The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-10-15
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Grace Greenwood is to lecture in this
State this winter.
Simpson Centenary College has one hui
dred and sixty students.
The Baptist church at Franklin has
just procured new 800 pound bell.
Fayette is to have machine shop and
foundry to be erected within the next
ninety days.
A Rabbi has been engaged and will
commence his ministrations in about two
weeks in Des Moines.
A railroad. several miles long, is to be
built from one of Senator Lowery's coal
mines to Oskaloosa.
Upton merchants have agreed to close
their places Of business each evening,
hereafter, at eight O'Clock.
Mrs. Fanny Kellogg, the beautiful Iowa
songstress, is winning laurels in the mu-
steal circles of Boston.
Cedar county has no bridge across the
principal stream With her borders. -
| local pape. asks why il this thusg"
An engine and twelve new fat cars for
the Narrow Gauge road arc to be ahipped
from the factory to Des MOines this week
A convict named John Marshall. from
Burlington, died last Sunday in the Fort
! Madi. on peniteniary. He was but twenty
one years Of age.
The Clifton water-works company pre-
sented the boss" Of the Golfer dam i'm
provement at the levee, the other day.
with an elegant gold watch.
Rev. O. n Baker, President of Algona
College, has rendered his resignation and
will leave the State, in December, to take
charge of Texas college.
The Grand Jury Of Jasper county have
found an Indie mcnt against John Little
for the murder Of the negro TAFT. Little's
wife has returned to Des Moines
The section work on the Rapids I'm
provement near Keokuk, under the new
appropriation. is to be conducted by the
government officers in charge, instead of
by contract, as heretofore.
The Muscatine county Agricultural AS
sociation at its fair Thursday offered
fine baby wagon to the prcttiest baby.
Twenty-one chcrubic candidates were pre-
sent to contest for the coveted vehicle.
A Polk county man is truly unfortunate.
Sometime ago he had the point Of corn
knife thrust a quarter an inch into the
bone Of one leg, soon after horse kicked
hole in his head, and now he has nearly
cut off one of his feet with I'm axe.
\ son of Michael Ross, Of Newton,
aged about nine years, was out with his
father hauling cane a few days ago, and
while going down IA ill reached forward
to apply the lock. when he lost his bal
ance, fell out of the wagon, one of the
wheels running over him, causing instant
death.
Harriet Wight aged about II years
daughter Of F. ~ Wight, Of Red Oak,
committed suicide by shooting herself
through the heart with a small pocket pis-
tol. Disappointment in love is assigned
as the cause.
The Dubuque Fire Department hires
The men must first 60 to the livery stable
for the animals, and by the time they are
ready % work a section of the city is
burned
The City Council of Clinton has accept
ed the proposition Of the G., B. & @. r.
r.. and their wagon way over the pontoon
bridge is fixed fact The city pays S.
900 and receives all the tolls, and the rail-
road company pays all the expenses Of
building and repairs.
Johnson, (coloredD supposed to have
murdered John Mason near Lyons last fall,
is still in Jail at St. Louis.
The Observer says II W. Smith and Mrs.
Jane McGinnett have eloped from Dewitt,
the former leaving wife and six small
daughters.
At Fairfield an omnibus loaded with
passengers was driven upon the railroad
track as a freight train was backing over
the crossing. The caboose caught the
bus and damned the body of it into pieces.
Everybody was hurt, but no one killed.
Mrs. Catharine Smith has been the
welded wife of Alexander w. Smith, of
Scott county, for forty.onc years, and
borne him twelve children And now she
comes into court and ask for a divorce,
averring that her marriage life has been
one long sequence of ill.treatment and
persecution, which recently has become
uncomfortable.
Three men from the northern part of
Iowa have been hunting for several weeks
north Of Sioux Rapids. Last week two OF
them went to ST. Cloud, and returning
next day, found their comrade, Charles
Lowe. lying dead across the door-sill Of
their hunting cabin, shot in the bowels.
1t is presumed that he accidentally shot
himself, He was about q years old, and
respectfully connected.
Andrew Sunderstrom, suspected of
shooting his wife at Conesville, near Mus.
catine, has been arrested. additional strong
proof having been discovered of his guilt.
His wife. who is slowly recovering from
her wound, states that when he came into
the house after the shooting there was hay
seed on his arm. This induced search
in the haystack, where his revolver and
cartridge box were discovered, wrapped
up in piece Of flannel and thrust out Of
sight under the hay.
The Republic.