The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-18
THE NEWS.


zbcep s22 100000 in excess of the esti
Nmatcs.
4 Russia has by special ukase, issuec
slNov &, annexed that portion OF Khokant
Slyipr on the right bank of the Syr Daria
sfrom the Russian frontier to the Rive
zNareen.
81 ACCORDING to London dispatch Of tht
&1o,b the war in Malacca had assumed .
sqciigious aspect,
q SEVERAL important failures at the Eas
Uere announced on the 10th. Among
Mem were the firm Of james Wickham &
Son, commission merchants of New York
'ctr, and +. Gcedowsky, an extensive
manufacturer of furniture at Boston.
Il A SEVERE earthquake shock occurred
an portions of Missouri and Kansas on the
morning of the 10th. At Independence,
Mo, several brick buildings were con,
siderably injured, and citizens were
arouscd from sound slumber, thinking
tbeir houses were falling. The shock felt
N Topcka and elsewhere in Kansas was
llso severe.
II ANOTHER survivor Of the crew of the
stcamer Pacific, named Neal O'Haley,
H. picked up on the morning of the Sth,
birtv miles inside the Straits of Fuca.
h. was floating on a raft, from which
Cant Howell had been washed off and
Drowned. He says the Pacific was struck
N vessel under full sail, Two boats
"a away from the wreck. Five dead
Bodies had been recovered up TO the Sth.
"a A SINGULAR accident occurred at the
Detroit Pullman car works on the after
loon of the 10th. A large air tube, six
feet square, extends from the basement to
Bic roof to carry up the dust Of the plan
fng-machine to the cupOla. While twelve
m fifteen men were sweeping dust from
the cupola down the tube to be car
ried away, the fine particles took fire from
snoldering cmbers near the foot of the
fuc and exploded with burst Of flame,
Hhich burned several of the men tearfully,
somc Of them dangerously.
4 HEAVY storms prevailed in France and
England during the week preceding the
11th, and vast tracts Of country were
threatened by the rising floods.
SACCoRDING to a Constantinople dispatch
of the llth the Sublime Porte had ordered
he districts of Trcbigno, Biletz and Piva
% be detached from Herzegovina and
,rganIzcd as a separate department under
u Armenian Greek Governor.
Nice PRESIDENT WILSON was taken vio-
eniy i'll after a warm bath at the Capitol
III Washington on the morning of the
l0th. His physician reported him as
nuch improved in health on the 18th, and
hought he would speedily recover.
@THE New York State Senate will CON
ain p Republicans and II Democrats;
Housc GS Republicans and 60 Democrats
FORCED tickets purpOrting to have been
ssucd by the Illinois Central Railroad at
Chicago were offered for sale to a ticket
lgent in New York city on the 10Th.
THE New Hampshire Prohibitionists
uet in State Convention at Concord on
he 10Th and nominated A. j. Kendall for
bycmor.
THoMAs A. DOYLE (Rcp) has been re
lectcd Mayor of Providence, r. l., for
be tenth time.
TN Minnesota Legislature will be
onposed as follows; Senate-Republi-
ans, 2i; Opposition, II. House-Re-
ublicans, Go; Opposition, Al.
a MILWAUKEE dispatch of tho 11th
i've Ludington's tRep.) majority for
'overnGr Of Wisconsin at 900. The bal
nee OF the Democratic State ticket was
bought to have been elected bymajorities
anging from 100 TO 800 except Kuehn
n Treasurer, who would have from $500
1900.
TIM Chicago papers of the 18th state
Aat arrangements for pooling all earn
b had been entered into by the Lake
dpre, the Michigan Central and the Fort
xhyne Railroads. All the other trunk
1es to the West have consented to it, and
&nld act in concert with the new combi
ion in respect to rates.
aHE cotton mills at Glasgow, Scotland,
9bnging 10 Robertson & Co. and Young
10. were totally destroyed by fire on
"a 1lth, Loss estimated at 1,500, 900.
Ell 1900 persons were thrown out of
Ploymcnt.
y TERRIBLE explosion of fire-damp oc-
Mred in a Belgian colliery on the 10th.
q to the 18th forty-two dead bodies had
- recovered. 1t was feared a large
mber were still in the pit and probably
iIed.
'THE annual report of the Paymaster
!@eral of the Army shows that there
W disbursed TO the army during the
~ year $12, ,272, ,102 3S, and to the Mill
4 Academy 1902 ,23604. The number
esertIons during the year was 1881,
pnst 4 GO6 the previous year. The re-
stments aggregated 1886, against 500
previous year.
lis annual report the Commissioner
4nternal Revenue says the British pub
paid under their excise laws during
- year ending March 81, 1875, taxes in
amounting to $lS3, 1862, $50, against
,545, 145 paid in currency by the peo-
|z zpf this country during the fiscal year
= ed June 80, 1875.
1IE Commissioner of the General
4 Office recommends that all the tim
lands owned by the Government be
ped to purchasers at minimum valu-
p lie recommends the adoption OF
plan OF public sales heretofore prac-
but now abandoned, and thinks
Pre-emption laws should be re-
ed, and the homestead system
made the only method of acquir-
N'N w "SI ~ dl ldIluS- 1T UuUl-
OF acres disposed of during the last
was 7,070,27l, being 2,46o, sol less
the previous year. Of this amount
b,O5' acres were homestead entries and
SAB were certified to railroads; 745,-
acres were disposed of at cash sales.
cash receipts during the year were
S4, ,0O1.
RlDAY, the 18th, was observed as day
astlng and prayer by the clergymen
churches of Brooklyn, in accordance
the request Of Mr.. Moody. Revival
lces were held in the rink.
ccoRDNG to what is said to be the
lal returns of the Pennsylvania elec-
hartranft's plurality over Pershing is
p. The Prohibition vote was nearly
DO
HE vessel which collided with the
ultr Pacific proves to have hepn the