The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23
IOWA STATE NEWS.

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equipped in the State.
The private bank of A. K. Wells, Of
Boone, suspended on the 18th. Liabili
ties estimated at $50, goo.
The annual meeting. of the Iowa State
Medical Association will be held at Des
Moines on Wednesday, Jan. 26, next.
JOHN ALDEN, who died recently at Cleal
Lake, was buried in the identical suit o
clothes in which he was married forty
years previous.
THE Agricultural College is in excel
lent financial condition, the rental from
the college lands more than meeting the
current expenses.
THE militia returns made by the County
Auditors to the Adiutant-G eneral show an
aggregate of 169, 11S persons in the State
liable to military duty.
On the 18th all passenger conductors
on the Keokuk & Dcs Moines Railroad
were discharged and new men put in theiI
place. No reason was assigned.
THE Mahaska County Poor-House, 10.
Gated three miles southeast of Oskaloosa,
was burned to the ground on the 18th.
The inmates escaped uninjured.
THE pattern shop connected with
Brooks, Wilson & STEMS foundry, at Des
Moines, was burned on the evening of the
18th, involving a loss Of about $1,000.
In the United States Court at Madison
on the 10th a jury gave Miss Hattie Lock
wood a verdict of 81 800 against Alexander
Webster because he circulated an out,
rageous SANDER concerning her.
CHARLES PRENTIss was killed at Sioux
City, a few days ago, while trying tomake
coupling between a flat and box car in
the yard Of the Sioux City & Pacific Rail
way. His head accidentally caught be
tween the timbers of the cars and his
neck was broken.
Rev. n. S. BURTON, of Davenport, has
been appointed to the Pr~ofcssorship OF
Ancient Languages in the Central Uni,
versity, at Pella. His wife takes a posi-.
ton in the Mathematical Department Of
the same institution. They enter upon
their duties Jan. l, 1876.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been
caused at Davenport by the sudden dlsap-
pearance Of a travelling salesman for q
wholesale grocerythouse in that city
named Robert Pool. About five weeks
ago he went North intending to be absent
only a few days, but up to the 14th moth,
ing mad been heard of him. He had con.
siderable money in his possession, and
foul play was feared.
SIXTY-SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED
TwENTY-sEvEN AND Two-TENTHsdays
labor have been performed up to the
present time upon the new Iowa State
Capitol building during the years 1915,
This is the number of days worked by
mechanics and laborers employed by the
day, and does not include the stone
cutters who work by the piece; 9 ,227.2(
days were employed at the Iowa City
quarries A, O01 A. on the Capitol grounds
THE tenth annual meeting of the State
Horticultural Society will be held at DeS
Moines on the 18th, Goth and 21st day o
january, 1876: Tie programme is com
plete and varied and includes papers anG
lectures by distinguished scientists upon
horticulture, botany, entomology aud
kindred topics. Upon the tables will be
exhibited the largest winter collection o
fruits and flowers ever shown in the State,
together with over 200 wax casts of fruits
grown in Iowa, prepared for the Centen.
NAL Exhibition.
THE United States Marshal, at his office
in Milwaukee on the 10Th, sold on fore
closure sale for the tirst-mortgagc bond
holders the Milwaukee, Lake Shore Il
Western Railroad, running from Milwau-
kCe north TO Two Rivers, and also the
franchises of the Milwaukee, Manitowoc
& Green Bay Railroad. The total amount
paid tor both roads and franchises was,
For the former, 81, 509, 1SS, and for the
latter, $1,222, 9SS, being the amount Of
the mortgage bonds and interest. The
purchasers are Adam Norric, Lawrence
Wells, Morris X. JcSup, Samuel S. Sands
and W. \. Guion, of New York, the
bondholdcrs.
The lowest point in Iowa is the south.
east extremity, at Keokuk, where the De<
Moines River empties into the Mississip.
pi, which is AL feet above the level of the
ocean. Burlington is forty-two feet high,
er, or 4S6 feet above the ocean; and Day.
export is forty-two feet higher than Bur
lington, and 52S feet above the ocean.
The most elevated section of the State is
neal Spirit Lake, in Dickinson County, in
the northwestern part of the State, which
is 1904 feet above the sca-lcvcl. Thus
the irregularities of the surface lie within
the limits of 444 and 1864 feet, a differ.
ence Of $50 feet. And yet, with all these
ups and downs, Iowa is comparatively a
level State.
A STATE CONVENTION will be held at
Madison, under the auspices of the Wis
cOnsin State Agricultural Society, com
mencing on Tuesday evening, Feb. 8, and
continuing three days. Papers upon i'm
portant, practical subjects pertaining to
agriculture, horticulture, dairying and
other leading branches of industry will
be read and discussed. Essays will also
be given upon social science and political
economy, especially the currency. 1t is
expected that members of the State Agri.
cultural and Horticultural Societies and
State Dairymen's Association will take an
interest in this meeting, by attending in
dividually, or being represented by large
delegations.
A HORRIBLE crime was recently com
mitted in Iowa County by a man named
George Taylor, living about twenty miles
southwest of Marengo. 1t appears that
his wife had left him on account of bad
treatment, going TO reside with her moth
er. On the evening of the 18th he
drove to her residence and ~endeavored to
persuade his wife to return home. She
refused to do 50, whereupon he drew a re-
volver, shooting his wife twice in the
head; then fired at her sister, w~ounding
her in the forearm; also firing at the
mother, the ball lodging in the thigh. He
then attempted 10 finish his bloody work
by putting a ball through his own brain,
but through his careless handling was only
badly hurt. He drove from the house half
a mile in his buggy, then tried to cut his
throat. Both Taylor and his wife were
thought 10 be fatally wounded.
THE case Of Isaac Brandt, convicted of
ENLIGHTENMENT of State funds, has been
settled finally by the Supreme Court, in
everything a motion for "a rchearing made
by the Attorney General. The court has
filed its opinion, which was prepared by