The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-31
THE NEWS.

THE Carllsts nieu III" tnc UeIhan
brig Gustav off the haroor OF San Sc
hstian recently.
The lightning struck the powder mag
zine At Scutari, Turkey, on the 21st. A
.srridc explosion followed, overwhelm-
;,r q portion of the city walls, demolish-
inv many houses and wounding 200 per-
sons.
The steamer Japan was burned near
Hong Kong on the 18th.
On the 2lst Irwin testified that he had
maid nothing to any member of Congress
,oipfuence votes for the Pacific Mail
subsidy, but refused to tell to whom he
psid the money.
S. B. Axtell has been confirmed as
Governor of Utah.
4 boiler exploded in the mill of J.B.
Laird g. CO., at Angelica, Wis, on the
list, killing six men and wounding
many others.
Rev. w. r. Huntington, of Worcester,
Mass, has declined the Bishopric of
4 bwa.
Prince Bismarck has moved in the
German Federal Council to conclude a
new extradition treaty with the United
States.
Two German men-ofwar have been
ordered to Santander to demand salts
action of the Carlists for the attack
mon the brig Gustav.
Great Britain has formally accepted
the invitation to participate in the Gen.
annial.
The writ of habeas corpus in Tweed's
case has been dismissed. Judge Law
renee on the 22d granted writ of
urtiorari.
The Conservative members of the Mis-
sssippi Legislature have issued an ad-
dress protesting against the call of the
Governor and Legislature for troops to
be sent to Warren County. The minority
report of the legislative committee on
Gov Ames' message denies the allega-
tons made in the message.
The Governor of Iowa has offered
reward of $500 for the capture and con-
yction of each of the ringleaders in the
recent lynching at Des Moines of How
ard, and $500 each for the other parties
concerned.
By the action OF the Returning Board
in throwing out certain votes the Con-
sentative majority in the Louisiana
House of Representatives had, on the
ed, been reduced to two, with eleven
parishes yet to canvass. The Com
mlttee of Seventy had issued an
appeal calling the attention of |
the people of the United States to |
wrongs and indignities under which the |
free people of that State are, they say,
suffering They claim that the election
had been fairly carried by the Conserva-
tiyes, and that the Returning Board |
would not fairly promulgate the result,
but had evinced a determination to de-
fraud the people and defeat their will
expressed at the ballot-box.
The Turcoman difficulties in Khiva
have been settled.
The King Of the Sandwich Islands left
Washington on the 23d for New York.
The Holmeses, of Philadelphia, still
continue their "seances" and protest
their innocence of any completely with
the Katie King" frauds. Their sittings
are still attended by earnest and un-
doubling believers.
The father of Charlie Ross has offered
reward of $1,000 for the return of his
child.
A New Orleans dispatch of the 23d
says the Returning Board had given the
Republicans AZ and the Conservatives 46
members of the House. The Conserva-
tive committee withdrew from the Board
because of its alleged arbitrary ruling,
and entered protest against the action
of the Board in rejecting the returns
Of certain precincts and thus securing
The return of Republican in place OF
Democratic candidates. The Board an
nounce the election of four Conservative
md two Republican Congressman. The
Conservative subcommittee certify to
he election of four Conservative and two
Republican Congressman; the election
If Moncure, State Treasurer, by 1851
majority, and the election of seventy-one
and thirty-seven Republi-
ans to the Legislature.
A train on the Great Western Railway,
ran off the track near Wood
took, on the Gath. Thirty persons were
Tiled and wounded.
At an explosion in the Bignall Hill col
cry, England, on the Gath, twenty
liners were killed.
The British ship Basilisk, just returned
rom four years. cruise, reports the dis
overy Of large group of islands near
lew Guinea.
The Secretary of the Interior has writ
N letter to the War Department ask
lg that the most effective measures may
G adopted toward all persons encroach-
,g upon the Black Hills reservation.
James Walker, D. D., formerly Presi-
ent of Howard College, died recently
his residence in Cambridge, Mass.
The meeting of Railway Commission
RS for the Northwestern States has been
ostponed until Jan. &c, 1875.
Madrid dispatches of the 9th report
lood as very scarce IN the town of Pam
palona, and all known Carlists had been
expelled from the place. The Carlists
lad offered to restore the German brig
'ustay upon payment Of the customs
Iuties alleged to be due.
The Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia,
ne hero of the diamond scandal has been
judged to be insane.
The emigrant ship Cospatrick was
urned on the 18th off Madeira. 1t is
stimated that 465 persons persisted.
Gen. Sheridan, according to q Wash
'gton dispatch of the Goth, had been
rdered to New Orleans to relieve Gen.
mory.
Over 400 men and women were re-
emily discharged from the Bureau of
rinting and Engraving in consequences
large part of the work having been
ansferred to New York.
Mrs. Herman Bauer, her infant child,
'rvant girl and q Mr.. Beckerdt were
ightfully burned in St. Louis on the
9Th by the explosion Of spirit lamp. Ii
In an affrav in New Orleans on the