Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-08-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

from Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky joine'
the Cuban insurgents on the 28th ult
They took with them arms, ammunition
and large supply of camp equipage
| According to recent reports, the crops il
Canada, in point of yield, have never be
fore been equaled.
Reinforcements of 10000 men will b.
sent from Spain to Cuba in September
The Spanish Cortes will assemble in Octo
ber, when the first business will be tn,
election of King A Madrid telegram o
the 9th states that nine Carlists, who hat
been taken prisoners at Martialegro, wer'
shot on the spot by order of the Office
commanding the government troops. Th'
act caused great sensation in Madrid. Sew
eral parties of Carlists, led by priests, hat
been defeated and dispersed.
The race between the Harvard and Ok
ford crews will come off on Wednesday
Aug %.
Gen. Prim was In Paris on the 18th
Before leaving Madrid he left orders thai
all rebels captured with arms in theil
hands should be shot on the spot
A Montreal evening paper of the It'll
says it has positive information that pre-
parations are progressing for q Fenian
raid, the 18th of September next, from the
directions of Malone and Buffalo. r~-
The British Parliament was prorogued
on the 18th, by Royal Commission. The
Queens message cOngratulates Parliament
ON the passage of the Irish Church bill
their labors on the subject Of bankruptcy
and imprisonment for debt, and the pro-
visions of the Endowed School bill. She
trusts The measures for the purchase and
management of the telegraphs by the
State may prove worthy sequel to the
system of cheap postage.
The London Times Of the 18th publishes
letter from Madrid, whereof the follow
ing is an extract: "Spain cannot be in a
worse state. A change must come, unless
the rulers are prepared for revolution
The treasury is empty, and it is impossible
to collect taxes, and there is popular dis
content everywhere Prim and his col
leagues have no easy times ahead"
A Havana telegram of the 18th says
"Count Valmazeda captured near Remain
caugua, rebel convoy, General Jordan
commanding, which was moving toward
Holquin The rebels took fight after
short fight, and their commander escaped.
This is considered most important cap
ture of war. The authorities at Santo
Espiritu report that a rebel plot to poison
the bread used by the inhabitants on a
certain day, has been discovered, and a
humber of suspected parties have been ar
rested"
The English Parliament will reassemble
on the 2Sth of October. >st-. t-
Advices from Rio Janeiro to the 10th
ult are to the effect that Minister McMa-
hon had left the headquarters of Lopez,
and was within the Brazilian lines The
rebellion in Uruguay had ended, and the
leaders of the insurrection had been cap
tured and were awaiting trial
An oil cloth factory, at Columbusville,
L. l., was burned on the night of the 9th,
involving loss of about 100000.
The silver communion service, the vest
ments of the church, large Bible and
other articles about the altar, were stolen
from st. Pauls church, Leavenworth, on
the night of the 9th.
The weather was generally favorable at
the various points of observation on the
line of the eclipse on the 7th.
A dispatch received in St. Louis on the
9th from Irondale, Mo-, states that Col.
Bowen, in command of force sent to
capture Hildebrand, the desperate OF
Southeast Missouri, and Sheriff Murphy,
of ST. Francois county, were fired upon by
Hildebrand and some of his friends, and
Bowen wounded, and his horse shot from
under him. The posse were still in pur-
suit @
The Internal Revenue Department has
decided that baseball clubs are subject to
taxation. In future they will be compelled
to take out ten dollar per annum license
for their exhibitions, and pay tax of 21s
per cent. on their gross receipts. Treasur-
ers of clubs will be required to make
monthly returns.
Amount of fractional currency received
from the printing division of the Treasury
for week ending August 7th, $113,6OO
shipments, $213,S24; bank currency is
sued, $1O5, $40; amount outstanding, $685.
746,751.
On the morning of the 10th fearful
accident occurred at the coal mines OF
Henry Foltz, near Massillon, Ohio
While a number of the miners were de-
scending shaft seventy-fve feet deep, the
ropes holding the carriage gave way, and
the men were precipitated to the bottom
distance of forty feet. Legs and arms
were broken and internal injuries received
and four or five could survive but few
hours.
The people of st. Louis have called g
National Convention to settle the question
of removing the National Capital to some
point in the Mississippi Valley, TO meet in
st. Louis on October 20, and be composed
of delegates from all the States and Terri
tories.
A war between the Erie and the Albany
& Susquehanna Railroad Companies wa
in progress on the 10th. Fisk, of the Erie
was arrested in Albany ON the afternoon o