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

/ vile, KY, &c; Pekin, ILL.,, and Vincennes,
| Ind, 55c.
The Chicago Journal Of a recent date says
bank In that city had sent package contain
| ing sl3o, 900 In 500 bills to bank in Milwau-
! kee but the package was returned intact,
with the explanation that the new $500 coun-
tcrfeit was SO perfect the Milwaukee bank was
! afraid to accept the package. The Journal
saws IL was understood that several of these
/ dangerous counterfeiis were in circulation in
Chicago.
The following are the newly-elected officers
OF the Illinois Grand Lodge /. o. g. T.: Uriah
Copp, Jr., Of Loda, 6. w. c. T.; J. L. Drake,
| Of Chicago, g. w. Councillor; j. X. Van
Doom, of Quincy, G. W. s.; Fred. d. Dalton.
Of streator, A. g. s.: c. w. Bassett, Of Abing
| don, q. w. T., s. Love, Of Rockford, g. w.
/ NJ; Representatives 10 Right Worthy Grand
/ Lodge, Fred. ID. Dalton, of Strcator; Uriah
/ Copp, OF Loda; Games Lamont, OF Rockford.
The Oregon Republican State Convention
/ has nominated Hiram Smith, Of Linn County,
for Congress. a resolution was adopted ex-
! pressing confidence In Senator J. II. Mitchell.
General +. s. McCook, Secretary Of Dakota
| Territory, was shot through the breast on the
! night Of the 18th, at Yankton, by z. p. Win
| termute, and died the next morning at seven
] o'clock. General McCook attempted to enter
| the court room, where railway meeting was
| being held He was met at the door by Win
tcrmute, who, after some high words, drew a
pistol and shot McCook, the ball entering near
the shoulder and scvcring an artery. But lit
tie is known Of the origin Of the difficulty. 1t
Is generally supposed to be long-standing
feud In regard TO railway bonds voted by Yank
ton County.
The committee having charge Of the coming
reunion Of the Army of the Tennessee have
received letters at Toledo, Ohio, assuring
| them that the President the Secretary Of War
and General Sherman will be present at the
meeting.
Governor Booth was given an enthusiastic re-
ception in San Francisco on the 18th. As he
arrived from the capital he was greeted with
a perfect ovation, and thousands OF people
assembled at the boat landing with music and
transparencies, and bonfres were kindled on
Telegraph Hill. The houses along the line
of the procession were brilliantly Illuminated
He was escorted by an enthusiastic multitude
OF people to the Grand Hotel, where he made
a speech congratulating the people on their
dispatch from Grand Rapids, Mich, says
"a train was wrecked on the 18th on the De-
troit IL Milwaukee Railroad between that city
and Lowell. There were eleven passenger
coaches, all crowded, and all are reported de-
moished. Six persons were known to be
killed.
The steamer Ironsides, Of the Englemau
line, one Of the largest steamers on Lake
Michigan, foundered and sunk within seven
miles from Grand Haven, Mich, on the 18th
Her signal of distress was hoisted at . o'clock
in the morning, but so terrible was the sea and
heavy the wind that no assistance could posi-
bly, reach her. She labored in the trough Of
the sea from about 1880 q. m. till the time she
sunk. The passengers and crew, OF which
there were nineteen of the former and thirteen
Of the latter, manned the life-boats and left
her about II a. m, the last boat leaving her
at about III 80 q. IN. When the last boat
had got about a quarter of a mile from
her, she went down. There were six boats
filed with the crew and passengers. One Of
the boats, having five men and four women,
capsized, and only one man reached the shore
-Four boats had reached the shore up TO IL
p. m The boat with Captain Sweetman, his
wife, and five passengers had not been
heard from. II Is feared they are among the
lost. Thirty-two persons are known to have
been saved, and eighteen bodies had been re-
covered. The following is a partial list OF
those lost, whose bodies had been recovered
and Identified: John Driscoll, steward Of the
boat; John Hilles, Of Milwaukee; Charles
Wimmell, agent of c. f. Harling IL Co., New
York; Mrs II. A. Valentine and child of Mil
waukee; Mr.. John Denison, Of Spring Lake.
Mich; Mr.. j. b. l.. Dewitt Of Milwaukee,
James Brown, Harry Hughes, Ed lyle. The
others are not yet identified.
Dennis Chapman, an old operator on the
Chicago Exchange, on the 10th, sent bullet
crashing through his brain in the wash-room
adjoining The Board of Trade hall Recent
losses occasioned by grain speculations are
supposed to have led to the deplorable tragedy
A special to the Minneapolis Tribune an
nounces the capture Of Lord Gordon Gordon
who was captured about five hundred miles
west Of the boundaries OF civilization, and now
langushes in a Manitoba prison
The underwriters estimate that the loss or
damage to vessel property on the lakes during
the recent storm will amount to $500, COO
with insurance for about one-third that sum-
A Yankton Dakota dispatch of the 10th
says: "P. F. WiDtermutc, the murderer of
General f. s. McCook, was brought up on
that day for examination, which he waived
and was committed TO the Territorial Jail to
await his trial for the murder at the October
term Of the United States District Court, at
which Judge Barnes will preside"
A Washington dispatch says a member of
Congress, who was member Of the Banking
, and Currency Committee of the last Congress,
states that he shall advocate system in the
next Congress which will permit unrestricted
free banking, conditioned only upon adequate
bonded security for the circulation.
The Americans engaged In kidnapping Lord
Gordon Gordon were tried at Fort Garry, on
the 10th, found guilty, and sentenced to twen-
/, tyfour hours imprisonment.
Another destructive confagraton occurred
in Chicago on the afternoon of the nth Four
acres were burned over, and about 200 fam-
lies rendered homeless. There was an intense
excitement among business men, and for a
time fears were entertained that the "Great
Blaze" was about to be duplicated. The con.