The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10

tcuceu 70 Oeatn IN CuD8 as an lnSurgen
spy, has been sent to Spain as Stat
prisoner.
Il The President, on the Sd, directed til,
Secretary of War to cooperate with tn,
Attorney General in the suppression O
Southern outrages The latter subse
quently issued suitable instructions t
the Marshals Of Southern Districts.
j A decision has been rendered in
bankruptcy proceeding, by;Judge Blatch
ford, Of New York, sthatiwhcn the assets
OF bankrupt fail,to reach 80 per cent
of the claims proved against his estate
he cannot have a discharge, unless BY
consent Of majority in the number ant
value Of his creditors.
The election in the Second Vermont
District resulted in the defeat Of all the
candidates for Congress, neither receiv
ing majority. At the second trial d
plurality elects.
Gen. Sheridan, on the Sd, issued an
order directing his subordinates to take
measures to stop all expeditions crossing
the Sioux Reservation to the Black Hills
The Indiana Womcn's State Convcn-
tion, recently in session at Indianapolis
elected the following officers for the en-
suing year: Mrs. Gov. Wallace, Presi
dent; Mrs. M. M. Finch, of indianapolis,
Secretary, and Mrs. Reed, Of Richmond,
Treasurer Resolutions were adopted
indorsing the Baxter law and agreeing
not to support any candidate for Office,
be he Republican or Democrat, not in
sympathy with the temperance move
ment, and not pledged to sustain and i'm
prove the Baxter bill in the next session
Of the General Assembly. The 8th day
of October was fixed upon as day Of
humiliation, fasting and prayer.
| The first snow storm of the season pre-
vailed in the Green River Valley, Wyo-
ming Ter, on the night of the LIST. Snow
| fell to the depth of an inch.
The following were the Congressional
nominations on the 3D.: Republican-A.
Simpson, Twelfth Illinois District; Omar
ID. Conger, Seventh Michigan District,
renominatod; Gen. Goff, First West Vir-
ginia District. Rcform-J w. Wilkins,
Fifteenth Illinois District. Democratic
Hon. William Hartzell, Eighteenth H.
linois District A. McKayow, Fourth
Ohio District; Alexander III. Stephens,
Eighth Georgia District, renominated i;
William Walsh, Sixth Maryland District I;
r. p. Bland, Fifth Missouri District, re-
nominated.
The Nebraska Republican State Con
vention was in session at Lincoln on the
I'd and 3D. The following ticket was
placed in nominations: For Governor,
Silas CARRIER; Secretary of State, Bruno
eIzschuck; Treasurer, j. c. Mcbride; At
torney-General, Geo. II. Roberts; for
Congressman, l.. Crounse; contingent
Congressman, Pat O. Hawes. The State
platform expresses hope to soon
see the circulating medium of the .coun-
try based on a metallic currency; advo-
Gates free banking; disavows hostility to-
ward railroads, but demands that they be
made subservient to the public good ;
favors national regulation of Interstate
commerce; opposes a third Presidential
term, and favors the election of Presi-
dent, Vice President and Senators by a
direct vote of the people.
The Governor of Louisiana, on the Sd,
issued his proclamation offeringa reward
of $4,000 each for the arrest Of the per-
sons implicated in the Coushatta affair
The proclamation was accompanied by a
statement of the circumstances attending
the killing, showing that, in the opinion
Of the authorities, the murders were the
work of the White League. Another
account was published in the Picayune
of the Sd, which insisted that it was the
work Of Texan desperadoes, and charac-
terizing the statement of Kellogg as
false.
According to Paris dispatch of the
4th the Aid de Camp Of Bazaine had
been implicated in his escape. The
jailer was also privy to the flight
Madrid kilograms of the 4th say the
Carlists had abandoned the siege of Puy
cerda. A crisis had occurred in the
Spanish Cabinet.
The Austrian Polar expedition has
been heard FROM They were ship
wrecked in latitude so, and were forced
to take to sledgcs, in which they trav-
eled seven months, passing two winters
on the ice, until they were rescued by a
Russian vessel and taken to the Nor
wegian island of Wardoe.
One Of the United States expeditions
for the observation of the transit of
Venus reached Cape Town, Africa, on
the 4th of August.
Pcck's majority for Governor Of YER
mont is between 81 900 and $4,000. The
vote in Poland's district was rs follows
Poland Irregular Republican,, 5,749; Den
nison Opposition Republican,, 1903;
Davenport Dcmocrat), 2,O22; scattering,
931. No choice, as it requires a majority
to elect; on the second trial plurality
elects.
The committee appointed by the last
Minnesota Legislature to investigate the
transactions of Charles Mcllrath, late
State Auditor, have reported a defalca-
ton of $89, 500
The returns of the late Wyoming elec-
ton show that Steele Dem.) has been
elected Delegate to Congress by from 500
to 600 majority The Democratic ticket
was generally successful throughout the
Territory.
According to the Shreveport Ua.)
Ecening Telegram Of the 4th that town
did not furnish the parties who COM
mitted the recent Coushatta outrages.
The Times Of the same date publishes a
statement of merchant of Coushatta
which in effect says that an investiga-
ton had revealed plot on the part OF
the negroes to lnnrdersa q large party OF
men, women and children in attendance
at a dance on the evening Of the 9th
sult.; that after this discovery party
of scouts was fired upon by the negroes
and one Of the number was dangerously
wounded. The subsequent shooting Of
the prisoners near that place grew out OF
this affair.
A fire at Greenville, Miss, on the morn
ing of the I'd burned seventy-three build
ings and inflicted loss Of over $25O,OOO.
Much suffering was anticipated, as near
" all the provisions in the town were
DESTROYED.