Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-09-09
IOWA STATE NEWS.

TIE cost Of the mail service in Iowa
for the last fiscal year was s479,2O2.
COOKS shingle-mill on lower Main
street, Burlington, was burned TO the
ground the other evening. involving loss
Of about $4,000.
A MEETING Of scientific men from all
parts Of the State was recently held At
Iowa City for the purpose Of organizing .
State Scientific Association.
Hos. WALTER j. HAYS has been ap-
pointed TO the vacant District Judgeship
In the Seventh District, in accordance with
the wishes Of the districf bar.
A CITIZEN of Burlington who recently
visited Webster City reports the greatest
enthusiasm in that section of the State in
regard to the narrow.gauge road
THE result Of the Reform School inves-
iigatien Is that the Board of Trustees have
unanimously reinstated Prof McCarty in
the management Of the institution.
THE Washington Press says: THE
corn crop Of this county promises to be
one third more than ever before. Many
fields viii yield 100 bushels per acre"
THE B., G. X. Il NJ. r. r. has intro
duced the good old custom Of having the
brakeman, when leaving station, inform
the passengers Of the name Of the next
station
In Washington County Is. said 10 be
trolting.mare that has trotted halfmile
in ;0S, Is eight years old, and the owner
has been offered $40, 900 for her, which he
refused
DANIEL STAscHEFrELD, Davenport
lumber merchant recently failed with
liabilities reaching 81, 900. F. Deutsch-
mann also made an assignment. He owed
about $4,000
NEAR Rattlesnake Bend, on the Des
Moines River, few miles below Des
Moines, two brothers, jeremiah and Mar
Ion Winterowd, were recently drowned
while swimming.
KEoKUK bellies now get up In the fresh
morning and find health and an appetite
by horseback ride before breakfast
Their mothers used 10 find the same thing
getting breakfast.
THE wife Of Prof J. Stevens, of Hum.
boldt, was killed the other night by being
thrown from buggy while the team was
running away. The professor and his
son were seriously injured
THE School Board of Dubuque has re-
solved upon having German taught in
all departments Of the public schools of
that city-or rather of allowing all the
pupils who wish to take ii In the course.
A YOUNG man named Eldridge, living
at Des Moines, took dose of morphine,
the other night, and died His mother
was in bad repute, and this and other
troubles are supposed to have caused his
suicide.
A OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES giving her name
as Mrs. Stanley, Of Denver, has been play
ing the fine lady in Keokuk, and after bor-
rowing several large sums of money and
obtaining goods on credit departed from
the city.
MAJ. II. ID. GIBSON, member Of the State
Constitutional Convention in 1857, mem
Der OF the Legislature in 1851, and subse-
quently Major Of the Thirty-third Iowa
Regiment recently died at Olympia, Wash.
ington Territory, of apoplexy.
TnE following postal changes occurred
In Iowa during the week ending Aug 81,
1875: Established-Ava Guthrie County,
Neri Conner, Postmaster Discontinued
Keg Creek, Pottawattamie County. Post
master appointed - Sloan, Woodbury.
County, Isaac Beall
A ROMANTIC miss, near Charles City, re.
Gently went out into the fields 10 Maud
Mullerize. and rake the meadows sweet
with hay" She passed over yellow
jackets nest as she swung her little rake
First jump, eighteen feet, seven and three
eighths inches. Distance TO the house.
half mile
LUMBER in the water in the Dubuque
market has been advanced by agents fifty
cents and one dollar per l 900 feet This
is due to the increased difficulty In rafting.
The upper streams are so low that 1t Is i'm.
possible TO supply the mills with logs.
The Chippewa, Wisconsin and Black Riv-
ers are now lower than has been known
for months.
KATE DEFoy, girl fifteen years old,
living with her parents at Davenport,
walked out OF the house the other night
about eleven O'Clock, and twenty minutes
after was discovered dead in the cistern
near the door. II seemed utterly impossi-
BILE that she should have fallen in, as the
opening Mas too small, and the conclusion
was reached that she had committed sui
eide or was thrown In.
THE Des Moines River counties are
good field for scientists They must at
some time have been the feedingplace of
mastodons. A few weeks ago skeleton
was exhumed Of prodigious size. A few
days later mammoth lower Jaw with
teeth intact, which measured ten feet from
Joint TO joint, was found. A few days
since was found a tooth nineteen and a
quarter inches In circumference, three and
half by seven and quarter inches
across the face, with ten prongs. II