Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30

admonished Baxter's troops TO 90 home TO
their families. The Federal troops had taken
up their position between the opposing forces,
80 a. to prevent bioedshed. On the 18th the
commander CT the United States troops took
possession Of the telegraph Office and relieved
Gov. Baxter's guards. Gov. Baxter there
upon telegrsphed to the President asking that
the United States troops be removed. To this
dispatch no answer had been received 1t mid
night Of the 10Th. The situation was esssn-
TALLY unchanged.
The Ohio Legislature adjourned dne die on
the Goth, having been In session l06 days, and
passed 1876 general laws, sixty-four local laws
and thirty-eight Joint resolutions.
A very destructive fire occurred at Ishpcm-
Ing, Mich, on the night OF the 10Th, by
which thirty families were rendered homeless.
Thirty-Hve stores and dwellings, over half of
the business portion of the place, were de-
stroyed. Loss estimated at si2s,ooo; insur-
ance over $4,000. The Hre Is said to have
been the work Of an incendiary fire :lso
occurred about the same time at Negaunee,
two miles from Ishpeming, which destroyed
five stores and a few other build
ings on the main street Several
fires were set In other portions
of the latter town, but were discovered and
extinguished, and two men who were caught
setting them were arrested. 1t appears as II
there had been O preconcerted plan to destroy
both places.
Private advices resolved in Chicago on the
Goth report that great part Of the State OF
Louisiana was overfowed from the crevasses
on the Mississippi and the freshets on other
streams. 1t lie represented AZ the worst flood
that region has had since 1s47. Thousands Of
people had been flooded out of house and
home.
An Associated Press dispatch from Little
Rock, Ark, on the Goth, represents matters
looking more wsrlike than at any time
for the precedin week. Baxter had re-
ceived reinforccments numbering about
1900 men, and . smaller number had
reached Brooks. Tho Federal forces
were between the two contending par
ties, and two pieces Of artillery were planted
at the intersection Of Louisiana and Second
streets. Brooks had issued an order TO rail.
way superintendents not TO bring troops to
the city for Baxter, but the order was disre-
garded Brooks had received several boxes OF
guns from st. Louis. Later In the evening
the Federal forces drove back the sentinels OF
Baxter on Second street, from Main TO Scott,
and also prevented the sentinels Of the State
House party from coming nearer Baxter's
forces than Louisiana street. Business was
entirely suspended, and the city was nothing
but military camp.
A Salt Lake telegram OF the 21st says the
old man In jail there had been Identified as
old man Bender through photographs OF him
sent from Kansas. The young man ar
rested as his son had been released, he prov
ing TO be deserter from the army.
Municipal elections were held In several
towns 10 Illinois on the 2lst, and the returns
on the morning of the 22d indicated that the
Temperance tickets were generally successful.
On the night OF the 18th James Murphy,
aged seventy. five, his son John, aged forty
FIVE, and grandson, aged six, In returning TO
their home on Silver Creek, near Council
Bluffs, Iowa, were caught In the prevailing
snow storm, and all persisted.
A New Orleans dispatch Of the Dist says the
whole Amite Valley was under water. The
river generally has bank OF twelve TO forty
Ave feet, but the water had reached four feet
deep over the banks, and had washed away
houses, implements, etc. The inhabitants had
fed 70 the high lands, where they were In
destitute condition.
Little Rock dispatches Of the 2ist say the
most intessc excitement prevailed In that city.
While Col Ross, commander of the Federal
forces, was ordering Baxter's men, under
command Of II. X. White, to dispense, about
thirty shots In all were fred, and several citi-
liens were killed and wounded. The United
States troops Immediately threw up barri-
cadc across the street, and were under arms at
last accounts. Fears were entertained that
the city would be burned before the affair was
settled.
The California State Convention OF Changers
was In secret session In San Francisco on the
22d Three hundred delegates were present.
@. W. Colby was President.
A Memphis dispatch of the 2lst says
the Mississippi was still rising and the
water was over the bank tops opposite,
nearly flooding the little town Of Hope
field, the eastern terminus of the Little Rock
Railroad, and running through the track Of
that road there. Farther out the track was
three 1ceL unuer WhteT, WAC
over the banks from above, and had sub
merged nearly the entire country to Crawley's
Ridge, forty miles west Of there, that being
the actual width Of the river at that point
On the 2ed Baxter telegraphed to the Presi-
dent that he could not move his forces to as
sert his claim to the Office OF Governor OF
Arkansas without coming In collision with the
United States, which he would not do, and
that he proposed to call together the Legisla.
ture, have them settle the question, and abide
by that decision, He asked that the Legisla-
ture might have the assurance OF protection
from the Government. The President replied,
heartily approving Of the peaceable adjust
ment OF pending difficulties by means of the
"Legislsture, the courts, or otherwise" and
promised To give all tho assistance and protec-
tlon proper, under the Constitution and
laws OF the United States, to such
modes Of adjustment. He advised the
disbanding of the military on both sides. In
the evening Baxter issued proclamation
convening an extraordinary session Of the
Legislature, TO meet at Little Rock on Mon
day, the 18th of May next. The procla-
nation has the following ending: sin testi-