The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-24
IOWA STATE NEWS.

oN the 18th, at Burlington. A voune v,.
man named Annie Fuller attemptcd sTicids
oyJumping from sktf into the river sbe
was rescued and, next day, was declared in.
sane III
iHE printers in the Dubuque Eseniao
1eee9fdPh Office struck on the morning of the
l4th. The proprietors announced a reduction
Oh wages from thirty to twenty-five cents.
"A LITTLE son Of Mr.. steinberger, an en-
pioye on the Chicago, Burlington g. Quincy
haliroad, fell from freight car in the ward
at Creston, on the 18th, while the car was in
lnotion, and the wheels passed over his
heao' killing him instantly. He was a bright
boy of eight years.
A TRAMP, name unknown, was found dead
Ill Darn near Davenport the other evening.
A FIRE at Newell on the night of the 18th.
destroyed the machinery warehouse and con-
tents belonging to E. W. Stetson, the store
OF Sinclair d Harris, and a small millinery
establishment. Total loss, about $4,000.
There was no insurance on any of the prop
erty destroyed.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Mediapolis
Enterprise writes of an encounter he had
with monster rattlesnake in Audubon
County. When he first saw the snake if
was coiled and ready for battle, and it was
with great difficulty that he got his team
out of reach of its rapid attacks Then he
only succeeded in killing it by hurting a
mohkey-Wrench at it, which fortunately hit
IL op the head, after which he finished it
with trace-chain. The snake measured
twelve feet seven inches in length, and elcv-
en inches around the largest place in its
body. 1t had thirty-six rattles, the string of
| which measured twelve and a half inches in
length.
A MAN-BRUTE by the name of Kelly was
struck dead in fit of apoplexy, near Sandy
| Spring, the other day, while beating his
! horse.
NEVER was there such crop of black
berries in Iowa as this year; and never such
a crop of rattlesnakes. A daughter of Ed
ward Davis, near Iconium, Monroe County,
was bitten, the other day, on the knuckle of
one finger. She ran home; the arm was
tightly bandaged; large quantity of whis-
ky was given her; and a bottle of liniment
inverted over the wound The liniment was
turned white as milk by the virus. In few
hours the effect of the poison subsidized. In
the same county, near Gosport, Mrs. John
Croft, while picking berries, was BIZ ten on the
| hand. The hand and arm swellcd to an
| enormous size. Medical aid was called, and
| it is reported that she will recover. A young
man named Powers, in Lucas County was
bitten by rattlesnake. His symptoms were
dangerous. The doctor filled him chock-
full of whisky, which saved his life. Alcck
Frizzell aud W. E. Burgess, of Pottawa ,mie
County, while at work in the harvcstfcld,
were bitten by rattlesnakes. A poultice of
bruised plantain-leavcs was applied, and
kept wet with the juice of the leaves. The
extract was also drunk. Both men recover
ed Near Bevington, Madison County, ad-
joining blackberry field, six rattlesnakes
were killed. Two dogs were bitten. Whisky
was poured down one and he was saved
The other dog could not be got under the
effect of the liquor until it was too late.
WILLIAM YATES was fatally injured by
falling from train at Morse Station, on the
18th.
E. BERG attempted suicide at Charles
City on the 10Th, by stabbing himself in half
a-dozcn places. His recovery was deemed
d""Itfrl "t l"et an"nunts
HoUsToN, the man who killed his father
in-law, the other day, recently broke the
window of his cell, pounded up the glass
and swallowed it. The doctors say he can
not recover.
TIE great blackberry region of Iowa is in
Kcokuk County.
Gov. KIRKwooD has given his law library,
furniture and fixtures to Robert Lucas, son
of Gen. Lucas.
A GALE of wind which passed over Du-
buque on the 10th took off the iron roof OF
Ingraham, Kennedy & Days saw-mill. 1t
fell inside the building.
BISHOP ANDREWS, of Des Moines, has gone
to Sweden, Norway and India, to organize
conferences of the Methodist Church.
A FEW evenings ago, near Boone, Matthias
Hoffman, William Brown and one or two
other young men, went into the field to kill
prairie chickens. They discovered a duck,
and simultaneously squatted in the grass.
When the duck rose, Hoffman shot at it,
and, at the same instant Brown raised his
head and received the charge of the gnn,
killing him instantly.
II consequence of reports of uncivil and
shabby treatment of visitors to the Cen en-
sentatives in Philadelphia, the Executive
Cou. Gil has removed DR.. Shaw from his po-
sition as General Manager, and appointed
Col G. B. Bracket, of Lee County, as his
successor. 1t is thought that other attaches
of headquarters, male and female, may soon
follow DR.. Shaw.
AT the Republican Judicial Nominating
Convention, held at Independence on the
18th, Hon. Sylvester Bagg received the NOM
ination for District Judge on the first ballot.
EDWARD JOSEPH, a prominent young busi-
ness man, of the firm of Kostock q Co.,
| Abba, while out driving, a few days ago,
was bitten on the upper lip by what he sup
| posed was a horse-fy. Although the bite
| was sharp, he paid no attention to it, until,
several hours after, his lip began to swell
and became painful. The swelling in
| creased, covering his whole head and body,
| despite all efforts of physicians to allay it.
He finally became delirious, and died 1t is
imposed the bite was by fly which had
been feeding on dead flesh, as several cases
of death from that cause are reported.
THE latest reports from st. Louis give
the following as the current prices for lead
ing staples: Flour-XXX. Fall, 81 45005.25;
Wheat-No 2 Red Winter, Sl.15@1. 157S;
No. Red Winter, 1.oo@1 .0216c; Corn-No. 2
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