The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-18

New York telegram of the 18th says the
5 Waco had on board 800 cases of petro-
leum, which she had no right to carry, and
, her owners would be prosecuted.
Col. JOYCE, late Internal Revenue
Agent at st. Louis, convicted of conspir-
acy to defraud the Government, asked
leave on the 18th to Withdraw his motion
for new trial and demanded that SEN
tence be passed in his case. c. j. Moeller,
an ex Gauger at Milwaukee, was found
guilty on the 10Th of making false returns
to the Government
A LONDON telegram of the 18th says the
cholera in India had interfered to some
extent with the arrangements of the Prince
of Wales.
OK the 18th a tidal wave ten feet high
swept up Parret River, Somersetshire,
England, breaking the lock gates at
Bridgewater, sinking one vessel and more
or less injuring twenty others.
Disastrous floods were reported
throughout England and Ireland on the
14th.
CARDINAL MCCLosKEY left Queenstown
for New York on the 18th.
THE ship Calcutta, from Quebec for
Liverpool, was lately wrecked at Crosse
Isle. Twenty-Five of the Grew and lady
passenger were drowned. Only the Cap
tain, three men and boy were saved.
THE annual report of the Commissioner
of Education shows an increase of 1G4,0 600
school children during the year. There
are enrolled in the public schools S,000,-
900 pupils; average daily attendance, A.
500 900; estimated population between six
and sixteen years of age, 0,536,G74i num-
Der of teachers employed, PAL 300; total
income public schools, $S2, 15S ,905; total
expenditures, $14 ,914 ,9SS; value of school
buildings, $165, ,758, All.
HIRAM LEFFINGwELL has been APP
| pointed United States Marshal for the
District of Missouri, and T. C. Woodward,
of Iowa, Examiner in Chief Of the Patent
Office.
On the 18th Mrs Moulton wrote to Mr.
Shearman, Clerk of Plymouth Church,
asking the church to join with her in call
ing Council of Churches, before which
Plymouth Church should give its reasons
for the action taken in dropping her name
from its roll of membership, and she
should state her reasons for absenting
herself from the services of the church |
In case of refusal on the part of the
church to comply with this request within
four weeks, she gave notice that she her |
self should call for such IA council.
OK the 18th Col. Joyce was sentenced to
Imprisonment in the Pcnitentiary for a |
term of three and half years and to pay |
fine of $500 Before sentence was |
passed he addressed the court in his own |
behalf, declaring himself the victim Of
said Joyce's object in demanding SEN
tence was to avoid being called upon to
answer other indictments pending at st.
Louis; also that he was prompted by de-
sire to protect others from the effect of
any testimony he might otherwise have
been required to give.
NICHOLAS THOMAS, of Chicago, is said
to have perfected new motor similar in
a general way to the so-called Keely in
vention, but differing in application and
effect.
The body of Capt. Wolfe, a Galveston
pilot on board the City of Waco, has been
found near where the steamer went down.
THE Amoskeag Mills, of Manchester,
~ Of
of from to Is per cent in the wages of
operatives after Dec. l.
ACCORDING to New York dispatch of
the 18th Judge Moore, of Brooklyn, had
decided to order a commission to take the
testimony of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Rich
ards in the Loader perjury case.
THE official canvass of the vote OF
Maryland gives Carroll, Democratic can
didate for Governor, 1891 majority. The
Democrats have a majority of twelve in
the Senate and thirty in the House.
ACCORDING to London dispatch of the
morning of the 10th an engagement be-
tween the Turks and Herzegovinians near
Gatschko had resulted in the defeat of the
former, who had between 800 and 1000
killed and lost their baggage, ammunition
and most of their cannon.
THE Greek Christians of Cappadocia,
according to the Augsburg AIlegemeine
Ze5tung, have lately petitioned the Porte
to expel the American missionaries be-
cause they "make proselytes and incite to
rebellion"
APAR1s dispatch of the 18th says the
clergy of Roubax had refused to chant the
PRAYER beginning with the words DOM
inc fac saZcam rempubltcam," as requested
by the Minister Of Public Worship.
A FINANCIAL panic prevailed on the
London Stock Exchange and the Paris
Bourse on the 18th.
THE damage done in London and its
immediate neighborhood by the high |
tides on the 10Th was estimated to be over |
$4,000
SECRETARY BRIsTow has called in for
redemption $50 coupon and registered
bonds of 1864 and 1S64-'65 to the amount |
of SIT, ,7S5, $50 Interest will cease Feb.
Is, 1876.
THE report that Treasurer New contem-
plated resigning his official position is
emphatically denied by Washington dis
patches.
THE New England Labor Reform
League met in Boston on the 14th. Reso-
lutions were adopted denouncing politi- |
cal parties, and asserting that legislation |
in this country tends not to protect per-
sons and property but to promote the in
terests of speculative robbery. Hints OF a |
revolution and secret military organiza-
tions among laboring men were thrown
out.
THE jury in the celebrated Ward will
case, on trial at Detroit, have failed to
agree and were discharged on the. 14th.
Eight were in favor of breaking the will
and four believed the will and first codicil
should be sustained Most of the jurors
agreed that Capt Ward was competent to
execute will.
THE United States Grand jury at
Brownsville, Tex, have found eighty In
dictments against Mexicans for the perpe-
tration of thefts and outrages on the Texas
border. The jury say that 100, 600 stolen
cattle are every year driven to Mexico by
Mexican marauders, and that American