Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-10-15
FOREIGN.

removed everything, including his guns.
During the pursuit 10000 allies attacked
5000 Paraguayans. The latter fought
desperately. The engagement lasted six
hours. The Paraguayans lost $500 men,
and all their archives and specie.
q Letters received at Washington on the
2dconfrm previous accounts of insubor-
dination and treachery in the Cuban army.
The American volunteers were said to be
anxious to get away, as they stated that
every promise made them before they left
New York had been violated. They were
placed in the front in all engagements, and
were given no quarter from the Spaniards
when wounded or captured.
A London telegram of the ID says that
in view of the complications between the
United States and Spain, the Prussian
Government had dispatched vessels of war
to the Antilles.
Right Rev. Samuel Waldegrave, Bishop
of Carlisle, died on the I'd, aged 50.
1t was estimated in Paris on the I'd that
the loss by fire among the shipping, at
Bordeaux, would reach million francs.
The French Senate and Corps Legislatif
have been convoked to meet November
30.
The Spanish Cortes opened on the 3d.
The government introduced bill to sus-
pend the rights of individuals until the
insurrection in the south is suppressed.
The town of Frauenstein, in Saxony,
the seat of extensive linen factories, is re-
ported to have been destroyed by fire.
1t was asserted in Madrid on the 4th
that the United States Government had
renounced all idea of interfering in the
case of Cuba
News from Spain on the 9th is to the
effect that the Spanish Government re-
fuses all offers of foreign mediation, main
tanning the position that the condition of
affairs in Cuba is domestic question en-
tirely General Sickles had submitted to
the Madrid Cabinet an official note for
mally withdrawing his tender of friendly
mediation, by the United States, between
the Spaniards and the Island revolution
lists. Marshal law had been proclaimed in
Andalusia and Catalonia.
A telegram from Helena, Montana, on
the 5th, says party just arrived at Fort
Benton, from the British mines, report
having found the remains of three emf
grant wagons destroyed by the Blackfeet
Indians, together with the skeletons of
women and children murdered year ago.
Accounts received on the 9th of the
great flood in various points of New Eng
land, New York, Pennsylvania and Mary
land give details of widespread destruc-
tion of property and fearful loss of life.
The booms at Whitehaven, Pa, were all
broken, and great RATS of timber were
floating down the river; the loss to the
Whitehaven lumbermen is very large.
The water at Albany was over the docks,
and South Broadway was navigated by
small boats. The Hudson at Troy was
eighteen feet above low water mark. A
passenger train was thrown into the
Hoosic river at Hoosic Falls by a
wash on the railroad track, and
three lives were lost The great dam
over the Housatonic river at Birming-
ham, Conn, which would have been COM
pleted in two weeks, was nearly swept
away, destroying half the labor of two
years. Not bridge is left in the town
of Manchester, Conn, and the destruction
of mill property was immense.
The Great Powers will allow the Sultan
and the Viceroy of Egypt to settle their
dispute themselves
Peru has again been visited by tremen-
dous shocks of earthquakes The inhab-
itants of africa and Iquique have fled from
the seashore TO safer places inland Lima
and Callao have not as yet suffered, but
the Inhabitants are leaving both cities and
business is at stand-still.
The Prussian Diet was opened on the
9th, with speech from the throne by the
King.
A letter written by Lord Byron in 1917
has been published, in which he desires
the Noel family to give his wife's reasons
for leaving HIM, as he is ignorant of any,
and declares he is not aware of their pur-
pose in keeping silent.
The London Times in an article on the
state of Europe, declares that the item in
the Vienna Presse limiting at a probable
disarmament, Isl too good news to be true
The interchange of civilities between
sovereigns and statesmen augurs well for
the tranquility at present there is no ap-
preheRsions Of a warlike outbreak.
An agent of the Rothschilds, the
wealthy European capitalists, is on hi,