Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-10
The West.

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The West.
4 very severe hail storm occurred IN
Chicsgo on the 2sth, doing damage TO the
amount Of tls, 900.
In letter published in the Chicago
| Epenans Journal Of the 9th Hon. Richard
j. Oglesby peremptorily declines being q
candidate for the Republican nomination
Of Congressman trLarge In Illinois.
While an express wagon, in charge Of a
driver and messenger, was halted at the
end Of al alley, in ST. Louis, on the 18th,
and the messenger was delivering pack
age in the alley, the driver was seized by
robbers, as is alleged, gagged, and the safe
containing the money packages robbed of
| it's contents. The thieves then escaped.
The messenger and driver of the wagon
were arrested on suspicion Of being CON
cerned in the robbery, but were subse-
quently discharged.
When called up TO receive the sentence
Of the court, in Chicago, on the 2Sth, lie
genmeyer declared himself TO he entirely
innocent Of the murder Of Gumbleton.
When passing the sentence Of imprison,
ment for life, Judge Booth expressed him
self az fully concurring in the justice Of
the verdict rendered.
The Cincinnati police courts have re-
Gently decided that no license Ia required
TO give free concerts in that city ON any
day Of the week. AS consequence OF
this decision the proprietors of the beer
gardens, who had been arrested for break.
ing the Sabbath, were all discharged.
A letter received at Washington from
Agent Darlington, dated Cheyenne and
Anapahoe Agency, July Is, says: "Tht
Indians are all quiet. know Of no depre
dations committed this season yet. The
Kiowas have been earnestly endeavorine
TO draw the Cheyennes into general war
/ have some hope that the most tempting
crisis has passed, but the present is nc
time, in my opinion, TO slack our dill
gence."
The examination of Daniels one Of the
Meara lynchers, was had before Judge Pu-
terbaugb, in Peoria, on the 1st Daniels
was admitted to bail in the sum Of $4,000
The Supreme Court Of Wyoming has
decided that women have the right TO si'
~ jurors, under the provisions Of the ex
listing laws of the territory, Judge Fisher
dissenting. Chief Justice Howe rencere
the opinion that, under the Fourteenth
Amendment, women throughout thu
United States have the same rights al
men, in respect to suffrage and office hold
ing.
The South.
A meeting of delegates from agricul
tural societies, embracing every section O.
the United States, will take place at Nash
vile, Tenn, on the I'd Of next October
the object being the organization of an
agricultural congress.
General j. r. Boyle died suddenly Of
apoplexy at his residence in Louisville
KY, on the 2Sth. He was fifty three years
of age, was Brigadier General in the
Federal army during the war, and at one
time Military Governor of Kentucky.
Mrs. Robert 8. Todd, niece of Mrs Lin.
coin, died at Paris, KY, on the cath ult
She was married only few months since.
Il. b. McGee, prominent citizen Of
Trenton, Tenn, and who, prior to the war
was President of the Branch State Bank
at that place, was arrested on the evening
of the Both ult. charged with passing
counterfeit money. On searching his bag.
gage 81 200 In counterfeit United States
Treasury notes were found. He was com
mitted to Jail the next day in default OF
$4,000 bail, and in the evening he man.
aged to scale the wall and escape.
Captain David ii. II. Todd, formerly OF
Lexington, KY, brother of Mrs. Elk.
President Lincoln, died at Huntsville, Ala,
on the night of the 30th ult.
On the 30th ult, congregation at a
colorcd church In Jefferson County, Ark
was stampeded by an old colored man,
who dressed himself in the garb of the
Ku Klux, and entered the building in the
midst of the services. Every person in
the house made a rush for the door and
took to the woods us the old man entered,
dressed in his peculiar garb, leaving the
preacher, who continued to exhort his i'm
aginary hearers. Advancing toward the
preacher, the old negro gave him a sound
cursing, and left the house. He was ar
rested next day, fined $50 for disturbing
worshippers, $25 for cursing the preacher,
besides costs, and received lecture on
his misconduct.
Santanta and Big Tree have been SEN
fenced, in Texas, to be hanged in Septem-
Der, though the Judge who tried them
promised to recommend Communication.
Foreign Intelligence.
A special dispatch from ST. Petersburg
Russia, states that the American Commits.
sion from the Evangelical Alliance had
several interviews with Prince Gorfsclra-