The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-03-09
IOWA STATE NEWS.

THE Iowa Press Association will make
an excursion to Philadelphia this year.
EDWARD LAssoUER, while digging a
well near Cresco, lately, was killed by
foul air.
COUNCIL BLUFFS has raised nearly
thatcity.
Sioux COUNTY offers reward of s., 900
tor the first vein of coal discovered in
that county.
ABOUT 10000 tons of ice have been cut
and packed at McGregor for dealers in To-
calities farther south.
The father of the boy who was killed
in the turn table at Eddyville, not long
ago, has commenced suit against the K,
& D. NJ. Railroad, claiming $4,000.
Hon. j. B. EDMUNDs, Of Iowa City, one
OF. the ablest lawyers of the State, intends
to remove to Chicago to reside there per-
manently and to pursue his profession.
FRANK DIXON, of Muskegon, Mich,
while target: practicing with other Black
Killers, near Sioux City, the other day,
was seriously wounded by shot in the
thigh.
a FEW days ago five prisoners in the
County Jail at Red Oak kicked the end
out OF the prison and went away. One
OF them, colored man, who came back
to carry away the Jail, was recaptured
PROF. McAFEE, of the Agricultural
College, says that "away back in the
years Iowa was covered by an arid sea,
and this sea deposit is what is known as
the Iowa Potsdam sandstone which I'm
derlies the whole of Iowa"
GREAT fiocks Of wild geese are observed
passing over the State to the north, and as
none OF them stopped to disclose streaks
of gray and splotches of darker grey on
their ast-bones, it is probable that the
ice season in Iowa is about oyer.-Has0k-
Eye.
THE jury in the case of Ella Corey, the
Wilton girl who was tarTed and fcathered
by lot Of ladies, the defendants in the
case, has rendered verdict of $3.50 DANA
ges. The suit Of the girls father for
damage to his house was settled by the
payment of 800.
HIRAM MCMURRY, an old and wealthy
citizen Of De5 Moincs, committed suicide
on the morning Of the 1st by hanging
himself in his barn. He stood on bar
rel which he kicked from under him,
and died from strangulation. Melancholy,
induced by protracted illness, led him to
commit the deed.
Mr.. r. E. BISHOP, a well-know attor-
ney Of Dubuque, was knocked down and
nearly killed by some unknown person in
one of the principal streets of the city, in
broad daylight. The Times says Mr.
Bishop has been quite prominent in pros.
ecuting liquor sellers, and some one has
taken this method Of revenge.
THE Secretary of War writes letter to
the editor Of the Marshailtown Times re-
GREETING that he cannot lend Marshalltown
a cannon from the Rock Island arsenal for
the Fourth, and tersely adds: 81 have
no more right to lend gun belonging to
the United States than The Secretary Of the
Treasury has to lend money"
A VULIsCA man went out to the barn
one evening last week in a very distracted
state, and sat down in the milk pail and
pushed the milking stool under the
manager and industrIously applied himself
to the labor Of milking buffalo robe.
He would probably have been there yet
had not his wife came out and explained
matters with halter strap.-Bu7lingt0n
Haarh-Eye.
AT a logging-bee in Iowa County, the
other night, Patrick Shannon killed James
Boyle. Boyle had the beer in charge,
and between him and Shannon arose trou.
bic. The latter, having taken too much
was refused more by Boyle. Shannon
went away, and returning attacked Boyle
with knife, cutting him across the abdo-
men. Physicians were summoned, but
lie died in short time, leaving a wife and
two children.
HERE is a strong presumption, says
the Davenport Democrat, that B. T. Allen
will be despoiied of his homestead at
Des Moines, valued at about 5000, 900.
Mr.. Aliens homestead was located be.
fore the city was extended beyond it. The
assignee in bankruptcy claims the home
stead for the creditors on the ground that
Mr. Allen permanently removed to Chi
cago, and therefore abandoned his home
stead in Iowa, and forfeited all claim
thereto. The matter will come up in the
United States District Court.
A MAN named Harris was arrested in
Dubuque, the other day, upon the charge
of perjury, in procuring a marriage IL
ccnse for girl with whom he had eloped.
She was but sixteen years old and he
swore that she was nineteen. An exami-
ton was held the next day and he was re
leased, and Immediately entered suit
against the old man for $4,000. TIE
charge Of perjury wouldn't stick. The
old gentleman, at last accounts, was in
Clined 10 compromise. Poverty on one
side and wealth on the other caused the
opposition to the match.
LESS than six months ago Geo. F. Clark,
of Algona, was, by order Of Judge Zuver,
suspended from further practice at the
bar for the term Of one year. Last Mon
day he put in an appearance at our Feb
ruary term and assisted in conducting
twenty cases. Just before the Sheriff for
mally declared the opening of the court,
Mr. Clark approached the Judge and,
with his usual suavity, requested His
Honor to examine a recent order of the
Supreme Court, suspending the decision
of the court below until the matter could
be fully considered. The Egyptian dark
ness that for an instant overspread the
judicial countenance was plainly visible,
but when the court opened, Mr. Clark was
master of the situation, and proceeded
with his cases just as though nothing had
happened.-Emmitsdurg Reporter.
A FEW days ago, Allen Smith and his
brother, of Dutch Creek, came to Wash
ington TO secure some requisites for the
marriage of Allen to one Maggie Monroe.
Allen bought wedding suit of clothes,
and then the boys went to the Clerks
office, and one said (the Clerk thinks it
was Allen: "Is this place where they
get license to commit suicide?' They
talked in apparent jest, and both seemed
to be in capital health and spirits. A
marriage license for Allen Smith and,
Maggie was taken out Next morning
Allen arose and went out to the stable, as