The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-10-28
THE NEWS.


LoSpoN dispatch of the Goth says
offensive and disastrous floods had re-
contIy occurred throughout Lancashire
and Narwickshire Traffic by rail in
taat section had been for many miles alb
solutely stopped.
THE Supreme Court Of Germany on the
oGth affirmed the verdict of the Hammer
uericht in the case of Count Won Arnim.
pRoF, WHEATsToNE, the English nat
ural philosopher and electrician, died at
Paris on the goth.
LATE st. Petersburg dispatch reports
the burning of 200 dwellings, synagogue
and five schools in Widsy, Russian Po-
land Several were burned to death and
more than 5000 persons were rendered
homeless.
4 CENTENNIAL excursion arrived in
Philadelphia on the evening of the Goth,
consisting of delegations from Chicago,
Detroit, Milwaukee, Toledo, Cleveland,
Rnfal5. St Louis, Indianapolis, Cincin-
matt and Pittsburgh. They were hospita-
bIy entertained by the Philadelphians.
4 REUNION of Union and Confederate
soldiers was lately held at Elizabeth, n.
! Fourteen veteran companies partici-
pated.
REUBEN BENTON was accidentally
struck in the head with mallet while
playing croQuct at Titusville, Pa, on the
10Th, and 50 badly injured that he died in
few hours.
\ LONDON paper Of the 22d gives addi-
tional particulars Of the flood. The
valley Of the River Don had formed a
lake half a mile wide and fifteen miles
long: many collieries and iron-wOrks had
been flooded and thousands of operatives
thrown out Of employment. At Darling
ton the food had been particularly severe,
the gasworks, among other establish
mcnts, being drowned out. At Ruther
ham, in Yorkshire, over 1 900 people had
been thrown out of work.
A PARIS telegram Of the 21st says the
work Of sinking a shaft 100 meters deep,
preliminary to the construction Of the En-
glish Channel tunnel, would shortly be
commenced near Calais.
The King Of Bavaria on the 2lst pro-
mgucd the Bavarian Diet. The rcsigna-
tion of his Ministers he has refused to ac-
ccpt
THE town of Iquique, IN Peru, South
America, was recently almost entirely
wiped out by fire.
FREDERICK HUDsON, formerly manag-
ing editor of the New York Herald, died
al Concord, Mass, on the 21st, from being
struck the day before by locomotive
while riding across a railroad track in
buggy.
AMAss MEETING was held in New York
city on the Goth to protest against the cX-
cusion Of the Bible from the public
Schools
THE will of the late Isaac NJ. Singer,
the scwingmaChine inventor. bequeath-
ing property amounting in value to $14,-
y,n,. .,;,,.'ar .,otu.
4 GEN Sol MEREDITH, Of Indiana, died
I'll MS lesldehce III CahloFluSe |lty' On
'Ile @IS'' u cancer III 'iie SIolll'ch'
On the 2lst, at Denver, Col, Il police
man found in the cellar of Il small tene
mcnthousc recently vacated the dead
bodies OF an old man and three boys, all
i''''"''N' VII" i'"' oeeii lAuluele"'
AT the special election in California on
the 20th Prof. Carr, the Republican can
dIdale Tor superintendent OF Public In
stTUctIon' was elected. All the Judges in
once IN 9an Francisco, both Democratic
sin,,Ia ,,voont;a,, ''
lHE Wisconsin Supreme Court has late
" decided that the action OF the Wood
county canvasSers in throwing out the
&c., w., - ;,11l, '1'i NV w 'n1
/ ,r,. ,,nia go -, "' '-,s .. 5"l, ~ , N,s.o"
aroo, ~ Il. 'l .t ,,-... No-l.:5s or'. .0"i.y
of lincoln worId o,oc+ AIovo,dor 6 NTc
bin Rpn J to CONGRESS instead Of Goorco
Nv Gate who received tho cortifcata of
seIrctirn fine If 5000 voo innosod an
the ranrassor who throw ort tho votes
Tim, ro.ob .a.. Uu. ~
nh "a'cli i"ctory at Freeport' Ill.,
o1st In.s s1zG noo MA fro - lnnaosad ,
to h,vo hoo, ,I,a ,,.onI. % na ;roaId;a,,s it",
" ' I'll. WI n VI d" 'li' '"'''"'y'
\ NUMBER OF important failures oc-
{aTanJ .I,onnI 'l,,O' 'l' NAM ''e'''' LII
7 '''i''' vi 'le -~u'
1 ACCORDING TO the London Times OF the
R.'' LONDON merchants mad been able to
ElinpoFl American caiicoes at profit.
A SEVERE gale passed over the Scottish
5eo''' on ihe 2Ist and 22d. up to the
sn'oFhlhE OF the I'D five vessels had been
StcpoF'ed lost with all on board within
sdistancc of forty miles.
N n MADRID dispatch of the 22d says
Ssharkey, the New York murderer, had
arrived at Santander.
n THE Postmaster General has decided
supon railway postal.car service between
sthc cities of Pittsburgh and St. Louis, ria
h. pa, ITandIa e. - I ~ oS' u ~"
service to be begun as soon as the depart
ffheht can make the necessary arrange
shentS.
IL HE District-Attorney of Brooklyn has
entered nol}e prosequ5 in all the criminal
1ibel suits growing out of the Beecher-