The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-12-14
Cameron CWis,), Christiancy and Merri.

Cameron CWis,), Christiancy and Merri-
mon.
A FIRE in Burlington NJ j., ON the
morning of the 10th, destroyed tw'.nty-six
houses, rendering forty families homeless.
Loss OF property, about $170, 900
AT caucus of Democratic Senator'S in
Washington, on the 18th, Messrs. Thur
man, Bayard, Bogy, Herman and Eaton
were appointed committee to confer
with like committee on the part of the
Democratic members of the House with
reference to Presidential complications,
and report what legal means exist for ad
Justlng the difficulties that may arise be-
tween the two branches of Congress in re-
gard to the counting of the Electoral vote.
On the same day, the Democratic mem
bers of the House of Representatives held
acaucus, at which a determination was
manifested to maintain what was claimed
to be the constitutional rights of the
House, and to give effect to "the ex-
pressed will of the people at the recent
Presidential election" Several members
having had recent interviews with Gov.
Tilden are understood to have communi-
Gated to the caucus his views, to the effect
that no action should be taken concerning
the existing or possible future political
complications until afterfhe rafnfn from
the South of the House Investigating Com
mittee
SIX HUNDRED pounds of gycerine on
board of a wagon near PetFolia, Pa, ex-
ploded with terrific force, on the 10th,
tearing wagon and horses to shreds, and
instantly killing Daniel Garth and Mr..
Humphreys. The men were unloading
the wagon, and it is supposed that one of
them slipped and dropped can.
OFFICIAL announcement was made on
the 11th that the number of persons who
lost their lives in the burned BROOKLYN
Theater was 295, of whom 100 had been
identified. All but forty-two of the vic
tins were males.
THE St. Louis Express, bound east, on
the New York Central Road, ran into a
ton, sixteen miles from Buffalo, on the
night of the 9th. Several cars were
piled in heap and burned up, including
one locomotive, the American Express
car. and one other, and their contents.
Ben jamin Woodruff, the express messen-
ger, was burned with the cars, the lower
portion of the body being entirely con-
sumed The loss was estimated at ST.
900, 600
On the 9th, the Comptroller Of Ac-
counts and Secretary of State Of Florida,
Messrs. Cowgirl and McLin. were brought
before Judge White, at Tallahassee, to
show cause why they should not be COM
mitted for contempt for continuing the
canvass of the votes in that State, in viO-
latiOn of the order of the Court. They
were granted until the 18th to make an
swer. On that day the case was again
continued. The Clerk Of the State Board
Of Canvassers, in a note dated on the
18th, denies that Atty y.-Gen. Cooke had
filed a protest against the action of the
majority of the Board of Canvassers.
A CHARLESTON Is. C) Associated Press
dispatch of the 18th, says sixteen negroes
had recently been arrested in Abbeyville
County, upon the charge of ambuscading
and numbering two men near Lowndes-
vile. Six of the prisoners had made
confession, duplicating their fellow
prisoners and divuIging a plot for whole
sale murder. They were safely lodged in
Walhalla Jail, where one of them subse-
quently committed suicide.