The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-05-08
State News


10Th, 10Th and 18th.
The National Campaigning @ili
be held at Cedar Rapids next month.
The census OF Wilton, just taken,
shows 1920 popu.ation-all white.
This a total OF u less than the last
Federal census.
The Grinnell Herald says-"That
odd chap who is peddling piety and
pertumed taliow about town, IS here
by informed that we have had enough
OF his palaver in our office.
Byron Clark fell from an open
window in Dubuque last week, and
suffered injuries that arc thought
must prove fatal. He had taken on
board too much "corn juice"
A fire occurred at Avoca last week
which destroyed the Delta printing
office, Township records, and a law
and real estate Office. Loss $1,000.
No insurance.
A fossil specimen Of the extinct
dodo, a bird OF immense size and Pc
cuiiar formation, has been found in
the gypsum mines at Fort Dodge.
1t has been bought by an Engllshman
as gift to the British Museum.
Council Bluffs was tossed and torn
by the high wind OF w ednesday last.
4 portion Of its high school building
was unroofed, one hundred square
feet OF The tin roofing Of the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum vas torn off, and two
freight ears on the Il. d NJ. track
were driven a mile by the wind, wind
ing up their voyage by being run into
by freight tram and smashed up.
The Supreme Court of the State
in the case OF Conn rs May appellant,
from Iowa county, decided that who
ever sets out fire between September
first and the fist OF May following
is absolutely liable for all damages
caused by its escape regardless OF
the question o! damages.-GflnneH
Herald.
"In behalf OF the Patrons of Black
hawk county, we entreat the press
Of Iowa and OF the w est TO no long.
er hold them responsible for the Sc
cret meetings, OF the less than hall
dozen bastards who concocted it on
the sly for purposes Of their own
They are not only In no sense re
sponslble for this deception, but they
privately AID publicly repudiats it
and its authors "-[ Waterloo Cosr,sr.
An interesting railroad case was
tried at Marshalltown last week,
which resulted in giving the plaintiff
verdict tor two hundred dollars.
The case was u. E. j. Boardman, VS..
G. & N. w. Railroad Company, and
the charge for over charges on mer-
chandise. The amount OF over charge
in the case was only S1.70, but as it
was regarded as a test case, much
interest centered in the result. 1t
was first brought into court in 1869,
and has been attended with consid
cradle costs to tho Company. The
Times, from which we gather the
above facts says:
CAT the first term the dispositions
1t had taken at an expense OF some
SO, were quashed tor illegalities in
the course OF the proceeding. At
the next term the costs were all taxed
to the Railroad because it was not
ready for trial. At the next term
the verdict Of the Jury was set aside
because the attorney for the Railroad
had proceeded improperly in present.
ing the case to the Jury; the Jury 1t
was claimed, had been tempered with,
and the Supreme Court OF Iowa sus.
tanned the position, which brought it
back again for new trial at this term
with the result above stated"
The arrest OF Governor McEnery
for treason is being discussed by the
New Orleans papers. The Kellogg
Government has twice decided BY
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