The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-05-04
IOWA STATE NEWS.


city, Lennie, aged five, and Cora, aped
.hirteen, the son and daughter of Rev. L. F.
Parker, Greek Professor in the State ITni.
Versity' were drowned. They were in boat
with their father and his niece, and were
carried over Detz d Heuner's mill-dam.
Inc Professor and his niece were rescued.
put the children were lost in the under tow.
lie was crazed by the event and sought TO
jump back into the stream after he was
taken out.
CHARLES CoLLINsoN was run over and in
stantly killed on an afternoon eastward
bound passenger train, near Des Moines, on
the afternoon of the 25th. He was iptoxi
Gated at the time.
YOUNG man named e. L. Gilsan was
burned to death at Winterset on the even.
Ing of the 24th.
The Supreme Court, lately in session at
Dubuque, adjourned sins die on the 25th.
IHE hfty-seyenth anniversary of the es.
tablishment of Odd Fellowshipin in the United
States was very generally celebrated
throughout the State, on the 10Th.
MIR George Foderberg, Davenport dealer
in sash, doors and blinds, was arrested, on
the Goth, at the instance of A. j. Stewart g.
Co., of Fond du Lac, Wis, who charge him
with dcfraudng them out of a quantity of
merchandise. He was arrested on requi-
sltion from the Governor Of the latter State,
and taken to Fond du Lac " ss-s aa
| ONE of the latest suicides is that of A.
Phores, a well-todo farmer of Marshall
County, who hung himself during tenn
porary fit of insanity.
AT rppent rnoti,,r nf tho Tr,,rfaae g +I,,o
State Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, at Coun-
| ell Bluffs, the following officers were chosen:
Thomas Officer, President; Benz. Talbot,
Secretary; N. P. Dodge, Treasurer. Execu-
| tive Committee-Thomas Officer, VIM. Orr
and N. P. bod e.
A son and daughter of John O'Connor, of
Pottawattamie County, recently captured
eight young wolves, and the cubs are now
being sucked by cows, the youngster assist
ing in instructing the juvenile whelps how
to sustain themselves by means of the bo-
vine teats.
OK the morning of the 9th ult four
story stone building on the levee in Keokuk,
occupied as railway offices, was damaged by
fire to the extent of about $4,000. As the
freappeared during violent thunderstorm
it is thought to have been caused by light
ming.
JUDGE MURDOCH has shipped from Du-
buque to the Centennial five large boxes Of
Iowa archaeological specimens. Most of
them are relics of the Mound Builders.
A WOMAN is lying in Dubuque County
Jail charged with violating the revenue
laws. She has her babe, thirteen months
Old with her.
EXTENSIVE preparations are being made
for the Clear Lake Sunday School Assembly,
which will be held from June 21th to July
5th. a large number of distinguished Sum
da;-S School workers will be present.
The Republican Convention for the First
Congressional District has been called to
meet at Mt. Pleasant, Henry County, on the
25th of May.
THE Iowa City Press tells the following:
In our city lives a colorcd family, which
has for long time been divided by petty
jars, and at last the house grew too small to
hold their battles, and as each faction had
an equal interest in the building, they pro-
cccded to saw and split it square in two,
each half of the family taking half the
building and one-half of the family rcmov-
ng its pieee to another part Of the lot, and
three days"
Miss SUE CLAGGETT, who has assumed
editorial charge of the Keokuk Constitution
since the death of Judge Claggctt, her father,
is the first lady editor of a daily paper in
Iowa
The senior class at the State Agricultural
College numbers twcnty-six, of whom five
are ladies.
STORM LAKE is on the summit between
the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. A
farmer near there drains part of his farm
into the former river and part into the lat
ter -
DIR. CHARLES A. WHITE, formerly Profcs-
sor of Natural History, Botany and Geology
in the Iowa State University, is doing work
which will give him high place in the SCI
entifc world. His report as palcontologist
of the Wheeler survey is now in the hands
of the printer, and similar document re-
lating to the Powell survey is going through
the press.
Four boys, aged five, seven, eight, and
eleven years, brothers, were poisoned at
Muscatiue, on the 2Sth ult., by eating wild
parsley or hcmlock. The youngest died
GUS condition at last accounts.
THE body of Martin johnson, who was
drowned in the Iowa River at Marshalltown
about three weeks ago, was recovered on the
2Sth.
THE machine shops of George Williams,
formerly contractor on the Rapids I'M
proycmcnt, located six miles above heOkuk,
were entirely destroyed by fire on the 2Sth
ult The building contained several thousand
dollars worth Of fine machinery.
THE Iowa Coal Company sends to the
Centennial a 1000 pound lump of coal cut
ont in the form of a monument, four feet
square at the base and two at the top.
PROF. TowLE, the decamping Muscatine
music teacher, has been captured in Illinois,
and, on the 2Sth ult., was in jail at Musca-
tine, awaiting his examination.
THE township of Crawford, in Washington
County, is the first to take advantage OF the
five per cent railroad tax law. The citizens
voted that much in aid of the Burlington q
Northwestern Narrow-gauge Railroad.
THE latest reports from St. Louis give
the following as the current prices for lead
ing staples: Flour-XXX.Fall. $5.25@5.75;
Wheat-No.2 2 RedWinter, 81 36A al. .SSH;No.
8 Red Winter, $1.20@I2l; Corn-No. 2
Mixed, 4(a441zc; Oats-No. 2, 35(9331sc;
Rve-No. 2, 64@65c; Barley-No 2, s59
90c; Pork-S2l .75@22.oo; Lard-S12.75@
1907; Hogs-S7.0o@7.70; Cattle sS.73g