The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-05-11
IOWA STATE NEWS.

A SINGULAR accident occurred on the %,
at Coralville, two miles above Iowa City. A
little boy, only five years old, was playing
about the pool above the dam, from which
the water flows some hundred feet under
ground to the wheel Of the paper mill. He
was seen to fall into this pool, when imme-
diate search was made by his parents, but
they were unable to find him. A short
time after, and when allhope had been ban
ished of finding him, person connected
with the paper mill happened down by the
wheel where the water discharges under the
ground fume, and heard child's voice
hailing him. With light, search was made
in the dark recess of the mill wheels, and
there the little fellow was found, holding to
the whcel-post in the water up to his waist.
He had been drawn through this fiume 100
feet and came out all right.
ONE-THIRD of the business portion of
New Sharon was destroyed by fire a few
nights ago. The fire was discovered about
midnight in the rear of Picket's drug store
and before it was subdued all the buildings
from the Sharon House north to the corner
of Maine and Market streets, thence east one
block, were burned. Loss about $4,000.
The fire is supposed to have had incendiary
origin.
THE following figures will show the
amount of money in insurance in the State:
The total authorized capital of the seven in
surance companies is Sl,043, ,91397; paid up
capital in cash, $3.50, ,627.9S; assets, 81 $685.
07697; liabilities, 1858, ,53O.95; income, s6l9,-
3332.5 So; expenditures, S324,6l317; total
amount of risks taken, Sl6,9S3, ,1l3; pre-
miums received, 1886, ,S92,62; losses in
Cured sl00, 0,3O9.71: per cent. of losses in
cured to premium received, 1901.
SAYS the Sioux City Journal: "A rusty old
farmer, who was in the city yesterday, hap
pencd into place where some of the boys
thought that they would have little fun
with him. A short, thick, fat chap squared
himself before the old man, and soon, with
sly wink, wanted to know if the corn was
up yet. The old man said it was, adding
that some of it was up in the crib, some of it
was up in the shock, and some Of it was eat
en- up. The short, thick chap unsquarcd
himself and the laugh among the boys was
not at the old mans expense"
GREAT excitement prevailed in Winnie.
shick County, on the 4th, over the sudden
death of Mrs. Kneeskern, with symptoms
of narcotic poison. The stomach of the de-
ceased has been sent to a chemist for analy-
sis
On the night of the Sd, fire near Sloan,
in Woodbury. County, burned a small shanty
occupied by party of Wjnnebago Indians.
Two of them perished in the flames and
third was seriously injured.
GROUND has been broken at Des Moincs
for the Exposition building, to be completed
in September, at cost of $4,000
On the Sd, the body of the son of Prof.
Parker of the State University, was found
only few hundred feet from where he was
drowned on the 25th of April.
j. G. GORDON 81 Co.'S dry goods store, at
Muscatine, was entered by burglars on the
night of the I'd, and robbed of between $500
and 5000 worth Of silks and kid gloves.
THE total amount of insurance risks writ.
ten in Iowa during 1873, by non-State com.
pancs, is $50 ,697 $50 80. The total premium
receipts during the year are reported at ST.
36l ,202.7S, being an increase on the work Of
the year before of 81 ,37S lS4.H on the
amount of insurance effected, and of $125,-
053.65 on amount of receipts for premiums.
The aggregate of losses incurred were $685.
l5i.35, against S609, ,945. "a of the preceding
year, and of losses paid of S43S ,643O3 dur
ing the past year. while the same item for
the previous year was S637 ,24l 81.
THE old settlers of Johnson County will
have a reunion in Iowa City, June l6.
GUTHRIE COUNTY has voted $4,000 in aid
of building a railroad from Panora to Des
Moines
KEOKUK manages to enforce her ordi-
nances with two policemen.
THE following call for the annual gather
ing of the Iowa Sabbath School Association
has been issued:
The Eleventh Annual Mass Convention of
the Iowa Sabbath School Association will
be held at Council Bluffs on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, June 20, q and
%, 1876, commencing Tuesday evening.
Though not Il delegate convention, it is
urged that dclegates-representa work
crs-be selected and sent to the convention.
Arrangements are being made for able work.
erS from abroad.
Every earnest Sabbath School man and
woman in Iowa is invited to be present.
luOSt tN pcCIluS 70 dllCHu are requested 10
send their names to Thomas Officer, of the
Local Committee at Council Bluffs; by June
18th, for place of entertainment.
Council Bluffs sends fraternal greeting, and
cordially invites Central and Eastern Iowa to
vie with the West in securing the fullest rep
rescntation at this Convention. The hos
pitable homes and Christian hearts of the
people will be opened wide to give you her
warmest reception.
Reduced fares on railroads will be secured
on the North and South lines, and on others
if possible.
1t will be observed that the time of hold
ing the Convention is one week later than
usual.
A KEoKUK man woke up and found him
self on the floor, the other night, and then
he recOllcctcd how he dreamed he was on q
step-laddcr in his store arranging some
goods on the top shelves, and the ladder
slipped. The fall was not all dream, as his
confused body very plainly showed.
\ PRISONER in the MarshalItown Jail re-
Gently attempted to commit suicide by eat
ing pounded wi9AJskglass. 1t gave him Sc
we're pains in the eYfmach, but the doctor
fused with him and had him all right pretty
quick. Had. he died, they should have writ
tcH oNcl Ills SlaNe,. leaeG " Ills saSleo. -
burlington Ha,ckeys.
THE latest reports from St. Louis give
the following as the current prices for lead
ing staples: Flour-XXX. Fall, S5.2515.7 Is;
Whcat-No. 2 Red Winter, S13115611. .3S;
No. 3 Red Winter, S1.25@l .251l; Corn-No. 2
Mixed, 45@451lc; Oats-No. 2, 3315(034c;
Rye-No. 2, 651a@66Hc; Barley-No. 2, s5@
90c; Pork $2l.3 .35@2l.40; Lard $3.50
@l2.6219; Hogs-$5.75@70 Cattle-s4 O0@
5.25.