The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-30
Alabama Claims Commissioners to the
22d Of July next.

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22d of July next.
A WASHINGTON dispatch Of the 26th
says The Mexican Secretary Of Foreign
Affairs had stated, in reply t. request of
minister Foster for permission for regular
] United States troops 10 follow raiders
across the border, that the Mexican
Executive was without authority to
grant such request except by con.
sent of Congress. Mr.. Foster replied
that the acknowledgment by the Mexican
Government of its inability to restrain its
own citizens would be the strongest DOS
sible argument to all advocates of the ac
QUESTION of territory in Mexico. Mr.. Fos.
ter said further that the citizens of Texas
must be protected and if Mexico did not
prevent raiders from crossing the border
the United States would.
THERE has just been received in phila-
Gelphia formal acceptance by Pope Plus
TX. of an invitation by the Centennial
authorities to give his recognition to the
enterprise by contributing to the Exposf-
ton works of art from the galleries of the
Vatican. The letters of His Holiness are
couched in the warmest terms of friend
ship for the United States.
THE jury in the Bowen libel suit against
the Brooklyn 6agle have found verdict
for the plaintiff, and fixed the damages at
81 900.
TIE Moody and Sankey religious serv-
ices in Philadelphia were largely attended
on the 26th. Mr. Moody said the morn
ing meeting was the most encouraging
one he had held in this country The in
quiry-rooms were crowded, afternoon and
evening.
PATRICK KANEN, recently convicted at
Cleveland, Ohio, of manslaughter for
starving his idiot son to death, has been
sentenced TO the Penitentary for ten
years,
w. G. WHITsoN, Associate.Ju of
the Supreme Court Of idaho, died at
Omaha, Neb., on the 25th, of paralysis,
aged thirty-eight.
EIGHT lawyers of Franklin, La, recent
ly handed to Judge Mentz, of the St.
Mary's Parish Court, a document request
ing him to resign because of his alleged
manifest incompetency and the interested
motives which generally influenced
his decisions. The Judge replied
that he had tried to perform his
duty faithfully and impartially, and
that, inasmuch as the signers of the paper
did not vote for him, he should continue
to administer the functions of his office
until his constituents (meaning the col
ored people, called upon him to resign.
The members of the bar threatened to ap-
peal to the next Legislature to secure his
impeachment.
In the trial at Leavenworth, Kan, of
Embrv, for the shooting Of Col. Anthony,
the Jury returned verdict on the 9th of
not guilty, after being out about five min
utes
AT Cincinnati, the other night, Mrs.
Lawrence dropped coal-oil lamp. The
fire caught in the carpet and her clothes,
and in an instant she was wrapped in
flames and fearfully and probably fatally
burned. Her husband and daughter
made efforts to save her and were them
selves badly burned.
TIE thermometer indicated eighty de-
grees above zero at Memphis, Tenn, on
the 25th.
IT was announced from San Francisco
on the 25th that United States troops had
been ordered to the Sonora frontier to
protect American soil from invasion by
Mexican troops.