Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-20

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were distributed at several points to en-
force order. The procession was fired
upon at different times, and the military in
return fred upon the rioters The MODS
made attacks upon different localities in the
city, but were repulsed. Up to twelve
o'clock on the night of the 18th the list o.
casualties as reported at the Morgue com
prised: killed. IS; wounded, 175; rioters
arrested, about 900 Colonel Fisk, while
at the head of his regiment, was struck
with club and one Of his ankles wal
broken. The city was quiet at midnight
Heavy bodies Of police were patrollinl
the city. The troops were in their ar
mories, ready TO march at a moments
notice.
The West.
During a severe storm at Lone Tree,
Nebraska, on the evening of the 9Th, a
house with four people inside was struck
by lightning, shattered to pieces and
the inmates killed. On the Fremont &,
Blair Railroad one of the cars was lifted
from the track by the wind and landed
twenty feet from the rail. A young SOD,
aged 2 years, of John McClesry, of West
Point, was killed. A mail agent, name un-
known, was fatally hurt. Other passen.
gers to the number Of fifteen or twenty
were more or less injured-none fatally.
Governor Palmer has issued proclama-
ton for special election in Illinois on
the It'll Of November next, for the selec.
ton of a ongressman-at Large, TO fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation Of
General John A. Logan, elected United
States Senator.
Recent reports from all parts of Califor.
MIA show that the wheat crop will be
much better than was anticipated. The
total product will be little short of last
season.
A call has been published at Madison
for the Wisconsin Republican Union State
Convention on August 30, with two dele
gates for each Senate and Assembly
District under the new apportionment.
Dayton, Ohio, and vicinity, were visited
by furious storm Of wind and rain on
the 9th. A German Lutheran church in
that city was demolished, and four per-
sons killed and twenty wounded. A
bridge over the Miami River was COM
plctely destroyed and two boys killed and
one injured. Over fifty buildings were
unroofed or otherwise damaged.
1t was reported on the 10th that Mr..
Bulls, the Republican candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor of Iowa, who was re-
Gently injured severely by being thrown
from carriage, was gradually recovering,
and there were no longer fears of fatal
result
The following Internal Revenue ap-
pointments have been made: Assistant
Assessors Geo. w. Fitzroy, First District
of Indiana; Geo. E. Bullock, Third Dis
trict of Indiana. s. d. Thorp, storekeeper
First District of Missouri.
The trial Of Ziegenmeyer, the alleged
murderer Of M. w. Gumbleton, began at
Chicago on the 10th. A jury was Sc.
cured and the opening argument for the
prosecution was made.
On the nth the Commissioner Of In
dian Affairs at Washington received 9
telegram from the Indian Agent at Fort
Laramie, stating that he had just issued
rations to the Red Cloud tribe Of Sioux
Indians on the north side Of the North
Platte River, and that they seemed to be
satisfied, and that If no mistakes are made
there will be permanent peace with them
The following are the Republican can.
didates for Congress in California: FRS,
District, 8. o. Houghton; Second District,
Aaron A. Sargent (renominated); Third
District, John NJ. Coghlan. The Demo.
cratic candidates are: First District, Judge
Lawrence Archer; Second District, James
w. Coffroth; Third District, George B
Pearce.
Church Howe, late United States Mar.
shall of Wyoming, has been renominated
for that position by Attorney General
Alderman.
The South.
Senator Pinchback, cOlored, has insti.
tuted suit at New Orleans for ga, 600
against the Jackson Railroad for refusal
to furnish him passage in sleeping car
on account of his color.
A terrible storm of wind and rain passed
over Moundsville, w. Va, on the evening
of the 9Th. Houses were unroofed, fences
blown down, and great quantities of grain
destroyed.
A Wilmington, N. G., dispatch of the
18th says q fearful butchery was perpe
trated in Robson County, on the 18th, by
Henry Green, Berry Lowry and band Of
negroes. A sheriff's posse, having In
charge Lowry's wife and several other
prisoners who had been aiding and abet'
ting the negroes, were ambuscaded neal
Buns store, on the Wilmington, Charlotte
& Rutherford Railroad. Three Of the
sheriff's posse were killed, and three