The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-25
IOWA STATE NEWS.

? 1VWA SIAIE NEWSs
. In 1870 there were in Iowa 369, 81 mich
3 cows, yielding 27,512, ,179 pounds Of butter
. 1,087, ,74l pounds of cheese and 6SS, 800 gal
Ions Of milk sold. These have been in
creased 9oS,712 cows, producing 10,S50,3 ,36l
!. pounds Of butter, 100000 pounds of chees.
: and 2,616, 800 gallons Of milk-or total in
crease in dairy products of s., 500, 600; ant
the quality has also increased, from tht
> lowest grade to the best in the world, de-
!, mandng and receiving the grand gold medal
at the great Exposition at Philadelphia
This branch OF industry is assuming i'm
mense proportions, and shows that Iowa i.
coming rapidly to the front rank.
A REVIVAL meeting was broken up a,
Council Bluffs, the other night, by crowd
of roughs who shouted !" fire. just as the
mourners were gathered at the altar. They
were brought before the Mayor next day
and heavily fined.
AT Boonesboro, on the 18th, Ben BanfieId,
coal miner at the Diamond mine, fell down
the shaft and received fatal injuries.
ELI WEAVER, clerk in the drugstore Of
G. b. Welsh, in Boone, was found in snow
drift between that place and Bconesboro, on
the night of the 18th, SO badly frozen that his
recovery was deemed improbable.
MICHAEL SMITHS residence, at Des-
Moines, together with its entire contents,
was burned, q few evenings ago, the family
barely escaping with their lives. Loss,
$1,000.
FERD. e. WINsLow, who took that s12, ,OO0
from the United States Treasury, was for
merly resident of Dubuque.
Two-YEAR-oLD child of Henry Meyer, a
Dubuque baker, was scalded to death few
evenings since by pan of boiling milk
which it pulled over on itself.
AS THERE has been no existing epidemic
among dogs, the crop in the State is about
the same as in 1S75-197, 500. Estimating
the cost of keeping dog at cents per day,
the cost of the dog crop is S., ,767 ,263-a sum
sufficient to purchase an equal number of
| hogs and fatten them to 250 pounds. With
a State tax of 50 on each dog, the revenue
would be s395,Ols or nearly sufficient to
| compile the new Capitol
THERE are 2O6 children at the Orphans
Home, near Davenport, 1S9 being the chill
dren of soldiers, the Others having been re-
ceived under the law making the institution
home for all orphans sent to it by the
Boards of Supervs sors.
WARREN GODDARD was recently arrested
in DesMoines for the murder of George Won
Fossen, farmer of Putnam County, Ind, in
August last.
THE Court House of Ida County, at Ida,
was burned to the ground on the morning of
the 18th. The books and papers belonging
to the Sheriff and County Recorder were de-
stroyed Loss about $1,000; insured for
$1,000. The fire originated from defective
stove pipe in the Recorders Office
The Board Of Supervisors of Polk County
have fixed the salary of the County Clerk at
$4,000 per annum and his deputies at S 900
each. They have also passed resolution
instructing those officers to pay all their
fees into the treasury, and providing that
they shall draw their salaries ronthly, the
same as other officers.
THERE are now about 1900, 900 bushels of
corn in store between Davenport and Oma-
ha on the line of the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific Railroad. Two million bushels of
this are stored at points between Atlantic
and Council Bluffs, and advices received at
Davenport are to the effect that fully two
thirds of last years corn crop is still in the
hands of the farmers.
THE coal mined in Boone County last year
ALFRED MCDANIELs, one OF the nrsL TO
settle in Dubuque County, died at Dubuque,
on the 18th.
ENsIaN's mill at New Hartford was
burned few nights ago. Loss, $1,000.
THE Illinois Central Railroad in Iowa re-
quires editors to furnish the company with
their photograph to be affixed to their
annual passes.
A FEW nights ago, some young friends OF
William Connect, living near Prairie City,
played joke on him, ghtening him in the
most terrible manner. Connect has since
been taken to the Asylum for the Insane, at
Mt. Pleasant. r.E.
Iowa stands at the head of the list as a
hog growing State. Berkshires and Poland
China are the favorites. The crop has been
decimated by disease, which has baffled all
attempts to eradicate it. 1t is suggested
that the General Assembly provide means
and committee to thoroughly investigate
the disease wherever it is manifest in the
State.
THE Iowa Game laws prohibit the killing,
trapping or possession of prairie chickens
partridges Commonly called pheasants) or
quails after Feb. l. . .-E
EIGHT prisoners escaped from the Keokuk
Jail on the evening of the 18th. Two Of
them were recaptured on the following
day.
AT Burlington, on the 18th, j. W. Rohr,
took an overdose of laudanum and died
from the effects thereof.
The following were the Postofilce changes
in Iowa during the week ending Jan. 1S
1877: Established-Arbor Hill, Adair County,
H. R. Scofield, Postmaster. Discontinued
Coalfeld, Monroe County; Garry Owen,
jackson County; Covers Ferry, Cedar
County; 1ifin, johnson County. Postmas.
tiers Appointed-Baldwin, Jackson County,
John Hale; Corydon, Wayne County, A.
Smeenk; Empire, Wright County, John De-
lano; Glendale, jefferson County, Allen Will
cox; Palermo, Grundy County, Charles F.
/. De Seelhorst; Portland, Cerro Gordo County,
Frederick A. Frost. s
THE latest reports from St. Louis give
the following as the current prices for lead
ing staples: Flour-XXX, Fall, $6.25aZ25;
Wheat-No. Q Red Winter, $1.5791. .571s;
No. 8 Red Winter, s1.46H@1.46M; Corn
No. Mixed, 4O@41c. Oats-No. 2,
341<@34xc; Rye-No. 2,7S@7shc; Pork -
sl725@17,5O; Lard - 10z@l0Hc; Hogs