Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-04-26

Romeo, Mich. This suit was for damages
Tor negligence on the part of the employees
of the road, whereby the wife of Mr.. Stark
weather was killed Nov. IS, 1868.
The House Military Committee have
agreed to report in favor ofan appropriation
for sinking artesian wells within the
limits of the Fort D. A. Russell reservation
in Wyoming Territory. This experiment
is to be tried with the view of developing
the practicability Of securing artificial irri-
CATION by this means for the barren land in
that country. The House Committee on
Public Buildings have reported bills author
lzlng the erection of public buildings in the
following places and appropriating money
for the. same = Philadelphia, 1900 600
Nashville, Tenn, $15O,0OO; Memphis.
100000. The following places are to fur
nish' the site :: Covington, KY, 100000
Montgomery, Ala, $75 900; Austin, Tex.
100000; Lynchburg, Va, $4,000; Dun
kirk, N. Y, $4,000.
Foreign.
Miss NELLIE GRANT, daughter of President
Grant, arrived at Liverpool on Saturday
and was received by Mr.. Dudley, American
Consul. Miss Grant proceeds to London......
fire on Saturday night at Appen Station,
on the Great Western railroad, twenty-five
miles west OF London, G. W., destroyed all
the station buildings snd contents, with
| considerable wood and other outside prop
erty. Loss several thousand dollars.
THE Board of Arbitration under the Treaty
of Washington, assembled at Geneva on
Monday, and held a brief session. The
counter cases of the British and American
Governments were presented and the Board
adjourned ......A Dublin letter to the Lon
pom Times says that the emissaries of the
Internationals who made descent on the
Irish coast at Dublin and Cork, with the
view of establishing branches in that island,
| met with more discouraging reception in
the former city than in the latter. Though
a small branch had been actually formed in
Dublin some little time ago.. 1t was. after
ward impossible to convene it, and even
when an attempt at an assemblage was
made, those who were in attendance avowed
their purpose of repudiating the hellish as
| ISOLATION. The caller of the meeting did not
put in an appearanca......Th The French squad
ron is preparing to lombard Tomatar, on
the east coast Of Madagascar, on account of
the i'll treatment of the French residents by
the natives e'~a"
A SHOEMAKER named Nichols, who resided
with his familywon Maiden Hill, suburb
of London on Monday night murdered all
his children, four in nj Der, and then COM
mitted suicide. 1t is not known what
prompted the man to commit this terrible
act, though it is believed he was insane. -.
Theirs has written to King Amadeus declar-
ing that no power, not excepting Italy, is
more interested than France in the CONSOLE
dation Of the dynastic institutions of Spain
"a A SPECIAL from London, dated the 10th,
says: "The arbitration at Geneva is at a
| complete standstill until the reply is re-
ceived from Washington to the English pro-
test. The nature of the protest inspires lit
tie hope Of the success of future negotia-
tions.' ....... The Court of the Queens Bench
has granted rule requiring the Attorney
General, Sir John Duke Coleridge, to show
why the claimant of the .Tichborne estates
has not been admitted to. ball.. Chas.
Reade, the well-Known author and dramat-
ist has announced his intention to prose-
cute FIVE journals for a libel which he al
leges was embodied in several unfavorable
criticisms upon his play entitled "Shelley
Shelley. band of Inarauders lately
entered the village of Mancha, Spain, and
seized 5000 reals belonging to the munich
pal funds. The commander of the band
gave the town authorities receipt for the
money, to which he signed his name as
Commander-in-C of the Federal Ar
mics of Don Carlos"