The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17
don, of Kansas City; Secretary and
Treasurer, VIM. A. Hutchinson, of Chi
cago; Corresponding Secretary, W. S.
Pride, of Wilmington, Del.

don, OF Kansas City; Secretary and
Treasurer, VIM. A. Hutchinson, of Chi
cago; Corresponding Secretary, W. s
Pride, of Wilmington, Del.
The California Republican State Con.
vention met at San Francisco on the
l1th and nominated Hon. r. G.. Phelps
for Governor, Joseph M. Cavis for Lieu.
tenant Governor, o. H. Hallett for Sec
retary of State, VIM Beckman for Treas
urer. The Administration of President
Grant was indorsed, and his third-term
letter declared to be explicit as to the
third-term agitation. -st.-. e.
TIE Chicago Times of the 11th states
that the Supervising Architect of the
Treasury and the engineers appointed to
examine the walls of the new Custom
House building in that city had con.
demned the entire structure and advised
its demolition. Fl
DETAILS were given in late Panama
dispatch of fearful earthquake which
| occurred in New Granada on the 18th
ult. Large portions of the cities of San
Cayetana, Gramalata, Arboleda, Cucuta
and San Cristobel were destroyed, and
several thousand persons were reported
killed. .....
A LATE libel suit against the Pitts
burgh Daily Post, brought by w. d.
Moore, formerly Chairman of the Demo
cratic County Committee, has terminated
in verdict for the plaintiff for $4,000
damages. The Post had denounced
Moore as an impostor, etc. --.... s.
A GANG of cattle-thieves was over
taken by a company of State troops near
Brownsville, Tex, on the 18th, and their
whole number were killed. One of the
soldiers was fatally shot.
TIE safe of the United States man of
war Cumberland, which was run into and
sunk in Hampton Roads by the Confed-
crate ram Virginia, 10 1862, has recently
been recovered by diver. The safe
contained between 100000 and 100000
in gold and was found in seventy-eight
feet of water.
THE American rifle team reached
Queenstown, Ireland, on the 14th. They
were enthusiastically received by the
Irish Rifle Association and a delegation
from the Common Council of Dublin.
THE Treasury Department was conf
dent on the 18th that the proofs already
obtained were sufficient to convict all
the crooked" whisky distillers.
THE Bureau of Statistics reports the
total value of foreign merchandise i'm
ported iuto the United States during the
month of April at S45, 1867, ,319, falling
off of 81, ,793, ,2S5 as compared with April
of last year. The total value of foreign
imports for ten months ending April 30
was 1859, ,675, ,479, against 1896, ,305, ,679
during the corresponding period of 1874
"a decrease of $35, $50, 100. For the
same ten months the total value of COM
modities exported to foreign countries
was $532 2,619 167, against $573 ,072, 1s9 for
the corresponding period of 1874 de-
crease of 40,452 ,423.
VIM. S. KING, NJ c., indicted for per
jury by the Grand Jury of the District of
Columbia, has given bail in the sum-of
$4,000 for his appearance before the Dis
trict Criminal Court.
On the 14th the members of the firms
of Claflin & Co. and Field, Morris, Fen
ner & Co., together with Col. Des Anges
and Charles l.. Lawrence, were arraigned
to plead to indictments found against
them by the Grand Jury for completely In
silk-smuggling frauds. All plead not
guilty with the exception of Lawrence.
Ii. b. Clatlin Il Co. have published
card, in which they say they expect to
demonstrate their innocence of any COM
plicity in attempts to defraud the Gus
toms revenue.
Tom McGEHAN, the client of Clement
L. Vallandigham at the time the latter
accidentally shot himself in attempting
to show how the man for whose murder
Mcclellan was being tried might have un-
intentionally caused his own death, was
shot and killed in his saloon in Hamilton,
Ohio on the night of the 18th.