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

THE Csrlists fired into the German
custay off the harbor of San Sc
bsstisn recently
The lightning struck the powder mag
zine At Scutari, Turkey, on the 21st. A
.s,ridc a explosion followed, overwhelm-
no portion of the city walls, demolish-
ipc 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
10 influence votes for the Pacific Mail
mbsidy, but refused to tell to whom he
psid the money.
S. B. Axtell has been confirmed as
Governor of Utah.
A boiler exploded in the mill of J.B.
Laird & Co., at Angelica, Wis, on the
slst, killing six men and wounding
many others.
Rev. w. r. Huntington, of Worcester,
Nass., has declined the Bishopric Of
Iowa.
Prince Bismarck has moved in the
German Federal Council to conclude a
new cxtradition treaty with the United
Ststes.
Two German men-of-war have been
ordered to Santander to demand salts
faction of the Carlists for the attack
upon the brig Gustav.
Great Britain has formally accepted
the invitation to participate in the Gen.
iennal.
The writ of habeas corpus in Tweed's
case has been dismissed. Judge Law
renee on the 22d granted writ of
tertiorari.
The Conservative members of the Mis-
sissippi 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-
servative majority in the Louisiana
House of Representatives had, on the
22d, been reduced to two, with eleven
parishes yet to canvass. The Com
mittee 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-
tives and that the Returning Board
would not fairly promulgate the result,
but had evinced determination to de-
fraud the people and defeat their will
expressed at the ballot box.
The Turcoman difficulties in Khiva
nave 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 ank completely with
the Katie King frau ds. Their sittings
are still attended by' earnest and un-
doubling believers.
The father of Charlie Ross has offered
arewsrd of 5000 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
and two Republican Congressman. The
Conservative subcommittee certify to
the election of four Conservative and two
Republican congressman; the election
of Moncure, State Treasurer, by 4,851
majority, and the election of seventy-one
Conservatives and thirty-seven Republi-
cans to the Legislature.
A train on the Great Western Railway,
England, ran off the track near Wood
stock, on the GATH Thirty persons were
killed and wounded.
At an explosion in the Bignall Hill col
liery, England, on the gath, twenty
miners were killed.
The British ship Basilisk, just returned
from four years. cruise, reports the dis
covery of large group of islands near
New Guinea.
The Secretary of the Interior has writ
ten letter to the War Department ask
ng that the most effective measures may
be adopted toward all persons encroach-
ing upon the Black Hills reservation.
James Walker, D. D., formerly Presi-
dent of Howard College, died recently
at his residence in Cambridge, Mass.
The meeting of Railway Commission
ers for the Northwestern States has been
postponed until Jan. 26, 1875.
Madrid dispatches of the 9th report
food as very scarce IN the town of Pam
palona, and all known Carlists had been
expelled from the place. The Carlists
had offered to restore the German brig
Gustav upon payment of the customs
duties alleged to be due.
The Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia,
the hero of the diamond scandal has been
ajudged to be insane.
The emigrant ship Cospatrick was
burned on the 18th off Madeira. 1t is
estimated that 465 persons perished.
Gen. Sheridan, according to Wash
ington dispatch of the 26th, had been
ordered to New Orleans to relieve Gen.
Emory.
Over 400 men and women were re-
Gently discharged from the Bureau OF
Printing and Engraving in consequence
of a large part Of the work having been
to New York.
Mrs. Herman Bauer, her infant child,
servant girl and Mr.. Beckerdt were
burned in St. Louis on the
18th by the explosion Of a spirit lamp.
In an affrav in New Orleans ON the