The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-25
THE NEWS
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loss by the breaking up of the ice in tn
Monongahela and Ohio Rivers betwee
Pittsburgh and Cairo at over $40, ,000, 600
At Pittsburgh, on the same day, severa
persons lost their lives.
On the night of the 14th, the town o
Edenburg, in the Pennsylvania oil regions
was almost totally destroyed by fire. Loss
$75, ,00O.--
THE Maine Legislature elected Hon
James G. Blaine United States Senate
for the short and long terms on the 10th
The vote was nearly unanimous.
A New YORK dispatch of the 18th say,
that Judge Donahue, of the Suprem,
Court, had released DR.. Phelps from Gus
tody, holding that he was justified in re
fusing to answer certain questions pro
pounded by the Grand Jury in relation tt
the Bennett May duel.
THE Arkansas Legislature elected Hon
B. H. Garland Dem United States Sen
ator, on the 10th, by nearly unanimou'
vote.
The Legislatures of Minnesota anG
Michigan, on the 18th, reelected Messrs
Window and Ferry to the United States
Senate from their respective States.
REAR-ADMIRAL JOSEPH SMITH. the old
est officer in the navy, died in Washing
ton on the 18th.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th
says the Senate and House Committees
on Counting the Electoral Votes had
agreed upon a report, according to which
the decision of controverted questions
would be submitted to a tribunal CON-
posed of five Judges of the Supreme
Court and five members of each house,
whose decision should be final unless re.
jected by the concurrent vote of both
houses of Congress.
The New Hampshire State Democratic
Convention was held at Concord on the
18th. Hon. Daniel Marcy was nominated
for Governor and Thomas Dinsmore for
Railroad Commissioner The resolutions
denounce the alleged conspiracy to place
Mr.. Hayes in the Presidential Chair, in
defiance of the will of the majority, and
promise to Mr.. Tilden the unqualified and
hearty support of the Democracy of New
Hampshire. The Republicans of the First
and Second Districts met on the same day
and nominated Gilman Marston and Jas
F. Briggs for Congress.
MUCH excitement prevailed in Wall
street, New York city, on the 18th, in con-
sequence of the discovery that the Union
Trust Company had paid to stranger
$64,0O0 upon forged check, purporting
to have been drawn by the New York
Life Insurance Company. r..
MIR. MOODY preached his farewell ser
mon at the Tabernacle in Chicago, on the
evening of the 10th, TO an immense
throng of people, thousands being unable
to gain admittance. Messrs. Moody and
Sankey left for Boston on the 18th.
A WASHINGTON dispatch OF the 18th
announces the arrest in that city of Gen.
Anderson and ex-Gov. Wells, of the
Louisiana Returning Board. They were
locked up to await the pleasure of the
House. An officer had been sent to New
Orleans to bring Messrs. kenner and Cas-
anave. the other members of the Board,
to Washington.
THE New York Tribune of the 18th
publishes what it calls the first accurate
account of the Bennett May duel, given
by an eyewitness, who says the first
shot fell to MIR. May. The principals
were placed about twelve yards apart.
After the question, care you readys"
given, Mr.. May raised his pistol,
took hasty aim and pulled the trig-
ger. The weapon missed fire. On re-
ceiving intimation that it was his turn,
Mr.. Bennett raised his pistol and saying
scornfully, 81 could kill you now, if
wished" pointed it into the air and fired
quickly. The duelists then saluted one
another, when, suddenly overcome by
shame and modification, to the ut
most amazement of all present,
Frederick May turned and hurried
away, unable longer to face his
disgrace. No words passed be-
tween the principals at any time
during the meeting, except Mr.. Benefits
remark when he fred his pistol in the
air. AS soon as the retreating duelists
were out of sight the rest of the party
returned to the railroad station. A Wash
ington telegram of the 18th says Mr..
May was then in that city. where he ar
rived on the 10TH He was unhurt.
A WASHINGTON Associated Press dis
patch of the 18th says: g In view of the
fact that Justices Miller and Field are
designated by the Joint Committees bill
to be members of the Commission, the
respective friends of these gentlemen de.
sire it to be stated that recently reported
conversation with Justice Miller, in
which it was alleged he had given public
and emphatic views on the Presidential
question, is greatly exaggerated; also,
that the published statement that Justice
Field, at a dinner party at the house
of Republican Senator, recently,
expressed his opinions on the Presi-
dental question or regarding the action of
the Louisiana Returning Board. is entire
ly untrue. The Republican Senator re-
ferred to is Senator Edmunds, who au-
thorizcs an emphatic denial of the whole
story. Justice Fields remark on that
occasion was simply to the effect that he
believed there was good sense and pa
triotlsm enough in the two houses of
Congress to devise some plan by which
all existing or apprehended difficulties
could be peaceably and satisfactorily ad-
justed."
On the 10Th, the Massachusetts, Legis.
lature elected George F. Hoar to succeed
Mr.. Boutwell, in the United States Senate
on the 4th of March. The Senatorial con-
test in Tennessee also closed on the 10th,
and resulted in the election, on the sew
enty-third ballot, of James q. Bailey to
fill the vacancy in the United States Sen.
ate caused by the death of Andrew john
son. The Nebraska Legislature, on the
18th, elected Alvin Saunders United
States Senator, to succeed Senator Hitch
cock, whose term will expire on the 4th
of March. 9tf&
IT is said that President Grant has
stated that he will sign the bill providing
for counting the Electoral vote in case it
passes both houses Of Congress.
r. G. Dun & Co., in their annual cir
cular, state that business failures in the
United States for 1876 numbered 9,092,
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