The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-07-06
IOWA STATE NEWS.

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'eltch 8 woolen factory, in Sipournav
LEV GAYS ago, a Mrs. Jones, who was 81
"orh Win spooling machine, in Some ,vo :,
became entangled in the machinery and wa :.
,ae. y 10 me ceiling overhead, and her
~. hand fastened in a loop in the spooler.
De,' her shoulder was pressed against the
yoi's' whilether arm and clothes were wound
ounu Iile shalt of the belt-pulley. The
arm was horribly twisted and lacerated and
A''i'y severed below the elbow. She w.s
promptly cared for, and the arm amnntatcd
Deio" the elbow; but she was in A very crit
e"i condition at last accounts. Tt Is ann
r'''o 'iiac' contrary to positive orders she
,,oni iohg employment about the machine
'nousht she could adjust the belt, and at.
tempted II with the sad result stated.
iHE citizens of Fort Madison voted a tax
oi sao,ooo, the other day, in aid of the CON
stfuction of the Fort Madison u Northwest
ern Narrow-gauge Railroad.
lhE stockholders of the National State
BANK OF Des Moines, have surrendered their
charter, and,the old corporation will be sue.
ceeaed by new one to be conducted as q
private bank. :
AT Dubuque, on the evening of the 25tb.
f. W, Schmidt, a man imprisoned on the
charge of trying to defraud creditors at
tempted suicide in the county jail He first
Tried to sccrete knife while at sumner but
was foiled' Shortly afterin going to his cell
In charge OF deputy, he started on sud-
aeh quick run and struck his head against
the stone wall. The conclusion threw him
senseless on the floor.
AT Marshalltown, on the 25th, poor fel.
low convicted of stealing quarter of a dol
lar was fined 800.
JOHN STRABBER was drowned at Eaple
Point, near Dubuque, the other night, while
in bathing. He was seized with cramps and
went under.
WILLIE, fourteen-yea son of ex.
Marshal Adam Hafner, was drowned in the
river at Des Moines, on the evening of the
oath, while bathing.
SHEFFIELD correspondent of the Chica-
go hter-Ocegi of a recent date saws the
farmers of Franklin County will not sell
their wheat, g for they won't get enough to
make bread and seed from the new crops
A NorthWood Worth County, letter to the
same paper says: "The weather and rust
make the wheat prospect look worse than
ever. The occupation of wheat BUYERS is
gone, and farmers are too much panic
stricken to think of selling"
Two recent suicides are reported from
Millersburg, Iowa County. John Marshal,
seventy years old, was found pendant and
dead on the goth. His ncighbor, Alcck
slighter, aged thirty-fve, on the next day
case was there any apparent calse for sud-
den quittance of the world
WIN. B. TREDwAY has been commissioned
Trustee of the State Agricultural College,
and Timothy Whitney has been commits
stoned as Trustee of the Asylum for the In
sane at Mount Pleasant.
A TERRIBLE wind storm visited Davenport
and vicinity on the night of the Goth The
large poultry building on the Scott County
fair grounds was raZed to the ground the
fencing of the east and south sides of the
grounds blown down, the roof of the Central
car stables on the southeast corner of the
grounds torn off and carried some 200 yards
away, and several of the trees in the grounds
bent to the ground. The track of the storm
can be seen along the Dubuque road north
from the city, where barns, fences and out
houses were demolished The damage to
the growing crops is estimated at $4,000.
THE ready-madc clothing house of A.
Drangcr " Co., at Dubuque, was closed by
an attachment issued at the instance of the
Bank of North America, Canada on the 9th,
on claim of Indebtedness amounting to
$24,0C0.
THERE have recently been committed in
Polk and adjoining counties Il number of
bold burglaries. On the 9th, the Sheriff of
County heard where the burglars
were domiciled and gave chase. constable
named Charles Clock, with posse, concred
the scOundrels, and while he was attempting
to arrest them, one of the burglars shot him
through the lungs and bowels. They then
On the 27th 200 armed men were
in search of the murderers. They will swing
if caught.
DUBUQUE farmers report that the pros
poets of a wheat crop in that section are de-
cidedly blue. Chinch-bugs are ravaging.
A DROWNING accident occurred near Keo-
lluk the other afternoon under peculiar cir
A gang of men was at work
on the Keokuk & Dcs Moncs Railroad,
when storm came up and four of them
took shelter in a culvert which empties into
the Des Mones River. The rain came down
in torrents, and the water went pouring
through the culvert with such force as to
carry two of the party, named Dan Moriarty
and Larry Donnelly out into the river, when
both were drowned. The other men sue
ceeded in getting out after hard struggle.
A FEW days ago, horse, carrying a man,
swan the Mississippi River at Burlington.
The distance is three-quarters of a mile and
it was accomplished in twenty minutes.
THE citizens of Iowa City have just voted
TO extend the limits of that city to almost
double what it was, adding from 200 to
800 to its population. This gives Iowa
City about $1,000 souls.
AT Marshalltown, lately, Mrs. Rakestraw
attempted to commit suicide by taking cor
rosive sublimate. Physicians were called
md at last accounts the woman seemed like |
y to recover,
MAsHALLTowN has Just let the contract
Tor water works, the whole to be completed
,y Oct. /. The work cost about $4,000.
THE latest reports from st. Louis give |
,he following as the current prices for lead |
ug staples: Flour-XXX.Fall. S500@550; |
Red Winter, Sl.50@1.55 No. |
, Red Winter, s1.09@110; Corn-No. 2 |
Mixed, 42s4043c; Oats-No. 2, 31@3l&; |
2yc-No. 2. 67(I6Sc. Pork-S20 .OO(G20. .05; |