The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-12-14
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ACCORDING to London dispatches Of the
5th. England was about to abandon its
position on the question of extraditing
fugitives from the United States, and had
already arrested Brent, the Louisville
forger, and issued warrants for the arrest
of Winslow and Gray.
ACCORDING to late Japan advices a fire
recently occurred at Kanogawa, which
DESTROYED 700 native houses. A village
of forty houses in the province Of Echizen
h ad been destroyed by a tidal wave.
ACCORDING to a London telegram Of the
7th, Brent, the Louisville forger, had been
held upon the charges Of forgery and ut
tering counterfeit money, and would be
handed over to the United States authoFi-
ties after fifteen days. Wlnslow and
Gray had disappeared.
ST. PETERSBURG dispatches of the Ith
say the Russian war office had forbidden
war correspondents to join the Army OF
Occupation until it had crossed the
frontier. The proposition to subject their
reports to a species of censorship mad
been neratived by the Gar himself. The
publication of the Riski .Hir had been
srspended for one month because of its
disclosures of the composition of the
army.
THE European Plenipotentiaries held
preliminary meeting at Constantinople,
on the 1th. Much patriotic excitement
prevaiIed throughout Turkey, and the
sons of the best families were enlistinS IN
the Turkish army.
ACCORDING TO Bucharest kilograms oil
the Sth a panic had seized the inhaoitantS
of Roumanfa, especially those dwelling IN
the towns along the Danube. Many OF
,be neonIe had left their homes through
fear of Turkish invasion.
OK the 9tn, the Turkish Minister OF
Foreign Affairs addressed circular to the
ranresentatives of the Porte abroad, de-
cIarinr that the Government was not re-
snonsibIe for the depIorable condition OF
some Of her provinces. Itwas now on the
poiut of introducing reforms which would
satisfy all her subjects of whatever race
and religion.
kccoRnTSG to London dispatches of the
9th Russia had recently renewed her rnVl-
tation to Austria to occupy Bosnia and
herzegovina. She had again declared
flat she did not seek for territorial
changes, and should not consider herself
y. war with Turkey unless that power
forcibly opposed her passage into oerVla
and Bulgaria.
| DISPATCHES from Matamoras (MeXicol
| of the 9th state that news had been re
| ceiyed from the interior announcing the
| canture of President Lerdo and his Cab
met by the Revolutionists near Nuncan.
Cen Escobado, Secretary of War, and
otbers had been shot. The Government
/ of Jerdo was believed to be overthrown.
The entire northern frontier of Mexico,
except the city of Matamoras, was in the
possession of the supporters of igieslas
CoSsrANrrSopLE kilograms of the 10th
saw two Montenegrins had been arrested
in that city for conspiring to assassinate
Midhat Pasha. A conspiracy had beer
discovered having for its object the depo
sition of the reigning Sultan and the en-
thronement Of ex-Sultan MuFad.
THE London Post of the 1lth says there
is TO be fresh exodus of Menonnites from
Russia, of whom $4,000 propose to settle
in the United States.
AN explosion occurred in a colliery a
Windberg in Germany, on the night o
the 10Th which resulted in the death o
twenty five miners.