Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-21
The East.


Gold closed in New York on the 18th
at 110k.
Quite commotion was caused among
his former associates in New York city
by the appearance in court on the 9TH OF
Andrew j. Garvey, the plasterer, who
had returned to this country from Europe
and rendered his evidence in the trial of
Hall. Garvey's return is said to be due
to the negotiation Of his wife, several
weeks ago, with the Attorney General and
Samuel J. Tilden, by which Garvey was
promised immunity from prosecution on
his turning States evidence and return
ing some of his ill-gotten moneys. 1t is
said that Ingersoll will also turn in
former
President Grant was present, on the
night of the sth, at banquet given by
merchants to John w. Forney, on his re
tiremcnt as Collector of the Port of Phil
adelpbia.
In the trial of Mayor Hall, on the 9Th,
Garvey's testimony was to the effect that
Tweed and the Tammany Ring had been
receivers of the greater part OF the sums
drawn on his vouchers. For work amount
ing to 1924, $50, including $4,000 for
"profits," he drew bill for 1896, $50. OF
this amount he got IS per cent, Tweed got
$50, 900 for electioneering, 100000 were
spent on buildings at Greenwich, Conn.,,
$4,000 went to Woodward, $4,000 for
pIastcring the house of Walter J. Roche,
and SIS, OC0 were spent in politics. Gar
yey swore that the claims were neither
Just nor honest.
Mrs. Jane Madden has recovered 5000
from the Staten Island Ferry Company,
for the death of her husband by the West
field explosion, last June.
A revolution occurred on the 18th in
the Dictatorship of the Erie Railroad, Jay
Gould being deposed, and General John
A. Dix taking his place as President of
the corporation, with General Mcclellan
as Vice President.
The New York Sun Of tie 9th an
nounccs new ticket: For President of
the United States, Lyman Trumbull;
for Vice President, Horace Greeley.
Francis G. Warren was elected Mayor
of Biddeford, Me-, on the nth, without
opposition. The Democrats elected all
the city government, except two Council
men.
William Simpson, dealer in obscene
publications in New York city, has been
sentenced to one year in the penitentiary,
and to pay a fine of $1,000, to stand
committed till paid.
The Grand Jury Of Hudson County,
New Jersey, made presentment to the
Court at Jersey City, on the 18th, con-
tanning 1873 indictments, against nearly
every official in the county and in Jersey
City.
Plasterer Garvey says that he has made
no arrangements to receive an immunity
from the Attorney General for his testi-
mony against the Tammany Ring, and
that he returned to the city because he
wanted to be with his wife. He is will
ing to refund the moneys stolen from the
city, and show his repentance. So says a
New York dispatch of the 18th.
The returns from the New Hampshire
election, received on the morning OF the
18th, indicate the success of the Republi-
can ticket. One hundred and seventy
four towns give Straw Rep.), 1880; Yves
ton Dem.), 29,812; Blackmcr Temper
ance), 1888; Cooper labor Reform), 391.
The Legislature stands, Republican 1877,
Democrats 10l, Labor Reform 3, Temper
ance 2.
During the recent session at Philadel-
phia of the Centennial Commission reso-
lutions were passed fixing the location of
the exposition in Paramount Park, and
for the appointment of committee to
prepare and report II system of classified
ton, geographical and systematic.
1t was feared in New York on the 18th
that Clark, one of the jurors in the Hall
case, on account of whose sickness the
trial had been postponed, would not
recover.
Reports received on the 18th from 204
Towns in New Hampshire give Straw,
Republican, 80, 1893; Weston, Democrat,
"a, $40; Blackmer, 800; Cooper, and scat
tcring, 535 making the majority for
Straw, 1856, which will be reduced below
1900 by the remaining towns.
The West.
The Daily Neacs is the name of new
Democratic paper, the publication of
which has been recently begun in Chicago
1t is under the editorial management of
Colonel Daniel Cameron.
A very severe snow-storm prevailed
generally throughout the West on the 18th
and 9Th. In Chicago and vicinity the
snow was about foot in depth.
The Cincinnati Price Current of the 18th
gives the total number of hogs packed in
the West this season at 4,811 ,555; total
last year, 1906, 251; average weight of
hogs about 4 pounds, and of lard about /
pound less than last year.
Mrs. Anna Marble, the actress, widow
of the late Dan Marble, died at Cincin-
natl on the 18th.
The Republican State Convention of