The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-09

t expenses Of the General Government fC
/ the current fiscal year; demanding tn
4 election Of Presidenk md Vice Presidez
e by popular vote fay1ring amedihcatio
. Of the Patent laws; commending the pt
: sition of the rQSin institutiAg invest
! cations Of corruptfonin Office, and favor
t ing the submission of an amendment Q
: the Constitution extending the right o
suffrage to women to the people for thei
7 decision.
A resolution securing home rule TO
Ireland was voted down in the British
Parliament on the I'd, by yeas 81, nays ass
The Carlists, according to Bayonn,
, dispatches Of the I'd, have energetically
denied that they massacred and mutt
J lated the prisoners captured at Muro.
The German Government has decided
!. to send squadron to Spanish ports t.
demand indemnity for outragcs perpe
trated by the 1ntransigentes at Cartagens
during the earlier periods of the Spanish
outbreak
On the.2d the doors Of the Washing
i ten FScedinenas Bank and its bfSnc4es II
various sections Of the country were
closed and the concern will 90 into
liquidation.
1t has been ascertained that the dog
that bit William Mccormick, Of New
York, who recently died Of hydrophobia
was not mad, and the theory is advanced
that the bite of any dog, whether mad Of
not, may cause the disease.
The intention Of largely reducing pas.
senger and freight rates from New York
west was denied by New York telegrams
of the I'd
A few days ago while Christina Ross,
at Cleveland, Ohio, was replenishing a
vapor stove with gasoline, some Of the
fluid was spilled upon the stove. An ex-
plosion followed, and Miss Ross and her
! fellowservant were so badly burned that
both died in an hour.
According to recent Des Moines
Qowa) dispatch the Chicago Rock Island
& Pacific Railroad had determined to
obey the new law of Iowa, for the regu-
tion Of passenger and freight rates, as a
matter Of experiment, though denying
its justice and constitutionality.
According to Madrid telegram of the
4th an additional levy of 10000 men had
been ordered by the Spanish Govern
ment to reinforce the army of the North.
The United States Circuit Court, in
session at Madison, Wis, has decided
that the Potter Railway law of Wis
consn is valid, and has denied the in
junction sought by the foreign bond
holders of the Chicago & Northwestern
Railroad to restrain the State authorities
from enforcing its provisions.
The st. Louis bridge was formally
opened to public traffic on the 4th The
event was duly celebrated.
Serious accidents occurred in Chicago
on the 4sh, on account of the reckless
mannerin which the day was celebrated.
According to Paris dispatches of the
9th the political situation in France was
becoming serious again. The Legitimists
had resolved to make an attempt to un-
seat the Ministry upon an Interpolation
in regard to the suspension Of LUnion.
MacMahon had delared that he would
not accept their designations, even if the
Government should be uutyotrd
The Coroner's jury on the Mill River
disaster rendered verdict on the Sd in
which the Legislature was censured for
Indifferent legislation, the millowners
for their parsimony, the engineers for
blind and obscure directions, the con-
tractors for poor work and the County
Commissioners for accepting an imper-
feet job.
A colored member of the Legislature
of the District of Columbia, according
to Washington dispatch of the Sd, had
been arrested for forgery.
On the Sd the President had rendered
to Hon. Marshall Jewell the Office Of
Postmaster General, and he had tele-
graphed from st. Petersburg his accept
ance of the position. Mr.. Jewell is at
present United States Minister to Rus
sia, and will return to this country in
August Pending his arrival First As
sistant-P t-Postmaster-Gen. Marshall will be
acting Postmaster-General.
A Paris special of the Sd says that the
Count de Chambord had issued mani
festo to the people Of France demanding
a truce to the divisions that distract the
nation. He concludes his address with
these words: II am now, as before,
ready Is it not time to
restore prosperity and grandeur to
France with the venerable royaltys'
In consequence Of the withdrawal Of
the forces to reinforce the army of the
North, the national troops had been
to abandon the forts outside
Bilboa, which were Immediately occu-
pied by the Carlists.
Allegheny City, Pa, was the scene of
a destructive conflagration on the 4th,
by which 100 houses were burned, with
total loss of $25OOOO all the result of
The city Of Pontiac, ILL.,, was visited
by destructive confagration on the 4th
Loss, $175,OOO. Fire-crackers caused it.
A London dispatch of the 4th says the
English and French press generally con-
sidered that the recent manifesto Of the
Count de Chambord had rendered it i'm
possible for him ever to become King Of
France L'Union, the paper that pub
lished it, has been suspended by order of
the Government.
A serious accident occurred on the
Shore Line Railroad on the morning Of
the 9th, occasioned by misplaced
switch near the Stony Creek bridge,
Conn, by which the train from Connecti-
cut River for New Haven was thrown
from the bridge and precipitated to the
bottom Of the creek. Superintendent
Wilcox was instantly killed and about
100 passengers more or less injured The
train consisted of the baggage car and
five passenger cars, and all went down
with the exception of the engine.
Washington Square, New York, was
The scene of strange accident on the
evening of the 9th. A pyrotechnic dis
play had nearly reached its end when q
spark from rocket alighted in the midst
Of pile Of fireworks, causing prema-
ture explosion of rockets, Roman can
dies and bombshells, which were sent fly
ing among the spectators, creating ter
rible panic. A large number Of persons
-. 800 1nco coro~o1xy sri,,roA