The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-13
IOWA A NEWS.
BURLINGTON has four street railways
whose aggregate length is eight miles.

HE duiOuut spent " lit OlCSblOu Vi
new. buildings in Davenport last year was
alittlc over 500, coo.
THE amount of business transacted i IN
Burlington last year foots up in round
numbers $44, 0oO, 900.
The next regular session of The Supreme
Court commences on the third Monday in
March, at Council Bluffs.
The Iowa Railroad Land Company has
Isl 900 ceres Of land in Ida County and
the tax on it is nearly 81 6,40O.
MARsHALLTowN thinks the next State
Fair should be held there, and promises
to do the handsome thing if she shall be
selected.
II tenth annual meeting of the State
Horticultural Society will be held at Des
Moines, in Turner Hall, on the 18th, 10Th
and Goth inst.
A CONDUCTOR and crew on the B. & S.
W. r. r. were recently laid off ten days
for running one mile an hour faster than
schedule time.
A LITTLE two-year child of George
Faulkner, of Sioux City, swallowed a YES
sci of concentrated lye the other evening
and died next day.
A COMPANY of Scott County farmers
have lately purchased 10, 1882 acres of
land in one body in Ida County for SOL
1854, on long time"
FRED. N~EwHIRTER, accused of the
murder of DR.. Holten, some months ago,
near Council Bluffs, has been found
guilty Of murder in the first degree.
In consequence of the high water at
Ottumwa, a few nights ago, the Golfer dam
of the water pier works was washed out,
entailing damages to the amount of about
5000.
DR.. WILDER, who was charged with
robbing Chicago g%raveyards, has been ar
rested at Fairfield. He had assumed the
name of King and was fitting up an Office
for the practice of medicine.
DURING the hurricane on the afternoon
of the 1st the residence of Mr.. Bonnell, at
Fort Madison, was caught up and twisted
round so that when the startled inmates
recovered their self-possession their east
windows faced north.
RICHARD CARLYLE, of Pitcher Town
ship, Cherokee County, committed suicide
recently by hanging himself from a wag-
on-box. 1t was plain that he deliberately
choked himself to death, as his hands and
one knee touched the ground.
THE city of Dubuque and John D. Bush
have been sued for $50, 900 by Henry
Nightingale, who broke his leg a few
nights ago by falling over a beam pro-
jccting over the sidewalk in front of
Bush's house, which was undergoing
repairs.
On the ID Father Ryan gave notice
from his pulpit in st. Patrick's Church,
Dubuque, that he would withhold from
all parishioncrs the of Pen
ance and the Holy Eucharist who per-
sisted in sending their children to the
public schools.
The following were the postal changes
in Iowa, exclusive of Presidential ap-
pointments, for the week ending Jan. l,
1876; Discontinued-Half-W Way Prairie,
Monroe County. Postmasters sAppointed
-Gowrie, Webster County, John O. Sven
son; Rochester, Cedar County, Horace
Wright.
AT a meeting between DR.. Burroughs,
of Chicago, and Hon. Alonzo Abernethy,
at Davenport, on the 4th, it was definitely
settled that Col. Abernethy accepts the
Presidency ofthe University of Chicago.
He will enter on his duties as soon as he
can properly close up his work as State
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
IL a case brought by a husband against
a party who had inflicted personal in
juries upon his wife, the Supreme
Court has lately held that the husband
could recover damages for the loss of his
wife's services during the time she was
disabled by such injuries. This is in adj
dition TO any claim for damages for as
sault and battery.
THE Aldermen of Dcs Moines were ar
rested by the Sheriff on the evening of the
9th on a writ issued out of the Supreme
Court, IN the charge of violating an in
junction which had been dismissed by the
District Court and appealed to the Su-
premc Court. The injunction asked for
was to restrain the Council from granting
a charter to a new gas company.
An important decision was recently
made by the Supreme Court in a case
where a husband had contracted to sell
his homestead. The wife refused to sign
the deed. The purchaser brought suit
for damages, alleging violation of con-
tract. The court held that the contrac
was invalid for the reason that the wife
did not sign and the signatures of both
parties were necessary for the conveyance
of a homestead or an agreement to con-
vey.
A DIFFICULTY occurred on the evening
of the 26th between Israel Hixon and
Paul krile, two farmers residing in Cedar
Township, in Lucas County. Hixon had
taken up some hogs belonging 10 Krile,
who called on Hixon and got them re-
leased, though a quarrel ensued between
the men at the time. Soon thereafter
krile went to Hixon's farm a second time,
carrying his gun. He was attacked by
Hixon's dog, which he shot, and Hixon
putting in an appearance at this time
krile beat him about the head with his
gun, fracturing the skull.
ASTATE CONVENTION of colored citizens
of Iowa was held at Oskaloosa on the
4th. Hon. A. Clark, of Muscatinc, was
called TO the chair, John L. Wister, of
Cedar Rapids, was made Secretary, and
j. d. Bush, of Oskaloosa, Assistant Sec
Rotary. J. L.. johnson, of Marshalltown,
and Stephen Coo, of Washington, were
made Vice-Prcsidents. Hon. A. Clark
was chosen as the delegate to attend the
Centennial, and an auxiliary committee
composed of members from the Congress
sional districts was selected to assist him
in compiling statistics. Resolutions COM
plimcntary to President Grant and Ia
menting the decease of Sumner, Gerritt
Smith and Henry Wilson were unani-
mously adopted.
THE Iowa State Teachers Association,
recently in session at Burlington, elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year. Prcsident-C. P. Rogers, of Mar.
shaIltown. Recording Secretary, W. II.
Pratt, of Davenport. Presidents
Mr.. Won Coellen, of Waterloo; Mr.. Sabin,
Of Clinton; Prof. Buck, of Grinnell; Mr..
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