Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-03
ALL OVER IOWA.

AlOnzO Meade was recently drown
at Sigonrney.
f. B. Moore, Of Hampton, commit.
ted suicide on the 10Th.
Mt. Pleasant obliges its saloon
keepers to pay $50 license.
Iowa City was visited by profes-
s,onal burglar last week. He d ,es mt
appear to have been very successful.
Two little girls were wading IN
the river at Shellsburg, last week
and stepped into deep hole. One
was drowned.
The Republican thinks that Iowa
City has the tallest church spire in
the State,-the splre of the Catholic
church at that place being 200 feet
high.
DR.. r. H. Taylor, Of Marshalltown,
is the Republican nominee for the
State Senate from the District com
posed OF Marshall and Hardin coun.
ties.
The Democracy of Story county
will hold a barbecue the coming sea.
son, and expect Brick Pomeroy
Dan Finch, j. P. Irish and other not
ed speaker.
Buchanan county is alive to the
importance of the contemplated rail
road from Cedar Rapids, and the
people are going right to work vot-
ing on the question of aid.
An engineer was fined $40 the 9th,
er day in Ottumwa, for driving his
engine through the streets faster
than six miles an hour. The first
instance Of the kind in the State, we
guess.
The Representative says that E.
Ruefy, of Nevada, while chicken
hunting on the 10th, accidentally
shot himself in the head, with fatal
result. He was Swiss and. "a years
OF age.
The statement is going :hc rounds
that minister's daughter in Mar
shalltown went into q store in tha
city recently, and after purchasing |
bill of goods told the merchant t
charge it to the man her fathc
worked for-Jesus Christ"
A child three years Of age, daugh
ter OF E. NJ. Willette, of Cass town
ship, Jones county. accidentally hun!
herself the other day, and strangle,
to death. She attempted TO cllml
inty hay rack on the wagon, whe1
her feet slipped and caught, and will
her head downward, she hun 6 urti
she died.
Mr.. Turner's son in Burlington
went into his fathers grocery celia
to draw some non-explosivo OIL. II,
lighted match, the match lighte
the coal oil, the boy lighted out o
the cellar, the flames lighted up thu
heavens,-and the establishment wa
saved only by the very hard work o
the firenen.
Dan Donnelly, confined in the
Sioux City Jail released himself from
confinement, the other day, and aiteI
airing himself about town couple o
hours climbed back into his den. III,
could have escaped for good easll,
enough, but he says that he is limo
cent of the charge against him, ani
prefers trial.
The Osceola Republican says IA
Mr.. Gregg, living five miles north 9
the Bluffs, has seven head of cattle il
his herd that have become blint
within the last few days. Several o
his neighbors are similarly visited il
their cattle. There is no apparen
cause, and we trust our scientif
men will examine the matter an,
seek to prevent its spread"
In Grundy county, the other day
Farmer Clark was moving. Some
how he was thrown before the sickl'
and the flesh was stripped almos
clean from his right arm, and two Q
his fingers were taken off. He thel
mounted horse, road mile to hi
house, leading q horse. and seve1
miles farther to a surgeon, never sad
dening his family with news Of hi
mishap. The brave fellow will jus
make live through the loss of bloo'
aud the amputation of his arm.
The Capitol Commissioners hav
accepted the bid of David Armstron
of Buchanan county, for the ''bolder
stone to make the c,pings of tn
Capitol building The price was :
per foot, and the total contrae
amounts to about $4,000. II. G
Stein, Of Muscatine, has been electe
President pro tenn. Of the Board. ]
is stated that the stone for the mai
walls, now being delivered from tn
quarry west Of Des Moines, is made
quate in size, and unless the contrat
tors can succeed in getting the siz
required, they will OF course have 7
surrender their contract.