The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-03
IOWA STATE NEWS.
OTruMwA, by recent census, claims q
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population of 9, 405.
IT costs SIS to thrash Charlton editor.
That's what Mrs Willoughby had to pay
for INDUCING in that questionable amuse-
nsent.
THE relief store at Baskerville was re-
Gently broken open and a considerable
quantity of sugar, tea and corn-meal
taken.
AT Moulton, a few days since, Maj. J.
W. Moore fatally shot man named
Thomas McAcheron, who had drawn a
pistol as if to shoot him.
A YOUNG German boy in attendance
upon the Keokuk Medical College for
treatment recently attempted to commit
suicide with pruning knife.
A YOUNG lady named Mary Keim, of
Centerville, committed suicide recently by
taking poison. The rash act was said to
have been caused by the persecution OF
her stepmother.
PROF. W. E. CROSBY, of Davenport, has
purchased the Io,oa School Journal, at
Des Moines, and will remove to that city
to conduct it. His present publication,
the Common School, will be merged into
the Journal.
JIM. ROBERTS, proprietor of the Will
son House at Bloomfield, recently CON-
mitted suicide at Bloomfield by hanging
himself to scatfolding in Parks wagon
shop. Domestic troubles are said to have
induced the act.
THERE are $40 Union soldiers buried in
the National Cemetery in Keokuk, OF
whom twenty-one are unknown. There
are also seven Confederate soldiers in
tered in the cemetery, the names of whom
are all known.
A HoRsE-THIEF named Barney Dunn
was lately killed within few rods of Wal
nut Station by Charles Hinckley, who,
with others, was in pursuit. Dunn, find
ing himself pursued, turned in his saddle
and fired three ineffective shots at
Hinckley, who Immediately responded
and killed his man.
THE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
tickets on its Iowa road and branches at
the legal rate of three cents per mile for
passengers Several suits testing the con
stitutionality of the law having gone adj
versely to the corporation are supposed to
have caused this concession.
ApJT. GEN. BAKER has organized the
following military companies: Benton
State Guards, Watkins, Benton County
Cedar State Guards, Bronville, Mitchell
County; Company F, Military Battalion,
Iowa City. Elmer F. Clapp, NJ. D., was
also appointed Assistant Surgeon Military
Battalion of the State University
RECENTLY, Mrs. Hammer, of Council
Bluffs, and a lady friend went driving.
On the way they came across halfshorn
sheep, and its unnatural appearance so
frightened the horse as to cause him to
suddenly shy and throw the occupants out,
breaking both wrists of each of the ladies
and also Mrs. Hammers left arm.
THE agent of the Associated Press at
Council Bluffs telegraphs that from adj
vices received there from all the princi-
pal towns in the State he is able to state
authoritatiyely that there are no ravages
in the State by grasshoppers, nor is any
danger anticipated. The crops were never
in better condition and the prospects for
an immense yield were never more auspi-
Cious.
THE house of Josiah Triggs, on the
line of Worth and Cerro Gordo Counties
was struck by lightning lately and utterly
torn to pieces. -Four persons were in the
house, one of whom was rendered sense
less for twenty minutes, but none were
killed-a most remarkable escape in view
of the fact that logs ten inches through
were broken into chunks and the floors
torn into splinters.
IT has lately teen discovered, that by
the atrocity of some fiend putting strych-
nine in quinine bottle in Wideman' S
drug store at Washington, Mrs. Nicholas
Roth and her child, of that county, were
poisoned to death last winter. They died
suddenly and strangely. Lately it has
been developed that their death was
caused by some of this poisoned quinine.
The matter is to be legally investigated.
THOMAS MORRIS, aged sixty years, liv-
ing seven miles from Clear Lake, was
digging a hole beside big bowlder to
bury it in, when it fell prematurely, crush
ing him against the side of the hole. He
was not discovered for several hours, and
then it wis found that his face and head
were badly bruised and crushed, his right
arm broken in two places and his right
thigh fractured, besides other injuries in.
ternally from the crushing.
A YOUNG Russian named Warbeauter,
stopping at a Dubuque hotel, recently
took notion to visit the celestial regions
by placing pistol in his mouth and pull
ing the trigger. The ball went through
his head and lodged near the spinal col.
umn, failing to produce death After the
shooting the young man concluded that he
would like to live little longer, and he
actually walked out of his room to a
for medical assistance.
A NEAT little pamphlet, entitled Give
Reasons Why the People of Iowa Should
Encourage the Construction of Narrow
Gauge Railroads." has been issued at Bur
lington for general distribution along the
line of the newly-perfected Northwestern
NarrowGauge Road from that city. Itcon-
tains statistical tables showing the adj
vantages of this class of road in cheapness
of construction and operating expenses.
Also concise, forcible expressions of ex.
perience of practical railroad men.
DURING recent thunderstorm which
passed over Burlington lightning struck
the residence of Aid. Geo. Kreichbaum, of
the Fifth Ward. The electric current
passed down through the flue and stove,
pipe, striking Mr.. Kreichbaum, who was
sitting reading, with his arm upon the
stove. He twas stunned and rendered
senseless, his shirt-sleeve torn from his
body, and his neck and shoulders blistered
and burned. Medical assistance was at
once summoned, when his injuries were
pronounced serious though not necessarily
fatal. All the inmates of the house, as
well as those of the dwelling Immediately
adjoining, were Frustrated by the same
stroke.
THE State Medical Association, recently
in session at Des Moines, elected the fol.
lowing officers for the ensuing year: Pres
ident, w. F. Peck, of Davenport; First
Vice-President, H. Reistine; Second Vice
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