inst. THE bed Of the Missis-
sippi river is slowly rising, threat
ming in the course Of time 10 inter
fere with lOw-watcr navigation ------
Latest advices from Salt Lake show
that many of the Morlnons begin to
think about abandoning polygalny,
though they propose to stay ut Salt
Lake.-A l0O-barrel Oil well Is an
nounced In Tennessee, 80 miles from
Nashville.-At tremendous explO-
sion took place in a coliiery at Wigan,
England, on the 18th inst. Six men
were killed.-The Chicago Journal
says the Grand Jnry has unanimously
decided that there was no ground for
indicting anybody for the shooting
of Col. Grosvenor.---Itis isstated that
the Germans Of Chicago, thinks that
the donations the Emperor and the
Crown Prince made to the fire-suifer-
ers were very small, have returned
them, with a larger donation OF their
own added, accompanied by request
to have the whole amount given TO
manned soldjers.---Gen. Sherman
very emphatically approved Gen.
Sheridan's course at Chicago The
convicts in the Massachusetts, Peni-
tontiary contributed $500 for the Chi
cago sufferers. Gen Sherman and
Pres't Grants son go TO Europe mt
their own expense, draw no pay
while gone, and are liable to be or
dered home whenever wanted. This
is ans wer enough to the Democratic
papes who rave about the pleasure
trip at Government expense" &c.
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Iowa Items In Brief
The. ,.oyner-st0,ic of the new Capi-