Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-06-17


says: "The loss of life by the conflagra
ton here was frightful. At some points
whole families were hemmed in by flames
| and perishing in full view of spectators
who could not rescue them. Tie panic
among the people was terrible, and many
| lost all presence of mind and were un-
| able to save themselves. Others, in de.
spair, made no efforts. to save, themselves
and were lost. Some of the Turks, in a
spirit of fatalisln peculiar to their race
and religion, shut themselves up in their
burning houses, refused assistance and
met death without murmer. Twenty
five hundred persons were burned to death
or killed by falling walls. Many more are
missing" 09a,2
DOMESTIC. i~rH II
Gold closed in New York on the 9th at
1132z. ''''
The payments made by the United
States Treasury during May, exclusive OF
payments on current interest and redemp-
| tion of the public debt, were: Civil and
miscellaneous, $4646,02516; War, $4,-
5e472OO1; Navy,$2, 1885, ,OS2 80; interior,
$673, 3,3912O.
The Second Comptroller decides that
guardians of minors applying for bounty
money or other claims must live in the
State where power of guardianship is
given; but the Government may pay the
claim on the first authority given the
guardian, the receipt being considered
| valid. qonr
General Sully, Superintendent of In.
dian Affairs for Montana, writes to Com
missioner Parker, from Helena, May 30,
that the River Crows had the smallpox
very badly among them, and were scat
tered in small parties ali over the country.
The propeller Wabash was sunk by the
propeller Empire State, on the evening of
the 5th, on Lake Huron, in sixty feet of
water. One deck hand was lost.
On the 9Th, President Grant, in reply
to resolution of the Senate, says the
State Department had received no official
information concerning the reported per-
secutions and massacre of Jews in Rou-
mania.
The night train from Boston ran into a
cuIvGrs. two mIIes east of eunmiJ SJaB1un,
on the night of the 7th, and three men
were killed and several others wounded.
The report of the Bureau of Statistics
shows that the imports of the nine
months, ending March 81, were $333, ,3O4, )
s35; exports, $685., ,340,54S.
Customs receipts for week ending June
4 were $3,5s6,6e4. AIDE. ss
PERSONAL. ~
A Canandaigua dispatch of the Sd states
that Fenians Gleason, Donnelly, Lindsay,
Cullen, Fitzpatrick, Mcneil, Glass and
Smith had all been released on bail. Is.
Weston, the pedestrian, won a second
success in New York on the I'd, by walking
fifty miles in nine hours and fifty-nine
minutes, or sixteen minutes inside of the
stipulated time. - 3ta5 fH 33g15a
A complete statement of the Fenian
losses in the late raid gives II killed and
II wounded, three mortally. ag
The following nominations were sent
to the Senate by the President, on the
Sd: Wayne McVeagh, of Pennsylvania,
Minister Resident at Constantinopls
Adolph .Buckner, Consul at Bucharest; !;
d. B. Cliffe, Assessor of Internal Revenue
of the Fifth District of Tennessee. a5er
Seyenty-fve Cinnamon left San Fran
cisco for Massachusetts on the Sd, to work
in a boot and shoe factory. n sHa f.io
The school teachers excursion from
California reached New York on the 9Th,
after journey of seven days. @' '
The President sent the following nomi-
nations to the Senate: Benjamin V. Alb
bott, of New York, Charles P. James, of
the District of Columbia, and Victor Ban
enger, of North Carolina, Commissioners
to revise and consolidate the statutes of
the United States; Edward L. Barney,
United States Attorney for the Western
District of Texas E'ta ia2,i" =
The Grand Jury at Richmond, Va, on
the 4th indicted George Chahoon, ex-
Mayor, for forgery, and John H. Sands
and Richard S. Saxony, two ex-Confeder-
ate officers, for conspiracy to defraud the
State of $1,000, the amount due the State
from the estate of Jacob FL. Hornstein.
Chahoon was arrested and bailed in the
sum of $4,000. ad a5ss5
The President gave reception to Red
Cloud, Spotted Tail, and other Chiefs, on
the night of the 9th. u f q
In Chicago, on the Sd, the Forest City
Base ball Club of Cleveland played with
the Chicago Club-and the game was
won by the latter-15 to 9.
The National Typographical Union, in
session in Cincinnati on the 9th, elected
the following officers for the ensuing year
President, Wm. J. Hammond, of New
Orleans; First Vice-President, Thoma:
Willard. of Albany Second Vice-Presi
dent, John II. O'Donnell, of Boston
Secretary and Treasurer, John Collins, o.
Cincinnati: Recording and Correspond
ing Secretary, Miss Augusta Lewis, New
York. al
u Several returned New York Fenian!
have published a card denying that VIM
NJ. Tweed or Gov. Hoffman paid theil
passage home. They say that the fare
of all who could not pay their expenses
were paid by money raised at Fenial
meetings in New York. 1 0a