Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-07-01
LOCAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Inna &c 1879.

june -, 1919.
THE farmers in this vicinity are
,s,inning to grunble considerably
!. account OF the continued Wei
leather. They say that the wheat
I'm i already greatly injured and
,,,st If the rain continues another
Eel, there will be almost an entire
s.;,,re much OF the corn is full Of
,,.epds and need attention badly.
Annther " wash-out " occurred on
,ae X. e. d. ". Ry., near Eldon on
saturday night last. Freight train
IN ( due here at O'Clock Sunday
..arn;r,g did not arrive until O'Clock
10 the morning.
Traek-layers are again at work
,ntting down new iron between this
rlace aud Leighton, and if the
leather remains favorable they will
,robably reach Pella this week.
The excursion to Des Moines last
Friday was decided success, Fully
,noo people embraced the opportuni-
- 10 visit the capital city. 1t was
> iollycrowd and all seemed to enjoy
themselves immensely. The NJ. K.
sunday School realized about $500
out OF the affair.
Henry van Maren, blacksmith
in this place met with serious acct
dent one day last week. Something
beipp the matter with one of the
fept Of horse belonging to DR.. B. I
EeabIes, he took it to the shop and
had Mr. van Maren to pare it off on
the bottom after which he poured on
quantity of turpentine and set it on
FIRE. 1t flashed up like powder, and
commenced running up the leg of
the horse. Mr.. van Maren in his
Efforts to put the fire out had one of
his hands very seriously burned.
A shooting ARRAY occurred on
Franklin street near the livery stable
of Wheeler & Welles on Saturday
evening about 10 O'Clock. Durin G
difficulty between A. J. Batten and
his wife, which resulted in fight
between the parties, A. j. Batten,
Jr., and Ed. Batten, half brothers,
and sons Of the old gentleman become
involved in the fracas. A. j. drew
club on his brother Ed, when the
latter drew a revolver. Marshal
Brown, attracted by the noise, made
his appearance about this time and
caught hold of young Batten, but
did not get the revolver away from
him until he had fired four shots.
Luckily no one was hurt, but the
crowd which gathered to see the fun
scattered in every direction when
the shooting commenced. Young
Batten gave bail for his appearance
before Mayor Crate at 8 o'clock this
morning. Other arrests will probably
be made this morning.
Prof. Loughridge and wife went
to Iowa City last week to be present
during commencement at the State
University, after which they will
spend the summer visiting friends
before sailing in October for their
field Of labor in India.
Prof. Scarf and wife will celebrate
their silver wedding on Saturday of
this week.
A little daughter of VIM Gullion,
the ferryman at Durham's Ferry,
aged about ten years fell off of the
Ferry boat, one day last week, the
boat passing over her. A young
man named Morris jumped in after
her and succeeded in reaching her
after she had come up the second
time and took her ashore about two
hundred yards below the ferry. She
had her dinner phil in her hand
when she fell into the water and
hung to it till she was taken out.
The river was bank full, and Mr..
Morris deserves great praise for his
heroic conduct in risking his life to
to save her.
KATE KINNEY.