Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-19
PERSONAL.

William A. Jones, of Aurora, ILL.,, has
been selected as President of the Indiana
State Normal School, and has accepted.
A special dispatch to the N. Y. Herald
from the City of Mexico, 0ia Havana,
states that the great exposure and change
of air have caused Mr.. Seward to fall i'll,
and, consequently, he is not expected to
reach the capital until the latter part of
November.
Rear Admiral Charles Stewart died at
Bordentown, n. j., on the 9th. He was
80 years of age, and had served seventy
one years, having entered the navy as a
Lieutenant, on the Sth of March, 1898.
Senator Morton, of Indiana, while step
ping from a car at Pittsburgh, on the 9th,
slipped and fell, breaking his right thumb,
the bone protruding through the flesh.
He also injured his right hand and knee.
He remained over one train, when he pro-
ceeded to Washington. i
H. Gaylord, Treasurer of the. Avondale
Relief Fund, acknowledges the receipt of
$S1 1,239.50 up to November 6, of which
10,723.60 had been paid to the widows and
orphans, and the balance invested.
The New York Times of the 9th says
"The fund started for the widow of Gen.
Rawlins falls far short of the $4,000 pro-
posed to be raised, and the subscriptions
have almost ceased" 1t says: "It will
be little credit to the Western States if
the example early shown by the mer-
chants of New York is not quickly fol-
lowed"
The President has appointed James H.
Embry, of Kentucky, Minister to Ecua-
dor, oice David A. Num-, resigned.
The number of the Cuban Junta in New
York has been increased from five to
seven. Miguel Albania, one of the
wealthiest of the Cubans in that city, has
been elected President. r%Est-~
The officers of the privateer Hornet
have been brought, to Brooklyn in charge
of United States Marshal Foote, Of North
Carolina, and turned over to Marshal
Dalton, who held them in $4,000 each to
answer before the United States Circuit
Court -,
The resignation Of Gen. Butterield has
been accepted, and Charles j. Folger, of
New York, appointed to the vacancy.
Josiah 2 Littlepike, who murdered
Thomas Brown and wife, two aged per-
sons, at Hampton Mills, N. H.. in May,
1868, was hanged at Concord on the 9th.
He had made full confession.
Daniel Walsh, recently on trial in Chi
cago for the murder of his wife in that
city, was found guilty by the jury, who
included in their verdict the sentence that
he be hung. The evidence showed the
murder, to, have been a. long -premeditated
and cold -blooded crime. j ..l..
The venerable Maj Gen. John E. Wool,
of, the United States Army, died, at Troy,
N. Y, on the morning of the 10th. '''Ni
The funeral of Admiral Stewart at
Philadelphia, on the 10th, was an impos-
ing display The procession was mile
long. Business was almost entirely sus
pended
AN adjourned meeting Of the General
Assemblies Of the Old and New School
Presbyterian Churches, which met in New
York last May, convened in Pittsburgh on
the 10th
Itwas reported in Des Moines, on the
nth, that Mrs. Clark, the mother of three
children murdered at EdenY1lle, Marshall
county, Iowa, after restoration of her
reason, had confessed the crime, stating
that she did not know what she killed
them, with, nor why; but knew she had
committed the act. ~ ? 4 = = 3
In the Presbyterian General Assembly
at Pittsburgh, on the 18th, basis of re-
union was agreed upon and the meeting
adjourned sine die = -
The soldiers monument at Fairmount
Cemetery, at Newark, N. j., was dedicated
Some prominent Canadians were at the
White House on the 18th, and called upon
the President relative to annexation
They also paid visit to the Secretary Of
the Navy. 4&es 5st a<l.zt#a<
Hon. Robert J. Walker died at his resi-
dence in Washington on the morning Of
the 18th.
The bronze which surmeunts the west
ern front of the New Hudson River Rail
road Depot, in New York city, asd which
is intended to illustrate the life and ser
vices of Cornelius Vanderbilt, was un
yelled on the 10th in the presence of 6