The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-05-27
THE NEWS.


jected.
AccopnrNG to San Sebastian dispatch
of the 10Th the smallpox had broken out
in the Carlist camps, and was raging
violently.
THE Sioux Indian delegation visited
President Grant on the 10th.
THE argument in the Tilton-Beecher
suit began on the 10Th, Judge Porter
making the opening address in behalf OF
the defense. He was severe in his de.
nunciations of Messrs. TiltOn and MOul-
ton.
On the 10Th, at Chicago, several crimi-
nal prosecutions against persons impli-
Gated in the whisky frauds were tried be.
fore United States Commissioner Hoyne.
n Two raugers were held to bail in the sum
! Of $4,000 each, and two rectifiers were
q each held in the sum of $4,000.
Il Mrs. LINCOLN, widow of President
n Lincoln, has been adjudged insane by a
iury in the Cook County Court at Chi.
cago, and was, on the Goth, removed to
a private asylum at Batavia, Ill.
THE funeral of ex-Vice-President John
c. Breckenridge occurred at Lexington,
Ky., on the 10Th. An immense throng
participated in the ceremonies.
A TELEGRAM from Hendaye, Spain, of
the Goth says the Carlists, after two days
heavy fighting, had occupied Usurbil
and Ario.
THE town of Osceola, Pa, was almost
destroyed by fire on the Goth, all the
public buildings except the Catholic and
Methodist Churches being burned, to-
gether with about 200 dwellings. Twelve
hundred people are rendered homeless.
Loss in Osceola $4,000, 900.
THE Illinois Humane Society at it's re-
cent annual meeting appointed a COM
mittee to prepare an appeal for the Or
ganization of societies for the prevention
of cruelty to animals, which has issued
an address to the humane men and
women of the Northwest, calling on
them for concert of action in this di-
rection. The committee state that the
Illinois Humane Society (whose head
quarters are at 275 East Madison street
Chicago, Albert w. Landon, Secretary
will be glad to forward to applicants
such publications as may aid in the for
nation of State or local societies.
TIE Wisconsin Republican State Con-
vention will meet at Madison on Wednes-
day, July 7, for the nomination of candi-
dates for State officers.
Hon. JESSE D. BRIGHT, ex-United
States Senator from Indiana, died at his
residence in Baltimore, Md, on the Goth,
aged sixtythree years.
THE attempt to remove the archives
of West Virginia from Charleston, W.
Va, to Wheeling, the new capital of the
State, was thwarted ON the Goth by the
enforcement of the injunction issued by
Judge Smith. Gov. Jacobs decided not
to remove the public property, holding
the court responsible for its safe-keep-
ing, the State officers deciding in the
meantime to make their headquarters at
4 Wheeling.
THE centennial of the Mecklenburg
Declaration of Independence was cele-
brated at Charlotte, N. c., on the Goth.
Many distinguished gentlemen were
present and delivered addresses.
ACCORDING to Dublin dispatch of the
2lst Judge Keogh had decided that the
late John Mitchell was disqualified from
/ holding a seat in Parliament on the
ground that he was felon and an alien.
A ROME Qtaly) dispatch of the e1st
says the Government had ordered the
removal of all Bishops whose appoint
ments had not the royal Endorsement.
AssIsTANT-SEcRETARY CowAN and Com
missioner Smith held council with the
Sioux Indian delegation in Washington
on the 2lst, Red Cloud and Spotted
Tail expressed wish to change hotels,
as they were stopping at temperance
] house, which did not suit them.
The Postmaster General has ordered
N the reletting of the mail contracts in
which frauds were discovered.
I The Chicago Tribune of the 22d says
Il It's reports from the sections in the
4 Northwest so terribly desolated last year
8 by grasshoppers are generally of a more
4 encouraging character than any which
have been received heretofore"
4 CARDINAL MCCLoskEY was presented
on the 2lst with $4,000 diamond cross
by the young lady pupils of st. Vincent's
4 Institute, New York city.
The United States Centennial Com
mission met in Philadelphia on the 21st
and elected as President, Gen. Joseph
K, Hawley, of Connecticut, and six Vice.
Presidents. John L. Campbell was
elected Secretary, and John L. Shoe
maker Counselor and Commissioner.
An Executive Committee was also
elected.
News from Osceola, Pa, on the 21st
was to the effect that fires were still pre-
valling in the woods in that neighbor-
mood. Relief was greatly needed. Houtz-
dale, town of about 600 inhabitants, six
miles from Osceola, was reported entire
ly destroyed and the woods in that neigh
borhood on fire.
A STATE Temperance Mass Convention
OF women met at st. Louis on the Goth.
The State Constitutional Convention, in
session at Jefferson City, was requested
to incorporate clause in the new Con-
stitution giving the ballot to women.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 22d says the
Belgian tribunal at Liegc had dismissed
the charges against Duchesne for plot
ting Tor the assassination Of Prince Bis
marck. ltwas thought in Berlin that
the hnding would not be regarded by
Germany as final settlement of the mat.
4 ter.
A RELIGIOUS procession which was
passing through the streets of Brussels
Oh The 23d was broken up by a mob.
SEVERAL of the Sioux Indians left the
hotel assigned them by the authorities in
washington, on the 23d, and went to the
Washington House. 1t was thought in
ashlngton that the proposed negotia-
.ions with the Indian delegates would
fail 49,
Il lHE New York Legislature adjourned
s'ne die on the 22d.
ACCORDING TO Tyrone Pa.) dispatch
VI 'he 25d the destruction and desolation
caused by the fire at Osceola and in the
neighooring forests were very much
greater than before reported. Nine