Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-03


been buried two weeks.
An intelligent farmer of Newton estimates
hat the hog crop of the State viii be one
third short of the number last year.
johnson County.
An alcohol mandatory which viii con-
sumo from 1000 to 800 bushels of corn daily
is soon to be started in Iowa City.
About 200 men are at work on the l. s. W.
Railroad east of Iowa City. This indicates
that the city is soon to have another Eastern
outlet.
Jones County.
Mrs. Jewett, Of Monticello, has sued John
Gamborth, II. Babbe, Lorenz Wanschaure'
John Buevore, John Lousley and John
Schastic, all of them saloon-keepers in the
town, for 81 600 each, for selling her husband
liquor.
Lee County.
Gustavus Koch, of Fort Madison, while
playing in his fathers cabinet shop few
days ago fell upon q draw-knife and cut
I cash in his leg four inches long. His sweet
| tempered mother, when she found that the
boy was so severely injured, struck him so
violently that he became insensible.
J. B. Bellman, of Fort Madison, met with
fatal accident lately He was driving a team,
when the horses started and ran away, throw
ing him under the wheels of the wagon,
| which passed over his neck. killing him in
stantly.
Orion Clemens, brother of " Mark Twain"
| is farmer near Keokuk.
A Keokuk citizen lately lost an eye by run
ming against stray pigeon shot which was
passing along the street. 1t is not known
| who fred it,
Lam County.
Thirty-seven head of short-horns were re-
! Gently sold at Cedar Rapids for 1925. They
belonged to Silas Corbin, of Kentucky.
Louisa County.
A lad named Beemis, living at Columbus
| City, recently suffered an amputation Of the
thigh for a cancerous affection of the ankle
and leg bones.
Mahaska County.
A State convention of dairymen will be held
at Oskaloosa on the 18th of January next, and
continue three days.
Marshall County.
The home mission fund of a Marshalltown
church was kept in a box until one night
lately, when some unregenerated heather
broke into the sanctuary and appropriated
the money.
Monroe County.
The Kansas disease has recently broken
out among the hogs in the southern part OF
the county. One farmer near Abba has lost
twenty six out of thirty.
Muscatine County.
A large slaughter house III South Muscatine
was burned the other morning. Loss $4,000.
A negro in Muscatine amuses himself by
going around the city and ringing the door
bells. Some Of the women propose TO put a
head on him.
Polk County.
few evenings ago the colored cook at thu
Avenue House, Des Moines, known as BILL"
| was dosed with chloroform until he was in
| sensible. He went to the pump with a
stranger TO get drink and when he was
pumping the man thrust cbloroformed hand
kerchief in his face. During the day Bill'
had pocket full of money, and the stranger
evidently hoped to get it. Fortunately he
had deposited 1t during the day.
Charley Cummings fell from the top of a
| freight train while it was passing through
Des Moines the other evening and sustained
| fatal injuries.
| The demurrers in the case of Isaac Brandt,
| indicted for embezzlement while Deputy
! State Treasurer, were oyerruled by Judge
! Maxwell at Des Moines on the 18th. These
demurrers were TO the effect that, Brandt
| being deputy, was not an official in the
proper sense of the term, and that the indict-
| 10 70 Ifxy In hat h.u do mot 10
the parties to whom Brandt loaned the public
moneys nor give description of the moneys
so loaned. This decision brings the case to
| trial on its merits.
Scott Garrett and wife and Anna Stanley
| have been arrested in st. Louis on charge of
numbering Jack Hunter In Des Moines two
| years ago.
J.J. Smart, State Binder, has been ap-
pointed Superintendent of the Des Moines
s. Minnesota Narrow Gauge Railway.
During October 277, 200 cigars were made in
Des Mones.
A few evenings since man entered one Of
the Des Moines saloons, and, as he made his
way to the bar, was asked by the bar keeper
what he would have. "The best you have In
the mousse" was the reply, and the bar-keeper
| promptly handed him glass OF ice-water.
| Pottawattamie County
George Pfelfer, Of Council Bluffs, we'll
known resident, committed suicide the other
afternoon by hanging, in an clubhouse. Finan-
cial trouble is assigned as the cause.
Powesliek County.
The Marshalltown Republican says man
In Grinnell, very i'll, recently requested his
friends to prepare 20 send his remains East
| for burial, as he did not expect to survive hut
short time. They complied, and sent to
Marshalltown for ice to pack his body in,
which reached its destination In good order.
Hon. J. d. Grinnell announced before an au-
dience on Sunday evening that the man
would probably not live more than two hours,
and requested his friends to respond TO the
tollng OF the bell, and also announced that
the funeral services would probably take
place on Tuesday. Time passed, but the
| spark OF life held out; the ice melted, unused,
| and up 10 the latest adyices his friends were
In the predicament of having prepared for
| funeral without q corpse.
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