Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-25
The East.

the sth Of October.
The authorities Of New York have decided
10 bring Irving from San Francisco TO see
what he knows OF the Nathan murder.
The recent American Pathological Exhibi-
ton at Boston was great success. The Ne
braska fruits, which attracted marked atten-
ton, were awarded the first premium, and
were divided up 10 be taken by the delegates
from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New
York and New Jersey, for exhibition in their
respective States
An immense crowd visited the Capitoline
grounds In Brooklyn on the afternoon OF the
18th, TO witness the departure ~ the big bal
loon for Europe. The process OF imitation
commenced at an early hour In the morning,
and continued steadily until ten minutes past
four, when the balloon suddenly swayed TO
the north, ripped half way around with great
tearing sound and fell fiat upon the ground.
The immense volume OF gas which had been
pumped into IT, nearly 400, 600 feet escaped at
the same moment, nearly suffocating those
who stood on the inside. The crowd made a
general rush over the ropes with the intention
Of tearing up the canvas into small pieces and
carrying them OF as mementoes, but the
strong force Of police on the ground charged
and drove them back. Mr.. Stlner, who had
contracted TO fill the balloon, said that it
would be all folly to attempt another imitation,
as the bag was not made Of the proper mate
rial. SO the enterprise Is abandoned for the
present.
Kenyon, Cox IL Co., bankers and brokers In
Wall street, New York City, suspended on the
18th. Daniel Drew was special partner in
the house, 1t is said, and rumor has 1t that
the difficulties Of the firm were caused by
operations In the interest OF Drew.
Professor Wise has published card defend
ing his theory Of an eastern aif-current, and
announcing his readiness TO start for Europe
at any time In gas-tight silk balloon. He
also censures the attempts TO turn great
scientific experiment Into an enterprise for
money getting. Meantime the GJaphtc people
are arranging for demonstration OF SILK bal
loon for Professor Donaldson, while the Phila-
delphia Herald announces balloon enterprise
In that city on an entirely new plan OF imitation
and constructions with no charge to the pub
lie. So says New York dispatch Of the 18Th
Another car-hook murder was perpetrated
In New York on the 18th. Walter Bray, who
was riding on the front platform OF a Third
avenue street car, struck a strcct-sweeper on
the head with a car-hook because he did not
get out Of the way as promptly as the driver
wished.
Ex-City Treasurer Sprague, OF Brooklyn,
has been arrested for malfeasance in office.
| The railway bond forgers Of Wall street,
johnson and Yates, have been admitted TO bail
the former In $4,000, and the latter in
| $4,000.
The New York Express announces the fail
ure Of the Eclectic Life Insurance Company,
with deficiency Of nearly 100000.
On the recent voyage to New York of the
steamship City Of Brooklyn, woman who
was stcer,ge passenger, insane from sick
ness, threw her little boy, four years old,
overheard, and then, with her babe in her
arms, jumped into the sea. She was rescued,
but the children were drowned.s
The State Temperance Committee Of New
York have issued call for a State Convention
to meet In Utica, October9
The National Executive Committee Of the
Radical Democratic party met In New York
on the nth, and adopted an address to the
Oranges Of the Patrons of Husbandry, asking
| their support In efforts to secure responsible
representation.
| The New York State Prohibition Convention
ton Of resolutions arraigning the Republican
party for faithlessness to its pledges to the
temperance cause, and declaring want OF
confidence in either political party, the Con
vention nominated State ticket, IA
follows: Secretary of State, Rev. B. /. Ives
! Comptroller, ID. T. Elliott; Treasurer, Simon
| Brownel; Attorney General, Walter Earring
! ton; Canal Commissioner, Thomas Edgerly
State Engineer, !. c. b. Wallace; Inspector OF
Prisons, Rev. Isaac Harris.
There was something like stock panic In
Wall street, on the l7th Rock Island and tn,
Western fancies reached the lowest point with
In five years.
Rev. DR.. Benjamin II. Paddock was conse
Grated as Bishop Of the Diocese Of Massachu
sets, at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 18th.
The seventh annual reunion of the Army OF
the Cumberland Society was held In Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the nth. Generals Grant
Sherman, Sheridan and other distinguished
officers were in attendance
On the 10th, Professor King, accompanied
by four newspaper correspondents, made 0
balloon ascension from Buffalo, N. Y. Al
4 o'clock In the afternoon Of the l7th he was
over Whitney's Point, N. Y, moving in Q
southeasterly direction.
The West.
The Railway and Warehouse Commissioner
Of Illinois sometime since issued circular, In
which they assumed that for business pur.
poses, intersecting lines Of :oad form a con.