The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-16
THE NEWS.

TIE tVs I" o.
The Municipal Electoral bill VIZ
passed by the French Assembly on tt
9TH. Paris dispatches of that date sa
that combination of the Moderate an
Extreme Left with 120 Legitimist Depl
ties had been formed to overthrow til
Ministry
Five persons were killed and a nun
Der injured on the 7th by a collision o
the Lancashire g. Yorkshire Railwa,
England.
An Augusta (Ga) dispatch of the It
says That Alex H. Stephens, in respons
to letter from a number of citizens
had announced his determination not t
be candidate for collection to Congress
on account of failing health.
Nine million dollars of the 5 per cent
National Bank reserve, says Washing
ton dispatch Of the 7th, required to b
kept in the Treasury had been received
which is One-half of the total amount t,
be deposited under the new law. Appli
cations for bank charters had reached
$4,000, 900, and the circulation surren
dered $2,0OO,0OO.
The Land Office heretofore kept a
Lincoln, Neb., has been removed t,
Bloomington, in the same State, by di
rection Of the President.
The new Commissioners of the Distric
of Columbia, says a Washington dispatcl
of the 7th, had unanimously agreed upol
a general system of retrcnchment.
The Catholic Bishop of the Diocese Of
Wheeling, w. Va, Rt. Rev. Richard V
Whelan, died at Baltimore on the 7th.
The Illinois Board of Railroad and
Warehouse Commissioners on the I'll
reduced the grain inspection fees through
out the State 25 per cent, and ordered
that the word "new" be inserted in each
certificate of inspection of a newly
harvested crop of wheat, rye and barley
until the 1st day of September; of oats
until the 1st day of August, and of corn
until the Goth day of April of each year.
According to dispatches received by the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs on the
7th a serious outbreak had occurred
among the Indians in the Indian Terri
tory The Chcyennes, Comanches and
Kiowas to the number of 1900 had gone
upon the war-path, and were everywhere
committing depredations attended with
unusual barbarities Five war parties
were thought to be moving from the
north fork of the Canadian River in the
direction of the trail from the agency to
Caldwell, Kan The agent telegraphs
that the Indians had said they would
clean out every white man and rancho in
that region. An urgent demand had
been made for troops with which to repel
the marauders.
For its massacre of British subjects
captured on the Virginius, says London
dispatch of the Sth, England has de-
manded $S,OOO0OO indemnity.
Calcutta dispatches of the 9Th state
that there are but 1000 natives depend
ent upon governmental charity.
Yellow fever and smallpox were pre-
vailing extensively throughout Cuba, ac
cording to late Havana advices.
Madrid dates to the Sth state that the
Republican army had been reorganizcd
into two corps preparatory to active opcr
ations in the field.
A crisis is said to have occurred in
French political affairs on the Sth. A
motion to the effect that the Assembly re-
grctted the suspension of the L'tnion
newspaper was lost, whereupon a mem
Der of the Right Center moved that the
Assembly would strenuously uphold the
septennate, which was also voted down.
At meeting of the Cabinet held immc-
diately after the adjournment of the AS
sembly, the Ministers rendered their res
ignations, which President Mac Mahon re-
fused to accept and the Ministry re-
mained as before constituted.
A Madison dispatch of the Sth says
bill in equity, complaining of the viola
tion Of the laws of the State regulating
railroads by the Chicago 4 Northwest
crn and the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railroads had been filed in the Su-
preme Court Of Wisconsin, asking that
the said railroads be enjoined by the
court to obey said law SO far as it had
the United States Circuit Court.
The receipts of the Illinois State
Treasurer during the month of June
were $32O,O1s3O, and the expenditures
$222, ,S6327.
A Cheyenne dispatch of the 8th says
battle had been fought a day or two be-
fore with the Northern Sioux near Fort
Brown. Fifty Indians had been killed
and wounded, and 100 horses captured
Three soldiers were killed and three
wounded
An editorial in the Golden Age of the
9th taunts Plymouth Church with its
sileace in regard to the Beechcr-Tilton
scandal
According to Washington dispatch
of the Sth ex-Goy. Shepherd had APP
peared before the Grand Jury of the
District of Columbia to secure the in
dictmcnt of Mr. Dana, of the New York
Sun for libel, with view to subject him
to the provisions Of the Poland law
passed at the late session of Congress.
A New York dispatch of the Sth says
the Board of Aldermen of that city had
passed resolution requesting Gov. Dix
to remove Mayor Havemeyer from office.
On the Sth, after two days session and
$50 ballots, the Democratic Congressional
Convention of the Fourteenth Ohio Dis
trict nominated John Cowan for Con-
gress.
The International scull race between
Brown, of Halifax, and Scharff, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, was rowcd at Springfield,
Mass, on the Sth The former won the
race.
Paris dispatches of the 9th say that the
proceedings in the Assembly of the day
before had convinced Republican jour-
nails of the powerlessness of that body
and they therefore had advised its disso-
luton. The Presidents message read in
the Assembly informed the members tina
he is President and will hold control Of
affairs until the expiration of his seven
years term, and suggested the necessary
legislation to secure to the country de-
fined institutions, calm and prosperity.
The British Admiral, an iron vessel,
ran ashore on the west side of Kings
Island on the 9Th, ana all but nine of the
passengers and crew were lost-some