Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-06-03
IOWA STATE NEWS.

J. A. PECK, brakeman, was run over
and killed at Creston recently by train
backing up on the track where he was
standing.
CozAD, of Warren County, the cham
pion runner of the world, has just pOck-
eted nice sum, in England, from CON-
petitor.
WESTON & Co. q lumber mills at Fort
Madison were burned lately Loss about
$50 900; within the vicinity of $4,000 in
surance.
WILLIE, twelve-year-old son of Mr..
Hollingsworth, of Cedar township, Lucas
County, hung himself accidentally few
days ago.
surveying route for the new narrow
gauge from Burlington, in northwestern
direction.
STOCKHOLDERS Of the First National
Bank of Davenport get 20 per cent. annual
dividends, and the stock cannot be bought
at 200 per cent
DUBUQUE dealers in pork paid out dur
ing the last season about 81 1000, 900, and
more than 100000 hogs, it is claimed,
were packed in that city.
ONE newspaper man at last in luck:
Somebody presented the editor of the
West Branch Times with 25x75 feet of the
that enterprising city's real estate.
MICHAEL HoGAE, a check-clerk in the
freight department Of the Illinois Central
Railway Company at Dubuque, committed
suicide the other day by jumping into a
cistcrn.
THE Iowa Conference of the Albright
Methodists has 5,702 members; church ed
ifices, 90; missionary collections during
the last year, $3,357.2S; Sunday schools,
1906; scholars, 5,003.
A THIEF entered the residence of Mr..
Connable, of Keokuk, the other night, and
cooly appropriated two $1,000 United
States bonds, a 800 gold headed cane and
large amount of jewelry.
PRoF HAMMOND is highly compli-
mented by the State Register upon his
paper on the progress Of legal culture in
the West and Northwest, read before the
Social Science Convention.
JAMES III. BACON, of Washington
County, who has for many years been
prominent as stock grower and agricult
urist, has removed TO Denver, and taken
editorial charge of the Colorado Farmer.
On the 18th the old Blind Asylum at
Iowa City, a large structure of wood and
stone, was discovered to be ON fire. The
prompt arrival of the fire companies saved
it from total destruction, but it was dam
aged about $4,000.
THE town of Mitchell was recently WIS.,
tied with disastrous fire, originating from
spontaneous combustion. J. G.. Tycon's
elevator, two grain warehouses and an Of
fee adjoining fell prey to the flames.
Loss about $4,000
PRoF. G. A. WHITE, formerly State
Geologist and for many years connected
with the State University, has been APP
pointed to position in the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington and will soon en-
ter upon the discharge of his duties.
THE Spiritualists of Dubuque have
commenced making arrangements for a
grand meeting Of Spiritualists for the
States Of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin in
that city, commencing on the Both of June
and continuing several days.
| WHILE the steamer Dubuque was towing
up a wood barge few miles below Du-
buque, the other morning, three men were
knocked from the barge by one of the oars
and two were drowned. The names OF
the unfortunates could not be ascertained
THE jury in the case of Dr. d. Purza, a
| clairvoyant and "healerp who has been
on trial at Upton, charged with the muir
der of Mr.. Bromall, farmer of Cedar
| County, by the administration of hydo-
phyllin in June last, has returned YER
dict of "not guilty"
THE following postal changes occurred
in the State during the week ending May
| Is, 1876: Postmasters appointed-Andrew,
jackson County, Thomas e. Blanchard I;
Logan, Harrison County, William Gid
dings. Name hanged-Camackville
Lee County, to White Lane.
THE death of Father McNulty priest of
the Catholic Church at DEBORAH, is an
nounced by the Republican, and finely
written and feeling tribute paid to his
great worth. He died from the effects of
wounds received in the war as soldier
in the Fifty-sevcnth U. s. Reserve Corps.
He was aged forty-one.
A FEW days ago a man named Bing, en-
ployed in a saw-mill, in Davis County,
while engaged in carrying away a plank
from the saw, ripped and fell across the
carriage The saw struck his arm just be-
low the left shoulder, completely amputa-
/ ting it from his body, also cutting far
enough into the body to sever the breast
| bone
A FAITH DOCTOR up in Ottumwa drew a
large blister on the back of Samuel Hep
ner merely by making few passes with
his hands. Then when the bill was pre-
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