The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-29
THE NEWS.

three men alive, leaving only their heads
eyposcd, and then killing them with
hatchets and knives.
THE French Geographical Society has
handed to United States Minister Wash
burnc the gold medal awarded to the late
Can't. Hall in commemoration of his
Arctic explorations, for transmission to
Mrs. Hall.
4 NOTION to appoint a royal commits
sion 10 investigate the Tichborne trials
WAS negativcd in the British House of
Commons, on the 23d, by vote of l to
49,
TIE Chicago Inter- Ocean of the 22d had
crop reports from various sections of the
country, from which the conclusion was
reached that the wheat crop in Ohio, In
diana, Michigan, Missouri and Tennessee
will be less than an average, while in
Southern Illinois, Wisconsin and Mime
sofa the yield promises to be large. Cot
ton and tobacco in Tennessee, South
Carolina and Virginia had been injured
by frost, and in these States, as well as
in Ohio, Indiana and Missouri, the fruit
crop would be failure. The yield of
fruit also in Southern Illinois and West
crn Michigan would be small, and oats
and clover had been injured in some sec
tiunS.
A ToPEKA (Kan) special of the 23d
says scycnty-fivc of the rccently-cscaped
ChcyCnucs had returned and more would
follow. They were nearly starved.
IN the Bcechcr case on the 22d, Mr..
Cleveland testified that he saw Mr.
Rccchcr ut the Christian Union office
about noon, June 2, 1873, and remained
in conversation with him about forty
minutes He visited Mr.. Carpenter in
May, 1874, at the request of Mr.. Beecher
to bring him to Mr.. Moulton for discus
sion in reference to reports that were be
ing circulated by Mr.. Bowen against de-
fcndant. Witness told Mr. Carpenter that
if the stories were repeated the tripartite
agreement would be published. The
witness further stated that the Church
Investigating Committee was appointed
at Mr.. Bccchcr's suggestion after con-
sultaton with witness and others. DR..
]. L. LltIlc testified that he saw Mr.. Til
ton in the Communist procession in a
carriage with Miss Clafin, Mrs. Wood
hull being on foot. He had no personal
acquaintance with these women.
Atty. GEN. WILLIAMS resigned on the
ped and his resignation was accepted,
to take effect on the 18th of May. The
statement that The President had re
qucstcd the resignation Of Secretary
Delano is authoritativcly denied.
john HARPER, of the publishing firm
Of Harper Bros, Of New York, died on
the 22d.
CHARLES A. DANA, arrested on an in
diCtmcnt found by Il District of COlum- |
bia jury for libel, was discharged by
Judge BlatChford, Of the United States |
District Court, at New York, on the 22d. |
THE Ursulinc nuns in Poscn who are
not natives Of Germany have been
ordered to leave the district within two
months.
JUDGE KERRoS, United States Consular |
Agent at Brest, is dead.
THE Viceroy of India has dcposed the
Guikwar of Barada, and conferred the
sovereignty on a collateral branch of the
family.
On the 23d the steamers John Kyle, |
Exporter and Charles Bodman burned at
the levee in New Orleans. About forty |
lives were lost
A KANSAS CITY (Mo.) dispatch of the
23d represents that the grasshoppers are
becoming lively in that section and in
various localities in Kansas, Iowa and |
Minnesota
THE Postoffice Department has dis
missed six of the clerks engaged in the
fraudulent issue of mailtransportation |
contracts.
y DANGEROUS counterfeit five-dollar |
note on the Paxton Ill) First National |
Bank was discovered in Washington on
the 24th
TILE Director Of the Mint has been d.
rectcd by the President to investigate
the claims of the different cities in the
Mississippi Valley for the location of the
new branch mint.
SPAIN has paid $4,000 of the $50, 900 |
agreed tc be paid as indemnity for the
NirginiuS massacre.
band of Cheyenne Indians was at
tackled on the 23d by Lieut. Hindley and
company of United States troops near
Monument, Kan. Twenty Indians
were killed and 100 ponies captured. |
The troops lost two killed. Thirty seven
Indians escaped.
The Union League Clubhouse in
New York was damaged by fire on the
morning of the 25th to the extent of
about 100000.
Mr.. CLEvELAND's cross-examination in
the Becchcr case was concluded on the
23d. Mr. Moulton was recalled, and de-
MED that he had ever told Mr.. Partridge
that Mr.. Tilton had written the life of
Mrs. Woodruff to put himself at the
head of the Spiritualist movement. He
had told Mr.. Partridge that the Spiritual
lists outnumbered the Congregationalists
Mr.. Partridge was recalled and reaffirmed
his former statement, and also stated
that the conversation occurred shortly
after the publication of the life of Mrs.
Woodruff. Adjourned until the Goth.
DANIEL OLEARY, the Chicago pcdes.
trlan, recently walked, in New York, 116
miles in twenty-three hours and eight
mlnutcs-the best time on record.
Hon. A. B. BARRETT, recently elected
Mayor of St. Louis, died on the Gath.
JAMES LAFFERTY, of Rockville, N. Y.
lately killed his grandmother, robbed the
house, and then shot Miss Van Moy, who
had refused to marry him, her mother
and himself
OFFICIAL returns from all the counties
In Michigan except Schoolcraft, Hough-
tfn and Chippewa, received on the 24th,
give Marston tRep) majority of 25, ,42S
for Judge Of the Supreme Court.
THE Michigan State Prohibition Con-
vention will meet in Lansing on the 18th
of May.
IHE recent charter election in Chi
cago resulted in a respectable majority
In favor of reconstruction under the
charter of 1872. Minority representa-