Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-27

petition was being circulated In New York
City,apd being signed generally by the Masters
Of the Masonic Lodges in New York and Past
Masters Of Lodges residing in the city. calling
for an ernergent session of the Grand Lodge Of
| the State to take such action rs might be nec-
essary In the case Similar action on the part
OF the Masonic fraternity was being taken In
New Jersey and Massachusetts,.
A Dover IN. HI dispatch Of the 18th an
| nounces the death OF Hon. John r. Hale.
The jury In the Tweed case on the 18th
found verdict OF equity" on all counts
two hundred and four. The defense took ex-
ception to any verdict except a general verdict
on eli counts, but the jury were discharged.
The 22d was fixed for an argument on the
question Of arrest Of judgment on the ground
OF want Of jurisdiction in the court. Tweed
obtained leave to attend to some private busi-
ness, and left the sherifr's Office in a close
carriage, accompanied by two Deputy sherfns.
81 The West
The annual meeting OF the Illinois State
Grange Is to be held at Bloomington on Tues
day, December o, commencing at ten O'Clock,
Q. m.
The mother and sister OF General Ryan, one
Of the victims OF the recent butchery In Cuba,
are residents Of Chicago.
The official returns from the Fifth Michigan
Congressional District give Williams (Repub
licarI) majority OF $50.
An ordinance TO repeal the Sunday ordl-
nance has been defeated by large majority In
4 Al. aft 49,
At an ANTI Chinese Convention, recently in
session In san francisco, resolutions were
adopted In favor Of the abrogation of the
Chinese treaty and against Chinese immigra-
tion and labor.
A great four.mile race came OF at San Fran
cisco on the 10Th, In which "Thad. Stevens"
was the winner Of the race and the $4,000
purse. Four heats were run, In the third Of
which "True Blue" fell disabled on the track.
Official returns from the Thirty second SEN
atorial District of Wisconsin show that Field
(Republican) is elected over Dewhurst. This,
1t Is said, will give the Senate TO the Republic
cans by one majority.
In the Circuit Court at Appleton, Wis, II.
w. Bass, Of Fond du Lac, has recovered yer-
diet OF $500 against the Chicago Il North
western Railway for his forcible ejcctment
from the ladies' oar last winter.
A Chicago morning paper OF the 18th says
the dispatches from all parts OF the country In
dictated that the popular sentiment as TO the
Cuban business was "warljke to degree that
has not often been witnessed In this country.
In many places this takes the form OF offers OF
troops, and 1t Is scarcely extravagant TO say
that these are sufficient already to constitute
an army that could march from one end OF
Cuba to the other. In this State alone the
companies that have rendered their services
would make brigade Of infantry and regi-
ment of cavalry"
About half the business portion of Upton,
Mo-, has been destroyed by fire.
Out of thirty five ladies who were nomi-
mated for Superintendents OF Public Schools
in Illinois this fall, ten were elected.
Hon. Richard J. Oglesby, United States
Senator from Illinois, was MARI cd at Elkhart,
ILL.,, on the 10Th, to Mrs. Emma Reyes.
The Indiana Grand Lodge, /. .. Q. f., met
at indianapolis on the 10th. There was full
attendance. The Grand officers reports show
large increase In membership during thepast
year. The total number Of Lodges in the
State, November /, was 800; the number Of
contributing members, 22,600; total erecclp1s
for the year, s11C,000, surplus funds on hand
belonging to the Lodges, nearly 1000;
amount paid for the relief Of brothers during
the year, $4,000.
The south.
A letter has been recently published from.
r. M. 7. Hunter, of Virginia, in which hepro-
poses that the United States Government
should loan $4OO, OO0,0 without interest, to
the former slaveholding States, to be by them
loaned, also without interest, to the ex-slave-
owners Of such States. Mr.. Hunter says this
is In accordance with the views and sugges-
tions OF President Lincoln during the war.
The accommodation train from Brownsville,
Tenn, for Memphis was thrown from the
track near the former place on the morning OF
the 18th, by bar Of iron that was tied on the
track, and the engine and one car were wreck
ed Only one passenger, lady, was seriously
injured, as fortunately the engineer discovered
the obstruction In time to apply the air brakes
and check the speed OF his train, else all on
board would probably have been killed or
wounded.
A dispatch to the New Orleans Times, Of
the 18th, from Colfax, La, states that seven of
the nine negroes who were implicated in the
recent Grant Parish affair had been killed by
the citizens.
Clarence Prentice, the only surviving son Of
George ID. Prentice, was thrown out OF his
buggy and killed near Louisville, KY, on the
night OF the 10th.
The Louisiana Convention of colored voters
assembled in New Orleans on the 18th. The OBJ
ject Of the convention 10 to present the Louis
lana case to Congress.
The Right Reverend George ID. Cummins,
Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Church of
Kentucky, has written letter announcing
the severing OF his connection with that
church ON account Of Its ritualistic practice.
He says: az leave the communion In which
have laborcd In the sacred ministry for over
twenty eight years, and transfer my work and
Office to another sphere OF Labor"
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