The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-31
ABROAD.

| Rosa BONHEUR, the distinguished art
ist, was thrown from her carriage and dan
gerously injured while riding in the
environs of Paris on the Odd.
VIENNA dispatches of the 23d say the
Sublime Porte had signifed its readiness
TO treat with Servia upon the basis of a
war indemnity and guarantees against
breaches of the peace for the future. The
war party in Servia had succeeded in over
coming Prince Milan's peace tendencies,
and it was stated the war would henCeforth
be prosecuted with great vigOT.
4 WASHINGTON telegram of the 24th
says the Secretary of the Treasury had
concluded the contract for the sale of
| $500, 900, 900 four and half per cent.
bonds to the combination uniting the three
parties who had been competing for the
loan. The combination embraces Lon
don, Philadelphia and New York parties,
The Connecticut ProhibitionistS have
| nominated Rev. Joseph Cummings for
| Governor, Geo. P. Rogers for Lieutenant
! Governor, and Ruel P Cowlcs for Secre-
tary of State. They have also chosen
| Presidential Electors.
Hon. JOSEPH r. UNDERWOOD, ex, Unit
ed States Senator from Kentucky, died at
| his residence in Bowling Green, Ky, on
! the Esd, in his eighty-sixth year.
! 4 GENERAL order from the War De
partment, issued on the oath, directs Col.
Ruger, upon assuming command of the
| Department of the South, on or about
| Sept. l, to transfer the headquarters of
| the Department to Atlanta, Ga. The
companies of infantry now in the Depart
ment of the Gulf are to be transferred to
! the Department Of the South.
\ GREENBACK State Convention was
held at Grand Rapids, Mich, on the 24th,
| and full State and Electoral ticket was
nominated The State ticket is headedb by
Chauncey x. Carpenter for Governor
Hon G. \. FISKELNBERG has with
drawn his declinatiOn Of the candidacy
| for Governor of Missouri on the Repub-
| icdn ticket, and formally accepted the
nomination.
| ACCORDING 10 Vienna kilograms of the
! 25th Prince Milan had made propositions
for peace and asked the mediation Of the
! foreign powers. Gen. Tchernayef had
teIegraphed that he had utterly defeated
| the Turks at Alexinatz, and that their
| loss in killed, wounded and prisoners ex-
| ceeded 1900. Among the Servians
killed were thirty-one Russian officers.
A telegram from Zara of the same
I date SAYS the Turks had crossed
| over into Austrian territory and
| killed and wounded several peasants and
taken away a large amount of provisions.
! Austrian troops had reached the frontier
to investigate.
A SPECIAL to the London Standard of
the 9th says the Porte had declined to
listen to the peace propositions Of SerTia
until after AIexinatz had surrendered. 1t
! had also demanded that Prince Milan
] should address his requests for peace dl-
rectly to the Turkish Government.
! ACCORDING to a London dispatch of the
2Sth Schuyler's report to the American
| Legation at ConstantinoplealtoSether CON
[ frmed the previous reports concerning
! Bulgarian atrocities. Much of the slaugh-
! ter had been done by the Turkish regu-
lars. Mr.. Schuyler says that sixty-ive
villages had been burned and $1,000 men,
women and children killed.
GEN. TCHERNAYEFF's reports OF his vic
| tories at Alexinatz were generally discred-
| tied at Belgrade on the 2Sth- The Turks
claimed to have achieved victory.