Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-09-01
Al Over Iowa.

lin county.
Six townships of Benton county
are censused at $500 people and L..
535 dwellings.
There are 422 patients in tho
Insane Asylum at Mount Pleasant
all their is room for.
Hon. w. G. Donnan, Of Indcpend-
enc, was, on the 25th nominated as
Republican candidate tor Congress
from the Third district.
The Daily Des MONIES Bulletin has
been sold to Mills 4 Co, of the State
Register. OF course the publication
will be at once discontinued.
a normal school for the teachers
of Benton county will open at vinton
on tho 18th OF September. in charge
OF Superintendent Hoon.
III. A. Bell, OF Belle Plaine has in.
vented, and is about to apply for \
patent for, an apparatus for telegraph
ing short distances, which he calls the
Domestic Telegraph.
According to the Times, a Dn-
buaue county farmer has raised Ave
hundred bushels Of oats from six
| hushn1s Of seed.
An iron bridge. SIC feet IN length
and to cost *29, 900. is to be thrown
over the Des Moines, at Cont aven-
ne, in the city Of Des Moines.
The Marshall Times says: Mr..
Davis Stewart Of Marion township,
raised 42l bushels OF wheat from II
acres, over IS bushels per acre. We
pause to learn who can beat it.
So DO we.
The New Hampton Courier is in.
formed that Engineer Rogers will
make an examination OF the proposed
rcut of the Nashua and Marshalltown
Railway Immediately and that a corps
of engineers will be put on the line
in charge of H. A. Scales OF Nashu q,
who made tho preliminary survey.
Charles Aldrich, formerly Of the
Marshall Times, and later OF the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil. has re-
signed his position OF Elitor-in-chief
on the latter paper, and has returned
to his home in Marshalltown, as we
learn from the Marshall Times.
A lad named Walter Criswell,
aged II years, in Stanwood, Cedar
| county, was leading horse to water,
and thoughtlessly fastened tho strap
~ uclL ne wore. The horse rxn
away, the boys head was dashed
against a building, and he was picked
up dead.
In consideration of the right Of
way, and sc, 900 to be paid by the
citizens Of Kcokuk county, the G., II.
I. & r. II. r. Co. have solemnly
agreed, IN writing. to have the rail
road extended from Washington "to
the town of Sigourney or some point
within two hundred rods of the
Court House therein. on or before
the LIST day Of December, A. D 1907
Some of the politicians Of Benton
county who failed to secure q recog.
milton of their merits by the County
Republication Convention are talking
Of running as independent candidates;
whereupon the Eagle advises them
not to act hastily, as county with
400 Republican majority !. not
healthy for independent candidates.
The survey Of the Iowa South
western road has been completed
The Upton Advertiser says the line
il located from Clinton to Upton,
and thence comprises two lines almost
entirely across Cedar county-from
Ioudcn and from Clinton to Upton,
and from Upton toward Iowa City
eia the Nicholson Creek and the Ce
ia: Bluffs routcstwo lines through q
greater part Of johnson county; and 2
hne to Sigourney, IN Keokuk county.
On Sabbath morning, the 2lst, a
Mr.. Golinvaux, a. farmer from Cedar
township, opposit Frenchtown, be-
low here, came to town with his team
for the purpose Of taking one of the
engineers on the Illinois Central
Railroad, named Girard and family,
to his house. When within sight Of
his own house, he accidentlly drop
ped one Of his lines, and while in the
act Of Shopping over to pick it ur
the wagon wheel ran over a stump
and threw him out and at the same
time one of the horses kicked him on
the head. The hind wheel ofthe wagon
also passed over his head so that by
the time Mr.. Girard could reach him
to pick him up he was breathing his
last.-[Waterloo Reporter.
| The Reporter has an account Of .
thrasl.ing machine accident "ltam
sey Reeve, Of Reeve township, came
near meeting with very serious &C
cldent last week, by being caught in
the tumbling rod Of a thrashlng ma
chine. 1t appears that while oilina
the bearings of the cylinder his tool
slipped and his clothing was imme
diately en,anglcd in the tumblina
rod in such a manner that it was inn
possibly to extricate himself. Will
remarkable presence Of mind, Mr.
Reeve clasped tho rod with his arm.
and legs and rcvolyed with it unit
Invested Of every vestigc of clothing
except one boot and one wristban.
OF his shirt. Thus scantily array &c
he got up to find that aside from
being severely burned by the friction
of tie rod he was not otherwise sc