The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-08-27
/. THE NEWS.

Gen. Lewal had on the 18th concluded
his investigations into the circumstances
attending the escape of Marshal Bazaine.
The conclusion reached was that the ma
jority of the guards were guilty of con-
nivance, and that the Marshal left by an
open door.
The Massachusetts, Republican State
Convention will be held at Worcester on
the 9TH Of October.
The Iowa State Grange has recently
appropriated $4,000 for the relief of the
grasshopper sufferers.
A Republican State Convention has
been called to meet at Little Rock, Ark,
on the 18th of September.
On the 18th man was arrested at
Odell, ILL.,, on the suspicion of being one
of the abductors of Charley Ross, the
missing Philadelphia boy.
John III. Baker has been nominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the Thir-
teenth Indiana District.
The Pennsylyania State Republican
Convention was held at Harrisburg on
the 10Th. The following nominations
were made: For Judge of the Supreme
Court f. NJ. Paxon; Lieutenant Cover
nor, A. g. Olmstead, Auditor General,
Harrison Allen; Secretary Of Internal
4 Affairs, w. r. Bcath. Resolutions were
adoptcd-eulogizing the Republican
and denouncing the Democratic parties !;
declaring in favor of the amplest pro-
d lection and fullest development to the
agricultural, mining, manufacturing and
mechanical pursuits, and in favor Of put
ting stop to railway land grants, and
improving the navigation of the great
inland rivers; declaring the necessity of
protection to manufacturing interests;
condemning the attempt to establish
free trade through the reciprocity treaty
with Canada; asserting that the Dem
ocratic party is attempting to bring
on war of races in the South,
and that the continuance of the
Republican party is necessary to secure
equal rights TO all calling upon Congress
to see that the guarantees of the new
amendments TO the Constitution of the
United States are enforced by appropri
ate statutes; favoring free banking, the
q aggregate volume of the currency to be
regulated by the necessities of the peo-
N pie and recognized laws of trade; re-
8 affirming the declaration of the National
d Republican Convention of 1872 in favor
&of return to specie payments at the
earliest practicable day. A resolution
was also adopted indorsing Gov. John r.
n Hartranft as the choice of the conven
# tion for President Of the United States in
1876.
81 A notice was served on Mr. Beechcr's
|&attorneys, on the 10Th, that suit was
about to he commenced against him by
Il Mr. Tilton
h About 100000 damage was done at
Austin, New, on the 18th, by a cloud
II burst at the head of the canon on which
|zit is located. No lives were lost
# Congressional nominations were made
EEOn the 10Th as follows: Anti Monopoly
Iowa District, L. l.. Ainsworth
Democratic-Sixth Indiana, Col Ed
4J ohnson.
81 At the Tennessee Democratic and Con
;.pervative State Convention, held at
IN ashvillc on the 10Th, Judge James ID.
%S Porter was nominated for Governor on
The fourteenth ballot. A platform was
adopted-favoring strict construction
of the Constitution of the United States,
and insisting that no power should be
4 exercised by the General Government
shat is not clearly delegated or clearly
implied in the necessary exercise of the
power SO delegated; opposing all monop-
zsolies and combinations formed for the
oppression of the people; advising the
Mfeduction Of excessive salaries, and rigid
economy in the administration of affairs,
State and national; favoring the abolition
Df the national banking system, the re-
Deal of the Federal tariff and the enact
hent of a law solely with view to the
eollection of the necessary revenue; de-
ahOuncing all legislation seeking to inter
1ere with the individual rights of the cit
S zen in the selection of his own assoc-
ates, and particularly what is known as
he Supplemental Civil-Rights bill
q SDending before the Federal Congress, as
IN palpable violation of the Constitution,
attended to vex, harass, oppress and de-
rade the people of the Southern States,
md productive of untold social and po-
tical evils to both races.
| A Paris telegram of the Goth says that
Y (arshal Bazaine had written letter to
6 ne Minister of the Interior, which, after
tating that no persons were responsible
pr his escape except himself, his wife
nd his nephew, concludes thus: " Re
enting the humilating prison regula-
ons, felt justified in an attempt to re-
over my liberty. AS was not tried by
Dy peers my Imprisonment was illegal"
ntelligence that the Spanish Republican
brccs had recently fired upon British
Ayal officers sent to the North of Spain
protect British interests.
According to a Washington dispatch
the Goth Secretary Fish had declared
ntrue the recent report that Spain had
kercd to cedc Porto Rico to Germany,
condition that that power would rec
nize the Spanish Republic.
The horse Fellowcraft ran a four-mile
be at Saratoga on the Goth in the un-
ecedcnted time of seven minutes nine
u and half seconds.
he Ohio new Constitution was de-
ted on the 18th by about 10000 votes.
he following nominations for Con-
lss were made on the Goth: Demo
ltic-Second Virginia District, Chas.
Faulkner; Fifth Texas, John Han
PIX; Nineteenth Illinois, S. S. Marshall,
dominated. Repubiican-First Kan
w. A. Phillips, renominated. Anti
pnopoly-Dakota Territory, w. A. Bur-
gh.
fhe French authorities, according to a
patch of the 22d, had instituted pro
edings for the suspension of several
ris newspapers for publishing Marshal
Eaine's letter in relation to his escape.
contract has been made with the
strian War Department for 10000
nerican breech-loaders.
he Spanish Government Indignantly
lies that it offered the island of Porto
to Germany to induce that power
lcognize the Republic. Information
been received according tn Mad