Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20

the 9th as follows: Republican--Colorado
Territory. III. p. H. Bromwell; Sixth Ohio
District. A. VI. Pratt. Of Williams County;
sixth Indiana. Milton s. Robinson, OF Madi-
son County; Tenth Indiana, Maj. Calkins, Of
Laporte. Anti Mouopoly-First lows, Hon.
Edward Campbell. of Jefferson County. Dem
oeratic-Foursh Missouri, X. A Hatcher, re-
nominated.
TIE recent Reform State Convention OF Kan
sas nominated: For Governor, j. G. Cusey;
lieutenant Governor, T. II. Ewington; secre-
sary % STATE, Nelson Abbott; Treasurer,
Charles r. Rooster: Auditor, q. r. smith;
Superintendent q Public Instruction, H. b.
Norson. Attorney General, J. X. Halloweu;
Asssskans-Justice u the Supreme Court, '"
p. Donthltt. The following are the main
features 81 the platform adopted: Maintain
ing the InviolabIIity Of the right Of the State
90 control its own domestic institutions; con
dsmnlay the present Administration for its
bold defiance o. public sentiment and disrc
gard a the public good; insisting that the
public debt shall be paid In strict compliance
with the law under which 1t was contracted;
demanding the repeal Of the National Banking
Law, and the issue Of legal tenders Inter
changcable for Government bonds bearing a
low rate Of interest; fayoring the repeal Oh the
tariff ON lumber and on the necessities OF
common life; demanding such legislation In
regard to railroads as will secure the indus
trial interests Of the country against monop-
DIV and extortion; denouncing the Poland
law of the last Congress as an outrage against
the liberty Of the press and the individual;
Id t,XIi of ~
Administration, and fayoring the election Of
President, Vice President and Senators by
direct vote Of the people
The election in North Carolina for super
intendcnt Of Public Instruction, Congress
men, Judges and Solicitors, members Of the
General Assembly and county officers took
place on the 9th. A Raleigh dispatch Of that
date says the election passed off quietly as
far as heard from. Democratic gains were re-
ported in every section, aud ii was considered
certain the State had gone Democratic by
vote yariously estimated at from 5000 to TO-
900, with seven Democratic Congressman out
Of eight.
The county elections in Tennessee on the
9th resulted generally in Conservative and
Democratic victories.
A State Reform Convention was held at
Lansing, Mich, on the 9th, ut which series
of resolutions was adopted-favoring the
organization Of National Reform party; In
favor Of currency that shall not be sus'
ceptib TO such contraction or Imitation as
shall ult in injury TO the business Interests
Of the country" advocating the maintenance
nviolate OF the rights Of the States; In
favor Of the one-term principle for Pres
dent declaring that the State Legisla-
ture has the right TO regulate the
fares and freight upon railroads so far as to
protect the public against unreasonable
charges, and that II is the duty Of the Legisla-
ture at once TO SO change the rate and mode
Of taxing railroads that they shall bear equal
burdens with other property in the support
of Government: that the acceptance and use
Of free passes by members Of the Legislature,
State officers and Judges Of courts OF record,
as practice, il inimical to the
interests OF the laboring and produc-
ing classes, etc; a State Central CON-
mittcc was chosen, consisting OF Messrs. Cook
Of Hillsdale, Eugene Pringle OF Jackson,
James b. Upton Of Calhoun, j. W. Turner
Of shiawassce and George III. Murdoch Of
Berricn County. The committee decided to
call State Convention TO meet at jackson
on the 9th OF September,
The Illinois State Treasurer reports the re-
ceipts for the month Of July at $3.50, T6s0l,
and the disbursements at s25iG67s7.
The Iowa State woman's Suffrage Conven-
ton Is to be held ut Dies Moines on the 9th Of
September.
The following Congressional nominations
were made on the 7th Republlean-First
Louisiana District, J. ii. Sypher, renominated;
Second Louisiana, Henry DibbIe; Third Lou
isiana, c. b. Darrell, renorainated. Conserya-
tiyc--First Virginia, Beverly X. Douglass.
LMonopoly-Ninth Iowa, G. L. Whiting.
A few days ago girl eight years Of age
named Ida Kurtz, was burned TO death at
Green Bay, Wis, while attempting to start
fire with kerosene.
A Cincinnati dispatch Of the 9th says forty
five dead bodies Of persons lost by the burn
ing OF the steamer Pat Rogers had been re-
covered, and all but fifteen had been fully
identified. Two known to be lost had not
yet been found, making forty-seycn victims
In all, with possibility OF there being three
or four more.
News from Clusters Black Hills expedition,
received on the 18th, was TO the effect that
the command was in good health and
spirits. A small party of Sioux were
met with on the 27th, but there had
been no fighting as yet. Since the
command struck the Black Hills 1t had
been prospecting In a continuous line In the
most beautiful valley man ever looked upon.
In Custer Valley rich mines had been diseov-
cred, both placer and quartz digging, and that
immense section bids fair to become the FL
dorado Of America. The march would be re-
sumed on the 9th for the head-waters Of the
Little Missouri and from thence TO Fort Lin
ccln
Henry j. Whitehouse, ID. d., IL d., Bishop
Of the Episcopal Diocese Of Illinois, died at
his residence In Chicago ON the morning Of
the 10th, after an illness Of several days, Of
paralysis. He was sevcnty-one years Of age,
and had been Bishop Of the diocese for TWEEN.
ty-three years.
Much excitement was caused In ST. Paul,
Mimi, on the Sth by the publication OF pre-
tended special telegram from New York an
nounclng that Henry Ward Beccher had com.
1T FItt.