The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-14
IOWA STATE NEWS

lOWA STATE NEWS.
l LILLE drawing pistol to shoot r,,r
, IL ou McMahon, at Keokuk, on the IN
; 80 nenord prematurely discharged if and
, 'he contents in his own leo. nro.
, au'ing an ugly wound said to be danger
davenport, on the 5th, a LOT of d.
rn"iSea wlpers from the round -bouse of tho
noeh island Railroad. attacked one of tho
ne" nremen and beat him so tcrrih,v tbot bo
cannot recover. 'n"' ho
hPPs PATTERSON, a well TO do tor,,or H..
apout hve miles south of Bloomfield
niinsen In MS corn crib, carly on the
lnornihg OF the Sd. Temporary insanity is
assigned as the cause of the act.
ihh heaviest rain storm of the year visited
burlington on the 5th. The rain foil IN
nooos Tor four hours, and Hawk-Eye Greek
peeame raging torrent, oyerdowing ;ts
pank and oceasioning thousands of dollars,
uainage. Hundreds of citizens were on the
.feet curing the heaviest of the storm work
ing to save their property.
HENDERsoN's pump ard loom factorv ot
heohuk was entirely DESTROYED by fire ON
the evening of the 4th, involving loss Of
$500 " ''S' Vi
AT the German Conference lately in ses-
'ioh al burlington the following appoint
ments for Iowa were made:
. Burlington District-PhiIin Kpbr
hhston. first charge E r. Irmsrber. Rn-j;, , .t
second char9e E. Thalenhorst: Flint CreeE NJ W
1Wcn1Esnig; at Pleasant and Ottumwa, W. Bake:
Fplarn,h hnd Sanaan to be supplied keokuk, G.
! EnZTIfoihi Farmngton. +. Litzerodt; Etna to be
/ supplied; lancaster J. Kratlv: Npscsfine % ~ ~
Nahinann; Davenport G. Bonn; Wilton, Fr Fie.
gen6anm; Wapello. Fr. Arnsperrer: Iowa CIV
X, HHavighorst; German Creek. Ph Bartb: victor
" liliam Gethmann: Newton. j UaIler. ~,
To be snrnaa - = MeTke; Hebron Il. Ross and one
" " pe suppned' Henry Schultz, President of The
German College at Mt Pleasant and member of
the MI fleasant Quarterly Conference
fish COMMISSIONERS SHAW has chartered
SINAI! steamer, and provided a crew, for
practical fishing. In high water fish in the
! mississippi River run in sloughs and
oayous, and as the water recedcs they are
leitto die or be devoured by birds and rem
tiles. DIR. Shaw proposes to start from A
point well up on the boundary of the State,
and come slowly down, g ,thering from these
sloughs and bayous with seines such fish os
may be in them, and carving them to inland
lakes and streams where they are not now
found. He expects to secure large numbers
require about six weeks.
ABOUT l:30 p. m. on the 1st terrible tor
nado struck the college building at Wilton,
completely unroofng the north half. The
north gable fell in with crash, demolish
ing everything before it. The students in
the building narrowly escaped being buried
IN the ruins, but no one was hurt The
south half was not injured much, so that
the school will go right on. The graded
school building lost about half of its tin
roof in the twinkiing of an eye.
The Democrats of the Fifth Congressional
District have nominated Hon. Andrew F.
Beatty for Congress.
THE sheriff of Marshall County has charge
of the Marshalltown gas works
Ex-UNITED STATES SENATOR HOWELL was
extremely i'll at his residence in Keokuk,
with small prospects of recovery, at last ac-
counts.
JOHN CLARK's barn and contents, in
Johnson County were destroyed by fire
few days ago. Loss SO, 100.
GEORGE COOP, who resides a few miles
north of ParkcrsbIrg, had his skull crushed
in the other morning by blow of a mop
stick in the hands of his son Wesley The
father was supposed to be dying at last ac-
counts. Two sons, Joseph and Wesley, have
been arrested .--...-.--.-.
n. NJ PARSONS, on trial by the Muscatine
County District Court for bigamy, has been
found guilty and sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary for eighteen months. He is the man
who got hurt at Chambers mill at Mus
catinc, and whose bgamous marriage with
Miss Bailey, of Davenport, while he
was on dcath-bed, as was supposed, was
so romantically described by the Register
few weeks since.
THE people of Osccola, Clay, Emmet, Kos
suth and Dickinson Counties are organizing
for protection against the grasshoppers next
season, in a thorough and systematic man
ner. County committees have been organ
lied and committee IN each township. 1t
is proposed to plow a firc-iine around each
township and each section to check ali
prairie fires, and also to have watchmen to
discover fires accidentally set. 1t is also pro
posed to stop the shooting of prairie-chick-
ems. Nearly all the prairie e-tres in the fall
are set by hunters. The farmers will all
join the Hopper Association, which will put
a stop to chicken-killing. The chickens are
voracious feeders on grasshoppers, and
prospects are that all the chickens viii be
needed to eat the 'hoppers next season, when
they will be young, and the chickens poor
and hungry
A WOMAN named Goether was shot by
tramps at Charles City on the afternoon of
the 7th. There were fourin the gang, and at
last accounts large party was securing the
woods for them.
ADJUTANT GENERAL BAKER was danger
ously i'll at his residence in Des Moines, on
the 7tb His condition was considered ex-
tremcly critical.
EARLY on the morning of the 9th man
named Conrad Meister, huckstcr, on his
way to Keokuk with a load of vegetables,
was attacked by highwaymen, four miles
from town, and ordered to deliver up his
money. He declined, and they fired at him,
the shot taking effect in his car. The dcs-
peradoes then took to their heels.
T. H. GIDDENs, dangerous criminal, who,
for the last ten years has been operating IN
various parts of the State chiefly as forger,
was recently run to cover at Sycamore, Ill.
The history of his villainies would make
good-sized volume. He was arrested by a
Dubuque detective.
THE latest reports from st. Louis give
the following as the current prices for lead
ing staples: Flour-XXX. Fall. S5.00@550;
Wheat-No. 2 Red Fall, s113l6l l31S; No,
Red Winter, s1O101l.0l19c; Corn-No.
Mixed, 4o5s@4o2c; Oats-No. 2, 3o19@SoNc;
Rye-No 2, 25.G153c. Pork-S $50 1850;
Lard -9A@9T; Hogs-S5.65@6.O Cattle
So .50@4.25
Fanaticism and Crime.