Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-10-18
Foreign HntelIfgerac..

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A decree has been promulgated ordering
the effective standing army of Spain not
to exceed 5000 men. ~
= The commission for the statue Of George
Peabody, to be erected in London, has
been given to W. W. Story, an American
sculptor.
r0'The competition between English and
American safe-makers, resulted in favor of
the American, at the Paris exposition re-
VI - csntly.TLr ~ SEaEATrx'gGr$E
A Toronto dispatch says the first meet
ingIof the Government of the Province of
s,,a Ontario was held OF the Ros ss House on
the nth 10 a,o;s
The English Government betrays alarm
'1saconcerning the Fenians. Three IRON clads
,boos were dispatched recently from Woolwich
to the Irish coast auil 1.s'ii 81 -
The Pope fears that the Italian Govern.
ment wilt yield to popular clamor and
order the troops now on the Papal frontier
alail to march into Rome and occupy it. t-
A terrible marine disaster occurred on
> sthesNew Brunswick coast ON the 7th. A
e Castine fishing vessel was wrecked and
eighteen men drowned. Nine of the men
leave families
.2bOh able,disphtches say that Cardinal An.
tonelli has addressed letter to the Eu.
ropean Powers; charging the Italian Gov
eminent with actual connivanCe Ia the
.. revolutionary movement against Rome.
Gable dispatches report the failure of F.
s. N. Ralli and Campbell s. Son, cotton
-i7H dealers of Liverpool Liabilities estimated
at 100000. There is an utter want o.
ssmis confidence In New York in the solvency
Of Liverpool firms eA combination Of
''4'a capitalists in the former city recently sent
aEoF10 100000 to Liverpool to eused in mar.
t 81 sa1 gins In the purchase Of cotton and the
tire sum has been wiped out.o1 qeo.s
~ The Marquis of Butte, who has just re;
turned to England from Iceland, says that
81 onnthe 9Th of August, when his yacht was
q 3SaboutN two hundred miles from Mount
Heela, on his way home, the brass mount.
ings on board became suddenly discolored
and it was then conjectured that there was
volcanic eruption in Hccla. On arriving
700 aai shortly after at North Farce, twas ascer
81 s.1ai tanned that the mail steamer which had
left Iceland later than the, yacht had
brought intelligence of an eruption which
had been SO terrible In its nature that the
20 Inhabitants of Reikavik, living at q distance
ofsahout one hundred miles from Hecla
were nearly sutfocated by the sulphurous
fumes from the volcano. ID .ol
A terrible occurrence has taken place in
Russia, at Kineschma, government district
-x-zv- of KostroWna. About hundred persons
4 uof both sexes and all ages were returning
joyously from the fair at the village just
named, and they entered ferry boat to
49, cross the Yolga. The vessel was unusually
ta,rs 40 crowded, and when nearing the opposite
tits sd' shore, the ferryman demanded payment o.
the fares. The crowd of passengers was
in consequence thrown into a state of mo
e@stien, and the boat 'capsized Not fewe,
than sixty three persons were drowned
The aspect of the dead bodies the follow
ing day, as they were recovered from the
river and placed on the bank, all in Holt
day attire, is described as heartrending. q
The Grand vizer has proceeded to Crete
as Plenipetentiary from the Porte to in
srra,r quire into the causes of the discomfort
and to elaborate new organization fol
sA'' the future administration on liberal prin
Tidtaom ciples. Intelligence from Gambia an.
60 snounces that the French, Russian, Italian
Prussian and Austrian vessels continue to
GEt1 transport Cretan families to Greece Fifty
thousand persons had already left Gambia
The fights between the Greeks and Turks
r,nt;nrad a OAs- 4-e84~A
.s'a q, : r-sSSN' iadf Hasig 1918 =, zaiioE
sswoiiqa + svsd,s, The WesIs s4infs gacoi
s ao asa Indians are reported very troublesome
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