The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
1oWA STATE NEWS.

ihE shoe store of w. G. Peet, on Centre
eoeeC, IN Marshalltown, was comnIetel,
su''ea py burglars on the night of the 14tI
>. A. BRYAN, the defaultiny Comfy Troa.
S.e, was, on the l4th. pardoned out of the
ate cniteht'ary by Gov. kirkwood. The
uelaicatlon was $4l 900. A large
poi'ion OF this is said to have been made II n
by his bondsmen
CALAMITY Brown, who was osed to
nave been murdered in Des Moines last
sp'inS' hls turned up in Springfield, Ill.
, MARSHALL COUNTY is to vote this fall on
the proposition to build a s5o, COO iail.
lliE editor OF the State Center Eqteyo,i,o
was presented with a gold watch and chaio
" ti'e citlzens of his town a few DAYS since
FEW days ago, while Mr.. and Mrs.
mclaughlin, of Boone County, were in tba
hcld, leaving the children in the house alone
anttie daughter, four years old, by some
means set her clothing on fire. and started
| 'or her parents who were some distance
away she was quickly enveloped in flames.
40 'ie "lha was blowing g lie, her clotn
ilS was soon burned off her, and when reach
ca by her agonizcd parents her flesh was
burned to a crisp. She fingered in g,eat
agony until the next day when dea kindly
ended Ecr sufferings.
SOLOMON BASS, farmer, living near Red
held, Dallas County, committed suicide on
the morning Of the 16th by blowing off his
head with shot gun.
The Mayor of Dexter, Dallas County. Mr.
ID. Lcneig, died in Illinois lately while
visiting some relatives.
FARMER in Calhoun County has this
year raised and marketed over $40, GOO worth
of grapes.
1HE Grand Lodge of I. o. o. F. recently
in session at Iowa City, elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year: Herman
Black, Grand Master; A. J. Morrison. Depu-
ty Grand Master; S. II. Glenn, Grand Ward
en-; Wm Garrett, Grand Secretary; j. B.
Glenn, Grand Treasurer; Eric j. Lecch, Rep
reSentative to Grand Lodge of the United
States
RETRO, the counterfeiter, who was arrested
at Des Moincs in May last, jumped from the
train, near Leighton, on the 18TH while being
conveyed from Fort Madison to Dcs Moincs
in the custody of an officer, and effected his
escape.
MRS. MARGARET LIE CLAIRE, widow of
Antoine LIE Claire, one of the original incor-
porators of The city of Davenport, died on
the morning of the 18th, aged seven y-four
years. She had lived in Davenport for forty
four years. She was of Indian extraction,
and spoke many Indian dialects, beside En-
glish and French. She leaves to her heirs,
OF whom there are about eighty, forty acres
La in hn Of
Her husband built ST. Margueritc's Cath lie
Church in that city, costing about So, 600.
He was for years an Indian Interpreter and
scout, and was one of the very first settlers
n Iowa, building a hut on the banks Of the
Mississippi, which was then dcsolatc, but
upon which there is now the city of Daycn-
port with its 10000 population.
SOME time since the contract was let for
the completion of grade Of the Chicago,
Clinton Il Western Railroad from Iowa City
to LcnoX nine miles east, at the crossing of
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
Road. Ferguson, the contractor, gathered
about 10 hundred men, teams, etc, on the
work. He made bills wherever he could in
Iowa City for provisions, blankets, wagons,
etc, agreeing to pay for them as he was
paid by the Company. A few days ago it
was discovered that he was thus consuming
large portion of his monthly estimates,
and his men struck for their pay and, on
the 18th inst, the amount of money coming
to Ferguson would only pay his men ffty-six
cents on the dollar. This ncenscd the men,
and Ferguson had to keep shady for day
or two, and the city authorities had to feed
his men. The Company have bounced Fer
gusOn, settled with the men, and put them
on the work again.
THE Iowa City Republican says Col. Ed.
Lucas has Il calf six months old, which
weighs 6il pounds.
THE premium at the Marshall County
Fair offered for the best female equestrian,
was won by Miss c. Snidcr, who rode with
out saddle.
HENRY NOBLE, of Boone while out for a
stroll in the country, climbed to the top of a
rock in L" DEVILS Neck" While near the
edge of the rock he reached out and caught
hold of the limb Of a dead tree. Thinking
it perfectly secure, he trusted his weight to
it and it broke instantly, and he fell dis
tance of nearly fifty feet, breaking one rib
and hurying himself in the sand nearly up
to his waist. He was dug out and is doing
well.
A CIRCULAR from the Board of Drec ors
of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids q Northern
Railroad announces that they had fixed the
rate of interest on the bonds of the new
company at five per cent, instead of six, as
at first proposed
A CROSS ROADS shOpkeeper wrote to a
Sioux City merchant, the other day:
"Pleasc send me Abaril of Care Seen And
oblcgc."
D. S. COATES, a wealthy farmer residing
near Oxford, some fifteen miles west of
Iowa City, who for some days had shown
signs of insanity, said TO have been caused
by religious excitement, came 10 that city On
the 21st to attend court, and toward evening
he went to the depot to go home, when he
became very violent and caused terror among
the bystandcrs by throwing pieces of coal,
spikes, etc, at those about him, causing |
them to seek safety from injury. He was
secured and placed in a cell in the jail. He |
is a very large, powerful man, and he in
iured one or two of those aiding in securing |
As lum at Mt. Pleasant.
THE latest reports from st. Louis give
the following as the current prices for lead
ing staples: Flour-XXX.Fall, $500@5.50; |
Wheat-No. 2Rcd Fall, S1.21@1.2134; No
8 Red Winter, $111@1IAc; Corn-No. 2 |
Mixed, 40@401zc; Oats-No. ., 34G341sc; /
Rye-No. 2, 57@571lc. Barley, 75c@s1.oo.
Pork - s17o0@710; Lard - 1OH@10xc; |
Hogs-S5.4O@590 Cattlc-S3 3.50@5.C0.