The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-25

| oouioe III DIoohiyn on Ine evening OF the
10Th to crowded audience. The ser
vices in Brooklyn will be continued under
the auspices of the local clergy. Messrs.
Moody and Sankey left for Philadelphia
on the Goth to begin their labors in that
city.
Con MEGRUE, one of the leading wit
nesses in the Mcdonald case at St. Louis,
swore, on the 10Th, that something like
$400,O 600 year was collected and distrib-
uted among the members of the "ring'
for four years, and that one of them re-
ceived $4,000 Megrue also published a
card on the 10Th saying that neither Gen.
Babcock, Orville Grant, Col. Casey, Com
missioner Douglass, Col. Holt, Col.
Luckey nor any other officials or citizens
of Washington, except William 0. Avery,
had to his knowledge been connected in
any way with the "ring."
THE Indianapolis Sun of the Goth pub
fishes an appeal to Congress, signed by
over 5000 voters Of that city, demanding
the repeal of the Resumption act; the re-
tirement of all National Bank notes and
the substitution therefor of Government
legal-tenders, and the refunding of the
national bonded debt into bonds bearing,
say, 3.65 per cent. per annum, intercon-
vertible with national legal l-tcnder paper
money at the pleasure of the holders A
mass-meeting was also called to be held
in indianapolis on the list of December to
emphasize these demands.
| A GALVESTON CTex) dispatch of the 10Th
says raiding band of Mexicans had
| crossed the river from the American side
the day before with large herd of stolen
cattle A demand had been made upon
| the Mexican authorities for the return of
the plunder and the arrest of the robbers,
which had been unheedcd, and Col. Nc
Nally, of the Texas State militia, had
crossed the Rio Grande and attacked the
reinforced raiders. He had killed four of
them, and at last accounts was still in the
enemy's country. The United States
troops were concentrating at Brownsville,
but would not cross.
THERE was reported to be three and a
half feet of snow at Evanston, Wy. T.,
on the 10Th and more falling.
On the afternoon of the 18th Prof. Mar
tines dancing hall in West Chicago was
destroyed by fire. The burning of the
supports caused the roof to give way and
eight fircmcn were prccipitatcd into the
burning mass. All were recovered more
or less burned and otherwise injured
some of them fatally, it was thought.
ACCORDING to London dispatch of the
Goth terrible storm prevailed along the
British coast on the preceding day. The
shore between Yarmouth and Lowcstoft
was covered with wrecks. Itwas thought
that thirteen vessels had foundered and
that between forty and fifty lives had been
lost.
THE annual report of the Director of
the Mint shows the coinage of gold during
the past year to have been $33 ,553, ,065;
silver, $1,000, ,3GS; minor pieces, $780,
375-making a total of 1854, ,7OS.
PRESIDENT GRANT on the 18th issued
an order consolidating the internal rev.
epue collection districts throughout the
country.
In his annual report the Postmaster
General will recommend the repeal OF the
law increasing the postage on transient
newspapers.
A woMAN with a boy resembling
Charlie Ross was arrested at Ncwtown,
Conn, on the Goth, but discharged.
GEN. Z. b. HARLAN, Il well-known
newspaper correspondent at Springfield,
H., and formerly Secretary to Gov
Palmer, died on the 2lst.
UNITED STATES SENATOR FERRY, OF
Connecticut, died at his residence III Nor
walk. Conn, on the afternoon of the 2lst
from softening of the spinal marrow. lie
had been suffering from the disease Tor
seven years.
John CLARK was hanged at Rochester,
n. Y, on the 18th for the murder of John
Trevor.
ACCoRDISG to statistics furnished in a
recent issue of the Cincinnati C0H1merc1d6
there are in the United States total OF
forty-two State and Territorial Oranges,
and over "a 900 subordinate Oranges,
comprising a membership of about Hon.
OOO-an increase of 1000 Oranges and
about 1870 900 members over 1874. Inc
receipts of the National Grange for 1874
were $229, ,533, and the expenditures $780,
995.
The committee appointed to examine
the books and papers, the wheels and
tickets belonging to the so-called Mont
pelier Humane Association" lottery, at
Alexandria, Va, report that most glar-
ing fraud was practiced on the ticket
holders.
In the Mcdonald case at st. Louis on
the Goth several witnesses for the
defense were examined. VIM. Nc
Kee, of the Globe DemOcrat, and
Constantine Mcguire (both under
indictmenD swore to their own innocence
and to having no knowledge of the guilt
of Mcdonald. Gen. Boynton, correspond
cnt of the Cincinnati Gazette, testified that
he would not believe Con. Mcgruc Zone of
the principal witnesses for the prosecution,
who had confessed TO his own completely
in the frauds) under oath if he were per-
sonally interested.
A sIx-DAYs' walking-match between
O'Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, and
Weston was concluded at the Exposition
building in Chicago on the night of the
Goth. In the six days O'Leary walked
SOB miles and Weston 45l. At the end OF
the match O'Leary was presented with a
gold medal as the champion walker of
the world He walked 500 miles in five
days, twenty-five hours and thirteen min
utes, the fastest time on record.
VICE PRESIDENT WILSON died at Wash
ington at half past seven o'clock on the
morning of. the god. Hon. VIM. II.
Ferry, of Michigan, President pro tem
of the Senate, is his successor.
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