The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-10-01
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IOWA llEAS.
4 charter has been issued Tor = national
ba1k q UBAun.
fhs Boone county poor hcuse contais.
thirteen inmates.
The State has twenty-five daily and "a
weekly newspaper.
Philip Phillips has been singing to the
folks of Manchester.
The town Of Ridgeport, Boone county,
. without beer saloon.
On Of the attractions the Muscatine
County Fair is sack race.
The Chief is the name Of new paper
started in Perry, Dallas county.
About eighty workmen are now employ
ed on the new capitol building.
The New Hampton Driving Park Asso
citation holds its first annual races Octobe,
and6.
The Kessea0er announces the death a;
Fort Dodge Of Jerome p. White aud D. c.
Weller.
The Humboldt Xndspendent says the
wheat around there averaged twenty-five
bushels an acre.
A woman was caught without shelter
on recent night near Osceola, and per.
fshed in the storm.
A noted three-card monte man-Canada
Bill-with two or three Of his pals" was
arrested last Thursday ut the State Fair
A bull-snake was killed last week in
Louisa county, which measured seven feet
eight inches in length, and seven inches
round,
Thousands and tens Of thousands OF
hogs are daily driven into the State from
she grasshoiper regions Of Nebraska and
Kansas.
Joseph Ross, a young farmer near Fair
field, committed suicide. few days ago.
shooting himself in the head with Q re-
voiyer. Disappointed love.
At the Iowa County Fair last week, a
team, soaring vt some cattle, threw Mrs
Price, farmers wife, out Of the wagon,
injuring her SO she cannot recover
A powerful German woman, named
4usch,txch, Keeper Ut grocery =, Du-
buque, thoroughly routed, with the aid of
. beer mallct, two loafcrs who attempted
to rob her till.
During recent jam in the vcstibule OF
the keOkuk Opera House one night lately,
more than $6OO were distracted from the
pockets Of the waiting crowd, by the
light-tingered gentry attending.
The religious editor Of the Fort Dodge
Nessenger complains that that ity, with
six or seven thousand people, does not half
fill up its churches Sunday. although there
are only twelve hundred sittings in said
churches.
Capt. U. c. Bryant, of G. dar Falls, died
few days ago. The Gazcttc gives a
sketch of his life He was naval gradu-
ate, was with the Pacific squadron during
the Mexican war, and was commissioned
. Lieutenant in 1850. During the late war
he commanded the gun-boat Cairo. After
that he retired on half pay.
Several different trains have left Sioux
City within short time, well provided
with miners outfits, to hunt land in
Northern Nebraska. The initiated say
they will find nothing to suit them before
reaching the Black Hills. Northern Ne.
braska papers report squads of men
travelling in the direction of the New e.
dorado as very frequent.
Judge Chase has overrulcd the motion
for new trial in the case of J. IT, Brooks,
City Marshal, charged with killing one
Nicholas Haines, two years ago. while at
tempting to arrest him The Judge pro.
nounced the sentence Of Mr.. Brooks-ore
month in prison and one dollar fine. Ex-
ccptiOns were taken at once and the case
will 60 TO the Supreme Court-if in the
meantime he is not pardoned. SO ends
the unfortunate case
A few nights since Cherokee father,
on returning home late, thought he saw
dim light in the rarlor. Curiosity and the
fear of burglars prompted an investiga-
ton. He pushed open the door suddenly
and surprised favorite daughter and her
lover in actions more fit for the latitude
Of Brooklyn than respectable Hawkeye
house. -Four shots from revolver failed
to check the young man in his earnest and
hurried cndeavor to reach distant part
Of the town.
Judge Thomas w. Newman. Of Rurling
ton. has been appointed by Gov. Carpcn-
ter to fill the vacancy of the District
Judgeship Of that District, made vacant
by the resignation Of Judge Smyth Judge
Newman is considered an able and sue
cessful attorney, is man of much culture
and solid worth, and will probably give
satisfaction as District Judge He was
nominated by the Republicans for the Of.
fce, and will now probably be elected.
He will hold the Office BY virtue of the
appointment until Dec 81.
Harpcr's Magazine for October is as
Number for its illustrations,