The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-03-30
A RUMOR prevailed in St PefarShuro

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on the 25th, that the Gar of Russia hac
signified his intention of resigning the
cares of state for season and retire tr
Italy for rest. He would appoint the
Czarowitch as Regent
The dykes surrounding the town Of
Herzozonbusch, Holland, have been swept
away by recent floods. At last accounts
the town was entirely isolated. Railroad
bridges and roads had been DESTROYED. =
hundred houses had disappeared, and 6 ,OOC
persons were homeless.
THE American Episcopal Church in
Rome, Italy, was consecrated by Bishop
Littlejohn, of Long Island, on the a5th.
THE Executive Committee of the New
York State Central Democratic Green.
back Committee has called State Con.
ventlon, to meet in New York city, June
l, to choose delegates to the National
Democratic Convention at ST. Louis
The Iowa Democratic State Convention
for the selection of delegates to the Dem.
ocratic National Convention has been
called to meet at Des Moines on the 18th
of May.
ACCORDING to Ragusa telegram of the
10Th, the summons of Prince Milan to
Peko and other Montenegrins to abandon
the insurgents had been disregarded.
THE late Rhode Island Republican
Convention instructed the delegates to the
National Convention to vote for Senator
Conkling for President
ADVANCE sheets of the st Louis direc-
tory place the populati n of that city at
49S, 1872.
THE details of the loss of the British
emigrant ship Strathmore have Just come
to hand. She struck on the rocks among
the CroZet Islands in the South Pacific,
on the 1st of last July, and went to pieces
at once. Forty-four of her passengers
and crew were drowned. The survivors
reached one of the islands, where they re-
manned without shelter for six months,
subslsting on birds and birds eggs until
they were rescued about Jan. /, 1876, by
the Captain of an American whaler.
ACCORDING to aConstantinople dispatch
of the 27th the Ottoman Bank had re-
fused to make further advances to the
Turkish Government.
The first Chinese locomotive lately
made its trial trip on the railway near
Shanghai.
The Chinese contributions to the Amer
ican Centennial Exposition are valued at
100000.
THE United States Supreme Court has
affirmed the decision OF the lower court
in the Grant Parish (La.l cases, in sub
stance that these cases do not properly
come within the scope Of the Enforce
ment acts; that the State Courts should
take cognizsnce of such otfenses. The
cause was remanded with instructions to
discharge the defendants. In the Ken
lucky election case the Supreme Court de-
cides that the Federal election law is un-
constitutional, and that Congress has not
provided by appropriate legislation the
punishment for the otfense charged.
HIGH water in the streams of New En-
gland has put a stop to the operation Of
many of the mills, and serious damage
has been done by floods in many local.
ties The town of Fullervile, Mass, was
entirely swept away on the 26th, and the
town of Clinton was also seriously dam
aged by the giving way of dam.
The boot factory of Clafin & Coburn at
Mass, was burned on the
goth, involving loss of $3.50, 900.
THOMAS w. PIPER, forl&erly sexton of
the Warren Street Church in Boston, who
was recently convicted Of the murder Of
Mabel Young in the belfry Of that build
ing, has been sentenced to be hanged.
A TEXAN named Davis recently killed |
a man named Atchison, at Herkings' Mill,
in Colorado, in consequence of quarrel
over the pronunciation of the word New