The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-20

1 ACONsTANTlNOPIE dispatch OF the 15tl
says the powers had relinquished theil
intention of making collective commu
nication to the Porte for reform in tht
disaffected provinces.
A LONDON telegram of the 18th saws Coz
weavers at Macclesfield had been locked
out of the Lower Heyes mills in conse
quence of disagreement between the
proprietors and the Secretary of the Weav
ers' Union st ~ 81" D." .1-
JOHN LoTHRoP MOTLEY, the American
historian, has been elected Foreign Asso.
ciate of the French Academy of Moral
and Political Science. aru.-..
A LONDON telegram of the 10th says the
English National Rifle Association had
accepted the challenge of the American
Rifle Association to shoot for the cham
pionship of the world during the Centen-
nial.
| ADMIRAL KRABBE, Russian Minister OF
Marine, died lately, and Vice-Admiral
Lessowski has been appointed bis sue
cessor.
A ROME dispatch of the 10Th says the
Vatican had directed the Archbishops of
| Cologne and Treves to find means to avoid
| deposition from their sees
A MADRID dispatch of the 10th says the
| Spanish Government had sent out diplo-
matte note in reply to the American circu-
lar on Cuban affairs. The reply is quite
| belligerent in tone and takes high ground
on all questions raised by the United
States.
FROM information received in New
York on the 18th there is little doubt of
the sinking in the Irish Channel of the
American ship Harvest Queen and the
loss of her entire crew of thirty men. The
disaster was caused by a collision with the
steamer Adriatic, early on the morning of
the 31st uH
A WASHINGTON dispatch Of the 10th
says that, representations having been
made to the President that the laws of the
United States were obstructed in several
parishes in Louisiana, United States Dist
Atty. Beckwith had been instructed,
through the Department of Justice, to
bring all illegal combinations, as we'll as
individual offenders, to trial under the
Enforcement act. The President had ex-
pressed determination to preserve order
to the extent of his constitutional power
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 18th
states that Secretary Chandler had ap-
pointed commission to examine into the
suspended pension cases and to direct
payment wherever ne actual fraud barred
the grant Of pension. -r r.
AT indianapolis, on the 18th, in the
United States District Court, McGriif was
found guilty on nine of the twelve indict-
mcnts against him for revenue frauds.
THE widow OF the late ex-President
johnson died on the night of the 18th at
the residence of her daughter, near Green
vile, Tenn.
A SIOUX CITY Qowa) dispatch OF the
10Th says advices from the Upper Mis-
souri, country indicated that Sitting Bull
was preparing for the war path, and that
he had threatened destruction to the from
tier settlements. .-
ID. w. MUM, ex-Supervisor of Internal
Revenue, has been required to give bail in
the sum of S15, 900 to appear at Milwaukee
to answer to the charge Of conspiracy to
defraud the Government revenue and ac-
cepting bribes. He emphatically denies
being guilty of any of the alleged charges.
Several of the Chicago distillers and
rectifers have confessed in court to hav-
ing been engaged in manufacturing and
dealing in crooked whisky and expressed
their willingness to tell all they know
concerning the ring frauds and the
revenue officials and others engaged in
them.