Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-02-04

Henri Rochefort's trial was brought to
an end on the 22d. He was convicted and
sentenced to six months imprisonment,
and to pay a fine of 5000 francs. The
sentence includes the deprivations of his
political rights, though he remains a
Deputy in the Corps Legislatif.
A Havana letter of the 11th, received
in New York on the 2Sd, processes to cor
roborate the report of the Cuban victory
over General Pueblo, with the loss to the
latter Of 1900 men.
During services at st. Joseph's Chapel,
Liverpool, on the 2Sd, a false alarm of fire
was raised. A panic and rush occurred,
and fifteen people were trampled to death,
and great Ii, any badly injured.
The Cuban insurgents Mariana and Fig
medo, with the family of the latter, have
been captured near Bayamo and taken to
Havana. The insurgent leader Jesus San
tos has surrendered to the Spanish au.
thorities. =.
The miners of Cheshire, Lancashire, and
North Wales, England, have struck for a
reduction of a days work to eight hours.
The proposition for the exclusion of the
House of Bourbon from the Spanish
throne has been rejected in the Cortes, by
vote of S8 to 151. .
Foreign mail advices say the British
ship King Lear, from Cardiff for Hong
Kong, had foundered opposite the British
coast, and that thirty lives were lost
The election returns from the Spanish
provinces, received in Madrid up to the
26th, indicate that the country had de-
clared against the monarchy. The defeat
of the Duke of Montpensior, at Oveido, is
confirmed.
A meeting was held in London on the
Goth to promote emigration to Canada
and the other British colonies, at which
addresses were made by several eminent
men.
1t is stated that no reduction will be
made in the French army this year, be-
cause of the recent troubles in Paris and
elsewhere
The London Telegraph of the 9th as
serts that the French Government has
discovered the existence of conspiracy,
spreading throughout france, duplicating
trades unions, the English international
Secretary, and Mazzini.
Salnave was captured on the 18th and
shot on the Goth, One hundred and fifty
of his followers were captured with him,
many of whom have been shot.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the 9th
at 1919.
A special dispatch to the Memphis Aua-
zanche of the 21st, from Jackson, Miss,
says the Mississippi Legislature had elected
Governor Alcorn United States Senator
for the long term, beginning March, 1871,
and Gen. Ames for the short term. VIII.
Revel, colored native, educated in Ohio,
present State Senator from Natchez, was
elected for the term expiring March, 1871,
to which Sharkey was elected, but not ad-
mitted. The Legislature adopted reso-
luton memorializing Congress to remove
political disabilities from all Mlssissippians
to be presented by Mr.. Revel, together
with his credentials as United States Sem
ator. The Legislature adjourned to meet
on the second Tuesday after the admission
of the State.
The Iowa Senate on the 21st, refused,
by vote of 30 to ii, to concur in the
House resolutions adopting the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Federal Constitution.
The majority of the Senate claim that the
House should have taken their resolutions,
as they were the first to adopt the same,
and not have passed new series of their
own.
Pork-packing statistics show the re-
ceipts at Milwaukee of live and dressed
hogs up to the 22d to be 129,845, against
lis, ,97S head for the same time last year.
In he United States District Court at
Albany, N. Y, Helen M. 5hafer, of Troy,
has been sentenced to the Penitentiary
for one year, for fraudulently receiving
pension money after her marriage.
Arrangements tor supplying the poor
of Boston with soup at the city's expense
went into effect on the Oath.
General O'Neill, President Of the
Fenian Brotherhood, has issued call for
a general Congress of the organization, to
meet in New York City, Tuesday, April
10, for making final preparations for &C.
tive hostilities. Invitations are extended
to all Irish national organizations to send
representatives.
At fire in st. Joseph, Mo-, on the 23d,
one man perished in the flames, three
others were killed by falling wall, and
four others were seriously injured.
Reports from the interior of Nebraska
show that large numbers of persons per-
perished in the recent storms
A "dead head" on the Delaware and
Lackawana Railroad has received a yer.
dict of $1,000 damages in the Supreme
Court for injuries occasioned by the alleg-
ed carelessness of a conductor.
A meeting of iron men was held at Co.
lumbia, Pa, on the 26th, and a resolution
adopted requesting Congress to raise the
present duties on iron, and also to impose
direct tax of 81 on all iron manufactured
at home to compensate for the loss in
revenue on the foreign article.
Customs receipts for the week ending
January 2sd, $3,371 1926.
The Commissioner of Agriculture ia
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