The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17
IOWA STATE NEWS.

the State University this year.
ACCORDING to the recent census Daven-
port has population of p, 234.
THE Northwestern Iowa State Fair will
he held at Dubuque, Sept. 6 to II.
THE Chicago, Clinton & Western Rail.
road is expected to reach Iowa City by
Nov. 1.
The Palo Alto Reporter has just made
its appearance in Emmettsburg, Pale
Alto County.
The gophers and blackbirds are doing
great damage to the young corn in Kos
suth County
THERE have been $3.50 persons appoint
ed Notaries- Public since the Inauguration
of Gov. Carpenter.
JUDGE LEONARD has overruled the mo-
ton for arrest of judgment in the Brandt
embezzlement case. 7. trr-I
FUNSTON, the man who challenged the
editor of the Dubuque Herald to fight a
duel, has been arrested.
THE Commencement exercises of the
Iowa State University will begin June "a
and will close June 30.
BURLINGTON will treat itself TO a mock
battle in the regatta on the river during
the celebration on the Fourth. H
G. A. BRYANT has retired from the
Creston Independent. S. N. Hamilton sue
ceeds as editor, publisher and proprietor.
MR. c. HILTON is establishing cheese
factory in Burr Oak, Mitchell County,
with a capacity of 600 gallons of milk
daily.
DURING a recent severe thunderstorm
two young farmers of Cedar County,
James Pugh and Eben Davidson, were
killed by lightning.
AS TO the baseball nine of Keokuk, the
Cute CHy says: at needs reorganization
or disorganization, or something, we don't
know exactly what"
T. Y. MIcELE, of Davenport, an agri-
cultural-implement dealer, has made an
assignment for the benefit of his creditors.
Liabilities, over $4,000.
SIXTEEN head of cattle were instantly
killed and all of the hundred head in the
herd completely Frustrated by lightning
in Greene County recently.
THE Dubuque Herdd bitterly denounc-
cs Rev. j. H. Rhea; ofthat city, Method
list minister, who, in his Grafton on Dec
Grafton Day, condemned the custom of
decorating the graves of rebels,
IT is claimed that Grand Juries have
cost Dickinson County nearly 81 900 dur
ing the past four years, and that but one
Indictment has been found during the
time, and guilt was evident in that case.
THE State Register remarks that the
publication of B. f. Aliens correspond
cnce by the Chicago Tribune correspond
ent was 'an act of craven meanness,"
and "a beastly INVASION of private af
fairs.
Miss MARY MOORE, of Kendallville
Winneshiek County, was lately on trial
for horse-stealing. The defense was that
she has for something over a year past
been growing insane--a claim which facts
seem to confirm.
MICHAEL FITZGERALD, aged twelve, fell
from a freight car upon which he was
riding, at Watson station, near Bairstown,
the other day, and had both of his legs
severed from his body. He died the fol
lowingmorning. -Es.
JOIN GREENLEAF, a Fort Madison con-
vict who has just served his time in the
Pcnitentiary at that place, was married on
the LIST inst to Miss Maggie Wood, who
has been working for Warden Craig for
the past two years.
THE postal changes in the State for the
week ending June 5, 1875, were: Post
masters appointed-Mitchelville, Polk
County, Samuel J. Oldfeld; Palmer Polk
County, John Fausch; Summerset, War
rem County, William T. Hamilton.
THE Iowa Board of Congregationalists
began work in 1913 When the State
Association met first, in 1915, they had
twenty-eight churches, twenty-five minis
tiers and All members. Now they have
224 churches, 1913 ministers and 15,S03
members.
ANTOINE STINE, of Dubuque, said he
didn't want any of his daughters Lippe,
so he chased theyoung fellow around the
block. rawhide in hand; and since that
time there has been gloom in the Slime
mansion but the Lippe service has been
discontinued.
THE chinch-bug is destroying the wheat
crop in Dubuque County. Contrary TO its
usual custom the pest is working in the
roots of the wheat instead of the joint.
Other crops, owing to the late rains, are
in thriving condition and the yield of
hay bids fair to be enormous. .- '.
A FEW evenings agoa man named Gore
was in a stable at Bloomfield al was
standing with his back to stall, when
horse kicked him in the back of his head,
MASKING his skull and killing him almost
instantly. Gore was farmer, living
about eight miles east of Bloomfield
THE thirty first session of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, of Keokuk,
closed on the 9th. The degrees were con-
ferred upon the graduates by Prof. E. J.
Gillett, NJ. D., and the yaledictory was
delivered by DR.. ]. NJ Schaffer. The
graduating class numbered thirty three.
DURING p recent terrific thunderstorm
the lightning struck an Iowa City dairy
mans horse and killedit. The dairyman
said Providence always sent compensa-
tons along with its Affections; the same
bolt tore into the ground and opened
splendid spring not twenty yards from the
milk house.-Hark-Eye.
A FEW afternoons ago c. T. Woolsey,
conductor of freight train on the B., c.
r. & NJ r. R., met with an accident near
Carpenter which resulted in his death.
He was descending the ladder of car
while the train was passing through
bridge and was struck by the timbers,
causing injuries from which he died
THE Audubon County Defender is out in
a six-column extra, giving the details of
an elopement case which has created
great sensation in that county-the parties
being Mr.. John r. Canon and Mrs. Eu-
gene Lawrence, both of prominent fami-
lies of Extra. Both of the parties are
married, and leave good-sized families be-
hind them.
THE Oseeola Beacon is responsible for
the heart-rending statement that man of
that town shot chicken the other day
and killed four sewing-machine men,
three lightning men, ninety-six organ
men, seventeen pump-peddlers, nine in