The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-05-20
IOWA STATE NEWS.

pensions were disbursed at Des Moines.
]. n. BAXTER, the boss farmer Of Cass
County, will plant 400 acres of corn this
year.
a PARTY Of prominent Dubuque peo
pie will visit the 70 Semitic Valley this
summer.
THERE has been about $50, 600 worth Of
stock taken in the Ouumwa water power
enterprise.
; LOUISA MEYER, twelve years old, was
killed by a stone thrown By boy. She
lived near Burlington.
Iowa has contributed over 81 .0o0, 600 to
the relief of the grasshopper sufferers since
last harvest time.
A STRANGER and his wife got into q
fight at one of the Agency City hotels the
other day and raised great commotion.
Rev. c. F. WILLIAMS has been appoint
ed chaplain Of the Penitentiary at Fort
Madison, in place of james Sunderland,
resigned.
Dr.. LEWIS, of Norway. Benton County,
recently ran a nail in his foot while walk
ing across the street in his slippers, and
died few days after Of lockjaw.
Mrs. CALVIN DAT, her sister-in-lsw,
and two children, living in East Daven-
port, got hold Of the wrong greens" and
came near having funeral in the family.
TIE State has contributed TO the mill
tary department OF the university two six
pound brass cannons with all the attach
mcnts and paraphernalia OF grim-Yisaged
war. ~ -SSt+E =.
A SAFE was robbed at Dixon, Scott
County, few nights ago. Arear window
in the store Of Graham & Chapman was
cut out, the safe unlocked by some one
who knew the combination, and $500
taken. -
WV. PETIT, omnibus driver for the vii.
son House, Bloomfield, saw a little girl
about to pass between two cars that were
nearing each other and sPrang forward 10
carry her back The brave fellow saved
her life, but losthis own. ga.
CLAYTON COUNTY is Just now intensely
excited ever the reported discovery Of gold
there. A mining company has been
formed, dams built and sluices construct
ed. The people Of that locality are firmly
convinced there's millions in it."
A TwELvE-YEAR-OLD girl Of Philip Or
chard, Of Green County, while playing
near prairie fire the other day had her
clothing set on fire and started for the
house Before she had reached her home
every stitch Of clothing was consumed and
the little creature was frighfully and fatal
~ burned.
GEORGE CHAPMAN, Of Irvington, has
for several years past tapped his grove Of
box-eIder trees, from which he makes
sugar by the same process By which maple
sugar is made. The product is nearly, if
not quite, equal to maple sugar and strip,
and by those who have tried it is generally
deemed considerably superior tosorghum.
: 4 DEBORAH girl must be an uncertain
thing to WOO Not long ago one Of them
went TO church TO marry her lover; but as
he was detained few minutes she dec
orahsly eloped with his rival. Then the
first one pursued and caught the flying
pair, and she went back with him. He
stayed by her this time and she married
him.
THE Iowa Board Of Managers have ap-
pointed Mrs. c. A. Wheeler TO solicit the
necessary funds to meet the expenses Of
collecting and arranging the contributions
Of Iowa 10 the Centennial Exposition. The
estimated cost of effecting these objects is
$4,000, which the Board proposes to raise
by assessing all the counties at the rate Of
one cent for each inhabitant.
THE friends of the late Bishop Lee are
proposing to complete the unfinished
tower upon the Episcopal Cathedral at
Davenport, and to call it the Memorial
Tower" in his honor. II is estimated
that between $4,000 and SIS 900 will be
required for the purpose, and steps will
be taken to raise the necessary funds at
once, that the work may be begun imme-
diately.
ADJT.- GEN. BAKER has ordered TO De-
Moines, for general use, 1000 pounds Of
mortar powder, 5000 pounds ball car
tridges, caiibcr j0 5000 blanks, caliber
50, for Springfield breech-loaders; 100,
caIibcr As, for Colts improved revolver;
1900 blank cartridges for Calling gun;
1900 ball cartridges for same; 1000 fric-
ton primers, and thirty non commissioned
officers swords. Fizz, bang!
JUDGE DILLON on the 18th, at Des
Moines, announced the opinion of the
United States Circuit Court in the Union
Pacific Railroad case, The court holds
that, under the original acts of incorpora-
ton of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany and the proclamation of the Presi-
dent of the United States made in pursu-
ance thereof, and all the amendments
thereto, the terminus of the Union Pacific
Railroad is in Council Bluffs.
Mrs GEmG, the wife Of a Dubuque
engineer, recently hanged herself. She
sent her eldest daughter to market, and,
in the absence Of the family took
clothes line, fastened it to a stair post, and
evidently jumped from chair on which
she stood in order to lasten the moose about
her neck The deceased had been ill in
body and respondent in mind for long
time, and it is very probable that her rash
act was the result of her physical and
mental defects.
JUDGE DILLON, Of the United States
Court, recently rendered an important
opinion affirming the validity of the Iowa
Railroad Tariff act of March %, 1873, in
its application to the Burlington Road,
now operated by the Chicago, Burlington
s. Quincy Railroad This is the first de-
cision in the State by Federal Court on
the subject The decision rests upon two
grounds 1. That the State never made
any grant to the company in its charter of
exclusive right 10 fix its own tolls; and, 9
If it did, the right was surrendered by the
company to the State when it accepted the
land graft in July, 1856, agreeing that the
State might thereafter enact such rules and
regulations in respect to the company as
it saw fit, not inconsistent with that act
and the act of Congress making the grant.
The court admits that the company, under
its charter, might demand compensation
for its services, but denies that this right
confers an exclusive power in this respect
beyond legislative control.
The Dead Alive. .'.-