Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-02-07

~ HE West. l53a f ~
Christ Church (EpiscopaD at ST. Paul
was burned on Sunday. Loss, $4,000. f
Strong efforts are being made in the In
diana Legislature to pass a prohibitory
| liquor BILL ge1 soss Sc aiaG gd ~.
The Merchants Exchange of St. Louis
have adopted the Genital system, to take eff
| feet March list. q, ,sf,,..., p t.,e. -s5
Gov. Grape is reported TO berworse again;
he was not, however, in immediate dan
ger on the 9th.
| The Minnesota Senate has passed res
olution requesting United States Senator
| Norton to resign. - -'>-a} s' 12'ioo 5''-
The Indiana Senate has passed bill
abolishing the distinction in Witnesses on
! account of race or color.
| Late Omaha papers mention the murder
| by Indians Of number of settlers at Law
renee rancho, about so miles northwest of
Julesburg. -9dJota
In the Kansas House, on the 31st, joint
resolution to amend the constitution by al
lowing female suffrage was defeated by a
| NOCC VI III W SO..@A -t44
The Governor of Minnesota says the
New Ulm murderers cannot be tried at that
place, and recommends the passage of abill
to meet the emergency a.e3 0's.l q
The city of Detroit is az itating scheme
of great magnitude. 1t is proposed to tun-
mel the river, at that place three-fourths of
a mile wide, for the passage of the trains
of the Michigan Central and Great West
ern.
On the 31st, a passenger express train on
the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad,
near Wabash, Ind, struck broken rail, by
which accident two women and one child
| were killed, and several others severely
| wounded.
| For the first time in eight years, in Cook
county, ILL.,, in which Chicago is comprised,
there is not one Sheriff's sale under exc
| cution of property, real or personal adver-
tised. This does not look much like a
| financial panic.
N. F. Blake, who stole the funds of the
| Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad and
American Express Company, at Ackley
Station, Iowa, about four weeks since, fell
into the hands of detectives at Cedar Rap
ids, last Thursday, while visiting his wife.
Mollie Trussell, who shot George Trus-
sci, the gambler, in Chicago and was re-
Gently sentenced to the State Penitentiary
for one year, was pardoned by the Govern
| or on the list inst;, after about one month S
| Imprisonment at Joliet. lft3tt b.
| The Detroit temperance men have about
determined to make the question Of the
prohibition of the liquor traffic a political
issue, and organize party upon this basis.
A State Convention will be held at Ian
sing, on the 18th of February, to consider
| the matter
| The libel suit against the proprietors of
the Detroit Adyert6se' and Tribune has re-
suited in verdict of $4,000 for the plain
tiff, George Baird, against j. e. Scripps,
managing editor, personally. A motion
| was mace for new tlial. r a7e sH
Advices from the plains and mountains
report the great body of the Indians moving
southwark. Old Indian fighters say this
means war--that the Indians have know
ledge of the troops which are being sent
out, and SO they are moving southwark to
open the war in that less protected region.
| Both Houses of the Minnesota Legisla-
| ture have passed concurrent resolutions
against the further reduction of the cur
.rency Of the country at the present time
They also oppose the rapid payment of the
| IoJN+ ha ell, 1or
had time to recover from the effects of the
| late war. sl.s 2 ..al
The sentence of death pronounced upon
Jesse Burroughs for the murder of Neil
Mcdonald, at Charleston, ILL.,, the crime
having been committed on the list of Jan
! uary, 1866, has been committed by Govern
or Oglesby to twenty one years imprison-
ment in the State Penitentiary. Bur-
roughs is about twenty years of age.
| There have been important discoveries
of gold and silver in Carleton county, Min
nesota. Recent assays of specimens show
that the veins are rich enough to afford
| large returns to those who will work them
| It is anticipated that there will be grand
rush of capitalists and others to these
mines in the spring The mines are one
hundred and twenty-five miles above St.
! Paul
A collision occurred on the Bellefontaine
Railroad, near Anderson, Ind, on the 31st
From blunder of the telegraph operator
in indicating a wrong meeting point, the
trains met ON curve, and both engines
were badly damaged One brakeman had
Ia foot cut off One of the trains was loaded
with petroleum. which caught fire, burn
ing one engine belonging to the Pacific
Railroad, and twelve freight cars.
! 5@ The East.
| The New Jersey Bribery bill has been
vetoed by Governor Ward. po@e'
The Maine Temperance Convention re-
solved for the Maine law made more strin-
gent, and State constabulary. ID .
Hon. Washington Hunt, formerly Gov.
ernor of New York, died on the I'd inst,
at Lockport, at the age of fifty-six years.
/ A threatened crisis among New York
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