Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-23
The East.

The East.
| -Four persons were instantly killed at Pat
tenburg, N. D., on the sth, by the explosion
OF a steam boiler. A number Of persons were
injured by the flying debris
The ballot for United States Senator In the
Massachusetts Legislature on the 9th re-
suited as follows: Whole number OF votes
cast, 273; necessary to choice, 1877. Dawes,
| 81; Hoar, ~; Curtis, "a; Adams, ID; Sanford,
9; Banks, z; Washburn, 4; Whittier, ].
The New York Evcntng Post OF the 10th
| saws: "The train which left Vanderbilps
Landing, at Staten Island, at seven o'clock
last evening was stopped about two miles out
by a band OF Italians, who tore up the track.
Particulars OF the outrage have not yet been
received, save that the robbers secured the
cash box on the train, but were themselves
soon arrested, and they are now locked up"
Lowenstein was executed at Albany, N. r.,
| on the 10th, for the murder OF one-armed
peddler last fall He maintained to the last
| that he was innocent.
Two ballots were taken on the 10th for
United States Senator from Massachusetts,:
Nineteenth--Whole number OF votes cast,
26s; necessary to choice, 1875. Dawes, 81;
Hoar, 90; Curtis, ~; Adams, ID; Washbnrn,
4; Whittier, /; Sanford, q Banks, D; Bull
lock, z. Twenticth--Whole number Of votes,
300; necessary to choice, 1876. Dawes, 49,;
Hoar, 60; Curtis, ~; Adams, l3; Bullock,
| l2; Sanford, z; Washburn, 4; Banks, 3; Whit
tier, q, II. Hoar, Reuben Noble and Mrs.
Mary A. Livcrmore received each one vote.
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Discussion ensucd.
BY fire at Williamsport, Pa, on the 18th,
| $500 $3.50 worth Of property was destroyed, In
Guiding large amount of lumber, large
planning. mill, saw-mill and fourteen frame
| dwelling houses. II Is reported that one man
was burned TO death.
The twenty.arst ballot for United States
! Senator In the Massachusetts, Legislature was
| taken on the lith with the following result:
Whole number OF votes cast, 1886; necessary TO
choice, 119. Dawes, 6S; Hoar, "a; Curtis,
So; Adams, IA; Sanford, Z; Banks, O; Wash
burn, A; A. X. Bullock, Is; Edward Learned,
8; Judge Pitman and Whittier, one each.
One Of the New York Cremation society's
members having recently died, the organiza-
ton have practically applied their idea of dis
| posing OF the dead. The body was put up.
| right In ire-proof receptacle, through which
intensely. heated air was forced The father
of the deceased paid the bill--t3. 25-and now
| has the ashes Of his son IN an urn on his par.
| lor mante-piece.
! A secret session OF the International Work
| ingmen's Association was being held In Phla-
dephia on the 18th, In which every labor union
In the country had Representatives As far as
could be asccrtained, the purpose Of the meet
Ing was to take such action as will more firmly
bind together the laborers engaged in all
branches of industry In the United States, and
10 prepare for general and determined on
saught on what the body term the unscru-
pulous aud monopolizing capitalists"
Theron workers OF Pennsylvania, according
TO dispatch from Pottsyille on the 18th, to
the number Of 10000. were on strike because
OF the refusal OF the masters to accept the
schedule Of prices recently adopted by the
Pudders' Union. The membership OF the
latter organization Is between $4,000 and CO.
600, aud the treasury Is said to be sufficiently
well supplied with money to sustain the mem.
bcrs long time should the strike become
general, as II threatened to be.
| Six ballots were had for United States sena-
| tor In the Massachusetts, Legislature on the
18th, the first (being he twenty-third regular
ballot resulting AS follows; Whole number
Of votes cast, 1885, necessary TO choice, 1884.
Dawes received 81; Hoar, Il; Curtis, 20;
Adams, Is; Bullock, .; Banks, @; Sanford, q;
Pierce, 2; Washbun, 3. The last ballot
Qwenty eighty was as follows: Whole num-
Der Of votes, $40; necessary to choice, 12i
Dawes received 60; Hoar, "a; Curtis, 62;
Adams, 81; Washburn, 90; Banks, s; Sanford.
2; Pierce, 2; Pitman, q; Whittier, Q.
The Directors Of the SANTANA Bay Company
met Ia New York on the 14th and adopted a
| resolution appealing to the Government to re-
instate them In their former position. IS
New Orleans dispatches Of the l4th say
that the river had risen three inches during
the preceding twenty-four hours, and was
about seven inches above the flood OF 1871.
The dwelling OF John Stewart, Of Marble
head, Mass, was burned few nights ago,
aud the daughter of the owner perished In the
flames.
The Brooklyn Presbytery has readirmed It's
decision that the preaching OF Miss Smiley in
the Rev. DR.. Cuyler's church was violation
Of the iniunctions of the General Assembly.
The Industrial Congress in session at Roch-
ester, N. r., adopted q series Of resolutions on
the 18th protesting against the expansion Of
currency issued through the National banking
eystem. and demanding the Issue OF National
circulating medium by the Government direct