The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-05-16

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Mrs. FANNIE WEST, a youse woman resit
Ing at California junction, committed suicid
. few days ago by hanging She had bee
melancholy adj desSodde6t fof blheftia
previous and had on one occasion requeste
her husband to cut Aarthroat.
scorr COUNTY wai haye planted &C, 900 acrs
f0corn this year. -
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buqus t:-is fan ceIebrnte their sixtieth year .
married life. w YEA esi Z.
| Z THE Diocesan Convention Of the Episcops
Church OF the Diocese of Iowa, that is to NEE
IN eCathedral in Davenport the last weel
in May, VIII last three or four days. The ses
sion will be presided. oyer, by the Bishop
There are about fifty parishes in the State
and each parish will send three lay delegate
and one clerical delegate SO fhat the Opnven
tion will be cornp eeed of abSbt 200 deIegate
Its duties will be to attend to matters reIatinl
to the local government Of the Church b til
States
LITTLE three-year-old son of ,Mr. .Joh,
Seide, living near DesMoihes, met his deati
recently ina sad and sudden manner. H,
was In the field where his father, had beer
using large ground roller, for smoothing the
surface. A span of horseswas attached to the
roller. The little lad walked up behind tht
roller and took the lines that were hanging
overit. Pulling upon them, the horses SUP.
posed they were wanted to back up and did
SO. The roller knocked the boy down and
passed over him, crushing the life out of his
little body in an instant
AT Keokuk on.siie n1iao,rning of tl,elsth, !
fire destroyed row Of brick houses Half
block in length. The losses were as follows:
8. s. Vail. .son building4 $1O,5O0; B. B. Bower.
on building, $4,000; Burkett & Co., on stock,
$35, 900; Keokuk and DesMoines Railway, on
furniture and supplies, 5000; Western U mon
Telegraph, battery, ETC., $500; total, $64 300.
On the Sth, there went out of Fort Madison
Penitentiary a man naiaN Graham, who
served twenty years imprisonment for crime
not committed. Twelve years ago woman,
on whose testimony he was, ,aconvicted, con-
fessed her perjury, but Graham overcome BY
the injustice of his conviction, had become an
imbecile, and had been kept in the Penitentiary
instead Of some or-house.. = - Z
AFIRE at C.sLeindecker's place near Mus
catine, few nights ago, destroyed his barn
with six horses, fine Jersey b ull and calf,
with a lot of agricultural machinery. Loss,
$1,000; no insurance. The fire IS supposed to
have been tlcendiarys becausrs I.rindeck had
AN. Immigration Association has been
formed in Humboldt County, and other north
western counties are talking Of doing like
WISE
O'BRIEN COUNT expenses in 1877 were
$13.5Sz32.
THE senior class of the State University
have decided not to have a class day.
THE Supreme Court lately decided that the
ulsc'ia'se =. snusoanu ilo'u :. .a.sup'cy ~ uues
~. le,eass my plopc.sf - - -, - non, i,a
family expenses. The Court also decides that
the rights Of homesteadsexemptto1 70 the
widow as the head Of the family ceaees when
she marries again.
THE Illinois Central has pufchased twen-
ty-seven-acre bed Of gravel at Cherokee, which
tbev viii work With steam shoyels and force
Of SOo men for the supply Of their entire line.
/ ~ ,oro,,,,r ers ~. postot,;ce. cbs,,oes
q Iow. dur,ng tha week ending Mav4. bis.
continued -Crysta Lake. Hancock County.
Postmasters Appointed-Burr Oak, Winnie
shiek County, A. j. Cratzenberg; Ellington,
Hancock County. q. w. Gllett; Russell, Lu-
cas- County, James Il. Cook.
A RuMon prevailed in DesMoines, on the
9th. that Mr.. Pickard, of the Chicago public
schools, has the inside track for President of
the state University, the Regents sn having de-
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been !. nc insane asylum at Mount Pleasant ~.
days before, apparently well and sane. On
the 9th, little after ten o'clock, he bought a
box of cartridges uptown, and, it is supposed,
loaded his pistol on the way home. Immedi-
ately after he had entered his private apart
ment up-stsirs, pistol-shot wsssheerds and
his sister on entering the room found him
senseless before the mirror, where he must
have gone in order to take a sure aim,