The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-12-06
IOWA STATE NEWS.

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+ ARTHUR RErrLER, son Of an Independents
lothing merchant, comm itted suicide the
other afternoon by shooting himself IN the
head. Hs
THOMAS FIJI, brakeman on the Chicago
q Northwestern Railway, was instantly killed,
on the night Of the 26th, at Ames. He caught
bis foot In the guard-rail and was 6rown un-
der the train. ~
The Hampton House, at Hampton, and an
adjacent market and grocery were burned ON
The morning Of the 27th.
A THIEF entered the room Of ]. B. Dunbar,
u Burlington, oii the morning Of the 27tli, and
lecufcd $500 id cash while the family were at
breakfast:
On the 9th, a tramp met his death at
Turkey River, station on the Chicago, Du-
buque Il Minnesota Railroad. He boarded q
freight train for Dubuque, had no money, and
was put OIL. Still determined to have a free
ride, he awaited the arrival Of another train,
got aboard, and while walking from one car to
another, fell OF, and was run over and instant
ly killed. Name unknown.
On the night of the 26th, while the train
with Chief Joseph's band was taking water at
North Skunk River, three Indian women
stepped out of the car to what they supposed
was the ground, but the car stood on the
trestle bridge and they all fell through some
twenty feet, breaking the back of one and the
legs of both the others and otherwise injuring
them.
THE Burlington Gazette says: Miss Irene
McPike (coloredD was on the war path yester-
day. 1t is reported she was passing resi-
dence on North Main street, when she imag-
ined that lady up stairs laughed at her. She
quietly walked to the front door and told the
servant girl she wanted to see the lady up
stairs. The unsuspecting girl offered no OBJ
lection, when she walked up stairs and imme-
diately proceeded to chastise the lady of the
house, pulling her hair out and trying to bite
her lose of .0f
THE grand jury system in Iowa costs the
State $3.50, annually.
WHAT constitutes a bushel of oats9 is the
question being agitated in various portions of
the State. Dubuque is quoted as among the
cities that want more than thirtY-two pounds
to the bushel.
STOCKHOLDERS and builders of railroads in
the State WIN be interested in recent decision
made by the Supreme Court relative to watered
stock. The Abba 81 Knoxville Railroad Com
pany secured, as aid to build the road, SUBJ
scription-notes of individuals-it being under
stood, and part Of the contract, that, when
the notes were paid, the maker should receive
the equivalent of the value Of the note in
stock of the Railroad Company. Ex-Gov
Merrill, under contract with the Company,
t.,,s1 r4f dnd cd
payment portion of these subscription-notes,
some Of which were not paid, and action was
brought to recover On them. The defense set
Up awant Of consideration, in that Merrill had
so watered the stock of the Company as to oh.
tain control of the road, and the stock had
therefore little or no value. The Supreme
Court decided that, If the stock Of the Conn
pafy had been illegally increased, and Merrill
was the party thereto, he could not recover on
the notes. The cases were sent back to the
Court below to be retired on the questions Of
fact.
AT Decorah, on the 18th ult, an incendiary
fire caused the destruction Of about $15,0O0
worth of property.
A FARMER named Thomas Sawyer, residing
near Creston, committed suicide, on the 2Sth
ult., by taking dose of strychnine. He was .
single man, and no adequate cause can be as
signed for the rash act.
A WOMAN, sixty-f years old, is student in
the State University Medical Department.
THE entire family of Philip Borchard, at
Marshalltown, were badly poisoned by eating
tendance saved them. -.
A LITTLE daughter of j. II. Brace, Of Mar
shaltown, has had such tremendous appetite
of late that It was almost impossible to keep
her in food, but at the same time she kept very
thin and puny. A physician found out the
wherefore in a twenty one foot tapeworrn.
ACCORDING to the biennial report of Supt.
johnson, of the Iowa Reform School, it ap-
pears that the whole number Of boys received
since the opening Of the school is 564; whole
number of girls, 81 number of boys received
since Nov. l, 1875, 147; 1873 boys and IA girls
have been released, leaving the present num-
Der now in school, 141 boys and 50 girls
BLAcKHAwK COUNTY has furnished five pa
tients to the Independence Insane Asylum
within the last sixty days.
DAvsNPoRr has only Al, 900 bushels of wheat
has been known before in ten years at least.
THE controversy between the C. r. Il M. r.
Railroad Company and the settlers on 5000
acres of land in Monona County for the title
thereto, has just been undergoing examination
in the District Court at Sioux City. Decision
is not expected until Dec. 26.
c. N. JoRGENsEN, of Storm Lake, has gone
f,,to bo nh Tho y,r;pnivaI oro1;frrc n ra