The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-05-11

Lackawanna & Great Western Railroad
company, in which was stored the giant.
powder and nitro -glycerine used for
blasting IN the Bergen tunnel, near Jer.
sey City. Every building within radius
OF two miles was more or less iniprod
one person was killed, and the loss to
property exceeded $4,000.
ABOUT five O'Clock on the afternoon of
the 9TH Chicago was visited by tornado
accompanied with heavy rain, peals of
thunder and flashes of lightning. The
tempest continued very few minutes
only, but during that time over a quarter
OF million dollars damage was wrought,
The Cook County Hospital was stripped of
its roof; the Michigan Southern FREIGHT
Depot, said to be the largest in the world,
was leveled to the ground, and the work.
men therein employed buried under
the debris. Five men We're seriously.
ana one or two, it was thought, fatally
injured. A child was killed by the blow
ing over of house on Blue Island avenue,
and four girls were injured by the falling
IN OF a chimney on Franklin street,
Several of the churches on Wabash avenue
were injured, notably, Grace Church,
whose spire was hurled to the ground and
broken into innumerable fragments.
Trees were uprooted, fences overthrown
and sidewalks scattered. The shipping
IN the habor was badly injured, though
no loss of life had been reported up to the
morning of the Sth. The crib, standing in
the lake, two miles from the city, the lake
terminus of the tunnel which supplies
Chicago with water, was struck by light
ming, and the roof and a portion of the
ruperstructure carried away. The keeper
was injured somewhat, although not Sc
riously. The damage caused by the storm
was variously estimated at from $3.50 900 |
to 100000. At Leavenworth, Kansas, |
the same storm eliminated at half past |
three in the morning, and was very vio
lent. Several large brick buildings were
thrown down. The damage to property
in the city and county was estimated at
from $150,000 to $250,O0O Other places |
west and south of Chicago suffered to a |
greater or less extent.
ACCORDING to a Yreka (Oregon) dis
patch received on the 9th, Col Wingard,
United States Paymaster, and his clerk, |
on the way to Fort CASTOR to pay the
troops, were lately attacked by two high
waymen, the clerk killed and 81 900 |
taken from him. Wingard was wounded,
i 4. Al, al.
One robber had since been captured.
THE st. Louis crooked gaugers and
storekeepers were sentenced, on the 9Th,
to from six to fifteen months imprison-
ment in the county Jail and to pay a fine
Of 81 900 each.
A LONDON telegram of the 1th says
riot had occurred the preceding day be-
tween the Christians and Mahommedans
at Salonica, in European Turkey. The
German and French Consuls were assas
sinated The French Government i'm
mediately sent a squadron thither, and
the Turkish authorities rrigate with a
commission authorized to punish the
guilty parties.
THE President has pardoned James E.
Marsh, a convicted Gauger from Western
Missouri.
ACCORDING to a Washington telegram
of the 9th, on and after the Sth, checks on
the Treasury would be paid in silver if
the holder desired.
The Emperor of Brazil reached Wash
ington on the 1th.
PIPER, the Warren Avenue BOSTON, !
church belfry murderer, confessed on the
1th that he murdered Mabel Young, and
also that lie killed Bridget Landergan, in
Dorchester, on the night of Dec. 5, 1873,
and that he was the principal in the mys-
terious assault on Mary Tyner, in Boston,
two years ago. He assigns no motive for |
his crimes except pure diabolism. He is
to be hung on the Goth.
An Alexandria EGYPT dispatch of the
Sth says the financial difficulties OF Egypt |
had been arranged by the conversion Of
her funded and floating debt into seven
per cent. stock, to mature in siXty-three
years.
THE Spanish Government recently is
sued an order permitting officers who
served under Don Carlos to resume service
in the royal army.
A VIENNA telegram of the Sth says
Austria had informed Turkey that it would
close the port Of Kick if the forces at
Scutari were increased.
A NATIONAL Liberal Republican Con-
vention has been called to meet at Phila-
dclphia, July %.
A Fort LARAMIE telegram of the 7th re-
ports further Indian outrages on the route
to the Black Hills. 1t was stated that
every train on the route had to fight from
five to six hours to as many days in order
to get through. Advices from the north
ern Indians say the Cheyennes. Ar"
pahoes, MI Mlnn6fffe'on mss on science.
anGreal mldness! YES indeed!
fin Thompson how absurd you read!
tf you had known one hour to blague you,
Amudern square -toed feyer'r ague,
lou d writ instead of blessings curses.
II burnt your out-of-sea1on verses.
tsou NAV have found your mild ethereal
"a half and half. or worse material
cut We in these cool mornings shiver
,aE,sters yet, and cry-deliyer
al persons mental and corporcal,
roln frogs and rains and breezes bogeal-
tut stop. The chilly log is lifting
tqosn East to South the wind is shifting
rhe sun comes out, the clouds takes wing;
tlId Thorn, your right-Hurrah for Spring -
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