The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-06-22
IOWA STATE NEWS.

IOWA STATE NEWS.
/ IHE following Postof1ice changes wer,
made IN Iowa during the week ending june
5 III, 1876: Offices tablished-McPherson
| Madison County, Charles Polk, Postmaster
Price, Madison County, Lewis c. McKibbeu
Postmaster. Postmasters appointed-Ely
Linn County, g. w. De Vault; Olin, Jones
. County, c. H. Derr
The Grand Grove of Druids of Iowa mel
at Davenport on the 18th, and concluded
) their labors on the 18th. The following
Grand officers were elected and installed or
+ the evening of the 18th: n. G. A., George
Schroeder; G. S., w. E. Woodward; G. T.,
Christian Tim; g. NJ, Robert Sutter; G. G.,
Henry Neeland; Representative to the
'rand Grove of the United States, J. B.
kltzman. All the Groves in the State were
represented Muscatne was selected as the
place Of the next annual meeting.
QUITE sensation was created at Daven-
port on the 18th by the report that E. A.
Quill, a young civil engineer of good family,
/ had attempted suicide at the house of his
Ga''cse, young widow named Mrs. Celia
campbell, by swallowing twenty morphine
pills. On the night of the 11th, about II 80
O'Clock, after spending the evening with
her, when she intimated to him that their
marriage could probably never take place,
he, evidently being prepared for this, delib-
erately pulled out box of morphine pills
and swallowed about twenty of them. He
then called for ink and paper and COM
mcnced to write farewell letter to his
mother. Mrs. Campbell, rs soon as she
realized what he had DONE called for as
slstance. Young Quill refused to take any
medicinal relief, and the doctors had to
cram it down his throat. He said: 81 ex-
pccted that she would go back on me, and
came prepared. | do not want to live.n
Physical force had to be rcsortcd to, and
the doctors and Others worked with him till
four O'Clock next morning, when he was
pronounced out of danger.
FEW nights ago, at Dubuque, the wife
of Thomas Prrrns di..I ------ .-.-ll~..r-- ch,
and in ten minutes was acorpse.
THE 'hoppcrs have put in an appearance
in Shelby and Audubon counties, and are
doing considerable damage in wheat-fields,
| VAN buren, COUNTY abounds with relies
of animals of 4 former age. Frequently
their bones are cXhumcd by the washing of
the banks of the Dcs Moines River. A few
days ago, at point four miles from Eddy
vile, porttOn'of jaw-bone was washed
out in which were two teeth well preserved
One was extracted, and was eight inches in
length, three and threc-quarters inches
wide, and weighed three and three quarters
pounds. Near the same place were found
other bones, about foot in length, which
were hollow, the oritice being six inches in
diameter Several years ago, near there,
was found a monster bone evidently the
forearm, which was four feet in length. Not
long ago, skull was found, which was very
thick, and to which was attached two short
horns turning downward and backward, re-
sembling no known animal but the musk-ox.
AT Dubuque, on the morning of the 14th,
Joseph Chaoupke, boy eleven years old,
was horribly torn by a bulldog belonging to
Joseph Alderman, an ice aOslcr The boy
was posain" thr street, VIII :;
rushed at him, threw him down and manglcd
him in Il dozen places, The owner OF the
dog dubbed him to death before he would
let 90 his hold. The boy was carried home
and, at last accounts WAS in prccarlouS
condition.
AT Davenport on the night of the 14th,
Otto and Gustave Ilitzens brutally attacked
and beat August shuhr, bird-iancler, re-
siding on the cornr of Second and Warren
| streets, breaking wo ribs and doing him
other serious injuy. 49, ....
| OK the 18th, at Davenport, Mrs Nellie
| Cowdry melted hereto by Jealousy, at-
| tempted suicide by shooting herself with
pistol In the afternoon after the wound
had been dressed, She tore of the bandage
and came near bleeding to death before med
ical assistance arrived. She declared She
did not wish to recover, and would repeat
the attempt if this were not successful.
THE Iowa State Ministerial Institute Ia
| gathering of Baptist clergymen) met at Bur-
| lngton, on the 18th, for six days session.
THERE are now in the State fish Matching
! house at Anamosa, 100000 Penobscot sal
mon, 1900 land-locked salmon, lo,Ooo Cal
ifornia salmon, and 5000 Mackinaw trout,
besides somo beautiful epeoimeno of brook
| trout and California salmon. six to eight
inches in length.
| THE gof the Confederate priyateer Shen-
andoah has turned up in Des Moines, and
| will appear in the Fourth of July procession
Mrs. j. @. TUFTS, wife of the member of
! Congress from the Second District, has pre-
| sented her husband with twins--a boy and
girl.
THE students in the several departments
of the State University the past. year num-
Der 6ls, of which number ISL were in the
Law School, 1O1 in the Medical, and 1856 in
the Collegiate and Civil Engineering De-
partments.
THE people of Calhoun County are aSitat-
ing the relocation of the county seat from
Lake City to a more central point, and meet
ings are being held in various parts OF the
county to work the scheme to tinaiity,
GEORGE EMERSON, living near New Hart.
ford, was struck by lightning during re-
cent storm, and killed, together with the
horse he was riding.
IN personal encounter, on the 18th, be-
tween Heinrich Hibling, farmer living
three miles north of Davenport, and his
hired man, John Hill, the latter stabbed the
former in the back with knife, inficting
dangerous and probably fatal wounds.
THE latest reports from st. Louis give
the following as the current prices for lead
ing staples Flour-XXX. Fall, s5.0o@56sha
Wheat-No 2 Red Winter, s1.441a@145; No
8 Red Winter, sl.0S@1.0815; Corn-No. ]
Mixed, 4315@432c; Oats-No. 2, 3Oa4C93s
Rye-No. 2, 72(a7219c. Pork-S2o0oe@20.05 .05
Lard l1.5O@1l62H; Hogs s575@62'
Cattle 81 .00@4.75.
A new amusement has been inaugur
ated in the wilds of Maine. Ladies an
gentlemen desirous of excitement sal
down the numbering rivers on raft, TAX
ing all the falls and mill-dams that com
in the way as special enliveners. A part
of Bangor adventures amused themselve
in this way few days ago, making
trip down the Penobscot. There was
clergyman in the party, who found IN
excursion more enticing than croquet,