The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-22
IOWA STATE NEWS.

lection Of successor to the Pope, as claimed
by Italy and Austria.
IOWA STATE NEWS.
|. Ex-Gov. CARPENTER is mentioned as can
didate for Congress from the Ninth District,
DVBUouE's population is increasing, local
paper says, at the rate of 1000 week.''
Z The Sac County farmers are buying stock to
feed their corn to.
The Burlington Ha,rk- Eye calls the Dubuque
Herald that sesquipedalian epipastic,n and
the Herald gets mad about it. n
AT Onawa, Geo. Knapp's COW wouldn't be-
have at milking time, whereupon he hit her a
blow with club which stunned her SO that
she fell over upon him and broke his leg.
On the evening of the 14th, Reuben Proctor,
confined in Warren County Jail, on The charge
OF fatally shooting a Miss Cadigan, while bur-
glarizing her fathers house, was taken from
the Jail, by mob of forty men, and hanged
Gov. NEwBoLD has issued the following
Thanksgiving Proclamation: s6a 4a
Following valuable and praiseworthy custom,
ask the people of Iowa to observe Thursday,
Nov. y. 1877. the day heretofore selected by the
President Of the United States for the purpose,
rs Day of public THANKSGIVING and praise to AL
mighty God. On that day, let grateful people
assemble in the public congregation and gather
ab ss f%y ana Ss altar we to render
for the Providence that has brought us to homes
in this favored land, and for the almost-unparal-
pie, and especially for the peculiar blessings Of
the year, its almost entire freedom from the
winged scourge that has so much paralyzed in
and its cheering promise. Praises too, let us
give for the privileges of free Government, free
schools free press a free ballot, and the sacred
right each enjoys of expressing his opinion with
out fear of ostracsm. And with our praises let
us mingle our prayers for those less fortunate
than weIt those whom war has desolated, whom
famine has stricken, whom persecution has
crushed, whom poverty has distressed: nor let us
forget to contribute to their necessities. So do-
sll, may we continue to enjoy the smiles of Prov
land. rs
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set my
hand, and caused to be affixed the great
seal of the State of Iowa. Done at Des-
Moines, this tenth day of November, in
IL. s. the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven, of the State
of Iowa the thirty-frst and of the Inde-
pendence of the United States the one
BY the Governor: j. Ct. NEwBOLD.
JOSIAH I. YOUNG, Sec'y of State.
The Probert scandal case is what shakes
McGregor at present. The law part of the
affair is as to whether a certain document is
mortgage or warranty deed by which Mrs.
Probert conveys half of her farm to her second
husband, for the consideration of eight love-
letters she had sent to her former hired man
during the time she has been married to Mr.
Probert.
AT New Vienna, Dubuque County, the 9th
er day, John Kruse, the driver of beer wag
on, entered the saloon Of Nicholas Hill,
when he was instantly and without provoca-
tion struck by Hill a violent blow. on the
head with beesglass. The cheek ibone and
the lower part fsthe temple weree fractured,
and he was othehxise fatally injured.
HOMER ]. BAM, General Western Agent of
the Buckeye mower and reaper, shot himself
twice at the residence of j. s. Wilson, in
Council Bluffs, on the 18TH The first shot
took effect in his head, making q severe
wound. Mr.. Wilson took the revolver away
from him and ran for assistance. While alb
sent Mr.. Ball opened bureau drawer, took
from it Mr.. Wilson's revolver, and fred o sec
ond shot, which took effect in his abdomen. 4
Financial difficulties were the cause. 1t ap-
pears that he had been dealing heavily in op-
tions in the Chicago market, and lost heavily. 4
The Company had been pressing him for set
Element, and, being unable to comply, he pre-
ferred death to exposure. A wife and two
children mourn his loss.
THE average wealth of each person IN iowa
is S601 .03.
In O'Brien County it is said to be the proper
thing to wind up Normal Institute with a
masquerade ball.
THE totalexpenditure on the Iowa State Cap
itol thus far is 81, ,250,0O
THROUGH trains between Burlington and
Minneapolis, Mimi, began running on the
18th. N
TIE recent earthquake was felt quite sensi-
bly, in various places in Iowa. At Dubuque,
the vibration of one the public school build
fngs frightened the pupils, and the teacher,
thinking that the building was about to tum-
Bile, summarily dismiesedthem. At Iowa City,
on ground floors there was q barely perceptible
tremor; in the second stories 1t was more dis
tinct, while on third and fourth floors gas iix-
lures and glass ratified, and there was plainly
perceptible motion as Of the floor slip.
ping, with jerks. No special phenom-
ena were registered at the University
Observatory at the time of the Shocks
At st. Mary's Catholic Church, In Sioux City,
large congregation was present to witness
confirmation ceremonies. A panic was immi
nent, and was only prevented by the presence
Of mind Of Father Lenehan, the pastor who,
In few words, Gained thcirfcars and restored
order Several ladies tainted, and one or two
were injured by jumping from seats in the
choir to the floor, distance Of about twelve
feet. At the High-School building the schol-
ars and teachers were greatly alarmed but all
got out of the building without serious IN
jury, though some Of the more excited scholars
leaped from the first-storv windows. 4
MRS. W. P. CrrLER was killed BY the cars
At Nevada, Story County, last summer, and
the Northwestern Railroad Company has paid
the bereaved husband 5000
CHARLES WHITEHEAD, Of Jefferson Town
ship, Dubuque County, died recently, from
the effect Of blow from hammer In the
h&nds Of another young man.
: aTnR Woodbury. County GrAnd Jury has been
visiting the Poor Farm. They find the pau
pers wen fed and cared for, and no ring or
corruption existing, but when they figure ont
that each pauper's board cost $7.53 per week
they wonder II they could not be boarded 1t
some hotel tust as well. ss-
A BuRLrxeros Alderman moved out Of his
ward, and tried 70 hold on to his seat IN the
Council, but the City Solicitor has decided thst
award caunot be represented BY : person not :
citizen thereof, and that the removal Of the
Alderman vacates his Municipal position.
THE latest reports from St. Louis give the
following as the current prizes ~ leading
staples: Flour-Xxx, Fail Z ek6595 65;s
sWtsat --Nn4 Red, Fail, &l.233z al. .23s< No. s
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