The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-02-01

IOWA STATE NEWS.
Jams Sn14h, q Cascade, While In the act
of taking down shot-gan ffo4 rack, on
the 21st, accidentally discktrHld 1t, the load
taking effect In his wife's sldlder, and In
aicting whSS It is feared. MY prove fatal
wound.
TaH indebtedness Of o'Brien County Il
ate1ed by - Auditor to be t0ss as sixty-
1lsesc sccntSfer acre for the whoas sounty.
{ = auzE = aeouDfses N thh State are
lffl county iEsurance companies.
H. n ~ mntnal plan, With assess
ment Of members n case u loss.
= Tnz Tax law requires the railroads rum
tiAE through Or within The State to .slbmit
% the authorities . list Of all the property
they possess or use within the State, once .
year, for State taxation. On this the State
levies the regular State tag. This aggregate
q taxes is then divided along the entire line
Of each road by counties, and each county
receives such proportion Of the whole
- the number Of miles Of road in
that county bears to the whole dis
tance. The City ofa Dubuque some
time ago sued the Chicago, Dubuque
& Minnesota and the Chicago, Clinton 4 Du-
buquc Railroads in the Dubuque District
Court to compel them to pay tax to the city
ON all the property held within the city linn
its, claiming that the Tax law which treated
railroad, its track, bridges, machine-shops,
and rollingptock - an entirety was uncon-
stitutfonal. The people along the lines Of
these roads outside OF Dubuque, as well AZ
the railroads, claimed that it was but just
that the roade were taxed equally per mile,
giving the counties through which the roads
pass an opportunity to draw their revenue by
proper division Of the taxes 1t was also
claimed that the river cities receive greater
benefit from railroad approximately than
the interior country, for, through their
trade and business, the principal Of
fees and machine-shops being located at
these points, they reap the cream Of the en-
tire section Of country through which the
road passes. The Court, however, declared
the law unconstitutional. The case was ap.
pealed to- the Supreme Court of the State,
and few days ago decision was given re-
versing the decree Of the Court below. The
Supreme Court holds that it is not only
within the power of the Legislature to pre-
scribe this special mode Of valuation as ap-
piled to this class Of property, but that its
provisions are wise and just, considering the
impracticAbility OF arriving at any thing like
just results, by leaving the assessment and
valuation to be made by each Township and
City Assessor in which the road may be in
part situated.
ALTHOUGH Iowa is adapted to sheep-rais.
Ing, the culture has retrogradcd in five years
the decrease being ,076, ,406 head.
Iowa has l 1,4Sl Postofficcs.
The Insane Asylum at Mount Pleasant
has 573 inmates,
IN June the wheat crop promised to he
the average yield, but at harvest time 1t was
reduced to not exceeding ysix bushels per
acre throughout the State. In many places
1t was total failure. The largest yield was
in some of the grasshopper regions. In
quality it is generally superior to that Of
1875.
A DAVENPORT Jehu has been held to bail
for running over child in the streets of that
city and causing its death.
THE following are tie Postoffice changes
in Iowa during the week ending Jan. 20:
Discontinued Harrison, Guthrie County;
Seaton, Fayette County. Postmasters APP
pointcd-Carl, Adams County, NJ. NJ. Ford;
Climax, Montgomery County, Allen Davis;
Lattner's, Dubuque County, Jacob Brett
bach; Lavega, DesMoincs County, James R.
sines; LeGrand, Marshall County, F. B.
McGrew; Maxfcld, Bremen County, Mrs. EN-
lily Brcdow; Tama City, Tama County, +. J.
N. Wonzer. ss pf,s tsf9d,
Mrs KIRK. of Davenport, was clearing
out an old closet the other. day. She was
on a chair, and found an old, rusty pistol.
She looked in the barrel, and handed it to
her boy who was putting the old rubbish in
to aibasket. The boy pursued the investiga-
tion and raised the hammer. It fell, and SO
did Mrs. Kirk. She was badly wounded In
the thigh.
THE Scott County Poor-H House has thirty
seven inmates.
BEDFORD, Taylor County, is shipping =
large amount Of poultry to California.
EIGHT divorces were granted by the John.
son County Court in one week recently.
RIP. MILLS, aged twenty -one years, stu
dent at Tabor College, committed suicide, on
the 22d, by hanging himself Unrequited love
Is supposed to have induced the act.
THE Board Of Supervisors of Clay County
have returned the taxable valuation of that
county for assessment purposes at fifteen
per cent.
i THE Marshall County Fair Is to be held
ON the 11th, 18th and 18th days Of septem.
Der next. Is
EEoUGH Eastern capital has been secured
to build an additional hundred miles of the
Black Hills 4 Sioux City Railroad.
TIE number Of failures In Iowa in 1875
was 49l, with @, ,9O9, $50 as the reported lia-
bilities. In rs the number Of failures in
the State was 1888; with 81 ,610,S05 liabilities;
in "a it was IA, with $2,OS1 900 liabili.
ties; in '7S, 1t was al, with $1,9l7.OoO lia.
bilities; in ", 1t was 81, with $s76. 900 lia-
bilities. s.;..s
BIZ boiler explosion at Ormanville, Davis
County, the other night, B. B. Stevens, q
well-known citizen of Wapello County. was
blown to atoms, and the mill to the four
winds.
JOHN LAUER, an Audubon County settler,
put arsenic In his biscuit instead of sale
ratus. he discovered his mistake soon
enough to prevent the necessity OF his sud.
den removsff ffom thst precinct
Wins latest rsspdrts from St. Louis givsee
the following as the current prices for lead
M jlaplss: Rlour2Xxx. ran, 16.9SQ15 80;
&AWheat--No. 3 Red Fslt 41.5401.6t