The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-03-21
DOMESTIC.


The Prohibitory Liquor bill was de-
feated in the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives, on the 18th, the vote being 11S
against to ninety-three for.
The Acton (Mass.) powder-mill blew
up on the 10Th, killing two men. The noise OF
the explosion was plainly heard at distance
OF fifteen miles. A large hill south of the
works was literally covered with fragments of
the building.
On the evening of the 18th, at Har-
risburg, Pa, two children named Wood were
fatally, and two others seriously, burned by
the explosion Of coal-oil, with which the ED
est aged eleven, was lighting the fire.
HAzING was revived at Dartmouth
College, Hanover, N. H., on the night Of the
18th. Early in the evening the Sophomores
intruded upon the Freshmen. About two
o'clock the next morning, the Freshmen broke
into room occupied by Sophomore and his
brother-a Senior-and both the latter were
numerically beaten with bottles and dis
figured. Two of the assailants were arrested
for assault with intent to hill.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th
stated that the first three silver dollars Of the
new coinage had been received there one of
them being delivered to the President, one to
the Secretary Of the Treasury and the other to
the Director Of the Mint. Ten thousand of
the new dollars would be received from the
Philadelphia Mint on the 14th.
A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS employee of
the Interior Department in Washington (Dr.
B. s. Schorn) shot himself on the night of the
18th.
The exchanging of new silver dollars
for gold commenced at the Philadelphia Mint,
on the 18th. Coinage would continue at the
rate of $40, 600 day.
The total subscriptions, up to the
14th, to the 4-per-cent. bonds since the date Of
the Treasury circular Of Jan. 16, advertising
the loan, was $3,5OO,0O0
The Secretary of the Interior has de-
cided that presumption filing is not absolutely
required in making homestead entry, and
that it may be entirely dispensed with In max
ing final proof thereon. This ruling will, It is
said, save settlers great deal OF fncon-
venience and expense.
JOSEPH LAPAIGE, alias Joseph
Parish, was hanged at Concord, N. H., on the
18th, for the murder, in October, 1878, OF
Josie Langma;d, while on her way to school,
He confessed to the crime for which he was
hanged, and also to the murder of Miss Ball, .
school teacher, at St. Adams, Vt, in 1874.
Gus JOHNSON, q white man, was
hanged at Rome, Ca, on the 18th, Tor the
murder, in 1876, of colored man named
Alfred McCown. johnson confessed 70 iour
murders, the one for which he suffered death
being very atrocious and entirely without
provocation. He was defiant to the last
DURING the week endingo on the 10th,
the Secretary of the Treasury purchased ST.
yer bullion sufficient to run the mints about
i've weeks. The price paid was not q great
as expected by bullion holders
In regard to the statements, recently
published. that the Treasury Department
would place 4100, 100000 41-percent bonds
upon the market, the Secretary Of the Treas
ury announces that, In Response TO spptca-
lions, he had asked that terms for placing such
bonds be submitted for his confederation. The
offers received, up to the 18th, had not been
satisfactory, and the Secretary stated that only
4perccnt bonds would be sold, unleas 4H-per-
cents could BE- disposed Of ct their relative
value with 4-per-ccnts, the latter being placed
at par. He would, At any time, receive BIDS
for 4k-per-cent bonds on that basis.
The Lechmere National Bank, Of
East Cambridge, Mass, was robbed, on tne
10th, Of about $4,000 IN Government bonds
and other securities. The robbery wasenected
by the President OF tho institution being called
to the door 70 - : iady Who wished TO trAns-