Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-11-04
IOWA STATE NEWS.

hazelnuss an the State this year ID unusu-
ally large.
FoUR cars of canned salmon, contain
ing 10, 800 cans, were received at CONNECT
Bluffs the other day.
THE elevators at Sioux City havestopped
purchasing wheat on account OF the poor
quality of the grain offered.
THE grocery stores Of NJ. w. Murphy
and G. w. Felt, AT Sioux City, were burned
ON the 2gth. Loss about 1000.
THE Council Bluffs people are to have
the milk scld on the streets OF that city
submitted to chemical analysis.
on the night of the 25h the store of A.
Miller, merchant tailor al Harshslltown,
was burglarized 10 the extent Of $500.
A LITTLE girl three years old was
burned TO death the other night In
prairie fire, about five miles from Sioux
City.
THE annual harvest of the Patrons OF
Husbandry was held in Eldridge Hall,
Davenport, on the 26th. They had an en-
joyable time.
THE wife Of Simon Grant, well-to-do
Jones County farmer. recently committed
suicide by hanging herself in corn-crib.
Eerdict-insanity.
THE Burlington HaukE Eye thinks that
the coming winter will be hard one, be
cause the spiders are so thick in kitchens,
and the siucks on hazelnuts - heavy.
A sIx-YEAR- OLD Roy fell forty feet down
a mineral shaft at Dubuque, recently, and
had his thigh broken. besides receiving
other injuries that win probably prove
fatal
A coI0RED woman and white woman
had an argument with knife and scis-
sors attachment in Council Bluffs hotel
lately. Both were carved slightly, and
the Caucasian was discharged from the
hotel employ.
A SINGULAR scalding accident recently
occurred In Keokuk, 10 the daughter OF
DR.. II. r. Cleayer. She was just taking a
Jug Of water, tightly corked, from the stove
when the cork flew out. The hot water
followed and she was severely burned.
HoRsE.THrEvEs are industriously at
work in the vicinity of Sioux City. 1t is
believed an organized band are operating
in that section. People are becoming
somewhat excited, and ii would be de.
cidedly unhealthy for any of the band if
captured near the place Of their depreda.
tons.
Y. X. GRAHAM, an old and influential
citizen of Davenport, left his home few
days ago to be gone day or two, he
said On the ED his warehouse was
seized by the Davenport National Bank.
II was soon developed that he had Dor
rowed $50, 600 on elevator receipts when
he had not more than $1,000 worth in his
possession. Up to the 26th his liabilities
footed up si25, 900, with assets Of abou
100000.
AT the annual meeting of the Woman's
State Temperance Union, held at Des
Moines on the Goth, the following were
elected officers for the ensuing year: Pres
ident.-Mrs. T.. A Wheeler, Of Cedar
Rapids Vice. Presidents District,
Miss Clara Harris; Second, Mrs Pcaseley (;
Third, Mrs. z. %. Older; Fourth, Mrs DIR.
Burnham; Fifth, Mrs. NJ. Il, CASTOR !;
Sixth, Mrs Bowen; Seventh, Mrs. Pitman !;
Eighth, Mrs. Moore; Ninth, Mrs.
Caroline A. Gugham. Corresponding
Sccretary--Mrs. Aldrich, Cedar Rapids.
Recording secretary--Mrs. Springer, Ana
mosa. Treasurer-Mrs. S:eere, Muscatine.
LAST month man by the name of James
Wallace came 10 Faulkner, Franklin
County, and purchased the warehouse at
that place belonging to Truman Pattee,
giving therefor 800 TO bind the bargain,
and gaining the confidence of the unsus-
pectfng farmers in that locality, who
stored their grain with him, he promising
to pay them when he got certain drafts
cnshed at the Franklin County Bank He
agreed to pay more for wheat than at Ack.
ley, and the consequence was that the
farmers were anxious 10 Draw their grain
all to him, every day he promising to pay
tomorrow. But alas! tomorrow never
came. He succeeded in getting In and
shipping upward Of $1,000 worth, and
sloped 10 parts unknown.
THE To1oa State Register of the Goth says
of the corn crop Of the State "A large
portion Of the corn of Iowa will be ruined
In the crib. If there had been favorable
weather after the first frost there would
now DC different situation Dry, windy
weather may yet benefit the crop, but cold
weather Is Mt hand and the corn may
freeze and remain frozen, in which state
II gets no better. The only advice we can
give Is TO store in narrow and well-ven-
tilaicd cribs. II IL useless to talk about
leaving corn out TILL 1t is dry In more
southern latitudes corn is frequently left
out ill February and March, and in some
parts of this State il can be done, but in
most of the State II cannot be safely left
out later than the Goth of next month.
Corn Is not rs sound and as heavy as an
average crop"
THE Grand Chapter of Regal Arch Ma
sons, Of Iowa, met In keokuk on the 2ist
Grand High Priest r. f. Bower delivered
his annual address. The following officers