Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-19


adopted
In the French Assembly on The 10th, Min
istersal circular was read, addressed to the fre-
fec.. Of DEPARTMENTS, suggesting confidential
" the employment Of subsidies and such ofner
means Of influence as could be secretly brought
N hear for the control Of NE Press. NJ. Beuie,
Minister OF the Interior, admitted the authen-
ticisy a the circular, and accepted the respon-
s;bility for issuing the same. After pro-
.rasted scene Of confusion and excitement,
motion supporting the Government was car
ried by vote Of $50 yeas against 3l5 nays.
The result shows that the coalition OF the con
servatives was stiIl mbr0ken.
II xas reported Ia Paris on the 10Th that
Count Won Arnim, the German Ambassador
had been recalled, because he made unneccs-
sary calls upon President MacMahon-
The Spanish Ministry resigned ON the ION,
and during the afternoon the Cortes entrusted
TO Senior Figucras the organization OF new
Ministry. After consultation with his TRENDS
and with leading members OF the Cortes, senior
Pigueras reported that he was unable TO form
a Cabinet. senor Orcnse has resigned the
Presidency Of the Constituent Cortes.
The New York Daily Graphic Of the iltn
publshes an extract from private letter, dated
Rome, May IS, which tells Of rumor, pre-
yalent In that city, that Pope Plus TX. mao
died come days previous, and that his place
was filed by an old aud astute priest named
Abbate Minati, who is said to bear a striking
likeness 10 the Pope. The letter says: Inc
Pope died, but instead Of their announcing
this fact TO the public by bulletins from the
Vatican. they began 10 inform the outside
world that the Holy Father was getting better'
and finally that he was quite well again, inc
fact being that the remains OF Plus TX were
hidden away In some OF the secret rccesses OF
the Vatican cellars, and that Abbate Minati
quietly stepped into his place.
Several French officials sent In their resighs-
tions on the 1ith. in consequence OF the afcu-
lar issued by the Minister OF the Interior sug-
costing the subsiiizing of the Press.
Commissioner schultz, General Van Burens
successor at Vienna, has written to this coun.
try to the effect that the American Department
OF the Vienna Exposition would be in com
plcte order by the 18th Of June, which could
not be the case with that Of any other nation,
not excepting England, which had the advan-
tage OF corps OF workmcn brought TO Vienna
~ hasten to completion and perfect that de-
partmcnt. The Austrian Government, nc
saws, should have taken another year To pre-
pare for the Exposition. Not only were the
grounds not finished, but all those facilities
which they had promised were incomplete.
The East.
!, Gold closed in New York on the I'm Mt l17H
0i17l5.
Governor Straw, Of New Hampshire, was In
augurated at Concord on the 9Th. He recon-
mends the Local Option law as the best
method Of restraining intemperancc.
IL was reported In New York on the 9TH that
Stokes had been denied anew trial by the Court
Of Appeals
Hon. John Printiss, the oldest printer and
newspaper publisher in New England, and
perhaps IN the United States, died ut keene,
N. H., on the 9Th In the Goth year OF his age.
lie established the Ne,e Hampshire Sentinel in
17.y9, and conducted 1t for forty nine years.
report was sent from New York on the
9Th that Victoria G. Woodruff had died sud
denly OF heart disease. A subsequent dis
unconscious condition.
Stokes has been unanimously 81 anted new
trial by the Court Of Appeals OF New York
The lower Court Is held To have erred In charg-
ing the jury that the law presumed murder
from the fact Of killing, throwing the burden
Of defense on the accused, and In the exclusion
Of some testimony offered, and the admission
Of certain other evidence.
A $25O, 600 fire occurred NJ Newburgh, N. T.,
on the 9th.
The New York Grand jury have found an
indictment against young Walworth, the par
ricidc, Of murder In the first degree.
An explosion Of fre-darnp occurred at the
Henry Clay Colliery, near shamokin, Pa, ON
the 10TH There were fifty men In the slope at
the time Of the explosion, thirty-flvc OF whom
were known to have escaped. upto ten o'clock
ten dead bodies had been taken out Il
DR.. Julius Il. Julian, New York City, has
been sentenced 10 one years Imprisonment and
to pay $500 fine for sending obscene publica-
tions through the mails.
The remains OF the late Minister Orr were
received In New York on the nth, and were cs-
corted by the Knights Tcmplar and detacli-
mcnt Of police To the Governors room at the
City Hall, where they were to lay In state.
The New Hampshire Legislature, on the
18th, elected the following State officers: Sec
rotary Of State, b. r. Prescott, Of Concord;
State Treasurer, Scion A. Carter, Of Kecnc.
Frank II. Walworth was arraigned In the
Court Of Oyer and Terminer at New York on
the nth, on the charge OF having murdered his
father. He pleaded through his counsel,
Judge Garvin, "Not guilty" rs
DR.. Lewis X. Meyers, dentist Of Middle
town, N. T., while drunk, a few evenings ago,
stabbed, II was supposed fatally, his father In
the breast near the heart with q sharp instru-
ment a4 sw
The West.
In the recent election for Judges Of the Su-
preme and Circuit Courts Of Illinois the cand-
dates supported by the Farmers Conventions
were generally successful. In the Fifth Dis
trict, where the most bitter feeling seemed TO
exist, Judge Alfred N. Craig, Of Knox Coun-
ty, was elected to the Supreme bench by
y majority Of over 2,OO0 over Judge Law
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