Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-12-28


sippi was closed with ice at Fort
Madison on the 18th day of Novem-
Der, 1912, and remained closed until
April 10, 1913. The ice was Of al
average thickness of about eighteen
inches.
Two men in Chicago got drunk
last Friday, went into shanty, laid
down before a coke fire, and were
suffocated to death.
Connolly, the New York Ring
thief, has apartments in the Ludlow
Street jail, which are fitted up more
elegantly, and his tables are more
sumptuously furnished, than the
richest man in this region could af-
ford. The "moral" of all this is,
that If one is going to be u thief at
all he must steal enough to make
him a ''financier," and then even
going to Jail will BIO luxury.
The smallpox prevails to very
alarming extent ut birmingham,
England.
Beaver, Miller & Co.'S planning mill,
Greene & Co.'S chair factory, one res.
idence and several barns, in Fort
Wayne, Indiana, were destroyed by
fire last Friday. Loss nearly $50, goo,
and not over 50, 900 insured.
Judging merely from the dispatch.
es, South Carolina State politics seem
to be "A mere swindling game. BY
what seems to be rather "sharp prac-
tice,n Gov. Scott defeated the move
ment for his impeachment last Fri
day; and the Legislature adjour ned
till Jan. 9Th.
The smallpox is spreading in the
cities around New York City.
Eastern dispatches, from several
points, say that last Thursday morn.
ing was the coolest of the season. Al
Wheeling, Va, the THERMOMETERS
marked l4' below zero; at New York
Is to 2Oo below; at Syracuse, n. y,
l3' below; and mt Toronto, Canada,
from 10 to 4O' below. At Cincinnati
boys were skating across the river.
Emigration to the United States,
has increased so largely In Portugal
that the press of Lisbon anxious!y
proposes remedial measures.
DIR. Garnett, one OF the leading
Physicians of Washington, denounces
tho Cundurango remedy" for can.
Ger as a humbug, and denies the
statements of cures effected by 1t.
The following Is n statement of the.
true population of the United States,
just compiled by and contained IN
the report Of the superintendent Of
Census: Aggregate, states and Ter
ritories, 1898, 30. White, $3.50
857; colored, 4, 1886, 1887; Chinese, CD, 25i;
Indians, 1888, 7l2; Indians out Of tribal
relations, 2J,72l; Indians on reserva-.
lions and ut agencies, 0G3,662.
Jesse Grant, tho Presidents father,
had severe stroke Of paralysis last
Wednesday; but in the evening was
80 far recovered as TO be able to talk
some. lie is 76 years old.
South American letters tell Of q,
great earthquake In the vicinity Of,
Oran, which lasted nine hours, with
forty different shocks. All the hous-
es were tumbled In ruins, and fifty.
one deaths occurred.
Sanders, Dugall and Garrett, the,
three white men who. murdered the.
negro lawyer Wynne at Lake City,
Arkansas, were taken from Jail on,
the 10th inst, and shot. Memphis.
dispatches, probably highly colorcd,
represent that the mob then held the.
town, that all the white citizens who.
could get conveyance had left the.
County, that the citizens had petit.
toned for regular troops for protec-.
ton, &C., &c.-all looking quite i'm
probable.
LONDON, Dec. 2f,--The Steamer,
Delaware, which sailed this week
| from Liverpool ~ Calcutta, was to-
/ folly lost Yesterday of Scilly Islands.
All ON board are supposed to RayG
persisted.
Prince Bismarck has notified the,
French Government that unless the,
outrages against German. soldiers II.
! France shall cease. the German army
| OF occupation will he increased, and.
| the expense of Its support by France,
be doubled.
Bishop Baker, Of the NJ. u. Church.
died at Concord, n. IT,, Oh Wedncs,.
day, in his 50th year.
AL Commissioners, md Surveyors,
OF Distilleries are to be mustered out
OF the u. s. Revenue Service. after
this rnonth-thus making 9 great re-
ductiop In Revenue expenses.
CHICAGO, Dec. la,-Comst9ck .: