Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-11

with Ratchet, breaking his skull and In
f!icting eight other wounds- There was .
woman in the case.
Louisa County.
a freight train was lately wrecked at Colum-
bus Junction. Several cars were demolished,
but no one was hurt
Lucas County.
John Baxter, OF Charlton, fell on the ice
lately and broke his leg-the second member
Of the family that accomplished that feat
within q week.
Mahaska County.
Maj. Downing, Of hotel fame, has failed in
Osxaloosa to the tune of $4,000.
Mitchell County.
Lincoln township has been eonvuised over
the trial OF schooI-teacher, A. Fl. Bushnell,
for infiicting corporal punishment on big
boy. II being made apparent that the boy
was willfully isobedient--refusing TO write
on his slate the words given out to be spelled,
saying he "usually did as he was mind 10
about such things,' refusing either TO leave
school or to obey while he remained In it, and
in other ways behaving very impudently-
that the teachers punishment was not severe
nor sufficient to bring the boy TO submission,
the defendant was discharged.
muscatfne County.
A Jury III Muscatine lately returned a YER
dict in liquor case Of $500 for the plaintiff.
Page County.
Coal has been found in paying quantities on
the Tarkio, near Tarkio City.
Postawattamie County.
Chapman, the editor Of the Council Bluffs
Nonparsa, has been appointed United States
Marshal for the State, v,ce Peter Melendy.
PowesIiiek County.
A train on the Central Road, bound north,
which left Grinnell about 1910 p m. on the
oath, when about mile and half north OF
the town ran off the track and broke through
a bridge. The train was composed Of engines
IA and II and train Of coal, the engine IA
ahead. Engine No. ~, OF which Drinkle was
engineer, jumped the track and went over,
taking the engineer and brakeman, named
Williams, under it. Abbott, the fireman,
jumped from the engine, and was not serious
ly injured. Williams was killed
A freight train on the Iowa Division Of the
c., r. /. 81 p. Railroad was ditched near Nal.
com few nights ago and badly wrecked.
Scott County.
A few mornings ago, at Davenport, the
body of Mrs. Eliza Lage, q German woman,
was found in the water-hole at the foot Of
Brown street There were no marks OF VIC
lence, except slight scratches on the left hand.
A bucket and dpper were found at the edge
OF the hole where the body was found.
Taylor County.
II. Davis committed suicide at Bedford the
other night by taking two large doses Of
opium, and rejecting all offers of assistance,
saying he took 1t to die, and he was going TO
die. He was man Of thirty-fve or forty
years of aye, and leaves wife and one child.
The cause assigned for the lamentable act
was TO evade the law, as the Sheriff of Noda-
way County, Mo-, was, at the time, waiting
to convey him to Missouri to answer the
charge Of fraud, he having obtained and sold
some land which he had no claim or right TO
whatever.
WapeIlo County.
John N. Young, aged eighty years, died sud
denly In Ottumwa the other day, and an ex-
animation revealed the fact that his death
was caused by poison. II Is a probable case
Of suicide.
Washington County.
The residence OF the priest OF st. Stanis-
laus' Catholic Church, near Richmond, was
destroyed by fire lately.
woodbury. County.
party Of wood-choppers recently started
out with team to chop wood on the Little
Sioux, o few miles south OF Sioux City. They
had loaded gun in the bottom Of the wagon
box. AS they were driving along deer
started from the brush, and man named
ONeil attempted to take the gun from its
place by the muzzle. In doing SO 1t dis
charged Its contents lodged In his throat
killing him instantly.
The Sioux City Journal says: "That was a
cold joke the girls at the Depot Hotel played
on young man the other night They filled
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