The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10
IOWA STATE NEWS.

/ . ~ "A u
A YOUNG man named William Brown, Ii,
ing at Peosta, in Dubuque County, sttemp
ed, the other day, to kill another youngmar
| named Cox, by waylaying him in corn-fiel
| and beating him with club. They wer
rivals in love affair. Cox was badly In
jured about the head and, it is thought. Wi
die.
AFEw days ago, at Moravia, in Appanoos
County, ten-months-old son Of Josep
Hunnell was drowned in long, shallow va
placed in the ground for ducks to drin!
from, and containing less than six inches @
water. The child's mother went to a neigh
bor's for a moment, leaving the baby a
playin the yard. On her return it was lyin.
on its back in the vat, dead, the waite
scarcely covering its face
The grand army Of tramps have reache,
Dubuque and pretty nearly taken possession
of the city
The Iowa Railroad Land Company havt
sold during July IA, 900 acres Of land, mostly
along the line OF the Illinois Central Rail
road.
Moincs boarding house on the 1st The
wound was sewed together, and hopes were
entertained of his recovery at last accounts
Ar the Democratic Judicial Convention
held in Council Bluffs, on the 1st, f. E.
Aylesworth was nominated for District
judge and II. q. Pholps for District 80.
tOrney.
A VERY remarkable escape from death oc
CURED in Muscatine on the LIST. A child
three years old, son of John Dardle, fell
head foremost into a well forty feet deep,
and containing ten feet of water. On com
ing to the surface after striking the water,
he seized the well-rOpe which hung within
reach, and clinging firmly to it, was slowly
but safely drawn to the top, and taken out
comparatively unharmed.
FEW nights ago, S. X. Meek, of Mar
shalltOwn, shot and seriously wounded his
wife.
N. c. DEERISG was nominated for Con-
gress on the Sd, by the Republicans of the
Fourth Congressional District
JULIA MURRAY, nine years old, living with
her parents at Burlington, fell into a neigh
bor's cistern, on the Sd, and was drowned.
AT Davenport, on the evening of the Sd,
a couple Of tramps attacked an cmploye Of
Dowgliman & Haucock's mills in the alley
between Rock Island and Perry streets, and
Front and Second. They knocked him
down, jumped upon and beat him until he
was unconscious, riHed his pockets of about
SIS or $2O, and left him for dead.
The following are the Postoffice changes
in Iowa during the week ending July 20,
1876: Offices establishcd-Custer, Ringgold
County, Marcus II. Wright, Postmaster;
Dillon, Marshall County, August Wcndt,
Postmaster. observation-disclosures Creek,
Bremen County. POstmasters appointed
Busti, Howard County, George A. Burgess;
Eyeland Grove, Mahaska County, Walter n.
Jones; Harlan, Shelby County, b. |. Kinscy;
Lincoln, Polk County, William Frazier;
Union Grove, Page County, d. A. Peck;
Western College, Linn County, f. B. Shucy
THE city assessment OF Dubuque for the
present year foots up sl5,0000OO.
THE Fourth of July food will cost Du-
buquc County Sl75,0O0 in bridge repairs.
GRAssHoPHERs have come down in Clay
County to an extent sufficient to destroy all
the crops.
ONE of the wealthiest farmers of Dubuque
County has been sued by his own daughter
for defamation of character. The young
lady lays her damages at 100000.
NJ. i4IssEn S'nIr rlIIs, "a sS"utfNh biuIto,
7 u =
eide. She bought some strychnine, went
into butcher shop, purchased piece of
meat, wrapped the poison in the meat,
handed her little babe to boy, and dclibe-
rately swallowed the poison. A physician
arrived in time to use his stomach pump and
save her life. She gives as her reason for
the act that some one killed her dog and she
was going to join him.
THE women folks are said to be arrang-
ing for thorough canvass of Iowa in be-
half of the cause of woman suffrage.
A VIGILANCE COMMITTEE has been organ
ized in Council Bluffs for the avowed pur-
pose of cleaning out "the thieves and plum
derers that are now stalking through the
committing crimes and thievcry."
THE Lorimer House at Dubuque has just
changed hands for $25, 500 cash.
Nor marriage license was issued in Lu-
cas- County during the month of July.
An Iowa ear OF corn has gone TO Brazil.
When Mrs. Pedro, or Mrs. Alcantara, or
may be the proper name and title
Of the Brazilian Empress, visited the Iowa
exhibit, she was SO delighted with the speci-
mems of corn on exhibition that she begged
for an ear to carry home; and in coming
years Brazil is to be as;onished with the
rustic of lis huge leaves and the perfection
Of its nutritious kcrnals.
THE oat crop in some parts Of Iowa, not
its fine appearance is turning
out to be light and chaffy. Some fields will
not pay for cutting.
THE Iowa Asylum for Feeble Minded
Children, at Glenwood, will soon open, and
will start with fifty patients.
On the 4th, at Leclaire, Mr.. John Hoist
fell headlong into deep wen and was
drowned.
THE Brighton House and saloon and
adjoining, in Dubuque, were
burned on the night of the 5th The fire re-
suited from the carelcssness of drunken
Iodger who retired at late hour with a
candle and set the bed in blaze. Loss
about $1,000. 20 q.
The latest reports from st. Louis give
the following as the current prices for lead
ing staples: Flour-XXX. Fan, s4.5095. .25;
Whcat-No. 2 Red Winter, $1.15G1 II:
No. Red Winter, 95@95Hc; Corn-No. 2
Mixed, 4OA@4o15c; Oats-No. 2, 29e3oc;
Ryc-No. 2, asa soc; Pork - $l9.O0@ 1920;
Lard = slO.S7H@ll.0 LOO; Hogs = S61o@6.06;
y snLat