The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-02-10
IOWA STATE NEWS,

aSos.
MARsHALITowN Is taking the necessary
steps already for rousing Fourth Of July
celebration
The Council Bluffs NonpareH says that
parties are in that city nearly every day
Quitting for the Black Hills.
OK the morning of the 1st at Council
Bulls, passenger coach Oh the North.
western Railroad was totally destroyed by
fire.
PROF. HENRIcHs says that, seventy-five
years hence, Iowa summers viii be like
those of Louisiana, and the winters like
hose at Duluth, MINI.
The State Medical Society, by vote of
twenty whine TO twenty-five, adopted reso-
luton disappearing of State aid to secta-
Ran or professional schools.
An order has been received at one Of
the Dubuque iron works for the building
of an iron steamer of small dimensions
for the King of Siam, to be shipped in
pieces.
GEO. A. WELLS, private banker at
Fairfield, suspended payment on the Both
ult. Mr. Wells has issued card in which
he states his confidence of his ability to
pay in full
a MAN named William Paul, tailor in
New Wine township, recently hanged
himself in a public house The deceased
desired the Sheriff not to let the newspa-
pers mention what house he made his exit
from.
A BENTON COUNTY farmer, fearing
burglars worse than fire, deposited 5000
in the top of the stove. His wife, who
was expecting company, warmed up the
unoccupied room at cost of about one
half of the valuable deposit.
A COLD FLOODED murder was COM
milted in Franklin few nights ago
A young man named Spangler struck
man named Booth over the head with a
tence-rail, inflicting wound from the ef
fccts Ct which he died few hours later
Spangler escaped.
THE Peace Convention recently in ses-
sion al Des AIoincs, elected the following
delegates to the National Peace Conyen-
ton: Joseph Dugdale, Laurie Tatum, of
Cedar; Dr. Mhgoun, of Iowa County; the
Rev. Francis Ward, Of johnson County,
and Senator Jessup, of Hardin County.
The Boone Standard says: a young
lady who teaches one of the public schools
not over hundred miles from Boone,
keeps her pupils in trim by such talk as
this: Now, Bob, if youdon quit pulling
SAILS hair, I'll snatch you bald-headcdn
'Suse, quit your whispering, or I'll put
tin ear On you! That's the sort of hair
pin l ann"
On the arrival of the train from the
East at Davenport, the other evening, the
infant child Of Mrs. John Stanbach was
taken from her arms by her husband, from
whom she had separated. The man rushed
down the street, WAS caught, the child re-
turned to its mother and the abductor
jailed. Stanbach claimed, at the trial,
that his wife was clipping.
AT TIcll's Bend, Ida County, the other
night, Mrs. Waite saw a man and woman
enter her stable. Happening at the mo.
mcnt to have a kettle of warm water in
her hand, she hurried with it to the stable,
and, finding there an unknown man and
woman, She with more indignation than
Judgment threw the kettle full of hot
water on the couple, scalding the man so
severely that his recovery is doubtful,
THE statement that one of the heaviest
losers in the Bedford bank panic was an
editor is going the rounds of the State
press, but is received with solemn head.
shakings by the fraternity, and general
inclination to put an interrogation mark
at the end of the item. This is all wrong,
for we know the editor in question did
lose very heavily. In the crowd around
the bank, he dropped his pocket book
containing nineteen railroad passes down
cellar grating, and the rats dcyoured the
entire lot.-BUltagton HaukEye.
EoLD attempt was made the other
night to rob an express car on the Bur-
lingtOn II Minnesota west bound train,
west OF Burlington. -Four men, repre-
senting themselves to be travelling men,
entered the baggage-car to have a smoke.
gagc-master, who took small drink
The express messenger was also invited to
drink, but declined. Shortly afterward
the baggage master fell to the floor in a
stupOr, and the express messenger,
g smelling mice" drew revolver,
ordered the intrudcrs to hold their hands
over their heads and leave the car. They
left the car.
FoR some weeks it has been reported
that Mrs. Upper, the noted bee woman,
had been performing some very eccentric
actions, such as forging the names of Sen
Or Harlan and others to notes and nego-
tiatipg the same. This was alleged to
have been done at Marshalltown, and the
last report was that these irregularities
had been arranged in some way to save
exposure, on account Of her previous good
reputation and that of her family. This
disgraceful news was suppressed as much
as possible. On the 30th ult warrant was
issued for her arrest at the instance of GER
tain persons whom she defrauded out Of
$1,000 on a forged note.
THE piscicultural experiment begun
two years ago, which was received at the
time with all sorts of ridtcule, has proved
an established and magnificent success.
With the small stipend appropriated by
the last Legislature the Commissioners
have accomplished wonders. Their re
port shows that they have distributed fish
as follows: Shad in Des Moines River,
June, 1874, 100000; Iowa varieties dis
tributed in 1874 10000; California sal
mon, 1874, 100000 Pcnobscot salmon,
1910, $4,000; brook trout 1915, L.
600; shad in Des MOines River,
1875, 10000; Iowa varieties distributed
1875, 5000; California salmon on hand, |
300 600; lake trout on hand, S35 900; /
whiteiish on hand, 1000; lake trout eggs
sent to DEBORAH, 100000. Reports from
the different localities show that the fish |
are growing finely. 1t is proposed to re-
wise the law at this session, make more |
stringent the provisions for protection,
compel fsh-ways 10 be put in all dams, |
and appropriate $4,000 for the use of the
Commissioners, who propose interchang-
ing the fish of Iowa from one locality to /
another, and adding to the lakes and !
streams new foreign species.
At the recent gathering of the State
Medical Society at Des Moines, the
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