The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-05-24
IOWA STATE NEWS.

two men near the illinois shore saw man ap-
preaching the bridge on hand-car at full
speed. They called his attention to the fact
that the draw was open, and hasae hin Beware,
but he answered with an oath and pushed rap
idly on, and in an instant the man and car
leaped blindly over the end of the bridge into
the darkness and night, and after one piercing
shrek the light Of the lantern and of the mans
life were quenched e,gether by the boiling
foods Of the great dark river. The deceased
was John Wallburg
J. NJ. GARbNER was arrested at Marshalltown,
on the 18th. for having wife too many.
An insane man named Lang recently assaulted
John Mack, at the gravel-bed above Meningitis
Springs, and tally injured him. His skull
was fractured.
was robbed of its communion-seryice, few
days ago.
MEKRMAcK (wis. Is asitated over a letter to
the Postmaster from a woman in this State,
claiming to be the wife Of the pastor of the
Methodist Church IN that place; and that she
has two children by him. He claims to be a single
man. The woman says she is wife No. /. and
that he has No. in Tennessee, and that he was
guerrilla in the rebel service under Forrest. and
killed the brother of wife No I at the Fort Pill.
low massacre.
TIE first animal camp-meefinr of the Law
Association of the Advent believers of Iowa
will commence on the 18th of June next in
grove near Cedar Falls, Blackhawk County,
Iowa, and will continue over two Sabbaths.
THr residence of A. T. Cox of Iowa Citv,
wa. entsred bv BURGLARS the other mpr,,;no and
a ri 0Oo-hond a gold watch worth saO0 and
ssvent,,.t;ve ,,,l,ars in noonev talon
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DURING the past twelve months zSl persons
have died in Keokuk.
OWING to continued i'll health, President
Welch, of the State Agricultural College, has
been granted leave of absence for an indefinite
period.
DUBUQUE brewers have been using kegs larger
than prescribed by the Revenue Department,
and now the Revenue Agent is making trouble
Ior tne manuIac'urers OF tne oeVerase'
Ex-eiov. CARPENTER Is about to leave the of1ce
OF Second Comptroller OF the Treasury, under
circumstances that are quite refreshing. Some
time ago the Cabinet decided that the Pacific
Coast should have representative among the
heads OF bureaus, and as Iowa has four promi-
nent officers, namely, Secretary OF War, Land
Commissioner, THIRD Auditor and Second Comp
toiler, 1t was decided TO Vacate one OF them,
and lhird Auditor TABOR was elected as the per-
son 10 60 hearing tnis' uoV. carpenter IN
qulred OF secretary sherman whether, II no
snonid resign, labor wohio pe retained. Inc
secretary repiied afnrmauveiy, ana carpenter
tnen SAID that nus 1ormaI resigna'ion "oulo pe
forthcoming whenever his successor was named.
TABOR is an oid man. ana mas peen In ms once
nearly eigh'een years ne poor, anu wouio
DC at loss 70 kno" wnae 70 10 II no nao !"
leave MS posi'ion' carpenter is young man'
ana mas peen IN once oniy nI1een months. as
between nimseir ana Auditor lapof' ne toid ehe
secretary ne tnougnt ne ougn' 10 re'ire' IN
sIances are very rare "nere one inah Resigns "
keep announcer IN ONCE carpenter rh'enas 70 re-
TURN 20 Iowa anu ehser Jo"lnailsla'-" T" 0's'e'g'
70" 1e'eg'uf"' -noy io'
The annual gathering of the educators and
Country Superintendent of The State will occur
at DesMoines during the week co nmencing June
70. Favorable rates have been obtained OF the
hotels and reduced fare OF some OF the railroads.
County Superintendent Hughes will furnish all
necessary information by addressing him at Des-
MONIES.
A FEW days ago, at DesMoines, Judge Dillon,
in the United States Circuit Court delivered the
opinion of the Court in the long-contested and
important case of various creditors against the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids d Northern Railroad.
In this case were involved the relative rights
and priorities of mechanics liens and mort
cages. There are about forty cases in this Court
in which similar questions are in issue. In the
above case the petition of Wells, French 4 Co.,
who seek to establish mechanics lien on the
railroad for bridges, ETC., such lien to have pri-
ority over the mortgages given before the work
was done and held by trustees, and to include
all the property of the road then exist
ing or to be acquired, was made the
test as to all the other cases. The
Court holds that where, at the time of the
commencement of the building Of rail
road, there is no recorded lien or incum-
brance. and a recorded lien is created subsequent