The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-15

heart and then ran the engine out
two miles and attempted to rob
the Adams Express car. The mes
senger, Mr.. Burke, barricaded the car
and successfully resisted their efforts until
party came to Burkes relief. Several
shots were fired into the express car, but
without effect, One thousand dollars re-
ward has been offered for the murdcrers
| The James brothers are suspected of being
the perpetrators of the outrage. The
name of the murdered engineer was Milo
! Amcs
| THE immediate cause of Gen. BIair's
death was an injury received by falling
| aud striking his head against a piece of
| furniture while walking across the room.
| He had been out riding and returned feel
ing much better, but being seized with diz-
illness he fell and became unconscious,
| He never rallied.
Nil the Mayors to whom invitations
have been sent to attend the international
| banquet at Guildhall, London, on the 29th
! have signified their acceptance, with only
] two exceptions.
THE damage caused by the flood in the
Rhone Valley is estimated at about ,0Q0,-
600 francs.
THE insurrection at Herzegovina, along
the Dalmatian border, according to
Vienna dispatch of the nth, has assumed
threatening proportions The populace
had attacked the Turkish authorities IN
the frontier towns and raised the Austrian
flag.
CoRTINa, Mayor of Matamoras, Mexico,
was lately arrested by the Mexican au
tlorities under suspicion of being con-
ccrned in the Texas raids and sent TO the
City of Mexico Mexican papers say that
he was the supporter and defender of
criminals and the enemy of justice and
order.
TIE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided to allow claims OF State
officers for the refunding of the income
tax paid upon the cmoluments OF their
Offices filed in due time.
Mrs. SARToRIs, daughter of President
Grant, has Il fine boy, born on the 11th at |
Long Branch, weighing ten and half
pounds.
MIR. MouLToN recently addressed Il let |
ter to the District Attorney OF brooklyn,
asking for a speedy trial under the lndict-
ment for libcIing Mr. Beecher. Attorney
Britton responded that he could not well
attend to the matter at the present time,
owing to more urgent Jail cases, but IN
timated that later in the season he Will
have the matter attended 10.
THE daughter of Patrick BoyIan, of
West Davenport, iowa, was fatally burned
the other evening by the explosion oI a
can of kerosene, while lighting the kitch-
en- fire with its contents.
TIE funeral of Gen. Blair at st. Louis
on the 18th was the most imposing alaH
of the kind ever witnessed in that city.
THE house of Mcssrs. Corking, Of Man
chester, England, failed on the 18th, With
large liabilities.
THE Earl of Derby has been requested
to receive dcputation of persons interest
ed in the Nova Scotia coal-tields for con
ference.
A FAREWELL meeting of Messrs. Moody
and Sankey took place in London on the
night of the 12th. A number OF titled
gentlemen and 100 clergymen were pres
cnt.
A MADRID dispatch of the 18th says
combinations had been made
which would force the Carlists to take
refuge in France or accept battle under
disastrous circumstances.
On the evening of the 18th, as num-
Der of Orangemen were returning to Law
renee, Mass, from picnic celebration OF
the battle of the Boyne, they were assailed
by crowd of several hundred lrishmen
and serious riot ensued, during which
several persons were seriously wounded.
A squad of police undertook to quell the
disturbance, and were themselves assaulted,
but they compelled the mob to disperse by
a liberal use Of fire-a arms.
A MINERS strike occurred in the
colieries at St Clair and Wadcsvi'lc, Pa,
on the 18th, the men being dissatisfied
with the recent 10 per cent. reduction.