Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-09-28
President Grant and family arrived It

President Grant and family arrived 1t
Cincinnati ON the night Of the 18th.
An Omaha dispatch Of the 10Th says
twenty six prominent points in the State
heard from show . majority Of 1873
against the adoption of the new Cons.itr
ton for the State of Nebraska. TIE In
dependent propositions submitsed-frss,
for making bank stockholders liable for
three mes the amount of the stock; sec
ond, for giving counties the right OF
prohibiting and licensing the sale
of spurious liquors: third. pro-
hibifing county or municipal aid
to railroads; fourth, compulsory edr-
cation; fftr, female suffrage-were all
voted down By overwhelming msjorities
female suffrage firing the worst of all. 1t
was not expected that further returns
would materially change the result
The remains OF the late President Lin
coin and children were removed on the
afternoon Of the 10Th from the temporary
to the permanent vault erected for their
reception in the monument just completed
at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Mar Springfield,
III.
The Grand Lodge Of the Independent
Order Of Odd Fellows Of the United
States commenced its annual session in
Chicago on the 18th.
The South.
A telegraph from Raleigh, N. g., on the
18th, says that sixty persons arrived there
that day, and were handed over to tie
United States authorities, to be tried I'M
der the Ku. Klux act.
The d. ath cent. nee of the Indian chiefs
Satanic and Big Tree has been commuted
to Imprisonment for life.
One Of the priocipal street car compa-
MES In Baltimore has agreed to make no
distinction in the future in regard to colored
passe myers, and it was thought other com.
panies would soon follow its example.
Heretofore, every sixth or seventh car was
designated as one to which negroes would
be admitted.
Supervisor Perry, of North Carolina,
has seized four tobacco factories in that
State for evasion of the revenue.
A tidal wave, fifty feet high, 1t has been
predicted, will, on the night of October 8,
or the morning Of the 9th, sweep over the
coasts Of the Western Continent from
Cape Hatteras to Bahia. This prediction
appears to have caused quite a panic in
New Orleans.
In Bremen, near Chicago, a few days
ago, German woman named Mrs Frede-
rika Geist was scalded to death by having
hot coffee poured down her throat. Her
husband and his brother were supposed
to have committed the deed, and were ar
rested.
The Illinois Republican State Conven-
ton, which met at Springfield on the
goth, nominated General J, L. Bev-
eridge, of Cook County, for Con-
gresham at Large. General Oglesby
positively refused to be candidate.
The vote on the first formal ballot was,
Beveridge, 1856; Boyd, Sc; Rinaker, IS;
Carr, Z; Dubois, 8; Medili, l. Total vote,
$50. Necessary to choice, 252. General
Bcveridge's nomination was then made
unanimous.
The following is the ticket nominated
by the recent Republican State Convention
Of Minnesota: For Governor, Horace
Austin Lieutenant Governor, w. 81. Yale,
of Winona-both by reclamation; Secre-
tary Of State, s. p. Jameson, Of Goodhue
County; Treasurer, w. M. Seager; Asso
ciate Justices, 8. J. r. McMillen and J. N
Berry; Attorney. General, J. r. Z. Cor
nell.
While several laborers were engaged in
excavating a street sewer in Indianapolis,
Ind, on the Goth, q section of the bank on
both sides cavcd in, covering the men un-
der ten or fifteen feet of gravel and sand.
During the day six dead bodies were re +.
covered and two were taken out alive.
Two more known to have been at work
were missing, and supposed to be in the
bottom of the sewer, making the total
number killed eight.
A recent fire in Virginia City, Nevada,
destroyed four entire blocks in the center
of tho business part Of the city, involving
loss OF about $75O.0OO; insurance about
$350,OOO.
Foreign Intelligence.
The ex-Empress Eugene arrived at
Lisbon on the Gath. She was visited by
the King and Queen of Portugal, and soon
afterward left by rail for Madrid.
A Versailles dispatch of the 14th states
that the disarmament of the National
Guards was announced. There was no
resistance to the enforcement of the de-.
cree of the Assembly. Tranquility pre-.
vailed everywhere.
Dispatches received in London on the
14th, from Russia, show that the Asialic
cholera still scourged dreadfully the cen.
trail and southern portions Of tho empire.
Hon. VIM. Fl. Seward and party arrived
at London on the 18th.
The French Assembly on the 18th
elected the Committee Of Control created
by the bill of propagation to supervise the
government during the recess. It Is COM
posed Of eleven members of the right