The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08

the commission of the crime of adultery,
witness answered that he did not ask him
about it. Mr.. Beecher was next called to
the stand. He was sworn by the uplfted
hand. He then began his evidence, in an
swer to questions by his counsel, giving a
history of his life and his acquaintance
with Messrs. Bowen, Tilton and Moulton
down to about the year 1870. His evil
dence for the day closed with state
ment of an interview had by him and his
wife with Mrs. Tilton and Mrs. Morse, at
Mrs Tilton's residence, and at her Mrs.
T.'s) request, on which occasion Mrs.
Tilton and Mrs. Morse spoke of their
domestic difficulties, and the result of
which was that he conceded with the
views of Mrs. Beecher that a separation
between Mr. and Mrs Tilton would be
the wisest course for them to pursue.
| Eighty ecclesiastics have been impris-
oned in Posen, and Papal delegate who
had been administering the Archbishop
ric of Posen since the incarceration of
the incumbent is reported under arrest.
John Martin, the brother-in-law of the
late John Mitchell, was buried on the I'd.
His funeral was attended by 10000
persons.
| Schichken, the Russian agent in Servia,
has been appointed Minister of Russia
to the United States.
The ice at Bay de Noquet, on the
upper Michigan shore of Lake Michigan,
is said to lave been five feet and one
inch thick.
George Reynolds, Mormon, on trial
at Salt Lake City, ON the 31st ult. was
found guilty by a jury composed of both
Mormons and nom Mormons. A motion
to set aside the verdict for the reason
that the defendant had never been ar
raigned and asked to plead, and never
had the Indictment read to him, was
granted, after which the defense waived
a new trial, with view of taking the
case to the Supreme Court. In the case
of George @. Cannon, on like charge,
the defendant plead the statute of limi
tation, and was discharged.
In his testimony on the2d Mr.. Beecher
emphatically denied all charges of
criminal conduct or intent in his rela-
tions with Mrs. Tilton at any time. He
repeated his statements made before the
Church Investigating Committee. He
directly contradicted the evidence of
Messrs. Tilton and Moulton with regard
to the confession of criminal conduct they
alleged he had made. He declared that
the letter of contrition which he
signed was written by Mr.. Moul-
ton when he was laboring under great
excitement caused by his feeling
that perhaps he might have been unin-
tentionally induced to do Mr.. Tilton an
injustice by listening and subscribing to
the reports in circulation against him at
the time of his difficulty with Mr.. Bowen.
He also said that Mr. Moulton suggested
to him that Mrs. Tilton had allowed her
affections to be alienated from her hus-
band and to center upon him (witness);
and it was this declaration on the part OF
Mr.. Moulton, together with the fact that he
emphatically pronounced false many OF
the scandalous reports atlOat against MIR.
Tilton's moral character, that led him
(witness) to express himself in contrite
manner for having unintentionally added
to Mr. Tilton's sorrow. Witness denied
reading or having read to him on that
occasion the memorandum of his re-
marks made by Mr.. Moulton, and which
he signed at Mr.. Ms request as being
the better way of showing to Mr.. Tilton
that he (witness) entertained no unfriend-
ly feelings toward him.
The Carlist Gen. Saballa recently had
an interview with Gen. Campos at Olot,
under a flag of truce, with the view of
seeking terms for the transfer of his al
legiance from Don Carlos to King AL
phonso. More than 1870 Carlist officers
have already given in their adhesion to
the latter, and the Carlist army has been
largely thinned by desertions.
The Mexican Government will soon
have brought to its attention by the
State Department the invasion on the
Texas border, with demand for repara-
ton.
In consequence of the illness of Henry
M. Cleveland, formerly manager of the
Christian Union, his testimony in the
Beecher case has been taken at his resi-
dence. 1t is said that he testified that
Mr.. Beecher was in the office OF the
Union on the I'd of June, 1878, between
eleven and twelve o'clock a. m. That is
the date on which Mrs Moulton, in her
testimony, alleged Mr.. Beecher was at
her house for three or four hours, and
talked of suicide, and when she advised
him to confess to Plymouth Church.
Ex-State Senator Robert McKenna, of
Tennessee, who was recently tried for
marrying the grand daughter OF his form
er wife and sentenced to the Penitentiary
for five years, has been pardoned by the
Governor.
A New Orleans dispatch of the 4th
says the Senatorial excursion to Mexico
had broken up. Advices from Washing
ton, fear of the yellow fever and the i'll
ness of Mrs. Morton are among the
causes alleged for change of programme
The suit of Morton and others against
the State of Nebraska involving the title
to the rich salt beds near Lincoln, has
been decided in favor of the State.
On the morning of the 4th the Chicago
express train collided with the Pacific
express train on the Chicago, Burlington
s. Quincy Railroad, near Tyrone, Iowa.
Both engines and several cars were demol-
ished H. L. Miller, conductor; G. NJ. Pickle
fireman, and w. A. Gardner, express
messenger, were instantly killed, and
several other train employees were in
jured, some fatally. One passenger was
reported killed and several wounded
The accident is said to have been caused
by the telegraph operator at Tyrone neg
lecting to hold the Chicago-bound train
until the other had passed.
Wilson, McLay & Co, metal merchants,
London, England, have suspended with
liabilities estimated at 81 100000.
The President has appointed e. G.
Walker, of Michigan, Inspector of In
dian Affairs.
President Grant stated on the 5th, in
relation to the recent reported outrages
of bands of Mcxicans in Texas, that he |