The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-12-14
IOWA STATE NEWS.


an indictment charging him with forgery.
SIX boys in Appanoose County have been
held for trial on charge of conspiracy to
break up Sunday school.
II the ballot-box OF Vfnton was found A
frui-tree circular, neatly folded up. Prob
ably the ro er had the circular and his ballot
in the same vest pocket, and cast the circular
by mistake
4 FEW mornings ago several workmen on
the new State Reform School building went
to work on the roof, which was covered with
frost. Soon after the architect appeared,
and, seeing the snow on the roof, and as the
wind was blowing hard, ordered the men to
70 inside, as it was dangerous to work on
the roof. The boss-carpcnter intcrposcd,
stating that the men were accustomed to
the circumstances, and cautious. 1t was
but fe', moments after when gust of wind
struck Samuel Sampson, one Of the carpen-
tiers, and threw him off his poise, and, his
feet slipping, he fell to the grouGd, about
100 feet, striking on his head and crushing
his skull
A FLOWING artesian well was struck at
NcGrcgor The other night, at the depth Of
800 feet bclOw the surface. The water is
clear and pure.
The total valuation of property for taxa
tionia Mahaska County is s6,240, 10, and
amount of tax levied Sl4G,6l3.
SCARLET-FEvER prevails to an alarming ex-
tent in the eastern part Of Johnson County
At Correct'onviIlc, in one week, lately there
were twelve deaths, and as many more were
down with the disease, with little prospect
Of recovery.
E. T. DAVIS, promin ent dry goods dealer
at MarshalItown, fail d recently with sl4OO
liabilities
The Iowa Cty alcohol works have been
seized for crookcdncSs.
AT Buritngt n, on the ID, Mollie Pardy,
from Middlctown. accidentally shot herself
with a small cartridge pOckct-pistoI, infict-
ing dangerous and probably fatal wound.
AN incepdiary fire at Council Bluffs on the
morning Of the lst, destroyed the Council
Bluffs Agricultural Works building and con
tents, involving loss of about $40 900.
Miss Louise KEssLER, of Dubuque, not
kong ago, while drawing bahy-carriage en-
"nuntercd runaway team that broke the
carriage and injured the child. She was
badly frightened, was taken sick, grew worse
and died on the 1st
lHE Iowa Central coal shaft near Des
NoiheS was burned lew mornings sgo,
oause' careIessness; loss, tOD.
THE African Methodist Episcopal Church
at Iowa City is the only church there out Of
debt
Sioux City is again moving in favor Of
division OF Iowa into two districts for United
States Court purposes.
IT is universally conceded that no State or
Kingdom has bc2n more rapid in the i'm
prOvcmcnt of stock than Iowa for the past
three years.
Miss REEVE, Superintendent of Schools in
Franklin County, has resigned, TO accept the
superintendcney Of one man. The wor Xviii
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