The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-26

On the 10th the North Carolina Legis
lature was organized by the election O
Col r. F. Armfield as President of tn,
Senate and John L. Robinson as Speak
or of the House. The House stands 8
Democrats, 81 Republicans and 2 Inde
pendcnts. The Senate, 3S Democrats
and 12 Republicans.
The British Government, a London dis
patch of the 18th says, had decided. a
the instance of the Geographical Society
to fit out another Polar expedition.
The Arkansas imbroglio was discussed
by the Cabinet on the 18th. The Presi
dent stated that he should not interfere
except to keep the peace until he wa,
better informed as to the merits of the
case. Judge Poland, of the House In
vestiga'ing Committee, was telegraphed
. for.
The roof of Pittston (Pa.) coal mine
fell in on the 18th, killing several of the
miners.
A steam tug exploded her boilers a,
the Government works, near New York
on the 18th. Five of the crew were
killed and the Captain fatally injured.
The steamboat Empire sank at the
New Orleans levee on the 18th in conse.
quence of being too heavily laden. II
was reported that from thirty to forty
lives were lost.
At the recent election the New York
constitutional amendments were adopted
by large majority.
According to Berlin dispatch of the
18th the Government had been defeated
on That day in the Reichstag upon pro
posed bank bill by 1877 to 15S. The Pres
ident of that body at once rendered his
resignation.
Thirty-two of the Turks charged with
the murder of the Montenegrin Chris
tians have been found guilty and SEN
fenced TO twenty years Imprisonment
each.
According to u New York dispatch of
the 18th the New York Central & Hud-
son River Railroad Company had dis
charged 1,5OO men, nearly one-sixth of
the whole number employed, and largely
reduced the wages of those that re-
NAMED.
Serious labor difficulties are reported
in the Pennsylvania mining region.
The suit of Theodore Tilton against
Henry Ward Bcecher has been definitely
set for trial on the Sth of December.
The Methodist Board of Missions, re-
Gently in session in New York, appropri-
ated ss21,0OO
late Madison (Wis.) dispatch says
that after throwing out the votes of the
town of Lincoln and the First Ward of
the city of Grand Rapids, Cate (Ref) had
majority of two votes in the Eighth
District
The last of the three men concerned in
the express robbery at Cincinnati was
arrested on the 18TH They subsequently
confessed their connection with the af-
fair All but $4,000 of the money had
been recovered on the morning of the
18Th
The Arkansas Legislature on the 18th
passed bill authorizing Gov. Garland
to offer a reward of $1,000 each for the
arrest of Smith and Wheeler
According to a London telegram of
the 10Th an American boat in the Clyde
had been run down and seventeen sailors
cn board drowned.
Hendaye dispatch of the 10th says
the vigorous cannonading from one OF
the outlying forts of Irun had again
compelled the Carlists to abandon their
position in front of that city.
King Coffee, of the Ashantees, has been
compelled to abdicate, and his nephew
has been installed King in his stead.
Three workmen were killed and fifteen
seriously injured, in Paris, on the 10Th,
in consequence of an explosion in a
chemical mandatory. The building
and railroad station hard by were de-
stroyed
A Constantinople dispatch of the 10Th
says an Egyptian army had captured
Darfour and killed the reigning Sultan.
The Anti-Secret Association of Illinois,
recently in session at Chicago, adjourned
on the evening Of the 10Th. Resolutions
were adopted severely condemning all
secret organizations.
The Nevada Legislature stands politi-
eally as follows: Senate-Republicans,
Is; Democrats, 7. Assembly-Demo-
Gratis, IS; Republicans, 81; Independ-
ents, 3.
Charlie Ross has turned up again, this
time in the possession of F. w. Peyton,
OF Huntington, w. Va, who offers to
hand him over for 5000.
A Little Rock special of the 10th says
that all the State officers of Arkansas
elected on the ticket with Lieut.. Gov.
omlth, except the Secretary of State and
Attorney-General, had indorsed Smiths
application for recognition as Governor.
Chamberlain's majority for Governor
OF South Carolina is 1O,667.
An explosion occurred in the Warren
vale coal mine in Yorkshire, England,
on the goth, which caused the loss OF
twenty-four lives.
Washington dispatch of the Goth says
'he Cabinet had unanimously decided
mat no present recognition of Smiths
claim to be Governor of Arkansas should
be made
The libel suit of Henry c. Bowen
against the Brooklyn Argus resulted in
lhe acquittal of the defendant on the
1oth, the jurors holding, however, that,
while the defendant was legally exempt
from conviction, the printed matter in the
n'yus relating to the deceased Mrs
bowen was atrocious and cruel.
The Kansas State Central Relief Com.
mittee have issued an address appealing
ior aid for the sufferers in their State and
cautloning the public against placing
Their benefactions in the hands Of. I'M
authorized and irresponsible parties
rarties soliciting aid by authority vii
nave the Endorsement of the Governor o.
the State, and such Endorsement will b
aguaranty Of their responsibility. TIT
appeal closes as follows: