The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-04

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Marion County.
Mrs. John Wells, living near Knoxville, re
Gently pulled needle out of her knee that
she had stuck in there by accident two years
ago.
Marshall county.
| Frank Fretter, Of Marshal1town, put his
elbow out Of a window in Central Railroad
car recently while the train was passing
through a snow-drift that had just beer
| opened. The snow bank struck his arm with
such force that it was broken above the ell
| bow.
Muscatine County.
Two freight trains on the Rock Island Rail
road collided the other day near Atalissa,
| killing one brakeman, named McLemons, o
Davenport, and wrecking the two engines and
stood.
Page County.
Coal has been found in paying quantities on
the Tarkio, near Tarkio City.
Polk County.
Frank Corcoran, of Des Moines, proprietor
| of the East Side pottery, shot himself the
other afternoon with a small pistol. As O
around without touching vital spot. The
cause assigned is that his wife had left him on
account Of some difficulty.
Pottawattamie County.
Chapman, the editor of the Council Bluffs
Nonpaseil, has been appointed United States
Marshal for the State, vsee Peter Melendy.
POweshiek County.
A train ho Coutro1 Rood hound north
which left Grnnell about 12:4O p. m. on the
24th, when about a mile and half north Of
the town ran off the track and broke through
bridge. The train was composed Of engines
IA and II and a train Of coal, the engine IA
ahead. Engine No. H. of which Drinkle was
engineer, jumped the track and went over,
taking the engineer and brakeman, named
Williams, under it. Abbott, the fireman,
jumped from the engine, and was not serious.
ly injured Williams was killed.
A freight train on the Iowa Division of the
c., r. l. Il P. Railroad was ditched near Nal.
com few nights ago and badly wrecked.
Scott County.
Davenport attorney named T. E. Ingham
recently made deadly assault upon j. 8.
Drake, editor of the Rock Island Argus, while
at supper at Melcher's Hotel in Davenport.
The weapon used was an empty wine bottle.
The blow given was powerful one, striking
just above the left eye and penetrating near
ly to the brain.
Taylor County.
r. Davis committed suicide at Bedford the
other night by taking two large doses of
opium, and rejecting all offers Of assistance,
saying he took it to die, and he was going to
die. He was man of thirty five or forty
years of age, and leaves wife and one child.
The cause assigned for the lamentable act
was to evade the law, as the Sheriff Of Noda-
way County, Mo-, was, at the time, waiting
to convey him to Missouri to answer the
charge of fraud, he having obtained and sold
some land which he had no claim or right to
whatever.
Washington County.
The residence of the priest Of st. Stanis-
laus' Catholic Church, near Richmond, was
destroyed by fire lately.
Winneshiek County.
A ANorwegian farmer living in the eastern
part of the county, while driving home from
Lansing with a heavy load of lumber lately,
was crushed to death by the load upsetting
while passing huge snow-drift.
Woodbury. County.
A party Of wood-choppers recently started
out with a team to chop wood on the Little
Sioux, a few miles south of Sioux City. They
had loaded gun il the bottom of the wagon
box. As they were driving along deer
started from the brush, and man named
ONeil attempted to take the gun from its
place by the muzzle. In doing SO it dis
charged. Its contents lodged in his throat,
killing him instantly.
The Sioux City Journal says: "That was
cold joke the girls at the Depot Hotel played
on young man the other night. They filled
his FELLOWSHIP with snow"