The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-05-18
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The ten days for which Winslow. III
Boston torger, was committed to awaj
requisition expired on the 18th. An ar
plication for his discharge was denied O
that day, and he was again committed fo
ten days longer.
! The British fleet in the Mediterranean
has been ordered to rendezvous immedi
ately at Smyrna in view of possibl
Oriental complications. -
A LONDON telegram of the 18th saw
the Government had resolved to favorabl,
entertain the request for amnesty to Fe
MAN prisoners.
SCLAvoNIc advices of the 18th say tha
a battle had been fought on the dav be
fore near Besses, N which 700 Turks anC
100 insurgents had been killed.
The manager of the Theater des Arts
recently burned at Rouen, France, ha:
been arrested for embezzlement anj
arson.
4 WASHINGTON telegram of the 18th
says District Attorney Dyer, of St. Louis
had reported un1avorably on the applica
ton of Mcguire and Mckee, convicted
of completely with whisky frauds, for par,
! don.
LATE advices from Rio Grande CITY,
Texas, report heavy battle at Camargo,
Mexico. Three hundred were reported
killed and 900 wounded
UNITED STATES MARSHAL CAMPBELL,
of Chicago, on the 18th, paid to Miss
Ada G. Sweet, United States Pension
Agent, $2,l00, being the amount Miss
Sweet paid to him, on account of David
Blahely, her predecessor. Mr.. Campbell
states that he supposed the money Miss
Sweet paid was legitimately paid, and that
he did not know it was paid to obtain the
position. --.
a PHILADELPHIA telegram Of the 18th
says mass meeting had baen held on that
evening, at which resolutions were adopt
ed censuring the Centennial Commission
ers for closing the buildings on Sundays.
The Commissioners have rescinded the
rule requiring ffty-cent note or a fifty
cent silver piece to secure admission.
The Southern Episcopal Convention
has rejected the application Of two colored
churches for membership. The clerical
delegates voted favorably ON the applica-
ton but til lay delegation rejected it.
THE French squadron ordered to Sa-
lonica consists of 81 guns and musters
1870 men; the German squadron 80 guns
and 5000 men.
ACCORDING to an Athens (Greece) dis
patch of the 10th the Turks and Greeks
were each concentrating an army of OBJ
servatiOn on the frontier. Great agitation
prevailed in Crete.
WASHINGTON dispatches of the 18th
say the Attorney General had denied the
delay in the cases of Mcguire and Mckee,
of st. Louis, under sentence for whisky
conspiracy.
THE Blaine investigation WAS COM
menced before the House judiciary Com
mittee in Washington on the 18th. The
testimony of John s. G. Harrison was
given connecting Mr.. Blaine with the
$64, 900 in Arkansas bonds. Col. Thomas
A. Scott gave the details Of the transac-
tions relating to the bonds in question,
and stated that he had no knowledge nor
belief whatever that Mr.. Blaine had any
thing to do with them.
THE Reform Republican Conference
met in New York, on the 18th. DR..
Woolsey was chosen President. About
300 delegates were present. A committee
was appointed, with Carl Schurz as Chair
man, to devise plan 10 remedy existing
evils and preserve the National honor"
and instructed to report on the following
day. Addresses were made by Messrs. c.
i. Adams, Gail Schurz, President Wool
sey, Prof. Seelye, Dr. Osgood, Franklin
MacVeigh and others.
In consequence of the explosion OF
coal-oil lamp, while starting a fire at
Dayton, Ohio, on the morningo of the 14th,
Mrs. Matthias Glazer and her child were
terribly burned, the child fatally.
New counterfeit tens on the State Bank
of Terre Haute, Ind, and fives on the First
National Bank of louisville, KY, are said
to be in circulation.
ALMOST the whole business portion of
the town of Darlington, S. c., was burned
on the morning of the 18th. Loss over
800, ,O0O-partially insured.
A SIOUX CITY Qowa) special telegram
of the 10Th, to. the Chicago InterOcean,
says letters had been received from par
ties who went from Sioux City to the
Black Hills two months ago, indicating
that the situation there at the present time
is anything but encouraging. AS warm
weather approaches. the Indians become
more troublesome, and those who
could not do prospecting on ac-
count of the frost before, and have been
for the season to advance to give
the country thorough test, are prevented
from going a rod from their camps on ac-
count of hostile Indians who hover around
at all hours, and kill all who venture
out. Letters also report great scarcity
of provisions, and say as yet no quantity
of gold has been obtained. The existence
of gold there in paying quantities is
doubted