The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-05-06
THE NEWS.

81 On the 2Sth the city OF Oshhosh' 10.
was for the third time within the las
Il few wears visited bya disastrous GONNA
q grafton. The area burned over Is aoou
q mile and half long by half mii'
wide The principal business blocks
81 ard the finest residences were destroyed
II ;ncluding all the newspaper offices, the
s. Opera-House, the Courthouse, the
Il hanks all the hotels except one, the tele
a oraph office, several saw and Shinglt
X mills and millions of feet of lumber
a Tbrne lives were lost and hundreds O
81 for,ilios erc rendered homeless. The
a loss is oriousIy estimated at from
81 s75O, 900 to $2,0OO,OOO.
LORD HOBART, Governor of Madras
Presidency, India, died IN the 2Sth.
y THE Prince OF Wales was installed
y &Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge
of Masons, at London, on the 2Sth.
Judge PIERREPoNT, of New York, has
# been rendered and has accepted the
81 limited States Attorney -Gencralshlp.
Tx his evidence in the Beecher case, OF
|Sthe 2sth, Mr.. Tracy said that in his in
# #tcrviews with Messrs. Moulton and Til
&ton they only charged improper pro
%lnosals and that Mr.. Tilton denied the
&truth of the charge now made. Mr.
#Moulton had never told witness that de
zfendant was guilty of the graver charge
2kand witness had never told him that if il
were true it was case where lying was
zaiustifable. lie had advised the deStruc
#tion of the documents in Mr.. Moulton's
81 The agricultural implement and Cal
Y Spet manufacturers of Great Britain have
EleCided not to send their wares to the
3&Philadelphia Exhibition, on account oi
the tariff which the United States i'm
poses on the importation of such mer.
5chandiSe. The French manufacturers
arc said to be preparing to contribute
#iberally.
n THE final act of reparation for the Gus,
"a outrage occurred at Santander or
Ehe 2Sth, when the German flag was sa
lutcd with a royal salvo of artillery.
"a Ar Pap Hollow, a small village neal
&NiIkesbarre, Pa, on the 29th, a Consta
bic and two deputies, armed with legal
hoCumcpts, endcavored to eject miners
Family from a house that had been bought
s3at Sherih'S sale. As the officers entered
'the house they were met by the women
OF Lawrence O'Connell's family and
ArivcD away with stones and other mis-
biles. The Constable shortly after returned
with five policemen and several deputies,
and two arrests were made. As they
we're taking the prisoners away the
miners opened upon them with firearms,
Killing two and mortally wounding an
@othcr. They relreated to Wilkesbarre,
gathered a posse OF twenty-five armed
men and started for Pap Hollow once
more, where about 5000 men, women
Ind children were assembled. O'Con.
nell's house was surrounded and they
were again fired on. The O'COnnells were
aSfnaIly captured, ironcd and taken to
~ iIkesbawe.
8# Ex-senator ScHURz and family left
Scw York on the 29th on visit to Eu-
nope Mr. Schurz was given a compli-
Hcntary banquet just before his depart
nre by several of the leading citizens, at
which William NJ. Evarts presided.
81 THE direct testimony of Gen. Tracy
Mas finished on the 29th, and he was
crosscXamincd by Mr. Beach. His evi-
dence was in the main contradictory of
thc statements of Mcssrs. Tilton and
Noulton in regard to witness connection
sith the parties priOrto the beginning of
hc suit.
sk The Weber furniture factory in De-
Goit and ten or twelve adjoining dwell
hg-houses were burned on the 29th, in
aicting loss of about 100000.
lN ON the 29th announcement was made
fhat the breaks in the Union Pacific
Rilroad, caused by the freshets in the
kocky Mountains, had been repaired,
@d that trains had resumed their regu-
trips.
c0ALNINE explosion occurred on the
th ult. in Bunker's Hill colliery, North
4afordshire, England, while the miners
Yere at work. Twelve dead bodies had
SHen taken out at last accounts, and the
ztFentythree remaining in the mine were
Rt expected to be recovered alive.
M COUNT WALDEcK, the French artist,
ded at Paris on the Both ult. at the re-
markable age of 110 years.
s a BILL was recently introduced in the
German Reichstag abolishing ali religious
vrders in Prussia.
AT the end of Mr.. Tracy's crossexami-
mtion on the Both ult. Mr.. Evarts an
munccd that the defense rested their
asc Mr.. Beach said it was due to the
prosecution to state that they made no
QpJectIon to allowing Mrs. Ti.ton to be
SAlIed as a witness, although she was in
competent under the statute. Mr.. Ev-
rs SAID 1t had never been a question
Nlth them whether Mrs. TiIton would be
witness, as they knew the law was
against them. If she could at any
:Rme have been admitted there
SNere grave questions to be considered,
no that if his client needed any addi-
sQonal evidence it would be his duty to
Tduce such testimony. They had not
Aeen brought to any point when they
yere led TO consider the force of the evi-
1ence. Mr.. Beach replied that, in his
yleW OF the law, the counsel were mis-
AIKEN in the intent of the law as to the
2ropriety of allowing the wife to defend
Aaerself. 1t was not its policy to forbid
mat adverse position, but he only men
ioned this matter first SO that if coun-
Sel desired to produce the lady they
Here at perfect liberty to do so. Mr..
warts said he did not believe the con-
sent of counsel made the wife A CONNIE.
ent witness. Judge Nelson said there
Mas no question about the allowatilitv
~ the other side to offer this ladv as a
WtnesS. 1t would be a very irving DO.
Elon for her, but on the whole he was
ao The lady was not TO be offered.
narles G. Stanley and G. w. Maddox
ERE called in rebuttal, and testified that
y. Hilton was not with Mrs Woodruff
the Communist procession. John
lhton testified that he walked arm-in-
Hf'n with Mr.. Tilton in the procession,
sad mat he did not see either Mrs. Wood
ll or Miss Claain during the process
80 pm On the cross-examination witness
id he was surprised to see Mr.. 7. in the
ocesslon, and did not suppose, before
chg him there that hn ,rnnld hn