The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-05-20

the release of the priests lately impris-
oned at Posen. The alleged principal in
the recent conspiracy against the life of
Bismarck, one DAMN, has been arrested
at Cracow.
A ROMAN journal, La Voce Della Verita,
has been suspended for publishing the
Pope's recent address to the German pill
grims.
JUDGE PIERREPoNT, the new Attorney
General, took charge of his Office in
Washington on the 18th.
THE Postmaster General has ordered
that the rate of postage on letters sent to
or received from foreign countries with
which other rates have not been estab-
lished, when forwarded by vessels regu-
larly employed in transporting the mail,
be reduced from ten to five cents for each
half ounce or fraction thereof
On the 10Th Red Cloud, Spotted Tail
and seven other Sioux Indian chiefs and
an interpreter reached Washington
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
called for SIS, 100000 coupon bonds, upon
which the interest will cease on and after
Aug. Is next.
NUMEROUS whisky seizures were made
in Boston and Brooklyn on the 10th.
THE Black Hills party captured by the
military and taken to Fort Randall on
the 18th have been, by order of Gen.
Sheridan, released on parole, and their
arms, horses, wagons and outfits restored
to them. Two refused to sign the parole
and remain in custody.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, rejoiced in
public demonstration and torch-light
procession on the night of the 18th over
the late decision of the United States
Circuit Court declaring that city to be
the eastern terminus of the U. p. r. r.
Col. J. H. BRITToN (Dem) has been
elected Mayor of st. Louis, rice Arthur
B. Barrett, deceased, by 615 majority.
THE Governors Guards, a military
company of Springfield, ILL.,, won the
prize banner at the competitive drill on
the occasion of the late soldiers reunion
in Chicago.
THE Carlists shelled the city of Pam
peluna on the 10th. The garrison re-
pulsed the insurgents.
Two of the Podgoritza murderers have
been executed at Sentari
On the 18th five new national banks
were authorized to commence business
in various places in New England, and |
one in Allegheny City, Pa.
Gov. WESTON, of New Hampshire, and |
four or five of his Council have decided |
to treat votes cast for " Natt' Head, Re- |
publican candidate for State Senator
from the Second District, as blanks, on |
the ground that his name is Nathaniel. |
They also throw out the votes cast for |
the Prohibition candidate for State SEN
ator, because of his ineligibility. This |
gives the two disputed seats in the State
Senate to the Democrats.
ACCORDING to Wilkesbarre (Pa.) dis
patch of the 18th the prospects were ex-
ceedingly favorable for resumption of
work in the anthracite region.
The Governor of Missouri has ap
pointed Thursday, June 3, as a day of
fasting and prayer, on ac-
count of the threatened grasshopper
pestilence.
A YANKToN Cd. IT, dispatch of the 18th
announces the capture, at the White
River crossing, of the John Gordon
Sioux City Black Hills party.
Gov. TAYLOR has appointed the Goth
Inst. as Decoration Day in Wisconsin.
EX-VICE-PREsIDENT JOHN G. BRECKIN-
RIDGE died at his residence in Lexing-
son, KY, on the evening of the 18th, Of
,bscess of the liver combined with con-
He was little over fifty years
Of age.
Gov. JACOBS, Of West Virginia. has
been enjoined from moving the State
Capitol from Wheeling to Charleston, in
with the law to that effect.