Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-06-24
IOWA STATE NEWS.

Luque.
| Ma. HATcH, of Keosa. has become
maniac in consequence Of religious excite
ment.
| A TOOTH Of mastsdon has been found
by ex-I.ieut. Gov Bulls, in Winneshiek
County.
| THE Chicago, Clinton & Western Rail
road is expected to reach Iowa City by
Nov. /.
Tsy Union Pacific depot platform al
Council Bluffs is TO be heightened about
400 feet
TIVE PaIo Alto Exporter has Just made
| i,s appearance in Enmettsburg, Palo
Alto County.
THE Iowa Fish Commissioners have put
In 600 salmon minnows in the Boyer River.
near Missouri Valley.
Drs MONIES has been selected as the
place for holding the Congregational As
sociation meeting next year.
| THE store Of Peiree & Co., atLockridge,
was burned the other night with all its
contents. Loss about $1,000.
BURLINGTON will treat itself to mock
battle in the regatta on the river during
the celebration on the Fourth.
a. A. BRYANT has retired from the
Creston Iadependent 5. n. Hamilton sue
ceeds as editor, publisher and proprietor
GEN. BELKsAP, Secretary Of War, has
accepted an invitation TO be present at
the Fourth Of July celebration at Burling-
ton.
THE yellow headed blackbird, a native
of Mexico and the Southern States, has,
for the first time, made its appearance in
Dubuque.
DrRIyG a recent severe thunderstorm
two young farmers of Cedar County,
James Pugh and Eben Davidson, were
killed by lightning.
Anew DAYS ago robber broke open
Paity's drug store, at Abel, and avenged
mankind by shooting a prescription clerk
named Hocye.
SIXTEEN head of cattle were instantly
killed and all Of the hundred head in the
herd completely Frustrated by lightning
in Greene County recently.
AT Extra, where two ducklings merged
las II were) at the tails were Matched out
Of one egg, the people think them great
curiosity, just as though a paradox were
unusual.
BYRON WRIGHT, an Iowa City school
teacher, has been adjudged insane. He
will be remembered as the young man who
was shot few years ago by woman for
refusing to marry her.
TIVE Algona Republican says that the
farmers OF that part Of the State are this
year doing the very sensible thing OF
paintings great many trees. Maple seed
is being put in by the acre.
MISS MARY MOORE, of Kendallville,
Winneshiek County, was lately on trial
for horse-stealing. The defense was that
she has for something over year past
been growing insane--a claim which facts
seem 10 confirm.
Mr. SAMUEL SMITH, of Grundy County,
prophet, If you please, is writing new
bible. But we-on the whole--howevcr,
We will stick TO the old one. The new
one will merely be book of SANS
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
THE Iowa Citys want the Westerns, OF
Keokuk, to visit Iowa City and be taught
how to play ball. The Iowa City club
came out ahead in the State amateur con.
test last year, and are said to have a
strong team this season.
Mr.. j. II. Brown, the famous mind
reader who has created such f,,rore in
Boston and other intellectual centers by
his wonderful art, animal magnetism, OF
whatever 1t may be termed, has returned
TO his home at Council Bluffs.
MICHAEL BURNS, of Madison County,
has -year-old steer that weighs $3.50
pounds. Mr. Burns has been offered $240
for this steer He was exhibited in Win
terset last summer, and in three days his
owner took $500 at the door of the tent in
which he was shown.
A FEW evenings agoa man named Gore
was In a stable at Bloomfield and was
standing with his back to a stall, when a
horse kicked him in the back of his head
MASKING his skull and killing him almost
instantly. Gore was farmer, living
about eight miles east of Bloomfield.
DURING recent terrific thunderstorm
the lightning struck an Iowa City dairy
: mans horse and killed. it. The dairyman
said Providence always sent compensa.
tons along with its Affections; the same
bolt tore into the ground and opened 9
splendid spring not twenty yards from the
milk.house. --Ha,ek-Eye.
GRAssHoPPERs have made their appear.
ance in Pottawattamie and Cass Counties
On the 18th train on the Rock Island
Road near Nicola was almost stopped by
them. The passengers reported the coun.
try desolated for eight miles along the
Missouri River, extending twenty miles
into the State.
AN Atlantic poet bestrides Pegasus and
wakes the sounding Tyre to these kind Of
strains: