The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-25
IOWA STATE NEWS.

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AT Dubuque, on the 14th, Otto Sienger, a
book-binder, twenty four years old, suicided
| by jumping from the fourth story of the Jefrer-
son House, where he boarded. He WAS a
hypochondriac. He lived butt two hours after
| the fall He was a sober, industrious man
and unmarried
THE daughter of Governor.elect Gear was
married to J. w. Blythe at Burlington, on the
| 18th.
On the 18th, Samuel Wright, coal-digger,
| was instantly killed by the caving-in of por-
! tion of the roof in Rawson's coal-mine, in Des-
Moines.
A FARMER named Long fell from his wagon
at Hinsdale, few days ago, and was Instantly
killed.
AT Especial election for Mayor of Burlings
ton, held on the 18th, to fill the unexpircd term
of ex-Mayor Parsons, w. E. Woodward, fore
man of the Eoeaiag Gazette, was elected over
Hon. A. G. Adams, President of the Beard of
Trade, by a vote of $40 to SAG.
AsAN extra freigl4 ON the Chicago & South
western Railway was switching at tLibertyville
on the 18th, brakeman named Hague was
run over and fatally injured.
THE Board of Supervisors of Polk County
have unanimously decided against a new elec
tion in the First Precinct of DesNloines. The
application was made because the vote for
County Treasurer at the late election was in
excess of the number Of names on the poll-list.
THE Red Ribbon" movement has struck
Keokuk
JEssUP, the Temperance nominee for Gov
ernor, received six votes in Dubuque, at the
late election
JENNIE SNYDER, the Davenport horse-thief
got five years at Fort Madison.
Mrs. NELSON BROWN. of Hamilson Town.
ship, Franklin County, fell from a load of hay,
the other day, and broke her neck.
INSANITY is alarmingly on tile increase in
Dubuque County. The number of patients in
the asylum from Dubuque is well on to 100.
THE sorghum crop in Central Iowa is large
and unusually good this year.
MIR. NJ. M. CoRBETT, of Rock Island, has
brought suit for libel against the Davenport
Gazette, claiming 5000 as damages The
Gazette alleged that Corbctt had never been atl-
mitted to the bar and had assumed to act as a
lawyer when in fact he had no right to do any
thing of the kind.
THE Dubuque lumber dealers have again
advanced the prices on common grade lumber
fifty cents per thousand.
A JOHNSON COUNTY farmer raised 500
bushels of oats from twelve acres.
JEsUP farmer reports 3S1 bushels of
wheat from seventeen and half acres, 1,150
bushels of oats from twenty-one and half
acres, and forty acres of corn will average
from fifty-five to sixty bushels per acre. This
crop was taken from land which has been
undercontinuous cultivation for eighteen years.
One of Burlington ex-Mayor Parsons SER
want girls disappeared on the same day as did
the defaulting cx-Mayor. So says rumor.-
State Register
THE q,to marrasfo suit involving the title to
the Auditors Office at Burlington has been
submitted to the Supreme Court at Dubuque
The decision will be made in December.
THE clothing store of Allmayer & Bros, at
Fairfield, was entered, the other night, by cut
ting through the panel of the door, and from
S400 to $500 worth of clothing and jewclry
taken.
HENRY RABE was recently fatally injured at
Bellevue. While driving a team of mules
they became unruly, and in his efforts to check
them he was thrown from the wagon, severely
injuring his SPINE His lower limbs were COM
pletely paralyzed.
MAPLE JUNCTION and Manly junction,
Worth County, were the Postofiices established
in Iowa in September. Seato and South Cen
ter, Fayctte County, were discontinued.
A GENTLEMAN by the name of Felix Child,
who resides in Council Bluffs, was knocked in
sensible at that place the other night and re-
lieved of about S4O0 in cash.
THE Cherokee Times says: A couple of
swindlers are again abroad in the land selling
packages of clothing. In the interest of soci-
ETY. we think few yards of hemp could be
profitably employed on the rascals. Farmers,
sharpen your dogs teeth and keep your shot
guns in trim to receive the smooth-tongued
villains.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused at
Marshalltown, the other day, by the arrest of
II. c. Chapman, the local agent of the Central
Railroad, and the flight of D. NJ. Cliff, Chief
Clerk of the general ticket office. 1t seems
that Chapman was appointed to the local
agency in consequence of his services in con-
victing certain dishonest conductors. 1t ap-
pears that almost Immediately after his ap-
pontment as agent he entered into conspi-
racy with Cliff to defraud the company. They
had successfully carried on the fraud for some
time without discovery. Their plan was to
have Cliff steal out the tickets returned to him
by t conductors and give them to Chapman,
who would resell them, cutting out the con-
ductor's punch already in by larger one used
by the baggageman, and which Chapman kept
How much they had succeeded in defrauding
the company of, is not known. Chapman was
placed under 81, ,000 bonds to appear for trial
THE residence of Mrs. Darncll, at Council
Bluffs was entered, on the afternoon of the
18th, in the absence of Mrs. Darnell, by man
who, after taking everything of value, was
about to leave the house, when he was con-
fronted by neighbor Mrs. Racer, who caught
hold o. the fellow and made him disgorge.
She then arrested the thief, and was going to
conduct him to jail, but his piteous cries and
cntreaties for me.cy saved him.
THE town authorities of Wilton have CON
cluded to accept the situation into which they
were forced by the explosion of their Prohibit
tory ordinance, by coming back to first princi-
Piles and granting saloon licenses under the old
ordinance. As this ordinance expressly pro-
vidcs that no license shall be granted for
shorter time than year, this will virtually end
the saloon war, for the present.
THE latest reports from st. Louis give the
following as the current prices for leading
staples: Flour-XXX, Fall, s5S56f6.25
Wheat-No. 2 Red, Fall, 81 35@l.s5]1s; No. 3,
Si.26l z(0l .265S; Coru--No. 2 Mixed, 4l55G0
Az c; Rye-No 9, 55@56c; Oats 2550s254c;
Pork--s,4. 20@l4.3o; Lard-S55S0es5sc; Hogs
-Sts55e5. IS; Cattlc-S 81 .22i5(t05.75.
Child-TOrture.
One of the most dastardly cases of
child-torture by an inhuman father
over pernetrated has lately deveIoped