The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-09-30
PRESIDENT GRANTand family arrived al
st. Louis on the 24th.

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THE Herndon House, in Marshall
Mich, was burned early on the morning
OF the 24th, and Claude G. Avery, Anton,
Gruber, Eliza King and Martha Varsdcr
were either burned to death or fatally in
iured while trying to escape Severa
other persons received serious injuries.
GEO. W. GAGE, a prominent citizen o.
Chicago, former proprietor of the fremont
and Grand Pacific Hotels, died on the Gath
aged sixty-three years. His disease was
cerebro-s spinal meningitis
A TELEGRAM from Berlin of the 25tl
SAYS the Sublime Porte had refused to
yield to the demands of the insurgents
until they have made a full and complete
submission.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the 25th
says the Consular mediation had failed.
ACCORDING to Paris dispatch of the
25th Bonapartist council had been re-
Gently held at Arenberg, Switzerland, at
the chateau of ex-Empress Eugene,
where it was resolved that the Empress
should resign the regency and that the
Prince Imperial, guided by M. Rouher,
should have charge of affairs
THE President has accepted the resigna.
ton of Secretary Delano, to take effect
Oct. 1. The letter of resignation is dated
July 5, and the Presidents letter of ac-
ceptance Sept. 90.
REV H. c. TnToN has declined the
nomination for Governor of Wisconsin on
the Temperance ticket
THE board appointed 10 investigate the
Chicago Custom House building made
public their report on the 26th. 1t is to
the effect that some of the material used in
the structure so far should be rejected and
some other notifications made in the
plan, and that then the structure may
safely be proceeded with. The Secretary
of the Treasury has indorsed the report,
and has directed that work on the build
ing be resumed in the spring in accord
ance with the suggestions made by the
commission.
The commissioners to treat with the
Indians for the Black Hills were some
what alarmed on the 24th by the warlike
attitude assumed by some of the Indians.
A fight seemed inevitable at one time, but
they were finally pacified. Little hopes
of negotiating satisfactory treaty were
entertained by the commission.
y HORRIBLE murder was perpetrated
near Belle Center, Ohio, on the 22d, the
victim being a young girl named Allie
Laughlin. The perpetrator of the crime
was James W. Shell, who, according to
the testimony of his wife, enticed the girl
away into the woods and after desperate
struggle killed her with a knife. On re-
turning Shell told his wife what he had
done, and threatened to kill her should
she reveal the story. She also testi-.
fed that he had made previous threats
to her against the person and life of
Miss Laughlin. Great excitement pre-
vailed in Bellefontaine when the crime be-
came known, and on the night of the 23d
Shell was taken from the jail by an ex-
asperated crowd and hanged. He pro-
tested his innocence and charged his wife
with the murder of the girl. Mrs. Shell
was lodged in Jail at Bellefontaine on the
25th, as an accomplice before the fact she
having confessed to previous knowledge
of her husbands intention to commit the
outrage and murder.
On the 27th the American ship Ellen
Southard was lost off the Lancashire
coast, England. Eight of the crew per-
ished, and the pilot and four of the boats
crew of life-bo which went to the
Southard's assistance were drowned,
ACCORDING to a Santander dispatch of
the 9th prominent Carlists and the Car
list committees in foreign lands had en-
deavored to persuade Don Carlos to aban-
don the struggle for the Spanish throne
and give in his adhesion to King Al
phonso.
THE report of the Government Direct
ors of the Union Pacific Railroad, just
submitted in Washington, shows that the
gross receipts Of the road during the year
ending June 80, 1915, were S11 ,522 ,O21,
dll lHGItdSt bNtl piS'iouo yStti VI
S1,275, 800; increase in net earnings dur
ing same time, $1,576,424; operating ex-
penses, $4,7sS,630.
THE Fourth National Bank OF Chicago
suspended on the 25th.
THE clergy and business men of Chi
cago have lately taken preliminary steps
toward inaugurating great religious re-
vival this fall and coming winter. Ef-
forts are making to secure the personal at
tendance of Messrs. Moody and Sankey,
but in any event revival is determined
on. One report is to the effect that the
evangelsts are to remain and prosecute
their religious labors in New York.
Ex-senator CARL ScHURz delivered
hard money speech at Cincinnati on the
27th.
III. HAM, of the Inter Ocean, has been
removed from the office of United States
Appraiser of Merchandise at Chicago, and
R. G. Feldkamp appointed as his sue
cessor.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the
Burlington g. Missouri Railroad, near
Woodburn, on the 27th Three passenger
cars were thrown from the track, and one
passenger was killed and about thirty in
jured.