The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-05-27
IOWA STATE NEWS.

4 a. MAGMFfcEST society flag Is being
manufactured in New York for the DAY.
export Turnverein.
= j. A, PECK, brakeman, was run over
and killed at Creston recently by train
backing up on the track where he was
Standing.
CozAD, of Warren County, the cham
pion runner of the world, has just pocks
eted nice sum, in England, from com.
petitor. a..-
WEsToN q Co.'s lumber mills at Fort
Madison were burned lately. Loss about
10000; within the vicinity of SEQ, 900 in
surance.
WILLIE, Q twelve-year-old son of Mr..
Hollingsworth, of Cedar township, Lucas
County, hung himself accidentally few
days ago. hin. sa5
A CORPS of engineers are now engaged
surveying route for the new narrow
gauge from Burlington, in northwestern
direction.
STOCKHOLDERS of the First National
Bank of Davenport get 20 per cent. annual
dividends, and the stock cannot be bought
at 200 per cent.
DUBUQUE dealers in pork paid out dur.
ing the last season about 1000, 900, and
more than 100000 hogs, it is claimed,
were packed in that city. ga e
One newspaper man at last in luck:
Somebody presented the editor of the
West Branch Times with 25x75 feet of the
that enterprising city's real estate.
MICHAEL HOGAN, a check clerk in the
freight department of the Illinois Central
Railway Company at Dubuque, committed
suicide the other day by jumping into
cistern.
THE Iowa Conference of the Albright
Methodists has SOP members; church ed
itices, 3d. missionary collections during
the last year, 1887 2S; Sunday schools,
106; scholars, 1908. -.. $40
A THIEF entered the residence of Mr..
Connable, of Keokuk, the other night, and
coolly appropriated two $1,000 United
States bonds, 800 gold headed cane and
large amount of jewelry.
PROF. HAMMOND is highly compli-
mented by the State Register upon his
paper on the progress of legal culture in
the West and Northwest, read before the
Social Science Convention.
JAMES H. BACON, of Washington
County, who has for many years been
prominent as stock grower and agricult
urist, has removed TO Denver, and taken
editorial charge of the Colorado Farmer.
On the 18th the old Blind Asylum at
Iowa City, large structure of wood and
stone, was discovered to be on fire. The
prompt arrival of the fire companies saved
it from total destruction, but it was dam.
aged about $4,000
THE town of Mitchell was recently Wis
itcd with disastrous fire, originating from
spontaneous combustion. j. C. Tycon's
elevator, two grain warehouses and an Of
flee adjoining fell a prey to the flames.
Loss about $4,000.
PROF. c. 4. WHITE, formerly State
Geologist and for many years connected
with the State University, has been ap-
pointed to a position in the Smithsonian
Institute al Washington and will soon en-
Ter upon the discharge of his duties.
THE Spiritualists of Dubuque have
commenced making arrangements for a
grand meeting of Spiritualists for the
States of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin in
that city, commencing on the Both of June !
and continuing several days.
WHILE the steamer Dubuque was towing !
up a wood barge few miles below Du- |
buque, the other morning, three men were
knocked from the barge by one of the oars
and two were drowned. The names of |
the unfortunates could not be ascertained.
THE jury in the case of DR.. D. Purza, a
clairvoyant and healer who has been !
on trial at Upton, charged with the MUIR
der of Mr.. Bromall, a farmer of Cedar
County, by the administration of hyde
phyllin in5June last, has returned ver-
dict of not guilty"
THE following postal changes occurred !
in the State during the week ending May
Is, 1915: Postmasters ppointed-Andrew,
jackson County, Thomas E. Blanchard; !
Logan, Harrison County, William Gid
dings. Name changed-Camackville, |
Lee County, to White Lane,
THE death of Father McNulty, priest of
hn j.
nounced by the Republican, and finely
written and feeling tribute paid to his
great worth. He died from the effects of
wounds received in the war as soldier
in the Fifty-seventh L. S. Reserve Corps.
He was aged forty-one.
A FEW days ago a man named Bing, en-
ployed in a saw-mill, in Davis County,
while engaged in carrying away a plank
from the saw, tripped and fell across the
carriage. The saw struck his arm just be-
low the left shoulder, completely amputa-
ting it from his body, also cutting far
enough into the body to sever the breast
bone.
A FAITH DOCTOR up in Ouumwa drew
large blister on the back of Samuel Hep
ner merely by making few passes with
his hands. Then when the bill was pre-
scented Mr.. Hepner made a pass with his |
hand and drew blister on the doctors |
nose that you couldn't find room to set up
edgewise, not on the broadest back in
Iowa.-Hauk-Eye.
GEO. c. NICHOLS, of Davenport, was re-
Gently arrested at the instance OF his wife
on the charge of insanity. A careful hear
ing resulted in his discharge from impris-
onment, when Mrs. Nichols, her three
daughters and her son-in-law were ar
rested upon charge of conspiracy TO vex,
Cypress and deprive the husband and
father of his liberty. .- eqs-s.s-a
JOHN B. CALHOUN, who represents the
Iowa Railroad Land Company, reports the
sales for April as follows: One hundred