Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-12-16
IOWA STATE NEWS.

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been missing since Noy> o.
Mas. BERG's millinery store, at Du-
buoue. was burned on the morning Of the
4ih. involving loss of about $G,000.
yAs wrsK1E & Co.'S elevator, at Vim
ton. was burned q few Nights ago. In the
building were about 1000 bushels OF
wheat Loss $4,000.
THE second annual meeting OF the Iowa
State Dairymen's Association will he held
at Springfield soon after the lst OF Janua-
ry. time not fixed. Last year II was held
at Oskaloosa.
THE two-story wooden building on
fourth street, In Council Bluffs, occupied
by ID. Elliott and Munchrath 81 Lambert,
was burned on the morning of the 9th.
Loss about s2i, 900.
The crop Of thirty acres of wheat in
stack, owned by the Floyd County poor,
was burned few days ago. 1t is sup
posed TO have been ignited by sparks from
q passing locomotive.
A sTRP-FATHER near MEANWHILE q short
time since exercised his lip little too
freely about having so many step-chil-
dren about; whereupon his wife, who
owns the possession, opened the door and
told him 10 migrate, and he did.
Az Elkader woman, who played the
ghost by wrapping a sheet about her and
frightening persons passing her hiding
place, has been fined $22 and costs for
malicious mischief, and, refusing to pay
calmly reposes in the County Jail.
A FEW days since, while Mrs. Charles
Doylcn, of Council Bluffs, was pouring
some boiling water from . tea-kettle into
smother vessel her little child, four years
old, ran in the way and was so severely
scalded that it died the following day.
THE trial of Huff o. Cooke, the latter
elected County Superintendent Of Schools
in Warren County, was commenced at
Indianola on the 29th ult Huff contests
her election on the ground that woman
is not an elector and cannot therefore hold
office In Iowa.
ALTHOUGH the choice of DR.. Eccleston
as Episcopal Bishop of Iowa has been
duly confirmed by all the required author
tiles of the church 1t Is now officially re-
ported that he declines the Office. The
diocese will make another effort to secure
Bishop in an election to be held mex
May.
On the 30th ult the south-bound ex-
press. train on the Central Railroad was
ditched and smashed up about three miles
south of Marshslltown. Several passen-
gers were seriously injured by having
their arms and heads broken. None were
killed outright Two coaches were badly
splintered.
THE City Council Of Des Moines are
trying the experiment of lighting the city
with kerosene oil instead of gas. Several
lamps have been ordered in different parts
of the city, and the indications are that 1t
will not cost fifty cents month per lamp
to light the city. Large numbers Of bust
ness houses have discarded gas and use
oil.
A MAN was killed On the evening Of the
Goth ult., at Dubuque, in the yard of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company, by the
cars running over him while his foot was
held with yise-like grip in frog of the
track. His name was Martin Kerwin.
He was hired that afternoon on the night
force in the yard; went TO work at six and
was killed n seven.
A SERIOUS quarrel has arisen between
the foreign and home bondholders of the
Davenport & ST. Paul Railroad, the latter
demanding the face value of their bonds,
which were hypothetical to them at a large
discount The foreign parties refuse to
concede this, and the consequence is that
the sale OF the road, which was to have
aiken place this month by order of the
court, is indefinitely postponed.
A FEW months ago letter was filed
with Gov. Carpenter in which the writer
insinuated that ut least three of the men
who were engaged in the hanging of
Howard to lamp-post were known and
that the guilty parties could be brought to
light The Grand Jury of Polk County
gave the matter most searching investi-
CATION, but failed TO disclose anything
which could implicate anybody.
THE Northern Amateur Press Associa
ton recently met in Dubuque and elect
ed the following officers for the ensuing
year: President-Joseph g. Duncan, OF
Dubuque. First Vice Presidential. w.
Dingwall, Of Milwaukee; Second Vice,
President, f. Hobson, Of West Union;
Secretary, l.. 7. Hobson, Of West Union;
Treasurer, G.. III. Graves, of Dubuque;
official organ, the Amateur Aspirant, of
Milwaukee. The association adjourned
to meet at West Liberty, in September,
1876.
SUIT was entered in the Dubuque Cir
cut Court, on the Sd, by the Chicago,
Dubuque & Minnesota Railroad Compa-
ny, against the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad, to recover the sum OF
$500, 600, alleged to have been lost by
the non fllflimpnt of a contract tn eytend