The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-19
49, TOLEDO TAMA COUNTY iowa THURSDAY, NOVEMBER is. 1874
IOWA STATE NEWS.

; IOWA STATE NEWS.
Buchanan County.
Mrs. Anderson recently recovered, at Inde
pendence, verdict Of e15,O0O against tn
Illinois Central Railroad Company for tn
loss OF her husband, who was killed by tn
cars last year. A few days ago Judge Bag,
set aside the verdict and granted motion 70
a new trial.
The Centerville Citizen has been sold to G
W. Merrill, promising young journalist
Clayton County.
John Murphy, of McGregor, while attempt
ing to board moving train recently, missed
his footing and fell in front Of one Of til,
wheels. One Of his legs was taken Off
The loss occasioned by the late storm in til,
vicinity Of McGregor is said to be about
100000.
The wife Of J. c. vanpel, of Elkader, who
recently mysteriously disappeared, has
commenced suit against the saloon
keepers who furnished her husband with
drink, claiming damages to the amount ol
$4,000.
Dallas County.
VIM. H. Hesler, Jr., Of Van Meter, recently
got his fingers in the cog.wheel of horse.
power. They had to be amputated.
Davis County.
Mr.. Albertson, Of Bloomfield, has raised this
year on ten acres Of land 2,O45 bushels OF po-
tatoes, which he has sold for forty six cents a
bushel. He counts potatoes good crop to
raise.
James Rogers, of Belknap, was recently
killed by being struck with the plunger Of a
hay-press His head was cut in the back part
and his neck broken.
Des Moines County.
The property Of Burlington is valued for
purposes Of taxation, at "A ,2S3, 1863.
Dubuque County.
! Wagner, the murderer OF Frank Rhomberg,
had hearing on the 9th, and plead not guilty.
He was remanded to await the action of the
Grand Jury.
At the Key City planning mill in Dubuque,
the other day, while Pat Quinlan was operat-
ing the planer the belt broke, striking him on
the head and forcing the steel tags with which
the ends of the belt we're fastened into his
skull above the eye, producing a hole through
which the brain prutruded.
Dyersville has voted to issue 81 600 in bonds
to build new schOol-house.
Greene County.
There are thirteen cases on the criminal
docket of the County Court, sixteen on the
equity docket, and forty nine on the law
docket.
Guthrie County.
The wind and hail storm of the 7th did a
great deal of damage at Casey and vicinity.
Geo. B. Mcpherson, Of Stuart, has pair OF
five -year-old steers which weigh 1900 pounds
Iowa County.
just as the westward bound train reached
Homestead on the night of the 7th the engine
struck stray cow and threw her against the
platform and passed her. She then rolled on
to the track under the passenger cars and
threw them from the track, upsetting the one
next the sleeping-car, which had broken
loose and, remaining on the track, collided with
the Others. Several passengers were consid-
erably bruised and one, German woman,
was quite seriously injured about the head
and shoulders.
Jackson County.
James Woods was run over and killed at
Nashville, recently, by c., B. Il 9. Railroad
freight train. His legs and arms were sew
cred from his body
Jasper County.
tumor as large as a walnut cut from her eye.
The patient is young lady of seventeen years.
with the courage Of a hero. She refused to
,f IN Inn cd n
the operation without flinching.
johnson County.
A few mornings ago an iron transfer pully,
about six feet in diameter, in the papermill
of Close & Sons, at Iowa City, burst while
going at the rate of 500 revolutions per min
ute The fragments were thrown 15O feet. A
large piece struck NJ. 7. Close, Sr., fracturing
a rib and cutting his head and arm.
Jones County.
Il. expected the cells in the new Pcniten-
tiary building will be completed by the Is. of
February next. Forty-nine prisoners are now
in the institution, and next winter there will
be abundant accommodation for all that the
State may desire to send there.
gentleman recently leased livery stable
in Wyoming, and inserted provision III the
lease prohibiting the former proprietor from
approaching the establishment nearer than
four rods until the expiration Of his lease, and
now the latter is wondering how he shall
manage to collect his rent
Keokuk County.
More than $50 farmers in the county have
paid the patent-clevis man s. apiece. This is
now said to be a swindle.
Lee County.
A grindstonc, while in rapid motion at the
Penitentary the other day, ran OIL the rod
and burst, striking a colorcd convict III the
leg and breaking it in three places.
An extensive fire occurred in Fort Madison
on the night of the Sth. At one time It was
feared the business portion of the town would
90, but this catastrophe was prevented by
tearing down the intervening houses. Loss
about $4,000. The fire had an inccndiary
origin.
The Keokuk Unitarians have embellished
their new church with a new $500 organ.
A man named Connell stopped at
house near the c., B. & @. car-shops, IN
Keokuk, the other evening, and asked to rest.
He sat down and fell to the floor directly
after, and when he was picked up ne was
dead.
Michael Doyle, living west OF keokuk
few miles, was firing at a mark, the other day,
when the gun exploded, blowing out the
breech- pin, tearing off the hammer and shat
tcring the stock to fragments. The hammer
struck the young man in the eye, crushing in
the skull above it, forcing the eye-ball from
the socket and producing an ugly wound.
An attempt was recently made to burn the
Carey school building in Keokuk. i was
discovered in its incipiency and promptly ex-
tinguished.
Linn County.
O.. E. Merrill, Of Marion, was recently sent
to the Penitentiary for two years for stealing
q Baptist minister's overcoat, watch ana
chain. and $50 in money while acting as
night clerk at Broome's Hotel, Cedar Rapids
Merrill is respectfully connected, his wife and
narents residing near Monticello, Were he
was captured.
Lucas County.
At Charlton the other day the conductor Of
a stock train on the B. q M. Railroad discov-
cred boy slung up under car IN ham,
mock which he had made by tying ropes TO
the braces He had ridden fifty miles before
being discovered.
Mahaska County.
few nights ago the house Of Abram Rog