The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

u Cholera has made its appearance IN the
province Of oude.
& II was reported in Vienna on the l4th
nat the Turks had murdered 30 Christians in
s 6oumelia and Bulgaria during the preceding three
months The names Of the victims had been trans
znitted to the Foreign Legation at Constantinople.
n A body of Carlist troops recently sur
2brised and captured Port Aspe, near Santander,
Ind got away with 200 prisoners.
q An exciting debate occurred in the
26ritish House of Commons on the 18th, on the
9&ccssion of the presentation of petition praying
3 fpr the impeachment of the Judges who presided
the TchborRe trials. Disraeli moved to reject
be prayer of petitioners, and the motion prevailed.
Il A Madrid telegram of the 10th says the
ARTISTS had recently seized several women and
hildren in the province of SOria, whom they had
hreatened to shoot unless ransomed by certain
81 Three persons made an ascent from Par
on the 18TH in the balloon Zenith. for the pur-
pse of making scientific observations The air
hip attained the extraordinary height Of d 600
bet Two of the aeronauts were suffocated and died
nd when the balloon reached the ground the
hird was insensible, and his recovery was deemed
Unlikely.
III The prayer meetings of Messrs Moody
nd Sankey in London. were attended by the
rincess of Wales and other royal persOnages on
he nth
b There was a serious riot in Glasgow,
1cotland. on the 18th A stand containing 1900
&eople gave way in one of the suburbs and the
zIre mass was precptated to the ground. Thirty
l,p al,- ;p;u tba
s. their indignation at the carelessness of the pro-
|trietors, destroyed everything on the grounds.
II A conspiracy for the assassination of
he President of Uruguay and his Ministers has
ast been unearthed at Montevdeo, and fifteen of
= be leading Conservatives have beeen expatrated.
q DOMESTIC.
/ A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa, of
be 18th declares that the miners in that section, Of
Fhom at least 10000 were idle, had fully resolved
kot to 90 to work unless an advance of 10 per cent
sas promised.
A large number of contracts had been
<ecured by a Western mail contractor, and, as he
nd lately offered to sublet them, the Postoffce
Department was engaged on the 18th in investi-
ating how he came to be thus specially favored in
he award.
New England was favored with foot
md half of snow on the 18th.
Travel between Laramie City, Wyo-
hing. and Ogden Utah, was suspended on the
16th in consequence of the giving way of one of
he bridges on the Union Pacific Railway. and the
hilway officials advise intending travellers to Cali
lbrnia not to start until the interruption is re-
moved.
A $3.50, 900 fire occurred at Charlotte,
n. c.. on the 10th Among the property destroyed
we're 5000 bales Of cotton the North Carolina &
Charlotte and Columbia and Augusta Railroad
1epots and large number of private residences
The centennial celebrations at Concord
nd Lexington occurred on the 10Th. There were
ring of cannon, civic and military professions,
he unvciling of FrenChs statue Of the " Minute
ian" and orations appropriate to the occasion.
y The late cold weather extended over a
frge portion of the South and caused great damage
d many localities Ice formed on the night of the
lDth nearly half an inch thick at Wilmington. N
q; heavy frosts occurred in the vicinity Of Mont
6pmery. Ala. doing great damage to the growing
Gpps and snow fell on the morning yf the 10Th at
ichmond, Va.
q Another raid into Texas by Mexican
PObbers was reported on the 10Th. They crossed
lbe river and at last accounts were burning and
in the vicinity of Corpus Christi
Y The Government has issued orders for
he release Of the Black Hills miners lately brought
Into Fort Laramie, upon their parole to keep out of
he country until permitted to go there by the mill
lnry authorities.
4 The Supreme Court of Kansas has de-
tlded that the act authorizing counties and munich
palities to issue bonds 10 purchase seed grain is
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