The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-12-28

IOWA STATE NEWS.

IOWA STATE NEWS.
hoN.J ii. THEDINGA, an honored citizen
OF Dubuque, died in that city on the morn.
ing of the 18th. He was German, and, at
the time OF his death, was President of the
German Bank. .sr ....-
lHREE suits were brought against Judge
AuVer, at the last term of the court in AIgo-
ma, all growing out of the Clarke disbarmcnt
case His Honor asked for change of
venue, and after objecting to twelve coun.
Ties ln the district, on the ground that he
could not get justice in any of them, took
his case to Mason City
TIMOTHY MAHER, living about six miles
north of Independence, was found by the
side of the road, near the city, few days ago,
dead
lHE Secretary of the State Agricultural
society states that there are about 4O,O97
acres in artificial groves in Iowa. There are
about aN,OO0 in native timber, and this shows
that only the 15Oth part of the State is in nat
ural and artificial timber.
AN important decision, in the case of the
sioux City & st. Paul Railroad Company ys.
inc county of Osceola, particularly import
ant 10 the northwestern counties, was re-
Gently rendered by the Supreme Court. The
company, as taxpayer, brought suit TO re-
strain the county officers from collecting a
TAX which was levied to pay offccrtain judg-
mcnt bonds. The company alleged that the
Judgment bonds were fraudulently negoti-
atcd. The State Constitution provides that
no county shall issue bonds in excess of five
per cent. of the assessed value of property
III the county, and the railroad company
claimed that the judgment bonds were is
sued in excess Of this amount This ap-
peared to be the case, but the Supreme
Court, Judge Beck dissenting, held that
judgment bonds in the hands of innocent
holders must be paid, and it cannot be set
upas against their payment that the county
had exceeded its powers in issuing them.
This renders the company liable to the pay
ment of the tax, and settles several suits of
similar nature in that county.
THE Union Pacific transfer, hotel and other
buildings at Council Bluffs, burned on the
evening ofthe nth, involving aloss of about
$4,000. The fire was caused by the explo.
sion of a lamp. A man, Daniel Duffy, per-
ishcd in the flames. Duffy had perfected ar
rangcmcnts for starting home to spend the
holidays with his parents, and had 5000 on
his person, that he was going to use in pay
ing of mortgage on their homestead. His
bones were found Immediately under the
head of the stairway, and it is supposed that
he had made an attempt to escape and had
suffOcated.
THERE are IS, coo bushels of wheat, 10000
bushels oats, 10000 bushels barley, and 15,-
90 bushels corn, in store in DavcnT ort.
Two cOlored men, named Henry Wilson
and David Herman, got into an alteration,
the other night, at kcokuk, over a game of
dice. The quarrel started in barber shop,
but the parties made their way into the
street, where Wilson drew a revolver and
Herman a knife. The latter started toward
his antagonist, and the former repclled the
attack with two shots, one of which took
effect in Herman's abdomen, inflictng fatal
wound.
THE Supreme Court recently decided the
case of Mahaska County vs. James Ruan,
County Auditor, in which questions of con-
siderable importance were settled. The ac-
ton was brought to recover of defendant
and his sureties for rents collected and be-
longing to the county, for costs paid him in
road cases, for ovcrdrawing his salary for
money received by him as clerk of the Dis
trict Court as the amount of school fund
Judgment and for copies of the Code re-
eeivcd Ivy him and not accounted for. The
District Court found that the defendants
were liable for the sum of S302.95 for rents
collected, 800 for costs in road cases, $50
for overdrawing salary, S655O5 for money
received on school fund Judgment, and sl6S
for copies of the Code. From this judgment
the suretics appealed, and the supreme
Court affirmed all the findings of the Dis
trict Court, except in reference to the school
fund Judgment, holding that the surcties
could not be liable for this, because it is not
the Auditors duty to receive money there
on, but the duty of the County Treasurer.
THE following are the POst-office changes
made in Iowa during the week ending De-
cembcr 16, 1876: Offices established
Thompson, Anderson County, W. J. Lance
lot, Postmaster. Discontnucd-Arbo Hill,
Adams County. Postmasters appointed
Cairo, Louisa County, Joseph L. Murray
DonncIIson, Lee County, H. A. Eyman;
Hillsdalc, Mills County, J. NJ. Wheeler;
Midland, Hardin County, James D. Lundy;
Springdale, Cedar County, William Matheri
Spring Hill, Warren County, johnson
Barker; What Cheer, Keokuk County, Hum
phrey NJ. Harlan.
OVER POO men took the total abstinence
pledge at the closing of the recent Catholic
mission in Sioux City.
LIEUT. SCuENcK, U. S. A., who has been
employed as a Professor in the State Uni
yersity, has been ordered to return to his
regiment Has place at the university has
been filled by Capt. Chester, of the Third
q. S. Artillery.
A FEW evenings ago, Christian Hanson
residing near Northwood, was burned tc
death, while striving to get out of his burn
ing barn some Of his young stock.
MRS MARTIN, a teacher in one Of the lows
City schools, has been arrested foI severely
Furnishing one of her nine-y year-old pupils.
Hon. JAMES L. HoG1N, Past Grand Master
of Masons in Indiana, and Past Grand Master
of Masons in Iowa, and at one time Senat !
from Keokuk County, died at his residence
in Sigourney, few mornings ago, aged
sevcnty-tive years.
THE latest reports from st. Louis give
the following as the current prices for lead
ing staples: Flour-XXX. Fall. $5.0o@6.00
Wheat-No. 2 Red Fall, s1.33@1. .33H; No
Red Winter, S12s11@1. .29Hc; Corn-No..
Mixed, 4O@40%c; Oats-No. 2, 32l93216c
Rye-No. 2, 6s11069hc Barley, soc@s1, 10
Pork-s165O a 1856; Lard-1OI C9 1O>Sc
Hogs-S545@610; Cattle-s4.OOQ5,G0.
ShOShOne Falls.
We left the Park by another trai