The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-08-05

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The village of Herveyyille, Hendricks
County, Ind, was recently visited by a
terrific tornado. Houses were demolished
ana several persons, including five women,
were killed
1HE Democratic State Convention of
oregon, recently in session, nominated
Laiay cite Lane for Congress. The plat
ior m adopted favors the early resumption
If specie payments and the Legislative con-
troll of railroads.
GREAT damage was done to crops in H.
linois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Iowa
and Nebraska by the very heavy rains oc-
| curing during the week ending July 81
Disastrous floods prevailed in many sec
| tions
The Broadwood weaving factory in
Belfast, Ireland, was burned on the 31st
ult. Loss $750,0OO
THE Sublime Porte has authorized the
circulation of the Bible in Turkey.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 31st
| ult says that two-thirds of the Russian
town of Briansk was lately burned.
An immense meeting in favor of am
nesty for Fenian convicts was held in
Hyde Park, London, on the 1st Nearly
100, 900 persons were in attendance
The Secretary of the Treasury has Or
dered the sale of gold during the month of
August as follows: 81 500, 900 on the first
and third Thursdays each, and 81 100000
on the second and fourth Thursdays each !;
total s., 100000.
Ex-PREsIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON died
of paralysis at the residence of his
daughter, in Carter County, Tenn, on the
morning of the 31st ult., aged sixty-six
years. The announcement of his death
caused profound sorrow throughout his
State and in other sections of the
country The news was conveyed to
President Grant on the afternoon
of the 31st An executive order was i'm
mediately issued directing that the Exec
utive Mansion and the several departments
in Washington be draped in mourning
until the close of the day designated for
the funeral, and that all public business
should be suspended on that day. The
War and Navy Departments were also in
structed to pay suitable honors to the
memory of the exPresident.
A VIENNA dispatch of the I'd says sew
eral engagements had recently taken place
between the Turks and the Herzegovinian
insurgents, in which the former were de-
feated.
THE French National Assembly have
passed bills authorizing the construction
of tunnel under the British Channel,
and appropriating $4,000 francs for the
French exhibition at the Philadelphia
Centennial.
AT CoRyDoN, England, on the I'd, Col.
Baker, a distinguished army officer, was
found guilty of an indecent assault upon
Young lady in a railway carriage and SEN
fenced to twelve months imprisonment
and to pay a fine of $500.
THEODORE THTON's counsel on the I'd
served notice upon the counsel of Henry
Ward Beecher to the effect that the case OF
Tilton ys Beecher will be brought up for
trial in the Brooklyn City Court on the
first Monday of September.
in the Mountain Meadows massacre
trial on the I'd the affidavits of Brigham
Young and Geo. A Smith were offered
and ruled out. They state, in substance,
that neither party knew of the massacre
until aftcrward, and then only by general
report.
The public debt statement for July ap-