Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-26

Associated Press dispatches from Little
Rock, Ark, on the 10th, states that only
one arrest had been made, that OF Price,
OF the Republican, charged vith con-
spring, and he had been discharged,
the Judge holding that while the evidence
showed a conspiracy 1t did not sufficiently
connect Price with 1t TO hold him. The
Sheriff had been unable to find Smith or
Wheeler. The most perfect quiet prevailed
throughout the State, and there was no talk
as reported In Washington dispatches, about
Smiths establishing a Government at Pine
Bluff, Helena, or elsewhere. II Smith had
any adhercnts they did not make themselves
known. Gov. Garland had sent a communi-
cation TO the Legislature stating what action
he had taken, and asking an amendment TO
the law to enable him to offer larger reward
than 5000 for the arrest of Smith and Wheeler.
The steamer Empire, heavily loaded with
sugar, sank suddenly in the Mississippi
River, at New Orleans, on the nth, and from
thirty to forty lives are reported to have been
lost.
A Little Rock (Ark.) special OF the 18th TO
the Chicago Tribune says Henry NJ. Cooper,
Secretary of the Republican State Central
Committee, denied the authorship OF a tele-
gram received at Washington and pnrporting
to come from him, in which 1t was stated that
many editors Of Republican papers had been
arrested without warrant, charged with trea-
son, and imprisoned and refused BAIL that the
Republicans were organizing for self-defense,
and unanimously sustained the claims of
Smith to the Governorship, and that the peo-
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one man who had been arrested. The Assoc
ciated Press dispatches Of the 18th say that
all was quiet throughout the State, and that
in no locality were there any disturbances, or
any attempt to organize men In the interest Of
Smith Judge Poland, Of the Congressional In
yestigating Committee at Little Rock, had been
summoned 10 Washington by Atty. Gen. Will
Jams Neither Smith nor Wheeler had yet been
found Washington dispatch Of the nth
says Senator Dorsey had received a dispatch
from the editor OF the Repubtican, at Little
Rock, in which IL is stated that business
throughout the State is almost entirely sus.
pended, and the White Leaguers' militia roam
at large IF we are to fight we wish to know
IL. The earlier the matter Is settled the better
it will be for all" Gov. Garland had tele-
graphed to the effect that all was quiet, and
that he would have no collision unless it was
forced upon him; that all classes of people
all parties--were supporting him.
A Madison dispatch Of the 18th says full
official returns of the Eighth Wisconsin Con-
gressional District give McDill, Republican,
9,444, and Cate, Reformer, 9,446. This does
not include the vote Of the First Ward of the
city of Grand Rapids, nor that Of the town of
Lincoln, Wood County, which gave majorities
for McDill. The rejection of these precincts
will be investigated.
Two men, named George Black and +. j.
Hackney, have been arrested as being con-
cerned with Monroe in the recent robbery Of
the American Express Office in Cincinnati.
All three of the parties have confessed and a
colored man named Briggs has also been ar
rested and confessed to having helped TO con
ceal the stolen money. All but about $4,000
had been recovered up to the 10Th.
The Arkansas Legislature on the 18th
passed a bill authorizing Gov Garland to
offer reward of 81 1000 for the arrest Of
criminals, which amount would probably be
offered for the apprehension each of Messrs.
Smith and Wheeler.