The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-01

reasons: First-The renomlnation q
Judge Graves to the Supreme Court b
. Democrats and Republicans; Second
+ The non-political nature of the offices Q
: Justices of the Supreme Court and RI
gents OF the University; Third-The re.
9 ignation of three of the candidates nom
$ mated at the Prohibition State Conven
e ton.
< A large body Of armed Mexicans re
Gently attacked several ranches nea
: Corpus Christi, Tex, and robbed on,
f store, taking several Americans prisoners
An invasion of the city was apprehended
An Estella SPAIN dispatch of lat,
date says that deputies from the foul
Carlist provinces had met to consider
the request of Don Carlos for contribu
tions and had declared that the countr,
is exhausted, that fresh sacrifices are i'm
possible, and that Don Carlos should
procure funds abroad. Madrid telegra ms
report that Don Carlos had ordered per.
sons found reading the Cabrera mani
festo to be shot, There had lately been
additional determinations between the
Carlists and the Alphonsists on the
banks of the Orea. A Santander report
states that Don Carlos had departed for
Ramales with several battalions and ar
tillery to meet an expected inv aston of
the province.
A hurricane passed over Vancouver
Island on the Gath. At Victoria vessels
were injured, trees were uprooted and
the telegraph lines demolished.
After the 1st of May mutilated cur
rency will be redeemed according to the
proportion remaining OF the bill.
The Senatorial Mexican excursion
party left Washington on the Goth. 1t is
composed of the following persons Sen
ators Cameron, Patterson, Dennis, An
thony, Morton, ex-senator Chandler, Tom
Scott and wife, Wayne McVeigh and
wife, Ben Perley Poore, of the Boston
Journal, and Miss Poore, Mrs. Senator
Morton and ex-Gov Brown, of Georgia,
and wife. The State Department has
| officially assured Mexican Minister Mar
iscal that the excursion has no political
significance whatever
Instructions have been issued through
the War Department to the General
commanding in Texas to deal summarily
with Mexican raiders.
The Rhode Island Democratic State
Convention at Providence on the 9th
nominated Col. r. Cutler, of Warren, for
Governor; John B. Pierce for Lieuten-
ant-Governor; Charles E. German for
Attorney-General, and Philip Rider for
General Treasurer.
On the 29h the Chicago papers an.
nounced a material reduction of passen-
ger rates to the East over the Michigan
Central, Michigan Southern and Pitts
burgh & Fort Wayne Roads, to 60 into
effect April or as soon as the necessary
tickets were printed. The reduction is
as follows: To New York, from $22 to
SIS; to Philadelphia, from $40 to $12; to
Baltimore and Washington, from $19 to
50; to Boston, from $27 to 1885.
Freight rates were unsettled.
Whyland & Foss, the proprietors of
Chicago restaurant, were recently before |
United States Commissioner Hoyne on a
charge of having violated the Civil
Rights law, and were discharged on the |
ground that restaurant was not an inn,
and hence does not come within the pro-
visions Of the law.
The Government Of President MacMa- |
hon has refused to grant to the Due de |
Montpensier passport to Spain on the
ground that the Government would thus |
establish a precedent by virtue Of which
ex-Queen Isabella might return to Spain,
which was undesirable.
About 100000 people met in Hyde
Park, London, on the Goth ult to express
sympathy with and demand justice for
the Tichborne Claimant.
The United States Supreme Court has |
recently decided that the Constitution Of |
the United States does not confer the |
right of suffrage upon anyone, and that
the Constitutions of the several States |
which commit that trust to men alone |
are not necessarily void.
Gen. Spinner, United States Treasurer,
has rendered his resignation, and it has
been accepted, and the positi& offered |
to and accepted by John c. New, Cashier
of the First National Bank Of Indianapo
lis, Ind.
The California Democratic State Con.
vention will be held at San Francisco on
the goth Of June.
The city directory Of st. Louis claimed
that there was a population Of 400, 900
in that city on the 1st Of last January.
A few days ago an article appeared in
the Chicago Times characterizinga Chica-
60 Grand Jury, which had just found
four indictments against Mr.. Storey, the
editor, for libel, as disreputable, con-
temptible and dishonest body. Because of
these structures Judge Williams issued an
order that Mr.. Storey should show cause
why he should not be punished for con-
tempt. The hearing occurred on the
Goth ult., and resulted in Mr.. Storey be-
ing sentenced to ten days confinement in
the County Jail. About eleven O'clock on
the evening of the same day writ of
supersedeas was issued by Judge
McAllister, Of the Supreme Court,
under which Mr.. Storey was held to
bail in the sum of $2,Oc0 to await the
action of the Supreme Court.
James Lick, the San Francisco mill
ionaire, has filed in the Recorders Office
of that city revocation of the trust
deed executed last July conveying his
property to trustees for various benevo-
lent purposes. He confirms the acts
heretofore performed by the trustees.
Numerous witne sses testified in the |
Beecher suit on the Goth ult as to the |
OF the defendant on the I'd, |
Sd and 4th Of June, 1873. Mr.. Turner
and son testified that Mr.. Beecher ar
rived at his farm at PeekskiIl on the af-
ternoon of the I'd early enough to take
dinner. Two telegraph operators testi-
fed to the sending of telegram on the
morning Of that day announcing MIR.
Beecher's intended visit to Peekskill.
One witness swore that he saw Mr. B.
there at that time. Thomas j. Til.
ney, lawyer, swore that he was
married in Brooklyn on the even
ing Of June 8 by Mr.. Beecher Frederick
A. Putnam testified that he saw Mr..
Beecher at the depot Of the New Haven
Railroad on June 1879 John W;rolouy