Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-03-30


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i Wash;seson. dispatch. Of ths 18th
~. there .xas q ~ riding runaor, net gen
ers,lv known, Of advices received from
Minister sickies submitting, az the result =.
of she nerrfiEfions he has bcen SvHu.0s
g. 81, p1srn months past, proposition
firm the Government Of Spain for the
ale to this government of the islands OF
Cut. and Porto Rio. The Spaniards
v,at from 100000 to e10o,OOO.Coo,
psysh.e in iDsAllments, the first payment
70 be e20 100000 in gold, made immen.
ssely after the question OF annexation
.bould. by 9 popular vote OF the islands,
be decided affirmatively.
The following nominations were sent 70
Che Senate on the 18th: Collectors OF In
sernal Revenue - William 4 Ransom
6xth District Of Missouri; Thomas ..
Henderson. Fifth District Of Illinois;
John p. Ssnburn, Collector Of Customs
.s Port Huron, Mich; Ebenezer Dumont,
~ Indiana Governor of Idaho Territory ;
Madison e. Hollister, Associate Justice OF
the Supreme Court Of Idaho Territory
6ol. 8. Bayless, Surveyor General OF Da,
kot. Territory. Postmasters - Charles
Seymour, La Crosse, Wis; Ida Love,oy'
Princeton, III. 4it ~
United States Senator Matt Carpenter
az Wisconsin, was seriously III at Wash
ineson, on the nth, of pneumonia "
4 Washington dispatch OF the 18TH says
the total amount subscribed 70 the new
loan had reached $15,8O3,500. 3niD..d ,
The Democratic and Conservative dele
yates to the District of Columbia Conven-
ticn have nominated Richard r. Mernck
q candidate for Delegate in Congress.
The following nominations were sent 70
the Senate on the ed John w. Forney,
for Collector of Customs at Philadeipnia'
Postnasters--S. s.. Mathews, Pontiac,
Mich: M. Thomson, Romeo, Mich. Nj
L. Seaton, Jackson, Wis; g. 3. Fisher
Sparta, Wis. VIM. r. Presser, Nashville,
Tenn. GJ. Rocker, Murfreesboro, Tenn !;
David Brown, Nebraska City, Neb 49,
Matthew'S, Lyons, Iowa; s. 8. Murphy,
Mareneo, Iowa; Ofville Brown, Mawkato,
Mimi; T.. r.. Wise, Warren, o.. N.
Patterson, Piqua, o.; Margaret Walker
Sidney, o.; A.. s. Mcclure, Wooster, y. +;
w. N. Pound, Yankton, Dakota, >. n. n,s,
The East. ygi3oh >
Gold closed in New York on the I'D
ut HIN. aah ~ zt ,h97myil
At Albany, N. Y, on the 18th, the Jury
In the Filkins' case, charged with the ROB
berry of the express car near that city
several weeks ago, when the express mes
senger was nearly killed, rendered yer7
dict of robbery in the first degree, and the
prisoner was sentenced to twenty years
Imprisonment i 'te's't Z "Foa Nhft !I'
The news received at Concord on the
evening of the 10th indicated that there
Rad heen NO choice ~ nawn-r"- 10. N~J'
q SIf Tie votes cast by 100 TO 200 One
dispatch says the House would probably
be Democratic by from 8 to 10 majority,
and another states that the Republicans
claimed s majority. ..tl .1t6E ~ Il
The Rhode Island Democratic State
Convention on the 10Th made the follow,
ing nominations: For Governor, Thomas
Steers, Of Smithfeld; Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Charles r. Cutler, Of Warren; Bee.
rotary Of STATE, VIM. Miller, Of Bristol ;
Attorney, General George N, Bloss, OF
Proyidence; General Treasurer, VIM. p.
Congdon, of Newport. ..lisy
A Concord, N. H., dispatch Of the nth
says: "All except five small towns, Coos
County, having been; heard from, and est.
mating those towns by last years vote,
Weston falls Of an election by the people
by 152 votes. The Senate stands ave Re!
publicans 70 six Democrats. In the First
District there is no choice. In the Tenth
and Eleventh Districts the vote is 80 close
that IN official count will DO required TO
decide. The three Democratic Congress
men are elected beyond 9, doubt, The
&asssman says: Our list Of, Representa-
tives chosen contains the names Of 161
Republicans and 1855 Democratstd The
towns TO be heard from will give, we
think, two Republicans and eleven Dem
ocrata If so, the House will stand 1G3
Republicans to 1877 Democratic t9a a
Tho New York Euanino PStof the 18th
says. We have reason to- beheys that
the Spanish Government has notified
Great Britain and other foreign powers
that no proposition has been made to the
United States to sell cpba and Porto Rico
to IN" - va A''N - ''H yss''''@ :"
VIM. Il. Burleigh, the welikncwnpost
and temperance lectureH disdIin' Brooklyn
on the l8th.h f.q ii ,s3Aooq sid nj s9s
On the night Of the, 18th eight hundred
persons were arrested in the gspbline ,es-
tablishments Of New. York city, The
proprietors and employees Of the saloons
were held In bail to answer Ut the General
Sessions The players were held In bail
for their future good conddck9' n .9sH1