Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-06-24
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Al East lIeersy, Pa, On the 10Th, cattle
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WEST AND SOUTH.
Tar California Republican State Conven-
sscn me. ri San Frsncisco on the nth and
terminated Hon. 7. g. Phelps for Governor;
so~eTA VI Cavss for Lieutenant Governor: y.
Hslies1 for Secretary Of State; VIM. Beck
man for Treasurer The Administration Of
President Grant received the Endorsement OF
,he convention and his third-term letter was
declared TO be explicit as TO the final settle
mentof the thErd-term agitation.
THE Chicago Ta11s Of the 18th states that
the Supervising Architect OF the Treasury
and the engineers appointed to examine the
walls of the new Custom House building In
that city bad condemned the entire structure
and ordered its demolition. They find the
foundations insecure, the stone Of which the
walls are constructed worthless, and the ma
sonry botehed in many respects.
A GANG Of twelve cattle-thIeves was over
taken BY company Of State troops near
Brownsville, Tex, on the 18th, and, showing
ilght, their whole number were killed. Dur
ing the engagement one Of the soldiers was
fatally shot.
The iron safe Of the United States man-of-
war Cumberland which WAS run into and
sunk In Hampton Roads by the Confederate
ram Virginia, In 1862, has recently been re-
covered by diver who had been searching
for II only two days. Other divers had been
seeking the lost treasure for ten years. The
safe contained between 10000 and 100000
In gold, and was found In seventy-eight feet
OF water.
TOM MCCLELLAN, the client Of Clement l..
Vailandgham at the time the latter accident
ally shot himself in attempting 10 show how
the man for whose murder Mcclellan was be-
ing tried might have Internationally caused
his own death, was shot and killed In his
saloon In Hamilton, Ohio, on the night OF the
18th. He had been convicted Of the murder
OF Myers, had obtained new trial and was
acquitted, and his assassination Is believed to
be in revenge for the crime OF which he was
probably guilty.
DISPATCHES from different localities In Ne
| braska, Kansas and Western Iowa, on the
18th, state that myriads OF grasshsppers were
| 10 the cir and flying In northerly direction,
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damage In some sections.
THE Central Bank, Of Indianapolis, Ind
was robbed Of 1900 on the 18th, and two men
and one woman who committed the robbery
were captured at Lafayette on the afternoon
Of the same day.
A pEsTKUcTIygtornadop passed over Quincy,
H., on the morning Of the 18th, and de-
| stroyed property 10 tho value Of about $780,.
600, but fortunately only one life was lost.
THREE threc.card monte swindlers have
been tried and convicted by Chicago jury
and sentenced TO the Penitentiary- for
three years ard the others for one year each.
THE Minnesota Reform state Convention
was held at Minneapolis on the 10th and nom
mated Prof. X. r. Humiston for Governor, j.
| Il. futile for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, John IL.
stevens for Secretary OF State and II. ID.
Brown for Treasurer A long platform was
adopted, demanding, among other things,
competency, honesty and sobriety as indis-
pensable qualifications for holding public
Office, and that removal for mere difference
Of political opinion Ia practice opposed "a
sound policy.
IN Chicago, on the 10th, spring wheat,
| No. 2, was weak, closing at S91l0991 c
cash Cash corn closed at 70Ac for No,
and 6ss4c for rejected. Cash oats sold at
5sJ<615ss4c; July options were sold at 569Gc.
Rye, No. 2, brought 95C997e Barley, No. 2
si2sC0l30 Cash mess pork closed al
Sls.70(0iS75. Lard, sl2.95G0i30O. Choice tc
extra bceycs brought $625167O0; medium te
good, s5.50Gt6i5; butchers stock, $4,000
| 525; scalawags, etc, s2.50a325. Hog.
brought s6S5co725 for good 10 choice.