The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-10-08
VOLUME VIII.
The Grand Hotel, at Saratoga, N. Y,
was entirely consumed on the LIST. The
loss aggregates about 100000.

AVSo aSSlCSdIcS dUOut $0UU,UUW.
The law providing for special cleo
ton Of Judges and Attorneys Of the ju
dicial districts into which the State was
divided by the Legislature in 1878 has
been declared constitutional by the Indi-
ana Supreme Court.
A barge laden with powder and lying
near the London Geological Gardens cx-
ploded on the I'd, killing and wounding a
number of persons and shattering houses
and bridges for two miles away. The
bodies Of five persons had been recovered
from the canal Several valuable ami
mails in the garden were killed.
The recent typhoon proved more de-
structive in Japan than in China. A late
arrival reports that several steamers and
over 600 junks were wrecked, 5000
houses destroyed and 300 lives lost at
Kobe, Nagasaki and Sagaken
The Attorney-General has recently
advised the appointment of Deputy Mar
sbals in remote parts of each Southern
District, to act at once in the arrest
of parties committing outrages in the
vicinity.
| Elmer Washburn, once Police Superin-
tendcnt at Chicago has been appointed
| Chief Of the Government Secret Service
Mr.. Beccher attended the weekly
prayer-meeting at Plymouth Church on
the evening of the I'd. lie was warmly
received by his friends.
Charles Summers estate has been ap-
praised and is valued at $134,75S
The following Congressional nomina-
tions were made on the I'd: Democratic
and dependent-Ninth Illinois District,
L. F. Ross Liberal-First Michigan, A.
S. Williams.
Gov. Kellogg has removed two officials,
upon the recommendation Of the new
Advisory Board, because it was charged
that they obstructed registration.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has
recently decided that parents, and not
teachers, have the right to prescribe the
course of study their children shall pur-
sue in school,
The Nevada Independents met at
Carson on the I'd and nominated
ticket composed of seven Democrats,
four Republicans and three Independ-
ents. For Governor, l.. II. Bradley;
Lieutenant Governor, A. J. Hatch; Con-
gresham, A. G. Ellis.
The King of Italy has dissolved the
Chamber of Deputies and ordered new
election.
tr MaI Iy.I 1axA
Germany had sent a note to France in
sisting that an army Of 10000 men should
be stationed on the Spanish frontier to
prevent aid from reaching the Carlists
from French territory. Unless this were
done Germany would feel compelled to
do 50 herself
On the 4th the Ministers of Great
Britain and France presented their Gre
dentials to Marshal Scrrano 1t was
noticeable that they made no reference
TO the Spanish Republic.
The United States Government, ac-
cording to a recent Washington dispatch,
is vigorously pressing its demand for in
demnity for the Nirginus affair.
lncOuOIc ItOu dHu TTdHClS ~ MOul-
ton were indicted for malicious slander
by a Brooklyn Grand Jury on the Sd, on
complaint of Mr.. Beecher. In his testi-
mony before the Grand Jury Mr.. Beecher
characterized their allegations with ref
erence to Mrs. Tilton, another lady and
himself as malicious falsehoods" Mr.
Tilton printed letter on the 4th in
which he sslemnly reaflirms the literal
and absolute truth Of his charges against
Mr. Beecher and demands an immediate
trial. Mr.. Beecher preached to a large
congregation in Plymouth Church on
the 4th.
The Alabama Democratic and Con
scrvativc State Executive Committee
have issued an address to the people Of
the United States, in which they declare
that there is no truth in the recent re-
ports of outrages in Alabama, and that
such charges are made solely for the pur-
pose of influencing the elections in the
North and West, and to excuse the send
ing Of troops into Alabama to control
the coming election.
The Northwestern Railway Commits
sioners at their recent session at Madison,
Wis, prepared form for reports for the
easy collation. and publication of the
railway statistics of the Northwest. The
next meeting of the Commissioners will
be held at Springfield, H., on the 9th of
December.
Commodore NJ. r. Woolsey, U. S. ~,
died of yellow fever at Pensacola, Fla,
on the I'd
Nearly 10000 voters of Charleston,
s. c., assembled in mass meeting on the
evening of the Sd to demand the removal
of the Board Of Election Commission
ers, on the ground of their unscrupulous
partisanship.
The Vicar of Posen has been forcibly
elected from Germany, having disobeyed
an order to leave the country within
twelve hours.
The Sultan of Morocco has promul-
gated decree forbidding the exporta-
ton Of corn for three years.
According to a Santander dispatch OF
the 9TH, serious mutiny had broken out
in the Carlist camp at Durango. Don
Carlos had been seriously wounded,
shot taking effect in the stomach.
The Commissioners appointed to close
up the affairs of the Freedmen's Bank
at Washington say that only $45,OOO OF
the 5000, 900 required for dividend OF
o0 nor cent had been collected up to the
9Th.
Several important failures occurred in
New York on the 5th-among others the
banking house Of Clews & Co.
On the evening Of the 4th lot Of Texan
steers got loose in the streets OF New
York, and before they were shot fifteen
persons were run over and seriously in
jured.
The following were the Congressional
nominations on the 9Th: Peoples Party
First Illinois District, B. G. Caulfield;
Second District, c. II. Harrison; Third
District, J. V. LcMoyne. Democratic
Fourth Arkansas, Thomas M. Gunter;
Twelfth Ohio, William +. Fink.
According to recent dispatch from
Montgomery, Ala, several of the parties
implicated in the murder of Billings,
Northern man, had been arrested.
A New Orleans dispatch Of the 4th,