Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-09-02
IOWA STATE NEWS.

IOWA HE GeESg
cssh capital Of $essss!eo
Tsr Iowa City ReF'ssssasa says: -Judss
rnse has sprinr chieSens--Lighf BrAa
mAs--,h.t can pick corn from sae hesd o.
q soar barrel.
or the 10000 90 bashels Of eorn raised
Ga Io~a las, wear, from the railroad reports
there was onfy 5.557.sis bushels shipped
ous cf the State.
JOSIAH DosSR, Of Hamilton County
has been placed upon the Opposition ucke'
a. The candidate for Superintendent o.
Public Instruction, In place OF A. X
Wright declined
A fTFTY-TH nre recently
visited Dubuque, breaking cut In The o'd
iunk warehouse Of Becker Il Keckvoeit
Spontaneous combustion is the cause As
signed for the fire.
DURING 1874 there were / $50 convictions
In the State. OF these ten were for muir.
der; one for murder in the second degree
eight for manslaughter, and seventy -four
for assault IN various degrees.
THE STATE Register says Lulu" The
mare that made the wonderful time OF 2 10
fn the Buffalo races, Is an Iowa horse,
having been foaled and raised at Musea-
tine. She was the property Of Sherm
Perry, and was first named Jennie
Perry
Mas. RI SAvERY and Mrs. Haddock
have received their certificates from the
Supreme Court authorizing them to prac-
tice In all Iowa courts. This is the first
instance In the State that the Supreme
Court has granted certificates 10 female
lawyers.
WHILE workmen were engaged In dig
ging a sewer at Fairfield, q few days ago,
the bank caved in, burying three OF them
under huge mass Of earth BY dint OF
great labor they were rescued alive, but so
badly injured that recovery was deemed
impossible.
Tux postal changes In Iowa during the
week ending Aug. 14were as follows: Es-
tablished--Philo, Sac County, Charles l..
Sherwood, Postmaster. Postmasters APP
pointed--Amity, Scott County, Henry
schulz; Marena, Ringgold County, @. A.
Wyant; Wooster, Jefferson County, Mrs.
Elizabeth Cox.
The other morning a six.weeks-old boy
baby was found wrapped in a shawl lying
alongside the Rock Island Railroad track
half mile east Of Iowa City. The child
had been stupe6ed with laudanum and
probably thrown from the ten O'Clock
passenger train the night before. Ii fell
in cIump Of plants and was not in
iured.
WHILE the workmen on the new build
ing for Parsons College, at Fairfield, were
engaged in hosting a heavy stone to the
second story, a few days since, the joist Of
the first floor gave way, followed by the
tumbling of the east wall Of the house
through the ground floor to the basement
burying the workmen in the ruins and in
stantly killing Ezra Brown, the boss car.
penter Brown is said TO be from Chicago,
where he has wife and several children.
Richard Murphy, William O'Brien and
George Gilchrist received serious injuries,
and several others were slightly wounded
ORGANIZED under the State law there are
twenty-five banks and eighteen savings
banks, each of which Is required TO make
statement of its condition four times a
year, whenever the State Auditor may cal
for It, The last call was for statement o.
condition on the 18th Of July. All the
banks, except one savings institution, have
reported. The twenty-five banks proper
report total paid.up capital of 81 100, $50
assets, $2,744, 1904; liabilities, 81 ,342,
40s67; undivided profits, $3.50, 93s. 81
The seventeen savings banks reporting
represent a paid.up capital Of $685., 500
with assets reaching 81, 1o8, 94i20, and liza
bilities $2,37O,077.77.
Two BOHEMIAN boys in Winneshiel
County went out To cut grass the othe
day, taking gun along with them Il
shoot chickens. The older brother, aged
twenty.one, put his brother, "A boy o
twelve, in the seat OF the mower TO holC
the horses while he shot When the gnr
cracked the horses jumped and ran
throwing the boy into the sickle of tn
machine. The team finally became de
tached When the boy was picked up h,
was found To be terribly mangled; hi
right leg was cut oil just above the ankle
joint, and the leg from the ankle TO tia
knee literally cut into mince.meat, not
particle of bone or Of muscle rcmainin,
intact, but five or six pounds OF manglcC
meat and bone suspended from the kne,
by strip Of skin. The left thigh, from
the knee upward, was cut through ant
through, and the left arm was struck fou
times by the sickle Death soon followed
JOHN II. SHAFER, Secretary of the Stat,
Agricultural Society, furnishes the follow
Ing list of fairs, so far as they had been re
ported up 10 the 14th
Place Time
State. ............k eokuk 49,. Sept 27-oct.
| Adalr. ......,..... Greenfield Sept. $40
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