Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-24


i on hoard the recently wrecked steamship Cny
q, Washington, the loss Of the steamer ID due
n tI,c criminal carclcssncss Of the officers and
crew, II Is almost certain that had the acci.
dent occurred at night at lcastone hundred
lives would have been lost.
Madrid adyiccs OF the 18th give par'icu-
lars OF an international instruction ID
| Alcoy. The Mayor and the Collector
! were nssassinated, and the bodies drag
gcd through the town by the mob
Five cotton factories were burned. The PEG
pie OF Malaga had also riscn against The mum
| cioalIty and assasslnatcd several conncilnen
/ The Governor Of Malaga had resigned The
reportcd defeat and death Of Cabrinefy Is cor
armed, General yelardc, with seven bat
talions, arrived before Alcoy on the Ign. nc
was obliged to arrest thirty OF his own men Ioi
| INSTRUMENTATION on the march. III was rui'iof'
eA that the Internationalists had riscn In Car
tfaeena and made themselves masters OF the
town. the forts, the telegraph and the railway.
Tho marines remained faithful 10 the Govern
ment, and held the navy-yard.
Hcccnt dispatches from Kbya give the iol-
| lowing account OF events subsequent 10 thc
CAPTURE Of the city. The Khan voluntarily
entered the Russian camp and gave 10 his SUP.
! mission, formally declaring himself a yassa 81
| Russia. Gen. Kaufman then restored him 10
The throne, and appointed a council OF adii''n-
| jstration TO assist him In the Government dur
ing the occupation Of the Khanitc ny the
Russian forces. The Khan, in token Of graft
tude issued, on the oath Of June, a decree Tor
ever aboIishing slavery within his domlnions.
| Gen Kaufnann has sent dispatches TO 1ehe-
ran notifying the Persian Government to make
preparations for the reception Of 10000 natives
| OF Persia released from slavery by the khan's
| decree. -,
Madrid dispatch states that the abolition
OF slavery In Cuba IL to be realized by special
law.
The Italian Parliament was prorogued on
| the 18th.
heavy rain storm, accompanied by light
| ming, swept over Yorkshire, England, on the
18th. The crops were greatly damaged and
several persons were killed.
report was current in London, since the
departurc OF the Shah, that there had been a
wclI.organizcd and claborateIy-planncds scheme
arranged FOR the robbery Of the Shah OF his
| levels, but which was accidentally discovered
| and frustrated before the plot reached a eul-
minating point
| President MacMahon, in recent converse
| ton with correspondent, Is reported 10 nave
said ''Iherc IL no reason why the present
| regime, In It's amended constitutional form,
with military executive who should reign
over the country and rule over the army,
should not become established In France.
| When the words empire aud republic be-
come synonymous with discipline, every citi-
| zen a soldier and every soldier the servant of
| tho Republic, there will be as little strife in
the country "a to who shall be Minister as
there Is at present rs TO who shall be
Marshal"
A Madrid dispatch Of the i4th says That the
successes Of the Carlists and the outbreak and
atrocities at Aicoy had awakened strong
feeling against the insurgents. War meetings
were being held In the provinces. The Gov
! eminent troops had rcoecupicd Alcoy. hd-
| vices from Carlist sources on the l4th state
that the supporters Of Don Carlos we're gain
| ing ground with such rapidity, and their num-
hers were so steadily on the increase, that
there was general cry from oil the Republi.
can commanders in the North for reinforce
mcnts, In order To hold their ground.
The Spanish Government has promulgated a
decree annulllng all edcts OF scquestratioE
placed upon the property OF the rebels ana
rebel sympathizers in Cuba.
| BY an order Of the Educational Department
of Japan, in future all foreign teachers will be
Obliged to procure license, and no teacher OF
! the Christian religion shall be employed.
By a recent accident on the CALIFORNIAN Rail
| way England, two persons were killed out
| right and thirty mjured--somc fatally.
A Madrid telegram OF the 18th says that the
| Government still found II necessary to mon-
| tain strong precautionary force In Barcelona,
| To nullify the efforts Of the Carlsts to create
disturbances which might enable them TO
| seize the city. Arrests Of Carllst agents and
sympathizers continued Bayonnc adyiccs Of
| the k5lh state that the Carists had occupied
| the town of Bcrga, fifty miles from Barcelona.
| The garrison Of 500 surrendered as prisoners
| OF war.
A London dispatch OF the 18th says tcle-
| grams from the Continent, where the cholera
had been prevalent, represent that the disease
was everywhere abating.
| Inc 0cTUlHU boNtllluSht VII Wv i''A po"t,hs
an additional :2,OOoOOo in United States bonds
| In London.
The rindcrpest is said to be so general and
destructive among the herds Of Russia that
the German authorities have deemed IT ncccs-
sary to prohibit all importations OF cattle from
Russian ports.
Don Carlos rc-cntercd Spain on the night OF
the 10TH Hc issued proclamation invoking
the help OF the God Of Armies, declaring tina,
listening TO the voice OF suffering Spain, he
comes to fight for God and his country, and
concluding with the exhortation, "Volunteers,
forward and save dying Spain" The Carlists
claimed to have 10000 men under arms. Three
members Of the Spanish Ministry resigned on
the 10th in order to facilitate the formation OF
homogeneous Cabinet. All the workmen In
the factories at Barcelona had struck, and the
shops were closed.
The French Government has instructed the
Projects Of the occupied departments to inter-
diet public rejoicings on the occasion OF the
evacuation of the territory by the German
| troops.
The earthquake In Italy on June q was ex-
traordinary. The solid earth seemed for a
! time converted into liquid one, and houses