Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-03

three hundred wounded.
The illness OF the Emperor Of Germany having
rendered II impossible for him to visit sienna
a. nror.osed. the Empress Augusta arrived
| there 10 his place, on the 18th She had
most enthusiastic and brilliant reception from
the Court and people.
The news from the Russian expediuon 10
Khya. received on the 25th, was TO the eject
tina, the Russians had captured kilac. only
three aays' march from the city Of Khiva-
Prince Bismarck closed the SESSION OF Inc
German Parliament on the 18th. dc SAID he
was commissioned to express the regret OF tne
| Emperor at bis absence through indisposition,
from which, however, he was glad TO say that
his Majesty was surely recovering.
| Late adyices from Cuba state that the yellow
| fever continued with undated violence, very
| large percentage Of the cases proving fatal.
The East.
Gold closed In New York on the 18th at
ll5<a1l5X.
meeting OF business men interested In
solution OF the railroad transportation prob
lem was held in New York City on the 18th,
and a permanent organization effected. The
organization Is designed to be an auxiliary TO
the American Cheap Transportation Associa-
ten, organized by the Produce Convention,
held In May In their address Issued, the
promoters OF the organization favor the con-
str,,c.ion OF doublc-track road, exclusively
for freight, to be owned but not operated by
the Government, by means Of which goods
can be laid down In Chicago, Cincinnati or b.
Louis, from New York, In about three days,
whereas IT now takes ten. The address also
SAYS that II is not intended that this movement
shall be political one any further than the
present monopoiies compel 1T TO be.
II is stated that Boston has declined to ap-
propriate q, 900, or any other sum, 10 assist
Professor Wise in his proposed balloon trip
across the Atlantic.
Recent adyices Indicate that the health OF
Vice President Wilson was rapidly improving
and he would no doubt be soon entirely re-
covered.
The Maine Republican State Convention met
at Bangor on the 10th, and nominated Nelson
Dingle, Jr., az candidate for Governor The
resolutions protest against granting the public
lands to canals and railroads; denounce all
Credit Mobilier transactions and the salary
grab. and demand the repeal OF the law by
which the back pay was obtained.
At a meeting OF the Board Of Directors OF
the Chicago Il Northwestern Railway In New
York, on the 18th, Mr.. John +. Tracys reslg-
nation OF the Presidency was accepted, and
Mr.. Albert Keep, Of Chicago, was elected as
his successor.
In the case of Miss Susan B. Anthony,
new trial was refused by the Court on the
10Th. In reply to the question as TO whether
she had anything to say why sentence should
not I've pronounced upon her, Miss Anthony
declared that In her trial every principle OF
Justice had been violated; that every right had
been denied; that she had had no trial by her
peers; that the Court and jurors were her po-
litical buperiors, and not her peers, and an
nounced her determination to continue her
labors until equality was obtained, and was
proceeding 10 discuss the question In.
VOWED In the case when she was In
terruptcd by the Court with the remark that
these questions could not be reviewed. Miss
Anthony replied she wished II fully under
stood that she asked no clcmcncy from the
Court: that she desired aud demanded the full
rigor Of law Judge Hunt then said, "The
judgment OF the Court il that you pay fine
| Of 800 and the costs OF prosecution" and
| Immediately added, "Therc is no order that
| you stand committed until the fine Is paid"
The mail matter which left New York City
| on the morning Of the nth by the New York
| Central u Hudson River Railroad was nearly
all burned before II reached Batavia. The
matter was nearly all intended for delivery In
the Western States, and included, besides the
New York mail, forty-eight sacks OF papers
and eighteen pouches Of letters.
The Mount Vernon Cotton Duck Mills, near
| Baltimore, were burned on the Goth, throwing
| two hundred hands out OF employment. Loss,
about 100000.
Ex-Police Superintendent, John A. Kennedy,
of New York City, died on the Goth.
The election officers who permitted Miss
Susan b. Anthony TO vote were fined each
| $25, and $50 costs.
| Horace II. Clark, President Of the Union
Pacific Railroad, and otherwise prominently
Identified with the great railway interests OF
| the country, In connection with Commodore
Vanderbilt, who was his father-in-law, died In
New York on the 18th aged 81. MIR. Clark
was formerly member Of Congress.
Stokes new trial will not occur until October
| next His counsel have decided to make nc
effort to bail the prisoner. II is said the de-
Tense will rely upon the medical testimony SO
effective In the first trial, and will raise the
plea Of self-defense.
In the case OF the fourteen women indicted
with Susan b. Anthony for illegal voting,
| the prosecution has been abandoned by the
| Government.
| BY the burning of stable at Point
Breeze Trotting Park, near Philadelphia, on
the ed, twelve valuable trotting horses were
lost; and on the same day some fifty horses
belonging to various parties were burned In q
stable at Buffalo.
Lewis Tappan, one Of the foremost workers
in the anti-slavcry movement In Its earliest Ct
forts In New York, died (aged s5) at his resi-
dencc In Brooklyn ON the 2lst.
| The United States steamer Juniata sailed
| from New York ON the Gath In search Of the
missing steamer Polaris. The Juniata was
accompanied by two launches, and carried ia
men, and provisions enough for herself, thu
Tigress (Which Is soon to follow, and The
Polaris, II found.
The trial Of young Walworth for shooting
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