The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-03
Linn County.

Linn County.
Already 5000 have been secured to build
s chapel at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon.
.sahasla County.
The tax levy of the county is nine and one
half miIls-si37, $3.50.
The artesian well at OskaIoosa has reached
a depth Of between 100 and 500 feet.
Marion County.
The Dcs Moines Prcsbytery recently III
session at Knoxville, adopted the following
sentence: THAT the Rev. Frederick Ray,
being duly convicted of the sin of drunkcu-
ness and fraud, deserves To he, and is hereby,
| dcposed of the Gospel ministry, and is also
| suspended from saeraments Of the Christian
church until such a time when he shall give
the proper evidence of repentance" The
State Register says that Frcdercks best hold
was drinking Iostetter's Bitters, and it was
found that his credentials as clergyman
we're fraud
Marshall CSunty.
Elizabeth A. Whipplc has sued John and
Benton Reslcy, druggists in Marshantowir,
claiming $4,000 damages sustained by reason
of the defendants unlawfully selling her hus-
band intoxicating liquors during the seven
years prior Ia his death.
O'Brtcn County.
Muskrats and beaver are said to abound in
the vicinity of Sheldon, and now and then an
otter is found.
Polk County.
A few evenings since man entered one of
the Dcs Moincs saloons, ard, as he made his
way to the bar, was asked by The bar-kceper
what he would have. "Thc best you have in
the nouse," was the reply, and the bar keeper
promptly handed him glass of icc-water.
Recently farmer named Wall, living near
Saylorsville, met with an accident that, but
for his grit and GOODNESS, might have resulted
fatally In his field, sixty rods from his
house. was huge bowldcr which he wished
removed, and he thought that the most eX-
peditious way and the least expensive would
be to sink it. Accordingly, he commencedt to
dig under the rock. After he had got well
under the earth caved, and the huge rock came
tumbling down upon him. 1t broke one os
his legs and savagely bruised the other.
The spade with which he was digging
was broken, also, and there Wall
was caught with a ton or two of rock above
him. The wind was blowing fierccly, and, at
though he made rs loud an outcry rs possible,
he was unable To make any Of his family
hear him. Then the clear grit of the man
came to the top. The spade was caught un-
der the rock, as well as himself. With his
hands he dug it loose and used the imple-
ment SO industriously that in due time he
had liberated himself, and then, with one leg
entirely useless and the other seriously dis
abled, he cfawled sixty rods to the shelter of
his own roof At last accounts he was conva-
lescing, and happy in the prospect of speedy
recovery from his injuries.
The local tonnage Of the Rock Island Rail
road at Des Mones for October was 81 ,S2o,oD
pounds-an increase of 20 per cent over tue
tonnage the same month last year.
Tuttlc Il Igo's office, in Dcs Mones, was
recently entered by burglars and robbed of
$50 in fractional currency.
AS wind-up for Thanksgiving Day, at
Des MONIES, Fat Morrissey and a man named
Jones had slight diversion with sticks and
knives which resulted in Jones being held To
bail in the SUN of 81 800 for trying to cut out
a vital portion of Morrissey's anatomy.
POttaVvattanfe County.
Elder Shiun, of Omaha, aged siNty-siN and
Jane Webb, Of Council Bluffs. Mary Jane is
but twenty five, but she can take care of that
$l00,0o just as well as if she was older.
for hSyh@ hW SeTsaf TpsafwS rffG3P1tY arrsstsd II Ieea9
savin"s bank at Council Bluffs.
Scott County.
The new Baptist Church at Lcclaire has
just been completed.
story County.
An engine on the narrow gauge road re-
Gently made the run between Dcs Molnes and
Amcs, thirty eight miles, in just ninety min
utes. This is said to be remarkable feat to
perform on a new, unballastcd track.
Union County.
Clint Schultz, Of Crcston, says the story
that he is only seventeen years old is lie.
He owns up to forty-seycn.
Wapello County.
The conductor and baggage man Of one OF
the south bound trains recently had sct-to
at Eddyyllc. They adjourned to the plat
form and fought it out, OBTAINING the tram
for fifteen minutes so that the passengers
could all see the fun. At the end of the
fifteenth round the conductor threw up the
sponge, shouted ".All aboard, and the train
started for kcokuk with a badlydamaged
executive officer and baggage man slightly
under the weather. There will be room for
new train men on that road in few days.
Warren County.
The ladies of the First Presbyterian Church
of Indianola have purchased q 600-pound
bell for the church.
Washington County.
Washington has had an interesting soelai
cvent-the marriage Of John Graham, a rich
old bachelor, to Miss Belle Davis, young and
pretty girl of Belmont County, Ohio.
Woodbury. County.
| Josiah p. Cutting, of Sioux City, has been
found guilty of bigamy and forgery and sen
fenced to one year in the penitcntiary
Eppingcr q Co.'S store at Sioux City, was
robbed tie other evening Of $500 worth OF
| clothing The clerks attention was engaged
| in front by one Of the thieves while the other
| operated in the rear.
An eleven -year-old daughter Of A, Hale, u
Sioux City, weighs l II pounds.