Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-10-29
West and South.

tendance OF dcieRaDes.
At recent meeting in Chicago Of the West
ern Board OF Railroad Commissioners new
freight schedule TO the East was adopted, lf
90 into effect on the 10th Of November, In
creasing the rates from Chicago to New fors
five cents per hundred weight. II was also
determined TO discontinue return passes y
stockholders; to pay no commissions .
agents for influence In the control Of Eastern
traffic, and to allow no passenger to carry
more than 100 pounds Of baggage.
A mass meeting Of the Womsn's Suffrage
Association Of the State Of Illinois was held
In Chicago on the 18th. A resolution was
adopted 10 urge upon the State Legislature
TO submit the question Of WOMAN suffrage 10
vote Of the people. Illinois was declared
the banner State in the woman's suffrage
movement.
The statue Of Lincoln was unveiled at
Springfield, Ill.,, on the 18th, in the presence
| Of vast crowd Of people. An Grafton was
delivered BY Hon. X. j. Ogiesby, the President
Of the Monument Association, and a poem
read, written by James Judson Lord. A
| brief address was also made BY Presidents
| Grant.
The reunion Of the Army Of the Tennessee
was held al Springfield, Ill, on the i4th- Gen
w. T. Sherman was elected President Tor the
ensuing year. After an appropriate speech
| BY the President elect, Vice President WiA-ou
was called upon and made few REMARKS
President ard Mrs Grant were present 81 TIE
reunIou. Gen Hartbut delivered the oxasi0a
* the GAY, and lengthy poem vas reAd BY
Gen. TTls0n 4 E50-iO1 waz made and laid
oo the table foe one year 10 amend the con-
stftEEicn Of the association so IS 60 allow pri-
vate soldiers b. beconse members Before The
AdbourunenE loud calls were made for Prssi-
dens Grant. VINO made 4 brief response
In Indiana The Democrats hare elected their
State ticket bY from 1000 to 1900 majority.
Th. Congregational delegation stands eight
Democrats sa 1--we RepabIseans, ar follows:
Reygbllean,-sfxth District, Milton 5. Robin.
sous Eighth, W. c. Hunter; Ninth, 7. j. Car
son; Eleventh, James l. Evans; Thirteenth,
J. Fl. Baker. Dem0cratIc-Pirst, b. s. Fuller
Second, ]. D. williams; Third, VI. c. Kerr;
Fourth, =. D. Seg; Fiftl, w. s. Holman
Seventh. Franklin Landers; Tenth, VIM.
g. Haynord; Twelfth, Andrew II. Ham
litnn.
The Democrats elect their State ticket in
Ohio By about 1900 majority, and carry
thirteen q the twenty Congressional dis
tricts. The Congressman elected are as fol-
lows: Democratic-First District, Milton
sayIor; Second, II. B. Banning; Third, j. s..
Savage; Fourth, J. A. Mcmahon; Fifth, A. v.
Rice; Sixth, T. II. Hurd; Seventh, L. T. Neal;
Ninth, z. Y. Poppleton; Eleventh, j. L.
Vance; Twelfth, A. r. Walling; Thirteenth,
NJ. J. Southard; Fourteenth, j. r, Cowan;
Twentieth, III. Is. Payne. Republican,
Eighth, VIM. Lawrence; Tenth, Chas. Foster;
Fifteenth, ~ II. Van Worries; Sixteenth, Lo-
renzo Danford; Seventeenth, i. ID. Wood
worth; Eighteenth, James Monroe; Nine
tenth, J. A. Garfield.
The Republicans have carried Iowa by
about 10000 majority, and elected their Con-
gressmen in all the districts except the Third.
This makes the delegation as follows: Re-
publican First District, G. w. McCrary;
Second, j. q. Tufts; Fourth, II. 0. Pratt;
Fifth, James Wilson; sixth, f. s. Sampson;
Seventh, J. A. Kasson; Eighth, j. W. McDiil;
Ninth, Addison Oliver. Anti Monopoly
Third, l.. L. Ainswortb.
The Republican majority in Nebraska
ranges from 10000 TO 1900. Lorenzo
Crounse, Republican, is reelected to Con-
gress.
The three West Virginia Congressional dis
tricts elect the Democratic candidates, as fol-
lows: First, Benjamin Wilson; Second, 9. j..
Faulkner; Third, +. Hereford.
In Dakota Kiddcr Republcan) has about
1000 majority for Delegate to Congress. The
Legislature is Republican in both branches.
In Arkansas the Democratic State ticket IL
elected and the new Constitution adopted by
large majorites.
An indianapolis Qnd) dispatch OF the 10th
| says the best estimates placed the political
complexion Of the State Legislature as fol-
lows: neutrality-suspicious. "A; Democrats,
%; independents, 3. House--Republcans
81; Democrats, 81 Independents, 8. These
| figures may be slightly altered by the official
| returns. The Democrats claimed So members
of the lower house, but this includes some
Independents who they believe viii act with
them.
A dispatch received at the Attorney Gen.
erals Office In Washington on the 10th from
| the United States Marshal at Montgomery,
Ala states that forty-two more arrests Of per.
! SONS guilty Oh OutraRes upon bepuDilcanh
and Of stopping the United States mails had
been made
A party Of seven men, en- route for the Black
Hills, were attacked by Indians on the 18th,
at the mouth OF the Little Platte, and des.
perate fight ensued, in which one OF the party
was killed, one fatally and two slightly
wounded. Ten Indians were killed OF
wounded The whites Immediately started
back and reached Yankton on the 18TH The
Indians are understood to express deter.
mination to prevent white men entering the
hills at oil hazards.
| President Grant, Mrs. Grant, ex.Secretary
Borie and daughter, and other distinguished
persons from Washington arrived In Chicago
on the evening Of the 10th.
The White Leagues Of St Mary's Parish,
La, have passed resolutions declaring that
they recognize fully and freely all the political
and civil rights of the colored people, and ex.
pressing willingness to divide their nomi.
nees with competent colored men.
Col Thomas B. Whittemore, Chairman OF
the Executive Committee OF the Democratic.
| Conservative party, Sumter County, Ala,
wos arrcated at Iivjn gstnn on the nth ON n