Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-12-04
The East.

According to New York telegram of the
Goth, Captain Montingro, OF the new Spanish
iron-cIad war vessel, the Arapides, had re-
ceiyed orders from bis home Government TO
get ready for sea at the earliest moment posi-
BILE, and proceed to Cuba. He expected his
vessel To be out of the dry-dock In twenty
days, when nothing will remain to be done
except TO take her powder and armament.
The Aldermen Of New York City have voted
to give the Departments Of Public Works and
Parks Si.00s,000 each, TO furnish work for
unemployed laborers.
A Cuban gentleman living and doing bust
ness In New York City, who arrived there from
Cuba on the Goth, declares that the statement
that more than one hundred Of the crew Of the
Vrginius were executed was true, rs he saw
1t SO stated by Spanish official reports In
Havana.
Four hundred and sixty thousand immi-
grants arrived In the United States for the
year ending In June last. This shows an in
crease Of 10000 over any previous year. or
these 1900 were from Ireland, $4,000 from
England, and $50, 600 from Germany.
John I. Irving, the San Francisco burglar,
has implicated Cole Cunning, q well-known
New York burglar, and Daniel Kelly, In the
Nathan murder, by stating that the former
killed Nathan while he and Kelley were walt
ing In the house.
general strike recently occurred among
the Union newspaper compositors OF Pitts
burgh, Pa, because of a proposed reduction in
pay. Charges Of conspiracy were preferred
against several Of the printers, and some Of
them were arrested and held for examination.
William M. Tweed was brought before the
New York Court Of Oyer and Terminer on the
22d, when motion for arrest of judgment
was argued and denied. Judge Davis then
sentenced the prisoner to twelve years Inn
prisonment In the county Jail and fine OF
sl2,750. After unavailing efforts on the part
of his counsel to obtain stay of proceedings,
at ten minutes past one on the morning OF the
Esd Sunday, Tweed was taken to the Tombs
and the gates were closed behind him.
The counsel for Tweed in the late trial were
before Judge Davis on the Gath to explain
their conduct In presenting, after the jury
was obtained, certain paper, which the
Judge ut the time characterized ms extraordin-
ary 1t Is document prociaiming the Judge
to be partial In having expressed opinions on
the facts against the defendant; that he had
ruled against defendant In law points, con-
trary to the decision of other judges, And that
because Of ill-will and prejudices he was not a
proper officer to set In the case The matter
was postponed until the Goth.
Another "Ring" trial, that Of James III. In
gcrsoll and John ID. Harrington, for forgery
In the third degree, was begun on the morning
| of the oath, before Justice Davis. In the Court
of Oyer and Terminer.
Tweed's counsel have presented a bill COM
prising rine objections on which to base their
arguments for a stay of proceedings.
An official examination shows that the New
York State Treasury defalcation, through Its
Cashier, Phelps, was s33l,772, 100000 of
which were stolen In August last, and the re-
mainder in September.
/ The West.
A Jacksonville (Iil.) dispatch of the Goth re-
ports that some fiend or ficnds in human shape