Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-24
A Washington telegram of the 14t

| A washington IelcSIdil VI tuc lfIL
saws: "Recent letters from Minister Mot
ley express, dissatisfaction at the. policy
which he is instructed to pursue in regard
| to the Alabama claims. He writes that the
temper ofthe British Ministry is decidedly
favorable toward reopening negotiations
( for settlement of the question, and that
if he was permitted to open up the sub
.ject again, the chances are that a treaty
could besagreed upon alike satisfactory to
both Sides" rs1lsa
| The amount obtained by the robbers
who recently broke into an American
Merchants Union Express car, on the
New York Central road, between Utica
and Albany amounts to $SO0,0O0.
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Railroad Company have given $4,000 for
the relief of the Avondale sufferers. The
company do not believe the fire in the
mine was the work of incendiaries, but
the result of the carelessness of miner,
| who descended the shaft with bundle OF
hay, which became ignited from the lamp
carried in his hat. The pastor of the
Avondale Welsh Baptist Church, who
delivered the funeral discourse over the
suffocated miners, states that all but three
of the male members of his church had
perished in the mine The Philadelphia
contributions to the Avondale fund
amounted to over $4,000 on the 18th,
and were still increasing.
The grand jury of Monroe County, Illi-
nois, have found indictments against Nc
Coole, Gallagher and Allen, for violation
of the statute law, in fighting prize fight
within that county, and have issued a war
rant for their arrest. i,
The Evansville and Cairo packet Phan-
tom exploded her boiler on the 18TH at
the foot Of Cumberland Island, few miles
above Paducah, Ky. George Nicholson,
the first clerk, and three others were killed
two are missing, and eight wounded. The
boat is a complete wreck, and was unin-
sured.
A Washington telegram Of the 10th
states that the Administration at Wash
ington has not, contrary to report, restrict
ed Minister Motley in the reopening OF
negotiations for the settlement Of the Ala
bama claims. A telegram of the same date
also says " it is ascertained from reliable
source that General Sickles was not au-
thorized to make any demand upon the
Spanish Government. He was instructed
merely to act discreetly, but with earnest
ness as mediator between that power and
the Cubans, on the basis already published
for the independence of the island"
The printers lately engaged in the Erie
(Pa.) Republican Office, and who were
leaders in the late "strike" there, have
been arrested by sheriff, at the suit
the proprietor of that paper, for damages
caused his office during the said "strike, "
amounting to $1,000 They will be tried
next November, and are meantime re-
leased on bail
The coroner's jury in the Avondale
mine disaster have returned the following
verdict:
"That the said Palmer Steele, and others, came
to their deaths in the Avondale mines; that the
cause of their death was the exhaustion of atmos-
pheric air. prevalence of suphuric and carboniC
acid gases in the said Avondale mine, caused by
the burning of the head house and breaker at said
mine, the 9th day of September, thereby destroy
ing the air courses leading from the mine through
the shaft that the fire originated from the furnace
and entered the mine from the wooden bracket in
the upcast air course, leading from the bottomso so
| the shaft to the head house,
Commissioner Delano has appointed a
large number of assistant assessors, whose
special duties will be to reassess incomes
in the large cites, and the work will be
commenced Immediately.
Customs receipts for week ending Sep
tember II, $5,501 1866
The freight depot of the Cleveland &
Pittsburgh Railroad, at Cleveland, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire on the 18th. The
loss will probably amount to over $100,
600. No insurance ON building or con-
tents.