The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-10

Encampment OF Knights Templar elected
the following officers: Sir James II. Hop
kins, of Pittsburgh, Grand Master; Sir
Vincent L. Hurlbut, Chicago, Deputy
Grand Master; Sir Walter l.. Bragg,
Montgomery, Ala, Grand Generalissimo; !;
Sir Edward T. Schultz, Baltimore, Grand
Captain General Sir Benton H. Langley,
Winona, Mimi, Grand Senior Warden;
Sir Charles r. Woodruff, Louisville,
Grand Junior Warden.
Judge Durell, of New Orleans, resigned
on the Sd.
On the 4th the German Reichstag de-
cided to discontinue the Vatican lega-
tion, and the appropriation therefor was
stricken from the budget.
Thirty mutineers were recently ar
rested in Madrid for resisting an order
to proceed north with their regiment.
The Carlist leader Sohano, recently cap
tured on railway train in Cordova, was
shot on the 4th, having been declared by
court-martial guilty of robbery and as
sassination.
The Postmaster General has issued an
order forbidding the circulation of New
Years addresses by letter-carriers cal
culated to induce the public to give them
gratuities.
The last official document issued by
the late Mayor Havcmeyer was a com
munlcation to the Commissioners of Char
tiles and Corrections complaining of the
partiality shown toward Mr.. Tweed in
his prison confinement and demanding
an investigation.
Hiram Smith was hanged at Water
town, N. Y, on the 4th for the murder
of Charles Wenham, in January, 1873.
He died protesting his innocence.
Rev. George d. Gillespie, Of Ann Ar
bor has been elected Episcopal Bishop
for the Western Diocese of Michigan.
The Wisconsin Board of Canvassers
have awarded the seat from the Eighth
Wisconsin Congressional District to
Judge Cate. They declared that he is
elected by a majority of two votes.
DdNlu a. 0dSc, eA-lTcdSuTcI VI SnlCd-
go, recently on trial at Waukegan for
misappropriating public moneys, was de-
clared not guilty" on the 4th.
In the Cheap Transportation Conven
tion at Richmond, Va, on the 4th, res
olution was unanimously adopted recog-
nizing, in addition to the lines of trans
portation recommended by the United
States Senate Committee on Trans
portation, the proposed Rock Isl
and & Hennepin Canal, in IL
linois, connecting the Mississippi
with the Illinois River and Canal
and the chain of waterways to the sea-
board, as project of great merit, and
urging upon Congress the necessity of
speedy construction of the work. The
name of the association was changed to
"The American Board Of Transportation
and Commerce, and Hon Josiah Quincy,
Of Massachusetts, was elected President
for the ensuing year; F. B. Thurber of
New York, Treasurer, and II. II. Fergu-
son, of Troy, N. u, Secretary. The next
annual meeting is to be held in Chicago.
T. II. Pickerell, of Illinois, has been
elected President of the Short-Horn
Breeders Association for the ensuing
year; S. F. Lockridge, of Indiana, Sec
retary, and Claude Matthews, of Indi-
ana, Treasurer. The next session of the
association will be held in Toronto,
Canada, Dec. 9, 1915.
The Tiber, in the vicinity of Rome,
Italy, is rising, and an extensive overflow
is feared
The funeral of the late Mayor Have
never, of New York, occurred on the
5th
The longshoremen's strike in New
York city is ended the disagreeing par
ties having come to an amicable under
standing
Lawlessness and crime seem to be the
order of the day in the Pennsylvania
mining districts. A large number of the
miners are reported in a
needy condition.
The puddlers of Pittsburgh and vicini-
ty struck on the 5th. Over 100 600 work
men were thus thrown out Of employ
ment.
The King of the Sandwich Islands left
San Francisco for Washington on the
9Th.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has
declined to direct the State Board OF
Canvassers to give the certificate OF
election from the Eighth District to Nc
Dill.
The New York Court Of Appeals has
decided that Mr.. Beecher is entitled to
bill of particulars in the cause entitled
Tilton us Beecher, thus overrullng the
decision of the lower Court
A Vicksburg (Miss.) dispatch Of the
7th says an alarm was sounded at y
o'clock in the morning that the negroes
were marching on the town. The cltl-
zens gathered en- masse, armed lmme-
diately. and advanced to meet them on
the Baldwin Ferry Road. They were en-
on Grove street, just outside
of the city, about 200 strong. The COM
mander of the citizens warned the negroes
to disperse, but they refused, and imme-
diately firing commenced on both
sides. The negroes retreated about
mile. and again made stand in an OLD
brcastwork and house, but were soon
routed. The loss in this engagement was
one citizen, Oliver Brown, killed, ana
about twelve or fifteen negroes kiiieo'
several wounded, and about twenty prs
oners. On the Halls Ferry road about
$50 negroes were found and routed after
a short engagement, with several killed
and wounded. The attack was made TOT
the purpose Of reinstating the negro
Sheriff Crosby. 1t was reported that the
negroes were burning cottSn-gins and
dwellings in the neighborhood
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.