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

Among the buildings burned were the court
house, opera-house, and two hotels Losi
about $500. 600; insurance $4,000
Latest compiled returns of the wheat crop
| in California show an estimated yield Of over
10 oOo. 900 .centals. The surplus for export
will doubtless be fully as large as that OF last
year.
Marquette County, Michigan, has been visit
ed by disastrous forest confagrations, caus'
| ing great destruction Of property as well a.
| the loss Of some lives. Dispatches received
ON the 2Ist record the burning Of Michigamml
| City, mining village In that county-only
1 three or four houses out Of about one hundred
and fifty having escaped the flames. The In
| habitants were compelled 10 fee for their lives
| in the direction Of the lake, securing their
safety on logs, planks, etc, which they hoated
from the shore. A number Of lives were lost
the remains OF eight bodies having been found
| at the time Of this dispatch.
The Chicago papers announce that the man
ayers OF the principal railroads running north,
west and south from that city, have come to a
| final conclusion regarding the frce-pass sys.
| tenn, and signed paper agreeing to issue no
more passes except to their own employees and
their families travelling on their own roads.
| All passes now outstanding will be allowed TO
continue In force until their expiration, De-
cember 81, and will not be renewed. The
agreement does not extend to cases where the
Companies are required 10 issue passes by
virtue OF leases Of other lines, or In pursuance
Of written contracts previously made.
Dr. j. II. White, business manager OF the
Davenport Gazette, and President OF the North
western Associated Press, died very suddenly
at his residence In Davenport on the 2lst, OF
apoplexy.
Two Sunday excursion trains on the Atlantic
a. Pacific Railroad collded some twenty miles
from st. Louis on the ed, and number OF
persons were injured more or less seriously.
Miss Alta NJ. Hulett has made her debut In
Chicago az a practicing lawyer Her first APP
pearance before q court as an advocate was In
successfully prosecuting case for poor
landlady ps. a non-paying tenant. The reports
of the trial show that the lady practitioner Is
well posted in her chosen profession, and viii
probably win success and fame. This event
marks an epoch In legal annals In the State OF
Illinois, because, for the first time, woman
conducted suit in court, and conducted II
by her own right under the law.
Carrie Everson, Of Plymouth, Mich, was
fatally burned In attempting to kindle fire
with Kerosene on the 2lst Her father, In en-
dcayoring to save the girl, was burned fatally,
and the mother was severely injured and would
probably lose her arms.
Five deaths from cholera were reported at
the Health Office In Cincinnati on the 23d. Up
10 the same date, thirteen cases had occurred
| at Evansville, Ind, since the disease had APP
peared in that city two weeks before. case
OF cholera was reported ut Wheeling, w. Va,
on the ed There were thirty-seven cholera
deaths In Nashville on the 23d, and eight In
Memphis.
Two negroes named George Washington
and Simpson Walker have been arrested at
Jancsville, Wis, for the murder OF their
housekceper, white woman named Mrs.
| Thomas, whose dead body was found In the
woods near their house few days ago.
Nearly all the Illinois railroads have adopted
| new schedules of rates under the law taking
effect July /.
| A proposed amendment TO the Ohio Consti-
tuition, forbidding the Legislature to pass any
| usury laws, has been indefinitely postponed by
| the State Constitutional Convention.
The Supreme Court Of Ohio has decided
| that the School Boards have the right to ex-
cIuIe the Bible from the schools, to exclude
singing and religious exercises, and that the
| Court has no authority to interfere with their
| discretion In the exercise Of this power The
| judgment Of the Superior Court is therefore
| reversed
A dispatch from Green Bay. Wis, 23d, says
| that the forest fires in Northern Michigan had
been extinguished by soaking showers Up
wards Of forty persons were burned, and
many drowned In the lake at Michigammi
while trying to escape from the flames. The
sufferers were well cared for, and supplies
were pouring in from all quarters.
The Iowa Republican State Convention met
ut DesMoines on the 18th. Hon. T. West,
Of Henry County, was chosen permanent
President A motion for the denomination OF
Governor Carpenter was carried unanimously.
Hon. Joseph Dysart, OF Taina was renominat-
cd for Lieutenant Governor, and Col. Alonzo
Abernethy, for Superintendent Of Public In
struction. The Hon. j. M. Beck was renomi-
mated for Supreme Judge by reclamation.
Resolutions were adopted declaring in favor of
cheap transportation, and that the State should
control every franchise 1t grants; approving
Of the action of the late Congress IN ferreting
out and exposing corruption; dcnouncing the
back pay steal; In favor Of political reform;
and declaring devotion to and confidence In
the Republican party.
The Michigan State Pathological Society
began Its summer session ut Kalamazoo on
the 25th. Reports were received from fruit.
growers In the State that much less than an
average yield was expected this year.
| A Cairo Cll.) dispatch Of the 25th says sew
eral cases Of what was believed to be cholera had
occurred in that city. Three cholera deaths
were reported In Cincinnati on the 25th. All
fears Of the disease becoming epidemic there
had disappeared.
The South.
Deaths In Nashville from cholera on the
10th were twenty colored and four whites.
The weather was more favorable to health than
on the day previous.
The deaths from cholera reported on the Goth
were--Memphis, seventeen; Cincinnati, three.
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