The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-05-07
IOWA ITEM S.
Colfax ia raiding the saloons.

The high price o. corn is forcing
hogs or market.
The Wyoming Ne,es brags on the
Anamosa penitcntiary cook.
a Clinton man caught real shad
in the Mississippi liver the other day.
Spinal meningitis is prevalent about
Vandalia, Jasper county, with fatal
results.
Northwood sportsmen manage to
shoot through windows at ri ght an
giles with the target.
A YEN of coal twenty inches thick
at a dept OF 100 feet, has been iouNd
IN Jackson, Wayne county.
Mrs. Carrie Adams was badly
burned near Oskaloosa few day s
since while burning rubish, her
clothing taking fire.
A. w. Hlllyer Of Clarence broke
his leg in two places while pulling
off boot. 1t must have been
tight boot or weak leg.
A Clarence merchant made mis-
take and sold a farmer the wrong
half bushel-the one he bought by.
The bottom was an inch thick.
For tic first time III the history OF
SigourneY, iol perhaps twenty years,
it is without a single saloon of any
kind within lis corporate limits, says
the Netcs.
Mr.. Robert Wilkinson recently of
Cadlz, Ohio, has established an apiary
about two miles northwest OF Oska-
loosa. He has about ono hundred
colonies OF bees.
A Lucas couniy stock raiser re-
Gently sold $50 head of tat cattle, the
average weight being 100 pounds,
and for the lot lie pocketcd the sNug
SUN CT $l5,24022
The Eddyvillc Aarertiser says that
Miss. Lizzie Denham received notice
Thursday q her appointment TO a
position in the United States Treas
ury Department at Washing' on
Mahaska Agricultural Society has
decided 10 have Grand horse
fair" at Oskaoosa, June 24il and
18th The premiums otftrd are for
fast travelling the highest sweep
stakes trottino; purse $500.
The county seat Of Jencs county
must travel-3,399 persons having
peiioned lii { tie question be sub
milted to "otc, and that number is
more than half the voters OF the
county.
An accident occurred on the NJ. v
I & w. Railroad, at Des Moines City,
nine miles below kcokuk, Tuesday
morning. resulting in the serious II
not fatal injury Of Conductor j NJ
| Thacker.
Burlington has no wagon biidg &c
or ferry boat, but wants some means
of crossing the Mississippi.
A chapel at Tacoma has been pull.
ed down and hauled away because
the people would not pay the bull
der half what it cost him.
The Quincy I'LL stone contractors
have concluded that they cannot fur
nsh Tie stone for the snpcrstruc!ure
OF the new Iowa capitol
A party Of young folks IN Dnbr que
Rave organized geolog cal society,
and will visit various portions OF the
country To pursue their studies.
Gardeners may expect them about
watermelon time.
Fritz Dinkle, who stabbed his
wife 10 death with but chor-kmfe
at Davenport, has been held for
murder in the first degaee.
The histor. Of Polk county is being
written.
The law class OF the State Unlver.
sily numbers eighty members.
The town Of Northwood. Worth
county, is to be Incorporated
Sheldon monrns because the nearest
grist mill is fifty miles away. There
Is an opening for somebody.
A MINER named James Sullivan
was killed by the falling Of large
piece Of slate few days ago in a
coal bank near Bonaparte, Van Barren
county.
The failure of +. i. Crawford, for
the past five years a leading clothing
merchant OF Sioux City, IS announced,
and the United States Marshal from
Council Bluffs has taken possession