The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-10
IOWA STATE NEWS.

immense.
Two INMATES of the County Jail al
Iowa City dug out and escaped the othel
night.
EFFORTS are being made to move Simp'
sons College, now located at Indianola, te
Des Moines.
DR.. ARCHIBALD, of Glenwood, has re-
ceived an appointment as Surgeon in The
regular army.
TWENTY-FIVE State Senators beside!
the House of Representatives are to bs
elected next fall.
THE Woman's Suffrage Convention have
resolved to hold 100 county conventions
In the State next year.
A Two-FIFTHs interest in the Council
Bluffs Globe was recently sold toJ. c. Nor
gan, of Winterset, for $4,000.
THERE will be some thirty graduates Of
the collegiate department of the State Uni.
versity at next Commencement.
THE other evening boy thirteen years
old, named Joseph Edmunds, was drowned
in the Nodaway, near Corning.
Mr.. ]. c. HILTON is establishing cheese
factory in Burr Oak, Mitchell County,
with a capacity of 600 gallons of milk
daily.
THE Spiritualists think they will have
about 10000 delegates at their conven.
ton in Dubuque on the 2Sth of this
month.
THE Citizens National Bank of Des
Moines has been appointed National De-
pository, pics the National State Bank, de.
clined.
s. s. HOOVER, resident of Council
Bluffs, was waylaid and robbed at Downs.
vile of S., 400 IN money and his watch, a
few days ago.
THE sales of the Iowa Railroad Land
Company during May amounted to 49,
271.2S acres for $l51 ,536,45. Number of
purchasers 1871
THERE is talk at Iowa City of donating
to the State the county Court House for
the use of the Medical Department Of the
State University.
A HERDER named Joseph Stanley, tend
ing his herd near Big Grove, Pottawat-
omie County, was struck by lightning
lately and instantly killed.
FANNY WELLS, a colored resident of
Keokuk, has recently fallen heir to 81 900
left her by her old master, who also left a
similar amount to her eldest son.
AT Iowa City few days ago barber
named Mayweather assaulted Peter Lutz
with razor and cut him so badly that his
death was momentarily expected at last
accounts.
EXTENSIVE travellers say that Iowa new
er presented more inviting appearance
than it does to-day, and that business men
were never in a more healthy condition
than now, etc.
A LARGE proportion of the school d.
rectors of the State are at present engaged
in defending suits brought against them
for the Infringement Of the Hildreth
patent SChool-Scat
A KEoKUK man got a divorce from his
wife last fall and then hired her for his
cook, and she never had so many good
clothes or got half so much money out of
him before in all her life.
IT has been suggested that the Iowa
Press Association meet at Des Moines
July l, next day after the Republican
State Convention, drop the excursion part
of the programme, and talk business.
NEAR Ottumwa, on the farm of W. s.
Carter, a lot of young gray wolves were
discovered, the other day, disporting them
selves in all innocence. A party of men
started out after them and killed five and
captured two alive.
THE crops in Johnson County look
splendid. A large acreage of corn has
been planted, and stands well. So, too,
of small grains, Notwithstanding the
backward season there never were fairer
prospects for large harvest the coming
autumn.
THE Charlton Leader trots out to public
view for public praises Miss Mollie Touts,
a young lady of that city not yet out of her
teens, who has woven since the last of
February upon her loom $50 yards
of rag carpet; some days weaving as high
as eighteen yards.
THE Helper gives this statement of the
health of the Patrons in Iowa: 1.-The
Oranges of Iowa are generally in very
prosperous condition. By the close of the
fiscal year the worthy Secretary anticipates
that there will be none delinquent in their
dues or reports. Sickly Oranges are re-
viving rapidly"
On the evening Of the 3lst ult., at Coun-
Gil Bluffs, occurred the most extensive
rain and hail storm of the season. Great
damage was done to vegetation by hail
Sidewalks were swept away, cellars filled
and roads destroyed. The residence of
r. Riley was struck by lightning and to-
tally consumed.
THE number of cattle from Kansas and
Missouri now grazing upon Iowa soil is
immense. On every portion of available
grazing land in Pottawatomie County are
cattle from the South and West being fed.
On Keg and Silver Creeks there are thou
sands Of animals pasturing, and Harrison
County can tell the same story.
A FEW days ago, at Des Moines, three
colored men were arrested, charged with
the murder of Ella Barrett last August. 1t
is understood that one has made a confess
sion, under oath, that five were connected
with the murder. Two have been in Jail
since the murder. Theirnames are Archie
Brown, Andy Smith and Henry Shelley.
Brown furnished bail in the sum of $780,
900, and was released.
A KEoKUK COUNTY paper thinks it is
brutal and barbarous to kill the dogs by
poisoning them with strychnine, which oc-
casions them such terrible suffering. That
is so. Dogs should be carefully chloro-
formed. Then knocked in the head with
soft pillow. Or the tender.hearted
Keokuk County folks might give their
dogs laudanum, and then while they are
asleep hire some man to sit down on
them.-Burlington Hamk-Eys.
Rev, R. NJ. SMITH, pastor of the Broad
way NJ. E. Church of Council Bluffs, was
attacked about twenty miles south of At
lantic, a few evenings ago, by knight of
the road, who robbed him of$57O. He was
thrown from his carriage and set upon by
the robber with knife and pistol; was
stabbed twice in the left arm, and his right
hand was cut in terrible manner He
was then knocked senseless, and while in
this condition was robbed.