Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-11

and Mr.. Henderson were fined 300 each
for the assault on Mr.. Storey, OF the
Times, and two lockers -on-Gordon and
Eldridge-who belonged to the assaulting
party, were fined $40 each. The parties
were also held on a charge of riot-Mr.
Henderson in bonds of $500, and the
| others in $500. Mr.. Henderson was sub
| sequently arrested on a charge of " assault
with deadly weapon, with intent to do
bodily injury" and was held for trial in
bonds of $500. The blonde party left
Chicago on the 9th, in a hack, taking
the cars at the Junction for Detroit.
Gen. J. L. Geddes, of Vinton, has been
appointed Military Instructor of the Iowa
Agricultural College.
The following is the resolution adopted
by the House in the case of Mr. White
more:
Resolued, That b. f. Whittemore, late member
from the First District of South Carolina, did make
appointments to the Military Academy at West
Point, and to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, in
violation of law, and that such appointments were
influenced by pecuniary considerations, and that
his conduct in the premises has been such as TO
show him unworthy of seat in the House of Rep
resentatives, and therefore is condemned as con-
duct unworthy of representative of the people.
Jno. G. Thompson, Deputy Postmaster
at the University of Virginia, has been
sentenced to ten years in Albany Peni-
tentiary for robbing the mails.
e. M. Yerger, who has been in military
confinement since June last, on charge of
killing Lieutenant Colonel Crane, was
recently transferred to the custody of the
Sheriff of Kinds County, Miss, by an order
from the Adjutant General of the United
States Army Lieutenant Wood, Adjutant
General Fourth Military District, i'm
mediately made an affidavit before Judge
Caban, charging him with the murder of
Colonel Crane. The counsel for the de-
fence waived an examination, and Yerger
was committed without bail.
The Senate, on the 1st, refused to recon-
slider it's vote confirming Hon. William
Strong, of Pennsylvania, as Justice OF
the United States Supreme Court.
Orson Hyde has been elected Speaker
of the Senate, and Orson Pratt, Speaker of
the House of Assembly of the State of
Deseret, at Salt Lake.
The consideration of the nomination of
Mr.. Bradley as Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court was postponed on the I'd,
by the Senate, to the 21st instant-31 to
26.
The following were among the nomina-
tions sent to the Senate on the Cd: Chas
II. Lewis, of Virginia, Minister Resident
to Portugal; Richard Fl. Whitney, Asses
sor of Internal Revenue for the Fifth Dis
trict of Illinois; Geo. D. Orner, Collector
of Internal Revenue, Fifth District, Mis-
souri, J. G. G. Haskins, Postmaster, Sioux
City, Iowa.
The Irish Republican Club at New
York, on the Sd, adopted resolutions in
favor of recognizing Cuba by Congress.
The President has accepted an invita-
ton of the citizens of Eastern Connect
cut to attend proposed grand mass
meeting, at Woodstock, Conn, on the 4th
of July next.
Gen. O'Neill, President of the Fenian
Brotherhood, has revoked the call for a
meeting of the Fenian Congress, at New
York on March 9th, and has ordered that
II be held in Chicago, April II.