The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-03
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IOWA STATE NEWS.

from nose-bleed. The now OF blood continued
| three houra
The volga branch Of the River road wa.
completed to Wadena, distance Of forty-hve
miles, ON the 22d.
The Central Iowa Poultry Show closed, on
the 21st. The next meeting will be at Grinnell.
The following were elected officers for the en-
suing year: President J. NJ. Hiatt. Of New
Sharon; vice-Presidents, E. Lee, Of Marshall
town; W. X. Laughlin. Of Fort Dodge, and
Theodore Coster, Of Montezuma; Secretary
and Treasurer, Willes Davis, OF Grinnell
VIM. DOYLE fell between the tender and a
car, while the train was in motion, near
McGregor, on the 29d, and had both legs cut
| from his body.
A COLONY Of emigrants for Texas Is being
organized in Dubuque.
THE Grand Lodge of the Knights Of Pythias
of Iowa will meet In Marshalltown, on the
11th OF February.
The City Council Of Burlington has directed
the Mayor to rcorganize his police force and
rid the city of all disreputable characterb 1t
also ordered that saloon-kecpers must close
all saloons and put out the lights at II p. M,
and from Saturday night until Monday morn
ing, under the penalty of revoking their IL
censes.
SOME months ago the Council Bluffs Non
parcel chronicled the trial of young man for
an attempt to shoot a good-looking young girl
OF that city. It was developed on the trial
that the young man was violently in love with
the girl, who did not reciprocate. But the So
quel remains to be told, for among the licenses
to marry issued during the month of Novcm-
Der last there was one for this very couple
THERE are twenty-four distilleries In Iowa,
1874 breweries, seventy wholesale liquor-deal-
ers and 3,69i saloons. These figures are de-
rived from Governments license records, and
of course do not include all the places where
Illicit making and selling is done.
THE Directors of the Iowa State Agricult-
ural Society meet in DesMoines Jan. o.
THE jewelry house of c. F. George, of Fair
field, has suspended.
MRs. SoHERM, who keeps a saloon at Rock
ingham, Scott County, had a revelation from
the spirit world that the body of her husband
had been stolen from the grave She insisted
on having the grave opened, and, sure enough,
the body of her husband was still there
Hamk-Ew.
GEO. W. BRouGH, a Dubuque miner, was
accidentally killed, on the 24th. He descended
shaft Immediately after blast had been put
off and was overcome by gas. He called to his
fellow-workmen to pull him up, but before he
reached the top he fell from the tub, twenty
feet, fractured his skull, and died an hour aft
erward.
FAIRFIELD had a sensation lately in the cap
ture Of two desperate little horse-thieves only
ten years of age.
In Washington Township, Poweshiek
County, last week, disgracefal scene trans
pired at the Oak Grove school-house during
the reading of the Bible. AS soon as the
teacher, male, commenced to read the Amer
lean Tract Society Bible, girl pupil began to
read aloud from Catholic Bible. The teacher
attempted to take the Bible from the girl,
when her brother interfered, and a brutal
fight followed, which is now being settled In
the courts.-lo,ca State Register
A YOUNG girl nHncu Wright was fatally
kicked by horse, recently, at a spelling
school match at Grand River Decatur Coun-
ty) school-house, while attempting to mount
the unruly animal.
The cost of building improvements in Du-
buquc the past year, as given in the Herald,
amounts to over 100000.
BURGLARS entered the hardware house Of
A. Weber Il Co., at Keokuk, on the night of
the 25th, and robbed it of sixty dollars in
money and two revolvers. The safe was cut
open with a cold-chisel
JOHN MuNDER, a quarryman, living near
Ottumwa, was killed, on the 25th on e. B. a.
@. Railroad freight train, between Ottumwa
and Chilicothe. He was intoxicated and fell
from the platform of the caboose car.
WILLIAM FELTER, from Cedar County, was
arrested in Davenport, lately, for passing
forged orders on clothing stores. He gave as
an excuse that "his girl had gone lack on
him!',
THE Farmers Home Hotel and butcher
shop adjoining, at Sioux City, were burned on
the morning of the 9th. Loss, s,,50O.
THE Seventeenth General Assembly will
meet Jan. IA.
On the night Of the 26th, at Waterloo, sa-
loon row occurred between one McGrire and
Hy Smith, during which the former shot and
mortally wounded the latter
LIGHTNING-RoD swindlers in the vicinity of
Iowa City have oyerleaped themselves. They
agreed in sort of insurance policy to assure
houses against lightning for ten years, and,
after the lightning-rods were erected, bull
dozed the victims into notes promising to pay
more than double the price agreed on. Now
1t is discovered that the notes are void for the
reason that the law Of Iowa declares that any
company or individual claiming to insure
property within this State without being duly
authorized under the laws Of Iowa are acting
in violation of law, and any notes given under
such contract are expressly declared by the
statute to be void.
The following were the Postoffice changes
in Iowa during the week ending Dec. %:
Name Changed-Union Ridge, Butler County,
to Bickfords. Postmasters Appointed-Da
City, Decatur County, James E. Teale; Port
Louisa, Louisa County, Mrs. Augusta H. Law;
Reinbeck, Grundy County, Mrs. e. Townsan;
Roscoe, DesMoines County, John Williams;
Rowley, Buchanan County, J. w. Cooper.
THE Board of Directors of the State Agri-
cultural Society meets at DesMoines on the
second Wednesday of January, 1878, which will
be on the 9th day.
Ar Decorah, on the 9th ult., Col. j. H.
Thorp was shot in the jaw, by his business
j. A. Murray.
THE latest reports from st. Louis give the
as the current prices for leading
staples: Flour-XXX, Fall, s5.5o605.7O
Wheat -No.a Red, Fall, s1.23}8t0l. 235s; No. 8.
Spring 81. .'s@l.1s]l; Corn-No. Mixed,
k4}.G0s5e; Ryc-No. g. 5s1SG0555sc; Oats
,7a13I1fc; Pork-s.1.75@l1.S5; Lard
Ih@19sc; Hogs --sl5c@4lo; Cattle-s3.75
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