The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-08-19
IOWA STATE NEWS.

IOWA STATE NEWS
THs State law limitation against the
shooting of prairie chickens expires on the
22d.
GRAIN is likely to bring good price a
the opening of the market for the new crop
in Iowa.
THERE were raised in Warren County,
in 1874, 1861 ,365 bushels of corn and 6o5,.
$50 bushels of wheat
JAMES WooLNoUGH, prominent citizen
of Dubuque, was thrown from wagon,
the other evening, sustaining injuries from
which he died next morning.
DR. JOHN B. HATToN, administrator OF
the estate of DR.. Joseph B. Hatton, who
was murdered on the 18th of July at
Council Bluffs by Fred Mewhiter, has
sued the latter for 5000 damages.
THE contract for furnishing book-paper
TO the State has been awarded to Parsons
& Co., of New York city. For 1000
reams they are to have ia cents per
pound, and for 300 reams 1874 cents.
AN attempt was made on the 18th to
wreck passenger train on the Davenport
6 ST Paul Railroad while coming into the
former city. The place chosen is one mile
north of Oxford junction. where there is
deep cut and curve Two lengths OF
rails were placed across the track, but
they were seen by the engineer, who sue
ceeded In stopping the train without in
jury to the passenger coaches. The loco
motive was considerable damaged. No
clew to the perpetrator of the fendish act
has been obtained.
THos. G. ORwIG, one of the jurymen
on the trial of Chas Howard, has filed an
information on oath before the Governor
charging by name several citizens of Des
Moines with having been aiding or abet
ting or being the master spirits of the
mob which hung Howard to lamp-post.
Among those charged is Michael Nc
Tighe, foreman of the late Grand Jury
and city Alderman. McTighe gives an
emphatic denial to the charge. Capt.
Russell, formerly City Marshal, is also
charged with completely, and he gives his
most emphatic denial to the same.
Mr. B. F. PoGUE was killed near Des
Moines, the other day, under the follow
ing circumstances: He was leading COW
with rope tied around her neck. She
started to run and took to a corn field, the
man trying to keep up with her. In do.
ing so it is supposed hetripped on corn
row, struck on his head and turned CON-
plete somersault, his head being found
pointing in the opposite direction from
which he was going. His wife, who was
near by, seeing the COW was loose, went to
the spot, and found her husband-dead.
The neck was dislocated, the fracture in
the bones being so wide that finger could
have been laid in the gap.
THE following postal changes were
made in Iowa during the two weeks end
| ing Aug. :, 1876: Stablished-Marne
| Scott County, Julius Langfeldt, Postmas-
er; Ridgedale, Polk County, James W,
Smith, Postmaster. Discrimination
ton, Kossuth County; Noebla, Kossuth
County; Elwood, Clinton County, n. E.
Ryther; Macksburg, Madison County, B.
F. Conaway; Luni, Wright County, Mar.
| cellus Packard; Wooster, Jefferson Coun.
ty, Mrs. Lizzie Cox; Shiloh, Cedar Coun
ty. Postmasters apponted-Ellis, Har.
din County, J. R. Chatfield; DIN, Jones
County, B. H. Miller; Prairieburgh, Linn
County, William Wagner.
LAST March thebanking- house of Judge
Drake, of DrakeSville, was robbed Of
ST 900, and no clew was discovered to
the robber until the 18th. 1t seems that
the Judge had left the money lying on
the top of the safe, and man named s.
c. Latham, who had been living with him
for several years, found it there the next
morning when he went to sweep the bank
and put it into an UPSTREAM and buried il
in piece Of woods half a mile south OF
DrakcSville. Sunday, Aug. / during the alb
scnce of Judge Drake and family, Latham
broke into the house and stole the keys tc
the bank. By some means he had OBJ
l8Re@,orF" all The money, amount,
ing to $5,053, and having relocked
the safe he set fire to the build
ing; but the fire was discovered
and eXtinguished before it had done much
damage. Latham placed the last money
stolen in a long, tin fruit-can, and buried
it in field quarter of a mile from
Drakcsville, where he was tending crop.
Latham started on the 18th to get load
of wood, and was seen to 90 to hollow
log in the woods, and, after he left, de.
tectives went to the log and found an
UPSTREAM with 5000 in it. Latham was
promptly arrested, and on his way to trial
he confessed TO both robberies, and
offered to 90 back with them and. tell
where the s. 900 was hidden on condition
that he be released. He was taken back,
and after producing the money was re-
leased, and has left the country.
THE following table shows the equalized
valuation of the taxable property of Iowa,
as fixed by the State Board of Equaliza-
! ton: