Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-06
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Washington News.


A Washington dispatch Of the oath says
@6ince the ratification of the Treaty o.
Washington, the State Department has
been busy preparing list OF the Alabama
claims for the United States Board Of Ar
bitration. The whole number Of vessels
destroyed Is given at 234, and their es'i
mated value at the time Of destruction IL
se4 down at 81, $40, 384"
The total number of physicians who
paid taxes to the United States Government
for the year ending. April 30 was 49, ;
Of these there were allopathic. Ss,V'Vi
homeopathic, 1851; hydropsthic, l55 (;
eclectic, 1850; miscellaneous, or notciass'-
fed, 4,770.
At Washington, on the 2ssh, the Olym.
nc Base ball Club, Of that city, defeated
the Cleveland Forest Citys-ls to 3.
The East.
Gold closed in New York on the 9th
at 1874.
A panic was created in the New York
stock market On the 21gt II seems com.
bination had been formed some time be
fore, TO force up the price at the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad stock, and
Re4 corner on the bears. The clique en-
gaged in this movement had succeeded In
running up the stock TO $50, when fall
ure To raise one million dollars which hey
were TO put up as further margins on the
21st, caused collapse, and the stock fell
70 10 In two hours time. VIM. s. Wood.
ward, one of the principal men in the
combination, failed for 8 large amount.
causing several minor failures.
In . game Of baseball al Ne~ York On
the ed, between the Mutuals, Of thxs
city, and the Washington olympscs, the
former club was victorious, scoring L. 70
their opponents 4 At Philsdelphiz, lie
Cleveland Forest Cisys defeated the TX
perts, Of Philsdelphis-l0 to Q.
Joseph Wagner, g wife murderer, Oh
Rochester, n. T., has been sentenced TO be
hanged August II
According TO New York dispatch Of
the ED the bottom was dropping out Of
the Susie Of New Jersey. In Warren
County number Of deep holes had been
suddenly made by the earth sinking down
into some fearful, unknown, subterranear
depths. The first noticed was In the bot
tom Of the Morris and Essex Canal on thu
seven mile level between Broadway ans
New Village Ali the water In the cana
went down the hole, then half dozeI
more holes opened in the corn fields an,
woods, taking down into the bowels o
the earth great patches Of corn and eveI
linking trees out Of sight. In addition 4
this there were scores of great long an
deep fssures Then another big hol
opened In the canal. The widest excite
mcnt prevailed among the peSple.
In New York, on the 23d, the Olympic
Of Washington, defeated the Eckfords, G
Brooklyn, in game Of base ball-l1 to
The Brooklyn Atlantics beat the Kekior
gas. OF Fort Wsyne-22 TO IL
II Is estimated that the losses sus
tanned by spectators, brokers and other
by the sudden collapse in Rock lslan'
Railroad stock, In the New York Stool
Exchange, on tho 21st, amount to at ieas
t9o,0oO,0O0.
The New York State Editorial Associa
tion adjourned on the Gath. A. II. Hall, o
tho Wstertown Reunion, was elected Pres
ident for the ensuing year.
At a reception given In New York cit.
on the evening of the 26th, to Captain
Hall, the Arctic explorer, II. A. Grinnel
presented him with an American fla
which accompanied one Of the previou
American expeditions to the North Pole.
In game of base ball In New York cit.
on tho 26th, the Kekiongas, Of For
Wayne, defeated the Mutuals, Of New
York; to3. At Philadelphia, the Ath
letics, Of that city, beat the Boston Ret
6tockings-20 to8.
. The West.
The Democratic State Convention O
California has renominated Henry Haigh
for Governor. The other nominees are
For Lieutenant. Governor, Mr. Lewis, o
Tehals; Supreme Judges, Jackson TEN
pie and Seldom g. Wright.
News from Vice President Colfax, OF
the 22d, was to the effect that he was rap