The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-10-28
IOWA A NEWS.

ing $500 cans, were received at Council
Bluffs the other day.
THE elevators at Sioux City have stopped
purchasing wheat on account of the poor
quality of The grain offered.
THE Council Bluffs people are to have
the milk scld on the streets of that city
submitted to chemical analysis.
THE wife of Simon Grant, a well-todo
Jones County farmer, recently committed
suicide by hanging herself in a corn-crib.
Ferdict-insanity.
FRANK BUTLER, a prominent citizen
and old settler, fell dead OF the afternoon
of the 10th while walkIngona DeS MONIES
street. Cause, apoplexy.
THE Burlington Hnrk-Eye thinks that
the coming winter will be q hard one, be-
cause the spiders are so thick in Kitchens,
and the shucks on hazelnuts so heavy.
A oLoRED woman and a white woman
had an argument with a knife and scis-
sors attachment in Il Council Bluffs hotel
lately. Both were carved slightly, and
the Caucasian was discharged from the
hotel employ.
Iowa postal changes for the week end
ing Oct. Il, 1875, were: Established
Cecilia, Howard County, P. L. Conner,
Postmaster. Observation-Disclosures, Lucas
County. Postmaster appointed-Ola, Lu-
cas- County, A. Dillon.
WHLEa school-house was being raised
from its foundations two miles east of
Indianola, for the purpose of moving, on
the 18th, it fell back owing to the failure
of the support, and killed Geo. c. Barnes,
who was at work beneath.
\ SINGULAR scalding accident recently
occurred in Keokuk, to the daughter of
DR.. II. F. Clcaver. She was Just taking a
Jug Of water, tightly corked, from the stove
when the cork flew out. The hot water
followed and she WAS severely burned.
Or the 18th of September ". Hinbra
ger, a grocer of Dubuque, went East to
make his fall purchases, expecting to be
absent aboutten days. Nothing had been
heard Of him up to the 18th of Octo-
Der, and his friends fear he had been foul
ly dealt with.
HoRsE-THIEvEs are in~dustriously at
work in the vicinity of Sioux City. 1t is
believed an organized band are operating
in that section. People are becoming
somewhat excited, and it would be de.
cidedIy unhealthy for any of the band if
captured near the place Of their depreda-
tons.
THE long-pending controversy between
Dubuque and the Center Island Com
pany, involving about 100000, has been
settled at last by the city paying $4,000
IN twenty-fve-year bonds and securing
about twenty-five acres of island for levee
purposes. This settles all the old-bond
Indebtedness of the city OF Dubuque.
THE nomination of Bishop Eccleston to
the Bishopric of Iowa has been confirmed
by majority ofthe Standing Committees.
action in the matter, meets at New York
city Oct. 2S. The council never has vetoed
the action of the Standing Committees,
and there is noprobability that they will
do so in this case.
A TERRIBLE and fatal accident occurred
at Walbannus' stone quarries, near Sage
town, on the 18th. The workmen had
fired blast and, finding it did not ex-
pl0de, one Of them, a Swede named Olaf
Johnson, went to the drill to examine it.
While bending over it the blast exploded,
hurting the unfortunate man many feet in
the air. Death was instantaneous, his
neck being broken in the fall and his head
being crushed by fragments of stone.
AT the annual meeting of the Woman's
State Temperance Union, held at Des
Moines on the Goth, the following were
elected officers for the ensuing year: Pres
ident-Mrs. Z. \. Wheeler. of Cedar
Rapids. Vice-P rcsidents-First District,
Miss Clara Harris; Second, Mrs. Pcaseley;
Third, Mrs. E. B. Older; Fourth, Mrs. DIR.
Burnham; Fifth, Mrs. VI. f. CASTOR
Sixth, Mrs. Bowen; Seventh, Mrs. Pitman;
Eighth, Mrs. Moore; Ninth, Mrs.
Caroline y. Gugham. Corresponding
Secretary-Mrs. Aldrich, Cedar Rapids.
Recording S~ecretary-Mrs. Springer, Ana
mosa. Treasurer-Mrs S.ecre, Musca1ne.
NINE desperadoes escaped from the Pot
tawatomie County Jail on the morning of
the 10Th. 1t seems that the Jail was so
crowded that the taller had to confine sew
eral prisoners in one cell, and by their
combined efforts they managed to get into
the hallway. After that, TO tear away
a few bricks and stones was but the work
of a few minutes. This was all done after
seven O'Clock in the morning. Most of
the escaped prisoners were in for horse
stealing, with good cases against all of
them. There were eleven more prisoners
in the Jail at the time, who refused 10 ac-
cept liberty. Among them was Fred. Nc
Whittier, who murdered DR.. Hatton, in
Cass County, recently.
LAST month man by the name of James
Wallace Came TO Faulkner, Franklin
County, and purchased the warehouse at
that place belonging TO Truman Pattee,
giving therefor 800 to bind the bargain,
and gaining the confidence OF the unsus.
pecting farmers in that locality. who
stored their grain with him, he promising
to pay them when he got certain drafts
cashed at the Franklin County Bank. He
agreed to pay more for wheat than at .1ck-
ley, and the consequence was that the
farmers were anxious to draw their grain
all to him, every day he promising to pay
tomorrow. But alas! tomorrow never
came. He succeeded in getting in and
shipping upward of 81, 900 worth, and
sloped 10 parts unknown.
The Grand Chapter of ROYAL Arch Ma
sons, of Iowa, met in keokuk on the aIst.
Grand High Priest r. F. Bower delivered
his annual address. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year: Grand
High Priest, H, S. Winslow. Newton:
Deputy Grand High Priest, Fred Gett
chell, Des Moines; Grand King, A. T.
Brooks, Mount Pleasant; Grand Scribe.
A. D. Wetherell, Knoxville; Grand Treas.
urer, w. W. Mcknight, Wintersct: Grand
Secretary, VIM. B. Langridge, Muscatine.
Appointed oficers-Captain of the Host,
A R. Dewey, Washington; Principal So
%journer, W. W. Dougherty, Dubuque:
Royal Arch Captain, NJ. r. Quincy, Mon.
~ticello; Grand Master, third veil, L.. s
Bayless, keokuk; Grand Master, second
veil, II. c. McNelle, Sioux CITY; Grand
Master, first veil, Jerome Burbank,
Waverly; Grand Chaplain, Downing
Baugh, McGregor; Grand Guard, Theo.
dore Schriener, Mount Pleasant.