Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-04

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Ernest Ortwein, the confessed murderer
Of the Hamnett family, near Pittsburgh, Pa,
last April, was hanged In that city on the 3d.
Gen Joseph r. Hawley has been renomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans OF the
First Connecticut District.
West and South.
Allen r. Caperton (Dem.) was elected
United States Senator by the West Virginia
Legislature on the 18th. The final vote stood:
Caperton, 6s; Berkshire, ID.
Congressman William 8. King, Of Mime
sofa, has written lengthy letter to the Leg
islature OF his State In relation to the joint
resolution passed by that body calling on
him to appear before the Congressional Com
mittee and explain his connection with the
Pacific Mail subsidy business or to resign as
Representative. He characterizes the resolu-
tions as very extraordinary In 80 far az they
correctly illustrate your lack Of knowledge OF
the common proprieties and decencies of
official position, your painful disregard Of
truth In your official action, and your false
and hypocritical pretenses Of virtuous regard
for the honor of the State OF Mime
sofa" He pronounces false the charge
that he had accepted money as a considera-
ton for his services in behalf OF the Subsidy
bill, and emphatically asserts, as be says he
stated under oath two years ago, that he never
accepted nor received dollar i'm considera-
ton OF such service, and that not one dollar
Of the money received by him was ever In
tended or applied to influence vote on such
bill.
The Minnesota Legislature, on the 10Th,
elected s. j. r. Mcmillan Republican, and
Chlef-Justice Of the State Supreme Court TO
succeed Mr.. Ramsay In the United States
Senate. The vote was: Mcmillan, 50; Loeb
rem (Dem.), Of.
The wife OF Senator elect Mcdonald, Of In
diana, died suddenly few days ago. They
had been married only few months.
On the 18th negro was admitted into the
senior class Of the Boys High School in New
orleans. Twenty out OF twenty-five IN the
class left the school Immediately. No dis
turbance.
Near Mingo junction, Ohio, on the morn
ing OF the 10Th, train on the Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati d st. Louis Railroad ran on a
broken rail, and one baggage-car, two pas
senger coaches, two sleeping-cars and one
special car were thrown over the embank-
ment and burned. The baggage was destroyed
No one was killed, but several persons were
injured, among them J. N. Mccullough, First
Vice President OF the p, +. w. u G. Railroad
Company, who had three ribs broken and
was cut about the head.
Recent accounts say there were three feet
of snow on the level at TT. Sully. AS trains
come In from the Northwest dismal tales Of
accidents and death by storm and cold are
| brought from all sections.
Reports recently received from the gold
mines OF the Black Hills are OF an encourag.
| ing nature.
An accident occurred on the Chicago Rock
Island IL Pacific Railroad on the Goth neal
Sheffield, caused by broken rail. A passen,
ger coach and Pullman car were thrown
into culvert and several persons were in.
jured, one passenger, +. L. Browning, of An.
nawan, H., being fatally crushed under the
sleeping-car, from which he had previously
jumped.
The extensive glue factory OF Wahl Bros.
| in Chicago, covering nearly eight acres Of
ground, was recently destroyed by fire, In
| vslving loss Of over $3.50, 900, on which there
was an insurance of $S6,500.
At veedersburg, Ind, on the night Of the
| Goth, Mr.. Henry Eister and wife left their
| three little children-two girls and boy
alone In their house, and during their alb.
sence the building was burned down and the
| little ones persisted In the flames. The parents
had previously, during the winter, lost one
child by suffocation, and this recent sad afflic.
ton completes the destruction of their little
family.
A New Orleans dispatch of the oath says
the Conservative caucus had, after an excit-
ing debate, accepted the Wheeler proposition
for compromise by majority of one vote
The Ohio State Prohibition Convention
met at Columbus on the oath and nominated
State ticket as follows: For Governor, Jay
Odell, of Cleveland; Lieutenant Governor, II
A. Thompson, of Franklin; Attorney General,
s. Adams, OF Cleveland; State Auditor, Bel
mont Locke, of Lawrence County; State
Treasurer, L. II. Young, of Champaign; Su-
preme Judge, ID. G. Montgomery, of Knox
Member Board of Public Works. X. Buchol,
Of Akron.