The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-23
VOLUME VIII.

Jus, uoiuS CoHSlueraDlc damage, an(
were moving eastward.
According to Washington dispatche.
OF the 10th a serious quarrel had ariser
, between Treasurer Spinner and Actin,
Secretary Of the Treasury Conant Spin
ner claimed the right, under writer
J order Of President Grant, to waive the
! civil-service rules in appointments to his
| bureau. Conant held that the Presidents
order did not override the rules pro-
mulgated by the Civil-Service Board since
the order was issued. Secretary Bris.
tow decided in favor of Conant, and
Spinner took an appeal to the President
. The Comptroller of the Currency up to
the 10th had received applications aggre'
eating 100000 from the West and
South for portions of the National Bank
currency to be redistributed.
The separation of Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton
is the latest phase of the Beecher-Tilton
scandal, and the denial by the lady of the
allegations of her husband.
At East Saginaw, Mich, on the 18th
Goldsmith Maid trotted three straight
heats in 2:194, 2:16a and 2:16, being not
only the three fastest consecutive heats
on record, but two heats the slower of
which was better than the best time ever
made by any trotting horse in America OF
elsewhere.
The fire at Galatea, Turkey, lasted six
hours, consumed 200 houses, and de.
stroyed property valued at $2,OO0,OO0.
In consequence of irreconcilablc differ,
ences with his colleagues, NJ de Fourton,
French Minister of the Interior, has re-
signed.
According to late Havana dispatches
the Cuban insurgents were developing
considerable activity. They had recently
captured the garrison Of Ganyacales, and
were in undisputed possession Of the city
Of Trinidad, and had established a
considerable force almost within the en-
virons Of Puerto Principe. The United
States Consular Agent at Manzanillo had
been ordered to leave the island because
Of his connection with Dockery.
The loss by the insurance companies
in the recent Oshkosh (Wis.) fire reached
$251 800.
A dispatch from Tiskilwa, H., of the
| l7th says one-third Of the village had
been burned on the morning of that day
DEGREES have been issued, says Mad
rid dispatch Of the 10Th, declaring all
Spain in state of siege, and sequestrat-
ing the property of Carlists, whose es-
tates are to be held liable to heavy
penalty to the relatives Of Republicans
slain, and finally creating a special re-
serve Of 125, 900 men. The Government
had announced that it would not permit
the shooting Of prisoners in retaliation
for Carlist atrocities.
According to Berlin dispatch of the
10Th the Government had increased the
stringency of the regulations restricting
the Ultramontane clubs, and the clerical
press would be closely watched and Wig
orously dealt with for disloyal manifes-
tations.
A colliery explosion at Wigan, En-
gland, on the 10Th, killed fifteen persons.
At Pisa, Italy, and at several towns of
the Romanza bread riots had occurred
in consequence of the bakers having
made no material reduction in the price
Of bread, notwithstanding the recent
considerable fall in flour.
According to Calcutta dispatch of
the 18th the rivers from Assam to Dude
had flooded the country, causing much
damage
The defeat of an insurgent column in
the hills of Bijaru was announced by a
Havana dispatch of the 18th.
Mrs. Jacob Will, an old lady of sixty,
of Dayton, Ohio, was burned to death on
the 18th while kindling fire with kero-
sene.
According to Rawlins CIV. IT, dis
patch of the 18th party OF Sioux had
attacked mining camp on the 10th at
Seminole. Gov. Campbell had tele-
graphed Gen. Ord for assistance.
Intelligence was received on the 18th
of an attack the day before BY Indians
near Sherman, Tex. Several Of the rang
ers had been killed
A collision of two trains on the Erie
Railway occurred on the morning Of the
18th near Canaseraga, n. T., while run
ming at the rate Of twenty miles an hour.
One man was killed and about twenty
were more or less injured Both trains
were badly shattered. The forward first
class car of the westward train, which
was full of ladies and children, left its
trucks, swept everything above the floor
of the smoking-car, and only stopped at
the wreck of the engines, where it re-
mained exactly on the floor of the
smoking-car Among those injured were
r. G. Hervey, Of Terre Haute, Ind, and
Q. W. Barrett, Of Chicago.
According to the St. Louis Democrats
Little Rock (Ark) special the Congress
sional committee began its investiga-
tions on the 18th by examining Gov.
Baxter, who, in reply to questions, said
he never had the returns Of the election
at which he claimed to be elected, and
does not know where they are. The lat
ter was reported to be angry at the ac-
tion of the convention in declaring that |
all officers, from lowest to highest, shall
be elected, as his friends had promised
that his term Of Office should be sched-
uled by constitutional provision. Per
sons who had conversed with him say he
threatened to disperse the convention |
with militia if it interferes with his term
of office.
France has another crisis. The ap-
pointment of Baron de Chabaud La
Tour as Minister Of the Interior and
M. Bodet as Minister Of Finance was
announced on the Goth by Gen. de Cissey,
Minister Of War. These new appoint
ments leave the Bonapartists without .
in the Cabinet. The |
Duke Of Montebello died on the Goth.
According to dispatch from Madrid
Of the Goth proclamation had been
issued declaring that charges of sedition
and conspiracy shall be tried by court
martial, and that persons convicted OF
with railways and teiegraphs |
shall suffer death. A Carlist telegram
from Bayonne declares that DON Alphon.
so entered Cuenca on the 10th and levied
a contribution of e32,O0O, and that 1900
Of the garrison fell into his hands as
prisoners.