The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-16
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Iowa Condensed.
tuscaloosa has had q 5000 fire.


Oskaloosa has had a SIC, 900 fire.
AvocA rejofces at the exodus Of grass
hoppers.
! Twelve young men were find $12 each
in Newton for taking part in charivari
The coming wheat harvest in O'Bricn
county IA expected to average 81 bushels
per acre.
The idea Of building the Des Moines
Western Railroad has been abandoned for
the present.
Mrs. A. J. Chadbourne, one Of the lead
ing ladies of Vinton society, died last
Tuesday week.
There is war in Dubuque because the
Key City House has gone into the free
bus business.
Mrs Paulina Swain, Of the Messenger,
delivered an Grafton on the Fourth, in
Webster county.
A vein of excellent coal has been found
at Beacon, Mahaska county, eight feet
and five inches thick.
Mrs. Isabel Russ, of Clinton, asks $10.-
600 damages of Barnard Michael for sell
ing her husband liquor.
That Muscatine young man who is de-
coying away servant girls, has wife and
child in Bloomington, Ill.
A Chichago man is in Burlington look
ing for building in which to locate a
condensed e;sg mandatory.
The Muscatine county Changers have
resolved to establish an agricultural inn
plement factory in Muscatine.
4 new paper is to be started shortly at
Union. Hardin county 1t will be Repub-
lican in politics, with P. II. Bailey as pub
Usher.
Griswold College, located at Davenport,
is considering proposition to remove its
College and Preparatory Department to
Cedar Rapids.
The prize soap man makes Des Moines
street corners musical. and delights small
boys and evening newspaper men during
the hot evenings.
One, calling himself J. ~ johnson, got
Fl. Kolb. Of Dubuque, to cash a $40 cheek
on the Fourth And now the check is
found to be bogus.
Herman Gerken, Of Charles City, has
been adiudged insane by Board of Insane
Commissioners. disappointment in a
love affair, as usual.
John Ingie, of Montgomery county,
whose wife died suddenly on the Sd of
June, was married suddenly on the 29th Of
June to Maria Willard.
An employee of Mr. Samuel Miller OF
Marion, by the name Of VIM. Fisher, was
killed by sun stroke Monday evening
He leaves wife and child
The Patrons of Husbandry Of Madison
county have purchased the Dabney eleva.
tor at Wintcrset, for five thousand dollars
and are to take possession August first.
A Council Bluffs journalist has been
looking in blood thirsty manner for Tom
Collins 1t seems that Tom had intimate ed
that the newspaper man was cattle thief
Twenty five cents is charged for admis-
sion TO the penitentiary grounds at Ana.
mosa. The proceeds are to be devoted to
the purchase Of library for the prisoners
In Hamilton county, Mr.. T. E. McCrack
en- has got well settled in the editorial ha1-
ness of the Fireman, and is making a
lively paper. Success to him in his new
location.
J. G. Orr, postmaster at Lansing, has
absconded, leaving his bondsman to pay
$500. He was one of these good fcl-
lows, who spend most of their time and
money in billiard saloons.
Mr. Weaver, of Eldora, who had twelve
children by his first wife, white woman,
married Il negro woman a year ago, and
now the Ledgsr is rejoicing over the first
Of the black twelve ensuing.
Four unfortunate females, residents of
Polk county. and pronounced by the au-
thorities IT the asylum as incurabiy insane,
but harmless, We're brought from Mount
Pleasant to Des Mones last week.
Several of the students of the State Uni
versity, residing on the banks of the Mis-
sissippi, have built large sail boat, with
sails complete, in which they will make
their journey home when the school
closes.
Mrs Catherine Bedwell, Of Dubuque
county, asks TO be divorced from her
husband, Ebenezcr Bedwell, who is nc
cused OF an uncomfortable crime ubon the
person Of his step-daughter, child
years Of age.
\ large balloon passed over Ottumwa
last week, at the height Of about one and
a half miles 1t carried one or two per-
sons and was going in Il southwcsterly
direction. Its starting point and destina-
ton are unknown.
y house IN Fort Dodge was unrooted IN
a late storm, and Il cot in which were
sleeping two children was carried off by
the wind out Of The house and set down
in pond where it Heated with its freight
until the children were rescued