The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-06
and willing to protect Redmond in the
discharge of his duties.

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LATE investigations in England by Ger
man detectives had revealed the fact, ac-
cording TO London dispatch of the 31st
ult., that Thomas, the dynamite fiend,
once attempted to obtain insurance on a
box which he said contained $50, 900 in
gold, and which he wished to shin from
New York to Liverpool. Inspection was
insisted upon, but he refused to open the
box, and the company declined to insure
The suspicion had also been raised that
he was privy to the loss of the steamer
City of Boston in January, 1870. Ills ac-
completes were believed to be yet living
in Liverpool, and to have possession of
his appliances.
THE French Assembly was prorogued
on the 31st ult. until March 8, 1876.
A PosEN telegram OF the 31st ult. an.
nounces the arrest and Imprisonment of
the Bishop of Poscn, who was lately con.
victed of violating the Ecclesiastical laws
and condemned to six months imprison-
ment.
THE sale in Germany of fraudulent
American medical diplomas has been in
tcrdiCted by the Government
THE British steamer Dante on the 31st
collided IN st. Georges Channel with the
steamer Gronsaver, sinking her and caus-
ing the drowning of twenty three persons.
A DECREE has been issued convoking
the Spanish Cortes to consider Cuban af
| fairs.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 31st ult.
says the President had given other places
to all the disabled Union soldiers re-
moved from positions in the House of
Representatives.
AT a meeting of colored Republicans
held in Washington on the 30th ult. the
general sentiment expressed by those pres
ent was that President Grant should be
nominated for third term
THE centennial year was ushered in
amid the ringing of bells and firing of
cannons at Washington and many other
localities.
| BENEDICT Bros jewelry store, under
the Grand Central Hotel, in New York
600 worth of jewelry and diamonds. The
persons IN charge of the store were chlo
reformed by the robbers.
Mr.. SHEARNAN, on behalf of Plymouth
Church, and J. NJ. Van Cott, for Mrs.
Moulton, at a conference on the morning
of the 31st ult. agreed that ten churches
and five ministers should be called on
each side to form the mutual council to
decide on the questions submitted by Mrs
MoultOn in her recent letter. The mutual
council will convene on Tuesday, the 18th
instant.
AMONG the ocean steamers arriving at
New York on-the I'd was the Salier, on
board of which it was at one time reported
there had been placed one of Thomas
dynamite internal machines.
A SEVERE wind-storm did considerable
damage to property in Chicago on the
night Of the 1st.
A Tucson dispatch received in San
Francisco on the 31st ult says three COM
panies of United States cavalry lately
made forced march to San Rafael, but
returned on finding that all armed bodies
had passed into Sonora. 1t was reported
that Pesquicra's troops, while in Arizona,
behaved badly, taking stock and grain
without payment.
ANTHONY G. HEsING, H. B. Miller and
Jacob Rehm were arrested in Chicago, on
the 31st ult., on warrants charging them
with completely in whisky frauds. Hes
ing and Rehm were held in bail of $780,
900 each; Miller's bail was fixed at S10,
900. A warrant was also issued for the
arrest of VIM. Minty, a Deputy Collector
of the Revenue Department, but up to the
morning of the Sd, he had not been found.
The Illinois Distilery, one of the largest
in the country, was also seized on the 31st.