The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-18
THE NEWS.
Ar HoMM.

THE will of the late Commodore Van
derbilt was offered for probate on the 9Th
His son VIM. H. Vanderbilt secures the
bulk of the property, although liberal be-
quests are made to his wife and children.
DEMocRATIc State Conventions were
held at Springfield, ILL.,, indianapolis,
Ind, and Columbus, Ohio, on the 9Th.
Each was largely attended. The Illinois
Democrats were addressed by Trumbull,
Palmer and Farnsworth; the Indiana by
Judge Gooding, Dan Voorhees,, Julian and
others; the Ohio by Gen. Ward and Geo. H.
Pendleton. Ateach, resolutions we're adopt
ed. Those of Illinois declare that the
counting of the votes for President and
Vice President by the President of the
Senate without concurrence of both houses
of Congress would be contrary to usage,
revolutionary in character and dangerous
to the rights of the people, and insist up
on a fair and honest count under the SUI
pervision of both houses. The resolutions
in the other States were substantially the
same. e.
FFRD. s. WINsLow, clerk in the Treas
ury Department in Washington, and for
merly of Chicago, was arrested on the
eth on suspicion of having stolen the
S12, 900 package which so mysteriously
disappeared from the Treasury Depart
ment few days ago, and which has since
been returned to the Treasury.
REV. DRs. VIM. NJ. TAYLOR, r. s..
Storrs, W. l. Buddington, II. M. Scudder,
Ruy Palmer, George H. Hepworth, David
B. Coe, A. II Clapp, Benjamin N Mar
tin, VIM. H. Ward, and several other cler-
gymen of New York and Brooklyn, have
united to form a new Congregational
Association, most of them having with
drawn from the old Association in conse-
quence of its Endorsement of Mr. Beecher.
AWAsHINGToN telegram says the House
Committee on the Privileges, Powers and
Duties of the House in Counting the
Electoral Vote had decided that the Presi-
dent of the Senate has no power to count
the votes, anl the House has equal powers
with the Senate in counting them. A
minority report would be made
THE New Hampshire Republican State
Convention met at Concord on the 10th.
Benjamin F. Prescott was nominated for
Governor, and Tranville P. Conn for
Railroad Commissioner
THE Tennessee Legislature, on the 9th,
elected ex-Goy. Isham G.. Harris United
States Senator to succeed Senator Cooper,
whose term expires on the 4th of March |
next.
THE Wisconsin Legislature met and or.
ganized on the 10th, 10th branches elect. |
ing Republican officers
On the 11th, after several days ballot
ing, the New Jersey House of Repre-
sentatives elected r. f. Rabe Dem
Speaker and J. G. Foster Rep.) Clerk.
-Four Republicans affiliated with the
Democrats. .......
THE Democrats of the illinois Legisla.
ture nominated Gen. John NJ. Palmer as
their candidate for limited s.A.os os--.~-
on the 12th.
A KEROSENE lamp exploded in Roches-
ter n Y, on the evening of the 18th.
The fire which followed burned up
church and other property valued at
10000.
J. G.. BENNETT sailed for Europe on
the 18th on the steamer City of Richmond
The report that he and Miss May had been
married was probably incorrect. 1t was
stated on the 14th that Fred. May was
wounded in the duel with Mr.. Bennett,
and that he was then in Baltimore under
the care or DIR. Allan Smith.