Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-10

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tied one end of rope around his neck, the
other to beam, and jumped His son, who
had some suspicion that all was not right,
had followed him to the barn and came upon
the scene just as the old gent was making the
fatal leap. He Immediately seized him and
held him up, at the same time calling for as
sistance. A younger brother soon arrived,
and the halter was cut. The fall did not dis
locate his neck, for wonder, but it was fear
fully hurt and lacerated.
Mahaska County.
The tax levy of the county is nine and one
half mills-Sl37, S27.53.
The artesian well at Oskaloosa has reached
a depth of between TOO and 500 feet.
Madison County.
An attempt was lately made at Winterset
to assault Judge Mitchell, Circuit Judge,
while he was sitting on the bench holding
court. Some person unknown threw a mis-
sile through the window of the courtroom,
passing about twelve inches over his head
and little to his left.
Marshall County.
Elizabeth A. Whipple has sued John and
Benton Resley, druggists in Marshalltown,
claiming $4,000 damages sustained by reason
OF the defendants unlawfully selling her hus.
band intoxicating liquors during the seven
years prior to his death.
O'Brien County.
Muskrats and beaver are said to abound in
the vicinity of Sheldon, and now and then an
otter isfound.
Polk County.
Recently farmer named Wall, living near
Saylorsville, met with an accident that, but
for his grit and GOODNESS, might have resulted
fatally. In his field, sixty rods from his
house, was huge bowlder which he wished
removed, and he thought that the most ex-
peditious way and the least expensive would
be to sink it. Accordingly, he commenced to
dig under the rock. After he had got well
under the earth caved, and the huge rock came
tumbling down upon him. 1t broke one of
his legs and savagely bruised the other.
The spade with which he was digging
was broken, also, and there Wall
was caught with ton or two of rock above
him. The wind was blowing fiercely, and, al
though he made as loud an outcry as possible,
he was unable to make any of his family
hear him. Then the clear grit of the man
came to the top. The spade was caught I'M
der the rock, as well as himself With his
hands he dug it loose and used the imple-
ment so industriously that in due time he
had liberated himself, and then, with one leg
entirely useless and the other seriously dis
abled, he crawled sixty rods to the shelter Of
his own roof AT Last accounts he was conva-
lescing, and happy in the prospect of a speedy
recovery from his injuries.
ho Local tnppapa IF tba DnoE leland Pail
road at Des Moines for October was 81, $40, 900
pounds--an increase of 20 per cent over the
tonnage the same month last lear.
Tuttle 81 Igos office, in Des Moines, was
recently entered by burglars and robbed OF
$50 in fractional currency.
AS wind-up for Thanksgiving Day, at
Des MONIES, Pat Morrissey and man named
Jones had slight diversion with sticks and
knives which resulted in Jones being held to
bail in the sum Of 81 800 for trying to cut out
a vital portion Of Morrissey's anatomy.
Pottawattamie County.
Elder Shinn, of Omaha, aged sixty-s and
worth 100000, was recently married to Mary
Jane Webb, of Council Bluffs. Mary Jane Is
but twenty-five, but she can take care of that
500, 900 just as well as IL she was older
j. w. Cover was recently arrested in Toledo
for having passed stolen check upon the
SAVINGS bank at Council Bluffs.
Scott County.
The new Baptist Church at Leclaire has
just been completed.
The Diocesan Convention to elect sue
cessor for the late Bishop Lee will meet in
Davenport on the 9th As there are fifty
seven parishes in the diocese, with forty three
clergymen in canonical residence, twenty-five
votes in the clerical order are necessary to
an election and twenty mine in the laity.
Charles s. Ackley, proprietor OF the Ackley
House, Davenport, died on the Goth and was
buried on the LIST, under the auspices Of the
Odd Fellows, OF which organization he was a
prominent member.
story County.
An engine on the narrow-g gauge road re-
Gently made the run between Des Moines and
Ames, thirty-eight miles, in just ninety min
utes. This is said to be remarkable feat TO
| perform on new, UNPUBLISHED track.
Tama County.
| A young man living in Toledo went out
| hunting not long ago Coming upon a rabbit
he tried to step upon an old log in order to
get better aim, whereupon he fell, striking
the lock Of the gun and discharging the load
in his body, from the effects Of which he soon
died.
wapeIlo County.
The conductor and baggage-man OF one OF
| the smth-bound trains recently had a set-to
at Eddyyille They adjourned to the plat
form and fought it oat, OBTAINING the train
for fifteen minutes so that the passengers
could all see the fun. At the end OF the
fifteenth round the conductor threw up the
sponge, shouted "All aboard, !" and the train
started for Keokuk with a badly-damaged
executive officer and baggage-man slightly
under the weather. There viii be room for
new train men on that road in a few days.
| Warren County.
The ladies Of the First Presbyterian Church
of Indianola have purchased a 6OO-pound
| bell for the church
j. L. Stewart, an Ottumwa musical insfru-
ment dealer, recently established branch
agency at Indianola with Frank Arlington as
agent. He sold out the stock, run himsel