The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-16
IOWA STATE NEWS.
MARSHAL WIN. Cox, of Burlington, has
boon missinp since Nov. %,

SILL, luNOINluS u looo VI eooub TO,uUO.
VAN WINKLE & Co.'S elevator, at Vim
ton, was burned few nights ago. In the
building were about 1000 bushels Of
wheat. Loss $4,000.
THE second annual meeting of the Iowa
State Dairymen's Association will be held
at Springfield soon after the 1st of Janua.
ry, time not fixed. Last year it was held
at Oskaloosa.
The two-story wooden building on
Fourth street, in Council Bluffs, occupied
by d. Elliott and Munchrath & Lambert,
was burned on the morning of the 9Th.
Loss about $21 600.
THE crop of thirty acres of wheat in
stack, owned by the Floyd County poor,
was burned a few days ago 1t is sup
posed to have been ignited by sparks from
a passing locomotive.
A sTEP-FATHER near MEANWHILE a short
time since exercised his lip a little too
freely about having so many step chill
dren about; whereupon his wife, who
owns the possession, opened the door and
told him to migrate, and he did.
AN Elkader woman, who played the
ghost by wrapping a sheet about her and
frightening persons passing her hiding
place, has been fined $22 and costs for
malicious mischief, and, refusing to pay
calmly reposes in the County Jail.
A FEW days since, while Mrs. Charles
Doylen, of Council Bluffs, was pouring
some boiling water from a tea-kettle into
another vessel her little child, four years
old, ran in the way and was so severely
scalded that it died the following day.
THE trial of Huff Us. Cooke, the latter
elected County Superintendent of Schools
in Warren County, was commenced at
Indianola on the 29th ult. Huff contests
her election on the ground that a woman
is not an elector and cannot therefore hold
Office in Iowa.
ALTHOUGH the choice of DR.. Eccleston
as Episcopal Bishop of Iowa has been
duly confirmed by all the required author
tiles of the church it is now officially re-
ported that he declines the office. The
diocese will make another effort to secure
a Bishop in an election TO be held next
May.
THE City Council of Des Moines are
trying the experiment of lighting the city
with kerosene oil instead of gas. Several
lamps have been ordered in different parts
of the city, and the indications are that it
will not cost fifty cents a month per lamp
TO light the city. Large numbers of bust
ness houses have discarded gas and use
oil.
A MAN was killed on the evening of the
goth ult., at Dubuque, in the yard of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company, by the
cars running over him while his foot was
held with a yise-like grip in a frog of the
track. His name was Martin Kcrwin.
He was hired that afternoon on the night
force in the yard went to work at six and
was killed at seven.
A SERIOUS quarrel has arisen between
the foreign and home bondholders of the
Davenport & st. Paul Railroad, the latter
demanding the face value of their bonds,
which were ~hypothecated to them at large
discount. Tho foreign parties refuse to
concede this, and the consequence is that
the sale of the road, which was to have
taken place this month by order of the
court, is Indefinitely postponed.
A FEW months ago a letter was filed
with Gov. Carpenter in which the writer
insinuated that at least three of the men
who were engaged in the hanging of
Howard to a lamp-post were known and
that the guilty parties could be brought to
light. The Grand Jury Of Polk County
gave the matter a most searching ~investi-
cation, but failed to disclose anything
which could implicate anybody.
THE Northern Amateur Press Associa-
ton recently met in Dubuque and elect
ed the following officers for the ensuing
year: Presidcnt-Joseph G.. Duncan, of
Dubuque. First Vice Presidential. W.
Dingwall, Of Milwaukee; Second Vice
President, F. Hobson, of West Union;
Secretary, L. T. Hobson, of West Union;
Treasurer, C. II. Graves, of Dubuque;
official organ, the AmGteur Asptrant, of
Milwaukee. The association adjourned
to meet at West Liberty, in September,
1876.
SUIT was entered in the Dubuque Cir.
cunt Court, on the Sd, by the Chicago,
Dubuque & Minnesota Railroad Compa-
ny, against the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad, to recover the sum of
So, 500, 1000, alleged to have been lost by
the non-fulfllment of a contract to extend
defendants road, whereby traffic has
been lost amounting TO that sum. The
contract dates back TO the year 1870, when
the river road was originally the Du-
buque, Bellevue & Mississippi Railroad.
The case is docketed for trial in the Janu-
airy term.
THE annual report of the Auditor of
State, an intelligent, comprehensive and
interesting document, has just been pub
lished. During the term embraced in the
report, from Nov. l, 1878, to Nov. 1875,
the receipts iuto the Treasury on account
of general revenue amount TO 81 ,947, AIR.
"a, exclusive of a balance of S31 ,217. sc on
hand at the date of the last report, max
ing a total Of S1,91S, 5000. The dis
bursemcnts from this fund during the same
period were 81, 915,512.24, leaving a balance
in the Treasury at the date of the report
of $3,114.66. To this should be added
the sums in the hands of the several
1900, T,nar,,rar, p,1 A. =
$50, 1915. There are due of uncollected
taxes of previous years 1858, ST SO, of
which the Auditor estimates that only 50
per cent. is collectible. The Treasury re-
ceipts for the next two years are placed
at 81, 1862, 000, and the estimated expend-
itures at $1,5j3,927, leaving an estimated
balance of $40S,0 73 for extraordinary
purposes to be expended as the Lcgisla-
ture may direct. The total amount of in
terest paid on Auditors warrants during
the last two years was 81, 154.33. The
Auditor recommends that the %appropria-
ton and fiscal years be made identical.
He discusses at considerable length the
question of county responsibility for the
State levy, and recommends an amend
ment to the law defining the duties
of the State Board of Equalization. Tax
alton in general is also treated of and an
amendment to the law suggested which
shall compel telegraph, express, palace
car and fast-freight lines to contribute
their due proportion of tie expenses of
Government. He says that the total
amount received throughout the State for