Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-04-27
ALL OVER IOWA.

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on the 9th.
Des Moines is building a 100000
Episcopal Church.
4 Pella, Marion county, offers 800,
900, for ra,lrosd.
In Monroe county, over thousand
acres Of flax Is sown.
II The w,ndstorm Of TIE 9Th damaged
Polk county to the extent Of 50,000.
i A $1,000 residence was destroyed
by fire, at Columbus City, on the Sth
i James H. Better, of the Blade, Is
the newly appointed postmaster Al
| Pella.
| The Friends are about building
College At Oskaloosa, which will cosi
$4,000.
| A prairie ere, in Cass county, few
days ago, destroyed GOO acres Of
young timber.
The Dubuque Times predicts that
Col. C. e. Carpenter will be thenext
Governor Of Iowa
Passenger fare on the North West
ern and Rock Island roads have becn
materially reduced of late.
Extensive stone quarries have been
discovered in Woodbury. county six
teen miles from Sioux City
The Oskaloosa Conservator, . Dem
ocratic sheet, is q new convert to the
Woman Suffrage movement.
AL. Swain, late city editor Of the
State Register, has purchased the Era
at Jefferson, Greene County.
Two soldiers of the War Of 1872,
VIM. S. Manson, and Joseph Arrison,
are living in Appanoose county.
A timber fire near Brush Grove
Benton county, damaged timber to
the extent OF S., 900, on the 9th.
The Methodists Of Iowa, will hold
= State Convention, at Iowa City.
July 1lth, continuing three days.
A bridge on the Dubuque and Sioux
City railroad, at LIE Mars, three hun
drsd feet long, was lately destroyed
by FIRE.
Grinnell had Mush and Milk Fes-
tival, the other week, which placed
SIG into the treasury of the NJ. E.
Church.
Burlington Is agitatiag for . rail-
road from tha: point to Newton, to
be called the Burlington and North
western railroad.
Charles Wcare is the new post
master at Cedar Rapids, rice q. NJ.
Hewlett. incumbent for the last sey.
en- years, retiring.
The Malcolm Bulletin carries at its
masthead the name of Henry O'Con-
nor, for Governor, and John A. Gar
rett, for Lieut.. Governor.
DR.. Eli Reynolds, of Moscow, who
is so years old, and has been resi-
dent Of that county since 1895, is the
oldest man in Muscatine county.
John Brown, mot Ossawattamie
now insane and an inmate Of the Ma
ron County poor house, and aged
a years, was, a few years ago, the
wner Of 12O acres ol land near Knox.
vile.
The Knoxville Democrat reports
q fatal accident iii . coal mine: a
fatal accident occurred at the coal
bank o. Aaron Spurgcon, in Liberty
township, near Belletountaine, on the
Sd inst, by which son Of Mr.. Spur
geon, aged l. years, lost his kte, and
man named Fortner barely escaped
similar fate. Our informant says
that Fortner went to the bank for
coal. and Mr.. S. not beln: at home
his son went 10 assist him in getting
out the coal. Whilst At work the
earth above them gave way and cav
ed in, and the boy was buried be-
meath the earth and rock. When
taken nut life was extinct. Mr.. Fort
ner was also caught by the falling
earth, but being str onger managed TO
extrlcate himself, although he was Sc
verciy injured.
The Iowa City Republican tells OF
. horrible death: last Thursday
morning son OF David Thomas, who
lives few miles southwest OF town
boy fourteen years old, was At work
with a stalk-cutser, when the horses
took fright and run, drawing the ter
rible machine over him. cutting him
horribly. One blade laid opcn one
knee, gashcd llagonally upward
across the thigh, aud cut across the
other thigh, n,angling him in tear
tnl manner. A horse was run to town
and DR.. Pryce was with him a. quick
rs horsedesh could carry him, giving
no heed to bridge notices. and every
thing was done that could be, but in
spite OF every effort he died Saturday
morning.
The daughter Of a newly arrived
preacher, not . hundred miles from
Atlantic, entered church : few Sun.
days since, becomingly attircd in .
somewhat fashionable style, and wear
ling ! dismond ring which some sast-
crn friend had given her. Whereup-