The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-25

the Asd says Geo. t. Hathaway, Treasurer OF
the Border City & Sangamore Mills, had been
proved defaulter to an amount estimated At
from $6)0,ON to 100000. His method was
similar to that Of Ghace, Iseasuzsr Of ths
Union Mills. =
PERSONAL AND POLITICAE.
The United States Senate in Execu-
tive session, on the 10th, confirmed several
nominations made by the President, and re-
iected that of Justice E. Colburn. Washington
correspondent OF the New York zsnses as
Consul General to Mexico.
THE funeral of the late VIM. M.
Tweed was bolemnized in New York City ON
the 18th. 1t was quiet family affair.
RIGHT REV. SAMUEL A. McCosxRY,
who lately resigned the Episcopal Bishopric
OF Michigan on the plea that he was getting
old and becoming rapidly infrm, has been
shown to have resigned on compulsion and to
have left the country to avoid tBe co-religion-
lists he had disgraced. The statement was
made, on the 18th, that he had been charged
with improper conduct, and that, when con-
fronted with the charge and shown impas-
stoned letters he had written to q Detroit
woman, he acknowledged his guilt, rendered
his resignation and left for Europe. ~
The Oregon State Republican Con-
yention met at Salem, on the 18th, and
adopted a platform declaring for sound mon
ey and for the maintenance of the public
faith. A resolution was adopted indorsing
the National Administration. and calling for
reform in State affairs. II. X. Hines was
nominated for Congress and G. q. Beekman
for Governor.
A CALL has been issued for meet
ing of the Ohio State Republican Convention
in Cincinnati, on the 18th Of juno.
BISHOP McCosKREY, under date OF
New York, April 20, says: II give my unqual-
flied denial to the articles which have appeared
in different papers against me''
A CALL has been issued by the Re-
publican State Central Committee directing o
meeting of the Michigan State Republican
Convention, at Detroit, on the 18th of June.
The International Sunday-School
Convention, which for three days previous
had been in session at Atlanta, Ca, adjourned
sine die on the evening of the 10Th. Before
adjournment, the following were named as
the International Lesson Committee for the
next seven years: Rev. John H. Vincent,
D. D., New Jersey, Methodist; Rev. John
Hall, New York, Presbyterian; B. F. Jacobs,
Illinois, Baptist; Rev. Warren Randolph,
Indiana, Baptist; Prof. p. g. Gilbert, LID,
Illinois, Methodist; Rev. Richard Newton,
d. D., sPennsylyania, Protestant Episcopal;
Rev B. M. Palmer, Louisiana. Presbyterian,
Rev. w. G. E. Cunningham, d. D., Tennessee,
NJ. E. Church South; Prof. Austin Phelps, d.
D., Massachusetts,, Congregationalist; Rev.
John. A. Broaddus, D. D., Kentucky, Baptist;
Pro-. L. Baugher, D. D., Pennsylvania, Evan
selical Lutheran; Rev. James A. Warden,
New Jersey, Presbyterian; Rev. D. II. Nc
Vicar, LID, Quebec, Presbyterian; Rev.
John Potts, d. D., Ontario, Methodist.
The Governor of Rhode Island has
called special session of the Legislature to
consider the Insolvent laws Of the State, in
view of the impending repeal Of the National
Bankruptcy law.
Col. SALISBURY, prominent citizen
of Columbus, Ca, and proprietor of the
Columbus Euquircr-Smn, was fatally shot in
the back by DR.. R. N. Palmer, while entering
q railroad car at Scale, Ala, on the 20th.
Hon. WIN. ORION, President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, died at
his residence in New York City, on the 22d,
Of apoplexy.
FOREIGN.
PRINCE MILAN, of Servia, has ap-
proved the sentence of death recently pro-
nounced by the Servian Court of Cessation
upon NJ. Thumitch, ex-Minister, and thirty
five others, for completely in the military con-
spiracy. About fifty others were sentenced to
penal servitude.
ACCORDING to Constantinople dis
patch Of the 18th, the Sultan had given orders
to his troops stationed on the Bosphorus to
fight against any attempt Of Russian or Brit
Ish troops to occupy Constantinoplc.
A LONDON telegram of the 18th says
the Roumanians, alarmed at the Russian oc-
cupation Of their territory, and the possibility
of an attempt at disarmament, had Withdrawn
their army to the Carpathian Mountains,
where, they threatened, they would make an
other Plevna II the Russians attacked them.
A voLo (Ereece) special of the 18th
says the Turks had offered the insurgents am
nesty II they would lay down their arms. The
offer had been disregarded, the insurgents
considering it merely . sop to the opinion of
Europe.
EXTENSIVE Nihilist riots have lately
occurred in Moscow and other Russian cities,
induced by the prevailing methods Of punish
ment for political 0ffenses The full details
have cot been allowed to transpire.