Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-10-02

VIM. r. Taylor, Governor; Charles D. Parker,
Lieutenant Governor; Ferdinand Kuhn, Treas
urer; Peter Doyle, Secretary; A. Scott Sloan,
Attorney General; Edward Securing, Superin-
tendent of Schools; NJ. J. Argand, Commits
sioner of immigration. Resolutions were
adopted favoring cheap transportation, the
improvement Of the Wisconsin, Fox and other
navigable rivers Of Wisconsin at the expense
OF the General Government, opposing protect
i've tariff laws, back pay, monopolies, free
passes to members Of the Legislature, Credit
Mobilier, and corrupt legislation, and declar-
ing that the party would vote for no person
whose nomination was the fruit OF his own
importantly or combination among partisan
leaders.
The State Liberal Democratic Convention OF
Minnesota met at St. Paul on the oath, and
decided to make no nominations. Resolu-
tions were adopted advising all Democrats and
Republicans to yield cordial support TO
the nominees of the Owatonna Convention.
The South.
The Grand Lodge Of the l. O. Of O. F. in
session at Baltimore, Md, adjourned on the
10th, having first voted to hold the next an
nual Communication at Atlanta, Ga.
A Memphis disp atch Of the Goth says the
ravages of the yellow fever in that city
had been stayed somewhat. The disease
had appeared in New Orleans, and the dengue
| or break bone fever ragged also as an epidemic.
| In Shreveport the fever exhibited no abate-
ment. New cases were notsO numerous, but
| the ratio of deaths had been fully as great as
at any time since the appearance OF the
| scourge.
An Augusta, Ca, dispatch OF the 22d says
that on the 10Th terrific storm passed over
Florida in the vicinity Of Tallahassee.
large number of dwellings had been blown
down, and the crops in all that section ruined.
Three or four lives had been lost, several per-
| sons injured and a large number OF cattle
killed. The town of st. Marks had been COM
pletey washed away, only two houses being
left standing, and twenty families had been
| made homeless. The town Of Newport had
| also been swept out Of existence.
A dispatch from Richmond, Va, of the 23d,
says that the Merchants National, the Plan
| ters', the Mechanics, the Peoples, the First
| National, and the Citizens banks, of Peters
| burg, had suspended.
Baltimore telegram OF the 24th announced
that all the banks Of that city had stopped
currency payment. Brown, Lancaster d
Cowell, agents OF the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway, having houses in Baltimore, New
York and Richmond, had also suspended.
A Little Rock, Ark, dispatch of the oath
says the money panic in that city continued,
caused not so much by Eastern financial COM
plications as by the refusal of the city banks
to take the shinplasters that have been current
there.
dispatch from Richmond, Va, says that
the Richmond Dollar Savings Bank had sus-
pended, and that Taylor 81 Williams, bankers,
had failed.
A dispatch to the Associated Press, from
| Brownsville. Texas, of September "a, says that
| a series Of butchcries and robberies had re-
Gently been committed in Mexico, the victims
| in every case being Americans. The perpe-
traitors of these crimes were arrested, and their
guilt fully established, yet not one OF them
had been punished, the authorities being
either Indifferent or powerless. The facts
had been reported by the Consuls to Washing
ton, in the hopes that redress would be de-
| mandcd.