Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-02-01
IOWA NEWS.

Orient Township of Adair County
has voted against Tax for the Mis-
sissippi and Northwestern Railroad,
says the Adair Co. Register.
A young lady applied to the John
son County Supervisors at their re-
cent session, for an order to make
her lover keep his promise to marry
her, but the Board-for wonder
concluded it had no jurisdiction in
the premises.
The smallpox is reported to be
raging extensively in Hardin Coun-
ty.
Iowa recognizes women's rights to
some extent, anyhow. Mrs. Ida
North is State Librarian; Miss Fan
ME Richards is Engrossing Clerk of
the Senate; Mrs. Laura A. Berry
Enrolling Clerk of the House; Miss
Matte A. Locke Engrossing Clerk
Of the House; Mrs. Il. M. Wright
and Miss Ida Stoughton are paper
folders in the Senate; and Misses
Eva Chapman and Sallie Gritfiths
paper folders in the House. And
the Des Moines Rerie1c and Chicago
Journal have lady Reporters at Des
Moines. OF these 10 ladies six are
opposed to woman suffrage.
Hon. j. b. Grinnell is out in a
published letter against the renomi-
nation Of Pres't Grant and rather
favoring Grimes, or Wilson of Iowa,
or Trumbull, Greeley or Boutwell,.
Well, Mr.. Grinnell has full right to
his opinion, but We'll take Grant in
ours every time.
The Davenport Gazette learns that
the leading Railroads in Iowa and
Illinois have agreed to shut down
on the business of reducing fares for
persons attending Conventions of
various kinds.
Adrt Gen'I Baker says that he has
none of his Reports, prior TO 1870,
left for distribution.
David Madden, "A Muscatine lad,
skated from that place TO Burlington,
siNty-tWo miles, in seven hours.
The draw Of the Railroad bridge
across the Mississippi at Keokuk is
the longest in the world being 38l
feet in length, says the cate city.
Iowa has 90 newspapers-l53 Re-
publican, 80 Democratic.
There was an open well the yard
of Samuel Midget, near Storm Lake.
And when the mother missed her
little four-year-old boy the other
dav, and went TO look for him, there
he lay, at the bottom OF the well,
dead.
Hon. A. J. Kissel, late State Sup't
of Public Instruction, has gone to
Europe to examine the Public School
systems of the old countries, espe.
cially Germany and Switzerland.
Mrs. s. A. Collins, of Des Moines,
wishes information Of tho whcrea-
bouts of her son Frank, printer boy,
about IS years old, who has been
IN issing since Dec. 90.
Iowa has 5 "Universities' and ]
Colleges" as per official reports.
The Register says the mileage ac'
count of the Fourteenth General AS
sembly foots up 10 nine thousand
dollars.
The Centreville citizen records the
death of a child from the effects OF
drinking a cup of concentrated I'VE.
It lived but il few hours, suffering
untold misery.
George Wells has q farm Of nearly
six thousand acres in Grundy County
Des Moines is reported to have q
boy, only about twenty years old,
who weighs but 80 pounds, but who
can take fve-eighths-inch iron ROD
and strike it across bis left arm and
bend it as though it were "A mere
niece of wire. And he can lift ,37s
pounds on the scales.
A farmer near Cedar Rapids owns
9 elk and . deer, which he keeps IL
the field with the rest OF his stock
and he is training the male elk tc
work like oxen.