The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-23
IOWA STATE NEWS.

| Inc totai cut Will aggregate s., COO, COO feet
| exceeding the cut of last season nv abont
l0,O0O, 900 feet. "'O''
NEW hotel is to he erected at Glcnwood
on the site of the Belts House, recently
| burned.
lHE publication of the Ladies' Bureau, at
Marshalltown, has been temporarily sus-
pended.
IHE Iowa State Teachers Association and
Iowa Association of Principals and superin-
| lendents will have a joint meeting at Grin.
nell, December 26 to 30 next.
AT Abba, on the 10th, an explosion took
place at Milburn & Cadrier's Touring
mill. One of the large boilers exploded,
tearing The engine house to fragments. The
exploded boiler was thrown fifty to sixty
ieet, making complete somersault Strange
TO say, no one was injured except Mr. Mil
burn himself, and he but very slightly. The
engineer and one of the millers were stand.
ing by tue engine at the time the explosion
occurred, but neither of them sustained anv
injury. Loss probably $500.
On the morning CT the 18th when the B.
u NJ. " NJ. train-men opened a car of lum-
Der at Morning Sun they were horrifcd to
hnd the body of man rigid in DEATH Near
him was revolver, and a hole in his breast
near the heart was discovered As to the
cause of death nothing was known. The
car had stood on the track in Burlington
several days.
A JEwELER named James McGlafin re-
Gently attempted to commit suicide at the
American Exchange Hotel, in Boone, by
stabbing himself. McGIatlin was young man
highly respected, and had been in bu-iness
at Boone about six months He was
formerly from New York, lately from State
Center Former financial trouble and dis.
appointment i'll love are given as the causes
of the rash act.
The Supreme Court has decided that,
when decedcnt dies, leaving no estate but a
homestead, under Sec. J, 40 of the Code of
1873, the surviving wife or husband has the
right to Oncthird i'll value of tho homestead,
in fee, and under Sec. 2,0O1 the right merely
to use and occupy the whole Homestead un-
til otherwise disposed of; but these rights
cannot be both enjoyed at the same time in
the same property. The survivor must elect
which he will enjoy He cannot have both.
THERE had been expended on the new
Capitol to Nov. / Sl,O=2.3O5.
JOHN and George Bosch, at Burlington,
built a building and brcwcd bar!cy-bccr
The Mississippi River mcandcrcd maicstical-
ly along in front Of the brewery, with moth
ing to obsruct the view from the portals of
the factory. Soon after, the Burlington "
Missouri Railroad came winding itself that
way, and tarrcd on the plateau in front of
the brewery Divers and sundry tracks
were laid, dcpOts and warchOus ; erected; in
fact, it spread itself all over the territory
thercabouts. Then came big blaze, rush
ing down from blocks beyond, and wrapped
the brewery with its flaming tongue. The
tirc-ii%htcrs came, with engine, hose, hook
and ladder; hut the depot, warehouse,
and tracks of the railroad obstructcd their
way.to the river, and the brewery wen up
in a chariot of fire. raightway the Bosches
bent their boots to the courts and demand
ed Of the railroad company S22 000, because
they built buildings before their brewery,
whereby the fire apparatus was useless, and
the firc-fghtcrs failed to foil the flames. The
Supreme Court, after due dcliDcratiOn, de-
cidcd that there was no legal connection be-
tween the occupation of the street by the
railroad company with tracks, dcpots, etc,
and the apparatus of the city; and that
the influence of the same in the destruction
of the brewery was so far off that il would
not answer as the basis of a lawsuit; in fact,
that, as a matter Of law, there was no found
alton at all for the action.
THE National Banks of Iowa have con
tributcd $500 to the fund for Mrs. Haywood,
the wife of the murdered Northtcld (Minn.)
cashier.
BURGLARS are numerous in Davenport.
On the evening of the 10Th, at Table
Mound, few miles from Dubuque, Daniel
Duggan, sevcnty-nine years old was shot at
through the window, and probably fatally
wounded. His son-in-Iaw, James Welch,
was suspected of the crime, and has been
arrested for it. Welch married a daughter
of Duggan less than year ago, against the
wishes of her family. Since then bad blood
has existed between them, and the circum-
stance that Wclch was out with gun at the
time the shooting occurred led to his arrest.
Duggan was shot in the head, the charge
carrying away his upper lip and part of his
tongue. Welch is a quiet, hOncst-lookfng
fellow, and appears altogether incapable of
such a deed. The old man was not cx-
pccted to live at last accounts.
STATISTICS just made up, show that DUR
ing the present navigation season on the
Upper Mississippi, now nearly at an end for
this year, 800 steamboats, passed Davenport
going north, and go went south The num-
Der of barges going south was 342, and 60
ing north, 333. The number of RATS that
went down was 626. The latter comprised
about 4l6,0O0,00O feet of lumber and logs.
The navigation season has been one of the
longest known for years, having been nearly
nine months.
A LITTLE son of J. B. Hahn, of Palo Alto
County, was burned to death a few days
ago, in a straw pile which he had ignitcd
while playing with some matches.
A CoLoRED man died at Keokuk, recently,
who claimed to be 115 years old. His name
was Jesse Green.
A FEW nights ago Mrs. Silas Miller, of
Washington, johnson County, while suffer
ing from melancholia, cut her throat.
THE latest reports from st. Louis give
the following as the current prices for lead
ing staples: Flour-XXX. Fall. S500@6.OO;
Wheat-No. 2 Red Fall, S1.22G1.224; No.
Red Winter, s1.141a@1.14$lc; Corn-No.2 ,
Mixed, 41@41Sc; Oats-No. 2, 3l@31Hc;
Rye-No. 2, 5S@5S11c. Barley, S0c@s1.OO.
Pork - SIG 750l7.0o; Lard - 924@9Hc;
Hogs-S5.45@5.9O Cattle-S3.5 .5O@5.OO.