The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-06-15
IOWA STATE NEWS.


IOWA STATE NEWS.
FIGHT occurred at Pattersop's liverv
h'aoie IN Red Oak, on the evening of the 9th.
pct"een Isaac Stryker and farmer, living
tch miles in the country, named Robert
Laihoeft. The latter received kick from
stryker from the effects of which he died in
half an hour. Stryker gave himself I'M to
the authorities.
HE State Normal Institute convenes in
DcS MONIES, on the 26th inst, and will re.
nam IN session five days. As this will oc.
cur at a time when nearly all the teachers
In the State will be at leisure, large num-
Der OF Iowa pcdagogues have signified their
intention of being present, and there
Is every prospect that the Institute
Will be success. The primary OBJ
]ects of this Institute will be: l, To
ahord institute workers an opportunity for
| special preparation for the work of the COM
ing Institute season. 2. To consider the
subject of school supervision, and endcavor
TO establish uniform basis for the same.
It's believed that the efficiency of the
County Normal Institutes may be largely in.
| creased by securing greater uniformity of
| management; uniformity in matter and
method will, therefore, receive special at
tcntion in the Institute.
The last meeting in Davenport held by
Mrs. Van Cott, the revivalist, on the even
ing OF the 5th, was the occasion of quite
sensation. young man known as A. Fl.
Knapp, General Agent for the State of a
sewing machine corporation, stepped upon
the platform and startled the audience by
stating that his name was G.. +. Burlington:
that he had fourteen different aliases; that
he had been gambler, drunkard, and a
villain of the worst tpye; that he had
stopped at nothing less than murder and
robbery; that his mother went crazv over
his misdccds, and that he, as far as his folks
knew, was dead. He has travelled all over
the country as a gambler, with gamblers,
and had wrought ruin in many families.
What makes these disclosures so startling
is the fact that Knapp, or Burlington, has
during years residence in Davenport,
borne character for honesty, probity, So
briefly and morality, that endcarcd him So
cially to the best society, and won him the
confidence, respect and esteem of business
men, to whom he is generally known. He
is well known in Chicago as A. ii. Knapp,
and was for two or three years trav-
cling agent for the Wheeler IL Will
son Company, and subsequently for the
Singer Company, who promoted him to his
present position.
GEORGE WHITE, eighteen years old, was
accidentally drowned in the Mississippi at
Kcolluk, on the 9th. He went in bathing,
vcntured beyond his depth, and, not being
a swimmer, was lost before assistance could
reach him.
TIE Supreme Court has reversed its form
cr decision in the Brandt case, and now
holds that no appeal in criminal actions can
be taken from the District Court until arter
final Judgment.
A DUBUQUE tobacco merchant having been
pored long time by dcadheads, quietly re-
moved the jar of iinc-cut to another place,
and in lieu thereof introduced one Of the
same size partly filed with molasscs. As
usual, the tobacco chewcrs came around.
They edged up to the counter in usual rOu-
tine, reached over and souscd their fists into
the molasscs, whcrcupon they sneakcd out,
wiping their hands on their coat tails and
brecchcs legs.
A SEVEN -YEAR-oLD child of Joseph Lewis,
who lives in the edge of Audubon County,
was bitten by rattlesnakc Il few days since.
The part bitten was kept in mud and the
child was made thoroughly drunk and kept
in that state about twenty fours, and at the
end of that time the swelling in the limbs
had gone down, the poison ncutralizcd.
II. =.
more. a new company has been organized
in New York by the late bondholdcrs, who
bought the road last March under foreclo-
sure, and it will hereafter be known as the
Davenport & Northwestern.
On the Sth, child of Michael O'Brien, of
Iowa City, less than two years old, drank
half an ounce Of benzine from bottle un-
known to the parents, from the effects of
which it died in half an hour. Physicians
say this is the first instance to their knowl
edge of death being caused by benzinc.
FIVE ladies and three gentlemen consti-
tutc the speakers in the senior class at the
University this year.
AN important decision was rendered at
Dcs Moincs the other day in the matter of
the alleged blanket mortgage given by B. F.
Allen to Allen Stephens q Co., of New York,
to secure, as was alleged, some 100000 of
advances made by the latter to the Cook
County National Bank of Chicago. Judge
Miller ordered Stephens u Co., to produce
their books, which they have heretofore re-
fused to do, and make answer to all qucs-
tions that might be asked concerning the
partnership transactions, lie administered
to them Il scorching rcbukc for their refusal
to produce tie books and papers of the
late firm, in matter involving so much |
money, and limited very strongly that the
mortgage was of no value in any event. He
said he could not see how such mortgage
secured advances made by Allen, stephens
Il Co. to the Cook County National Bank,
and if it secured anything it was advances
made by them to Mr.. Allen, and if such was
the real purport of the mortgage, Mr.. Allen |
or his assignee were entitled to examine the |
books and papers of the late firm, and as
certain just how much, if anything, there |
was due under the mortgage. Inasmuch as |
Stephens q Co. swear that they advanced |
nothing to Mr.. Allen by virtue of this mort |
gage, it is difficult to conceive how anything |
can be done on it. Should that mortgage Je |
declared to be void, the creditors of Mr.. |
Allen would receive large dividend.
THE latest reports from st. Louis give |
the following as the current prices for lead
ing staples: Flour-XXX. Fall, S4.75G15.25;
Wheat-No. 2 Red Winter, Sl39@l. .33}5; |
No. Red Winter, 81. 1o@1.15; Corn-No. q
Mixed, 43G@43l14c; Oats-No. Q, 3205215c;
Rye-No. 2, 64a64Hc; Barlcy-No. ., $50 |
gOc; Pork = S19.25@195O; Lard Sl0.25
@10.5o; Hogs-S5 O0@5.75; Cattle-s3.75@