The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-12-07

IHE Chicago Trtbune of the Both ult
says movement was on foot among some
OF the leading merchants of that city to
obtain the signature of every business
man, regardless of party, in Chicago,
Pledgng him to stand by and support
whoever receives the majority of the
Electoral vote--whether it be Hayes or
Iilden-and to use his influence to main
tain peace and quiet throughout the coun-
try.
The New York Times Of the Goth ult.
has the following special:
| Rooms OF THE STATE CANvAssINa BoARD /
TALLAHASSEE, Fla, Nov 2S. 1876.
hereby certify that the returns from all
| the counties of the State except Dade Coun-
ty, were this day opened by the Board of
state Canyassers The votes for electors, as
| of1claliy announced from the face of the re.
| turns in detail aggregate as follows. Hmm
! phrieS received "A ,32S; Pearce received "a
34; Long received 24,323; Holden received
A,32S; Younge received 24,2S4; Call received
| A,2S5; Hilton received 24,2S3: Bullock re-
| ceived "a, ,282. The first four names are Re
publlcans and the last four Democratic can
| didates.
!
A FIRE on the corner of South Water
street and Michigan avenue, in Chicago,
on the night of the Both uIt., DESTROYED
property valued at $l5C 600
THE Chicago & Erie Railroad, an in
dependent line to New York, made up of
four connecting roads, was abandoned as
| a distinct organization on the Goth ult.
Low rates and intestine quarrels killed it.
THE main building at the Centennial
Exposition at Philadelphia has been pur.
chased by joint stock company, which
designs to use it for a permanent annual
exposition. The price paid was $3.50, 900
THE New York Herald of the 1st an
nounces that Tweed had determined to dis
miss all his counsel and let the law take
its course.
THE Rhode Island General Assembly
met in special session on the 1St. Gov.
Lippett communicated the opinion of the
Supreme Court that Coress, one of the
Presidential Electors elect, was ineligible
by reason of being member of the
United States Centennial Commission
Hon. w. D. Slater was elected to fill the
vacancy, receiving cighty-one votes to
nineteen for c. II. Cutler, Democratic
candidate.
At Columbus, Ohio, on the night of the
Goth ult, while Mrs Richard Barr was
filing lamp with burning-huid poured
from a pitcher, the flame from another
lamp on the table was communicated to
the fluid, which exploded and ran over the
clothing of Mrs. Barr, burning her so bad
Iy that she died few hours after.
ACCORDING to press dispatch received
in San Francisco on the 1St, from Vic
tOria, fifty rounds Of ammunition had
been issued to the militia of the province,
in anticipation of Fenian raid. Torpe-
'uoes had also been placed in the harbor.
THE telegraph line between Cheyenne
and Dcadwood was completed on the 1st.
A FIRE occurred in New Orleans on the
1st which destroyed 112 houses, fifty of
which were occupied by a hundred fam
lilies who lost nearly all their effects and
were left in destitute condition. About
twenty tiremen were injured, several
seriously. Value of property destroyed
estimated at between $500. 600 and $780,
000
CHARLES B. WILKINSON, defaulting
United States Revenue Collector at St.
Joseph, Mo was sentenced, on the 1st,
to two years imprisonment in the Mis-
souri, State Penitentiary, and to pay fine
Of $1,000.
A WASHINGTON special of the I'd states
that, in an interview on that day, Prcsi-
dent Grant said he did not aPprehend any
difficulty over the settlement Of the Presi-
dental question.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the ID says
it was believed by the Cabinet that there
was then no necessity for any additional
official action by the Government relative
to South Carolina affairs. A dispatch
was sent to Gen. Ruger announcing that
his explanation of the action of the mill
tarv on the 2Sth ult was satisfactory, and
that his course was fully approved.
IT was reported in New York on the I'd
that Secretary Robson had recovered the
full amount of the So, 900, ,O00which it was
said he had lost in the advance made to
Jay Cooke & Co. as Government fiscal
agents, Just before the panic of 1878.
THE Democratic candidates for Presi-
dental Electors in Nebraska petltloned
the Douglas County District Court, on the
ID, for an injunction restraining the Re
publican Electors from meeting and cast
ing the vote of the State for Hayes. The
ground of the application is that the votes
were Illegally canvassed, and that one OF
the Republicans is ineligible, being
| Federal otlicchOlder.
The monument of the printers of the
United States to Horace Greeley-a bronze
bust-was formally placed over his tomb
in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, n.
Y, on the 4th, the ceremonies being par
ticipated in by Thurlow Weed, William
Cullen Bryant, and other distinguished
printers and journalists.
TuK military force under Gen. Crook
left Fort Reno, on the morning OF the Sd,
for the junction of Little Powder River
with Powder River, where they expected
TO strike the hostile Sioux. The latest adj
vices were to the effect that Sitting Bull
had about 400 lodges, and Crazy Horse
seventy-equivalen to fighting force of
nearly 1000.