The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-13
nominated L. Q. c. Lamar for United
States Senator.


A wREsTLING-MATcH between Mai. Jas
II. Mclaughlin, of Detroit, and w. 7.
henlamin, OF Washington, d. c., for
$4,000 and the championship of the world
took place in the former city on the even.
ing OF the 4th. Mclaughlin was victori.
Gus.
IHE next Illinois State Fair is to be
held at Ottawa, beginning Sept. 4.
| IHE Louisiana Democratic State Con-
ventlon met at New Orleans on the 9Th
and adopted series of resolution declar.
ing that " the usurpation of the Govern
ment of the State of Louisiana tbrouob
the perversion of the functions of the
| General Government is an evil which
| weighs heavily on the people of this
State, and a constant menace to the
perpetulty of representative institutions :"
that the Wheeler adjustment had no
reference whatever to the elections of
| 1917, and was expressly limited to two
contested seats in the State Senate and
seventeen in the House; that the memo.
| rial of the people of Louisiana, prayinp
TOR relief at the hands of Congress, be
again presented to that body; favoring
return to specie payment as soon as it can
be done without material injury to the in
terests OF the country A memorial to
Congress protesting against the Kellogg
Government and declaring that McEnery
and Penn are the official heads of the
State Government was also adopted.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE telegram of the 7th
says the Grand Vizier had rejected the
scheme of foreign mediation, and was re.
ported to have said to the Austrian Am
bassAdor who presented it that the Sub
lime Porte was able to give the people of
the provinces all the necessary guar
antees for reform. 1t was also reported
that Montenegro had dispatched troops to
the frontier, had negotiated a loan of
81 200, 900 and had contracted with an
American firm to deliver 0,00O rifles and
sixty cannon in March
CHARLES SUTHERs, cotton-spnner at
Oldham, England, failed on the 7th for
81 100000. a
EAsToN & MILNE's banking house at
Fall River, Mass, suspended on the 7th.
On the same day the failure of Philip
Stiner, tea merchant of New York, who
had eighteen stores scattered throughout
the city, was announced. His liabilities
are placed at $13S, 600; assets $3SO0O.
A LITTLE boy who proved to be James
Blanchard, of Milford, N. H., created con-
siderable excitement at ST. Albans, Vt,
few days ago by claiming to be the lost
Charley Ross. He proved to be prodig-
ious liar and was taken to his home in
Milford on the 7th.
WoNDERLY & Co., lumbermen, of
Grand Rapids, Mich, suspended on the
7th, with liabilities of over $500, 900.
THE Democracy of Texas have nomi-
mated: For Governor, Richard Coke;
Lieutenant Governor, B. Hubbard; Presi-
Dental Electors, D. G. Giddings and B.
H. Epporson; Attorney General, H. II.
Boone; State Treasurer, J. Dow; Chief
Justice, o. NJ. Roberts.
FRANK SCOTT (colored) was hanged at
Memphis, Tenn, on the 7th, for the mur-
der, in December, 1874, of an old negro
for ninety cents which the latter owed
him. He made short speech on the gal
lows, concluding by saying that the cords
were cutting his arms, and he would rather
be hanging. Bill Williams (also colored)
was hanged at Bartlett, Tenn, on the
same day, for murder, he denying the
crime to the last AT Jackson, Tenn,
also on the 7th, Milton Mclean was
hanged for the murder of man named
Pope.
A REPORT that Austria was preparing
for war was authoritativcly denied on the
Sth.
WHILE the Prince of Wales and his
party were engaged in pig-sticking near
Lucknow, India, ON the Slh, Lord Caring
ton had his collar-bone broken.
ACCORDING to Madrid telegram of the
Sth there had been heavy fall of snow in
the province of Guipuzcea, which had
greatly interfered with military operations.
The authorities had lately issued notice
to mariners, warning them not to ap-
proach The coast east of Bilbao, on ac-
count of the danger from Carlist batteries.
THE Belgrave cotton-mills at Oldham,
England, carrying $4,000 spindles, were
burned on the 8th, involving a loss of
$250,000.
DIR. STROUsBERG, the bankrupt railway
contractor, has been released from impris-
onment on parole.
NEAR Odessa (Russia) on the Sth rail
way train filled with military recruits ran
off the track and plunged down steep
embankment. The wrecked cars caught
fire and many persons were burned to death
before they could be extricated. The num-
Der killed was sixty eight and fitty-four
were injured, some of them fatally.
In his annual report the Librarian of
Congress, Mr.. A. r. Spafford, states that
there are now in the Congressional Libra
ry 500, ,507 volumes, against 274, 159 on
the 1st of December, 1874. Mr.. Spatford
again calls attention to the urgent neces-
sity for new separate building for the
National Library, to prevent overcrowd-
ing. -ff& EH.- 4-E -E'
A New York telegram of the 9th
states that all the churches invited by
Mrs. Moulton to take part in the mutual
council had accepted the invitation.
AN effort has recently been made by the
friends of Edward s. Stokes, imprisoned
for the shooting of James Fisk, TO pro-
cure his pardon, but Gov. Tilden has de-
MED the application.
Hon. ]. Y. ScAMMoN, former President
of the Mechanics National Bank, a sus-
pended Chicago institution, and j. s.
Reed, his cashier and son-in- law, have
been lately indicted by Chicago Grand
Jury on the charge of misapproprlating
large amount of the funds OF the bank. In
card dated Washington, Jan. 8, Mr..
Scammon emphatically denies the alleged
embezzlement
AN interesting experimental telegraphy
was made in Milwaukee, on the 9Th,
which demonstrated that, by the use OF
new instruments, eight messages can be
simultaneously transmitted over single
telegraph wire. The discoverer of the new
system is Mr.. Elisha Gray, OF Chicago.
A FEW nights ago some burglars broke
into store in Osborn, Mo-, stole bottle