The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-09-27
IOWA STATE NEWS.

IOWA STATE NEWS.
Ar DesMoines. ON the night Of the 10th,
Geo. Norris, Of Chicago, was run over by .
Rock Island Railroad car and killed.
E1aHrEEs years ago two men named
Bunker were hung near DesMoines by two
| men named Small and Simmonds, the latter
being Constable. They had arrested the
Bunkers for horse-stealing, and when near
the city they hung one Of them for the pur-
| pose of extorting . confession of guilt, but
did not intend to hang him fatally. As soon
| as he was strung up the other Bunker ran
| of. Small and Simmonds gave chase, and
before they recaptured him the other chokcd
| to death. Then, to conceal the circum-
| stances, they hung the remaining thief. Sim-
monds ran away and has not since been heard
from. Small went away, but came back
some years since. Now he has been ar
| rested on farm near DesMoines, and will
| be tried for murder.
On the 18th, the Coroner's Jury rendered
| verdict on the Four-Mile Creek disaster,
in which they say that " the victims came to
their death by means Of the cars being pre-
| cipitated into the chasm caused by the
washing out Of the culvert, and blame can
not attach to the company"
THE Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail-
road Company has instituted proceedings
| against thirty homesteaders in Shelby Coun-
| ty, for lands now occupied by them, and
also for damages against each party, rang
| ing from $500 to $500.
THE wo ood-work shops Of J. II. Whitaker,
contractor, at Davenport, were burned, on the
14th. Loss, 5000.
JENNIE SNYDER was arrested at Council
Bluffs, on the 18th, for stealing horse and
buggy at Davenport.
A APRoJEcr is on foot in Dubuque to bring
| the Iowa Pacific Railroad into that city, as
the narrow gauge.
THE Upper Annual M. E. Conference will
meet at McGregor, Oct. 8. This conference
comprises the northeastern quarter Of the
State, and contains Isl charges and about
200 ministers. Bishop Edward R. Ames, one
of the Oldest and most influential dignita-
ries of the Church, will preside.
THE Annual Convention of the National
Association of Pork Packers is to be held
at Keokuk, commencing Oct. 8.
A KEoKUK Grand Jury has indicted q soap
factory there as a nuisance, aud demand its
summary abatement.
THos. HIeGINs, farmer Of Iowa County,
and cut and slashed the animal in most bru-
tai manner. He was arrested.
JOHN CocHRANE, a colored citizen of Sioux
City, was recently married to a white Ger
man girl named Caroline Pape. John was
forty years old and Caroline twenty.
Hon. Fl. o. PRATT, ex-member of Congress
from the Fourth District, has been recon-
mended by the Decorah District Confer
ence "as a suitable person for the travelling
ministry
THE Dubuque s. Minnesota and the Clin-
ton q Dubuque Railroad Companies are con-
solidated under the names of the Chicago,
Clinton, Dubuque & Minnesota Railroad
Company, to date from Jan. i, 1877. The
consolidated capital stock Of both companies
is to be s., 600.
AT Memory, in Taylor County, recently.
DR.. SnOdgrass, while endeayoring to separ-
ate some small pigs from a cross old SOW,
was attacked by the infuriated animal, and
lacerated in shocking manner. Two ribs
were broken in against vital parts, his hands
were torn, and otherwise he was SO injured
that he died in a few hours.
A LARGE Dubuque County farmer had sew
eral thousand pounds of wool slowed in
his barn, waiting for rise in the market.
A crowd of thieves living near made q raid
on it and hauled off and sold about $500
worth before they were discovered.
A SHELL Rock farmer has two hogs weigh
ing 1000 pounds each.
DAVENPORT and Dubuque are to be con-
nected by direct rail communication.
BRANNAN, the Marion County Treasury
robber, who jumped from a train while on
his way to the Fort Madison Prison, has
been seen in Athens, Mo.
A FARMER named Billings was murdered
in Floyd County last year, and man named
Miller was accused of the murder, but was
discharged. 1t now comes to light that the
principal witness, named Singleman, was
the murderer.
THE late Scott County Fair was the most
successful, financially, of any held within
twenty-five years. The receipts were enough
to pay the premiums-s15,O ,O0O-and leave a
handsome balance in the treasury.
The body of Minnie Brandt, daughter of
William Brandt, Davenport butcher, was
found floating in the Mississippi four miles
south OF Davenport on the 18th. The Cor
oner's Jury rendered verdict of suicide by
drowning.
THE dwelling house of Charles Geradt, at
McGregor, was burned on the night of the
18th. Loss, $4,000.
DUBUQUE pays its High School Principal
salary OF 81, 500.
AT Davenport, on the 10Th, Reuben ]. Os-
born, janitor of the High School and Con-
gregational Church. committed suicide by
placing a revolver back of the left ear and
pulling the trigger. The ball entered the
brain and instant death resulted He had
been notified Of his discharge and became
despondent.
TEE two Asylums for the Insane in Iowa
contain 927 patients. OF this number,
COG are at Mt. Pleasant, 321 at Independence.
The last acquisitions on the State Treasurer,
approved by Auditor Sherman, were 81 900
for the Mount Pleasant Asylum, and S., 900
for Independence. These amounts repre-.
sent the deficiency, or sum required in ex-
cess Of receipts.
THE latest reports from st. Lonis give the
following as the current prices for leading
staples: Flour-XXX, Fall, s5S5@6. 90;
Wheat-No. Red, Fall, sl3014@1 3O15; No.
8, $l.2s@1. .25; Corn-No. 2 Mixed, 4211S @42%c;
Ryc-No. 2, 5ll@551ac; Oats-2511z@ @26c;
-s12.75@lS.UO Lard-s3s@sXc; Hogs
-$4.75@560; Cattle--$4. 25G15.75.