The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-03-21
sencc, the vaults mad been robbed Of trunks
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sence, the vaults mad been robbed Of trunk
containing the amount specified.
AN eleven-year-old boy, named job,
Foley, died Of hydrophobia at his home ii
Brooklyn, N. Y, few nights ago. He wa
bitten by dog about six weeks before hi
death.
THE heaviest snow-storm experienced
since the settlement OF the Black Hills b,
white men occurred in that section recently
extending over period Of five days. The
snow was over four feet deep ON level A
Deadwood. on the 12th, and mail and telc
graphic communication with the States wa,
interrupted.
i Four tramps were burned in q cal
on the Iron Mountain Railroad, at Piedmont
Mo-, on tho 18th. They were stealing rids
In cotton car.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAI.
A CONCORD IN. H. telegram of the
18th says the election in that State had result
cd in the choice of Prescott (Rep) for Gov
crnor, by majority Of between 1000 and
1900. The Republicans had also carried the
House, Senate and Council
ROBERT HAMILTON, ex-Mcmber OF
Congress from New Jersey, died on the morn.
ing Of the 14th, Of paralysis.
JUDGE LEONARD, who was lately re-
ported to have been sent to Cuba to investi-
gate certain alleged cases Of kidnapping, died
at Havana, few days ago, Of yellow-fever.
OLIVER A. WILLARD, editor-in-chief
of the Chicago Evening Post died a few days
ago, aged forty-three years.
ON the 18th, the Louisiana State Su-
preme Court rendered It's decision in the ap-
pealed case Of Gen. Anderson, Of the State
Returning Board. It reverses the opinion of
the Court below, which found him guilty of
fraud and perjury. and ordered his immediate
release from custody.
| On the 18th, at Kalamazoo, Mich,
DR.. E. Fl. Van Duesen, late Superintendent of
the Michigan State Insane Asylum, was
mulcted in the sum of 5000 as damages for
malpractice and false imprisonment, Mrs.
Nancy Newcomer, of Chicago, being the COM
plainant.
| FOREIGN.
! ACCORDING to a Vienna special of
the 18th, the Roumanian representative had
handed note to Count Andrassy stating that
Roumania would not be bound by the Turco-
Russian peace preliminaries.
The Armenians have asked Great
Britain. to obtain, from the forthcoming Con-
gress, autonomy for Turkish Armenia, with
an European guaranty for protection.
The Sultan has bestowed upon the
Baroness Burdett-Coutts Of London, the
Grand Gordon of the Order of Mejdie as
recognition of her efforts in behalf of Turkish
refugees.
Corfu specials of the 18th say the
Turks had devasted eight Christian villages in
the District Of Delvino, and massacred the
male inhabitants. They had also killed 100
fugitive women and children.
The Thessalian insurgents claim the
recent defeat Of the Turks near Pharsala,
killing or wounding 400.
A HUGE store-room, which was being
erected at Woolwich, Eng, fell on the 18th,
burying hundreds of workmen in the ruins
A large number were seriously, and some ia
tally, injured.
ACCORDING to London dispatches of
! the 14th, apprehension prevailed that the re-
lasions between Russia and England were be-
coming unsatisfactory and embarrassing 1t
was reported that England had concluded to
occupy Mitylene, which Russia had declared
it would consider cdsus belli and that the latter
had moved its forces nearer to CONSTANT.
nople. The situation was considered full of
menace
On the 14th, thirty-six persons were
drowned at Brest, France, by the upsetting of
barge.
ACCORDING to an Athens dispatch of
the 18th, Russia had rejected the proposal to
admit Greece to the Conference.
IT is semi-officially announced from
st. Petersburg that Prince Battcnburg, the
Czarina's nephew, has been definitely pro
posed for the throne of Bulgaria.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the
18th says North Syria had revolted and sepa-
rated itself from the Sultan. The Kurds in
Diarbekir had also revolted.
BUCHAREST kilograms of the 18th
becoming intense on the part of the Rouman-
ians.
A PERA dispatch of the 18th says
Russian transports were landing large guam
titles OF supplies at Bourgas, on the Black
Sea, and taking away all sinir --a -----a-a.
but no able bodied soldiers. The conclusion
was extending that the war was notyet ended.
ACCORDING to London dispatches of
the 18th, the hostility toward Russia was visi-
bly, increasing, and hopes of peace were based
wholly upon the expectation that Russia
would abate her pretensions when the Con-
gress met and yield to the representations of
England. 1t was believed, however, that
Austria and Germany would support Russia,
and that, if England would fight, she would
have no other ally than Turkey, who would
break her late treaty with Russia the moment
she discovered disposition for war on the
part of England.
The news was received from st.
Petersburg, on the evening Of the 18th, that
the treaty with Turkey had, that day, been
formally ratified by the Russian Government.
ACCORDING to Constantinople dis
patches of the 18th, strong detachments Of
troops were patrolling the streets Of that city,
day and night, on account OF the prevailing
excitement over the posting Of seditious pla-
cards.
A PEsrH (Hungary) dispatch of the
18th says Prince Bismarck had finally In
duced Russia to submit the entire provisions
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