The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-05-13

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Price, the express messenger, wounding
him slightly Price shot the would-be
murderer and robber through the head,
killing him instantly.
Ex.STATE TREASURER RANKIN, of Iowa,
on trial at Des Moines on the charge Of
embezzlcment, has been acquitted.
ANOTHER cyclone visited Middle
Georgia on the 1st, causing the killing OF
fifty persons, the wounding of many
more, the destruction of a great quantity
of live stock and numerous dwellings.
The ravages of the cyclone were confined
mainly to Harris, Talbot, Henry and Cal
houn Counties.
VICE EPREsIDENT WILSON was brilliant
ly entertained at Nashville, Tenn, on
the 7th, at the residence of Gen. E. W.
Cole.
TIE Kentucky Democratic State Con-
vention completed its nominations on
the 9TH The full ticket is composed as
follows: For Governor, James B. Nc
Creery; Lieutenant-G Governor, John c.
Underwood; Attorney General, Thomas
E. Moss; Auditor, d. Howard Smith;
Treasurer, J. w. Tate.
On the night of the 7th the Eagle line
steamer Schiller, which sailed from New
York on the 28th ult for Hamburg, was
totally wrecked on an outlying ledge of
the Scilly Islands, about thirty miles
from Lands End, England. The ship
was One-half mile out of its course, an
error solely attributable to the preva-
lence of dense fog. OF the 379 per
sons on board, 81 are known to have
persisted. Several prominent German
citizens of Chicago, Milwaukee, Daven-
port Gowa), and other Western and South
ern cities were lost.
On the Sth the Italian Chamber of
Deputies, by vote of 519 to 149, approved
the ecclesiastical policy of the Govern
ment.
A RESOLUTION was adopted on the Sth
by the Belgian Chambers approving the
recent correspondence with Germany.
THE bill for the suppression of relig
ious orders in Germany has been read a
third time without amendment, and
the bill giving the old Catholics a share
of the Catholic Church property passed
the latter by 202 to IS. The provincial
authorities have been instructed to treat
the giving of money to priests who have
been subjected to legal penalties as a
punishable otfense.
| A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9th
! says that the work on the new Custom.
House building in Chicago will have to
be entirely overhauled and the building
reconstructed from the foundation, en-
failing an additional cost of $1,00O,0O0
and postponing the completion of the
structure year.
THE Postmaster General recently is
sued an order carrying into effect the
treaty for the formation of general
postal union concluded at Berne Oct. 8
last.
THE Grand Jury of the District of Co.
lumbia has declined to find an indictment
against Mr.. Dana, of the New York Sun,
for libeling ex.Gov. Shepherd.
AN attempt was made by miners on
the night of the 7th to burn the Philadel-
phia & Reading Railroad bridge above
Locust Gap.
A NEW trial in the case of Early Ys.
Storey, of the Chicago Times, has been
denied, the plaintiff consenting to accept
$4,000 in lieu of the $25, 900 awarded by
the jury. The defense appealed to the
Supreme Court. In another libel suit
against Mr.. Storey for stigmatizing a
Chicago lawyer as ' shyster" the jury
returned a verdict of $500.
JOHN BENDER, the Kansas murderer,
lately imprisoned at Florence, Arizona,
has again escaped.
CAPTIVE Cheyenne, Arapahoe and
Kiowa Indians from the Cheyenne Agen-
cy arrived at Fort Leaverworth ON the
Sth, and were placed in the guard-house.
UP to the morning of the 10th the bod
les of ninety-one of the Schiller victims
had been recovered. Only fifteen pas
sengers were known to have been saved.
On her recent trip from Lisbon to
London the steamer Cadiz sunk, and
sixteen jlVeS were lOSt.
THE Intransigente prisoners who were
concerned in the Cartagena insurrection
were recently released from custody.
THE Department of Agriculture reports
the condition of the winter wheat crop
in the Ohio and Missouri Valleys to be
such as to indicate only tive-eighths
Tn IL ~ al hn
Is per cent. Ohio, 81; Michigan, SO;
Indiana, 66 Illinois, So; Missouri, SO;
Kansas, 81. The condition was better in
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.
In the Beecher trial on the 10th Lewis
J. James testified that on the morning of
June 2, 1878, he saw Mr.. Beecher going
in the direction of Remsen street and
Mr. Moulton's residence. jeremiah P.
Robinson was recalled to testify in re-
gard to Mrs. Moulton having, in 1878, told
him of her alleged interview with
Mr.. Beecher, but the evidence was ruled
out. Mrs. Sarah Eddy testified that she
called at Mrs. Moulton's on the I'd of
June, 1878, and met Mr.. Beecher on the
steps of Mr.. Moulton's house, as he was
coming down. Mrs. Moulton was re-
called and testified that Mrs Eddy called
on her on that day, and that she repeated
the conversation to her.
THREE HUNDRED striking miners Of
Locust Gap visited two collieries near
Pottsville, Pa, on the 10th and forced
the miners employed there to stop work,
telling them that if caught at work again
the whole party would be attacked and
killed.
THE Massachusetts Legislature has ap-
propriated $4,000 to represent that
State at the Centennial Exhibition.
A NUMBER of distillers at Chicago, St.
Louis, Milwaukee and other points in the
West have been lately seized by Govern
ment officers on the charge Of gross vio
lation of the Revenue law.
CHIEFJUsTIcE LOWE on the 10th de-
MED the motion for an attachment COM
pelling Brigham to pay alimony to Ann
Eliza Young, on the ground that the al
legged marriage was bigamous or polyga-
nous, and therefore illegal.
RED CLOUD, Spotted Tail and a number
of Sioux chiefs left Cheyenne on the 11th
for Washington to treat with the Govern