Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-11-18
IOWA STATE NEWS.

| CAnRorL COUNTY polled 1926 more votes
this year than In 1874.
NAVIGATION on the Missouri above
Sioux City closed on the 9Th.
Dir. DuLAs' house at sargent's Bluff,
near Sioux City, Was burned the other
day.
THE Dubuque Times has enlarged and
changed its daily and weekly from folio
10 a quarto form.
! TIE scarIetfeycr has assumed malig-
napt form at Dubuque, and numerous
des,hs have occurred.
A CHILD Of Henry Toher, Of Davenport,
q babe eight months old. was fatally
scalded on the 9th by the accidental over
| turn OF coffee urn.
GEORGE RoDGERs, three card monte
man, was recently shot and killed at
Fioris, Davis County, by John Tough
ridge, whom he was attempting torope In.
! As FRITZ DoSoUGHPoRD, resident oil
Duck Hollow, was driving span OF
horses with q farm wagon loaded with
cabbages toward Council Bluffs on the
morning Of the 9th the tongue OF the
wagon broke and the vehicle upset and
Mr.. Donoughford was thrown TO the
ground and buried beneath the wagon and
csbbages. Before the load was removed
he was dead.
THE following postal changes occurred
In Iowa during the week ending Nov
8, 1875: Discontinued-Le Roy, Bremen
County. Pos,masters appointed-Co'tsge,
Hardin County, Amelia Katsch; Fonda,
Pocahon,as County, John w. Gray;
Northward, Worth County, A. l. Cole;
Ola, Lucas County, Avery B. Dillon;
Point Pleasant, Hardin County, l.. l..
Mcfarland; West Grove, DAVIS County,
John b. Henry; Woodstock, Wright Coan-
ty, Y. @. Yeoman.
| A FEW days ago the body Of Mr.. Wall
Rich, living near Meder's Mill, Clayton
| County, was found on the bank Of the
voiga, just at the bridge-crossing. He
had evidently fallen from the embank-
ment which forms the approach TO the
bridge, and which is here forty feet high,
with very precipitous sides. lie had
struck head first upon the rocks below.
He had been drinking the day before and
his wife has sued the saloon.keeper of
whom be procured his liquor for 5000.
GOV. CARPENTER on the 9TH appointed
the following gentlemen as delegates to
represent the State of Iowa at the National
| Railroad Convention to be held at St.
| Louis on the 23d James s. GARRISON, of
Des Moines; Hon. Hiram Price, of Dav-
export; Hon. james X. Wilson, Of Fair
field; exGov. Samuel Merrill, of Des
| MONIES; Hon. s. b. Grinnell, of Grinnell
Jno. r. Baldwin, Of Council Bluffs; Jas.
| K Boyles, of Ccnterville; Frank Hatton,
of Burlington; Gen. j. A. Williamson,
Of Des Moines; Col. j. w. Hammond, of
Prairie City; Col. A. K Anderson, OF
Sidney.
THE committee appointed by the Gov.
ernor to investigate the management Of
the State Reform School have reported.
They declare the management to
| have been in the highest degree
rcprehensible, the boys being insult.
fciently fed, often whipped and
beaten, and frequently confined In dark
dungeons. The report recommends an
entire change in all Of the officials and in
the mode of government. The investiga.
tion commenced in April last, and seventy
days were occupied in taking testimony,
The report is signed by all the members
of the Investigating Committee, namely,
w. III. Leas, Deborah Catlett and A. G.
Dodge.
THE following figures are from official
returns sent In from the various counties
of the State. The official State canvass
will not take place upon the Governor
ship until the meeting Of the General As
sembly. The vote for Lozier was per-
haps larger than below given, the blanks
| on which the returns were made mostly
having columns for Kirkwood and LETTER
only; and the vote for Lozier was there.
fore In several cases entirely omitted. The
aggregate vote as below reported is 2is, 92i i,
some IL 600 or ~ 900 greater than ever be.
fore, the highest previous vote being that
! of 1879: and Gov. Kirkwood receives the
largest vote ever cast for candidate for
| Governor of Iowa:
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