Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-29

4 cause, aside from the evil YllpredlSpOSlIlon WHICH
many criminals receive with their blood, or
from their early associations, which SO
directly excites to crime as the indulgence
in intoxicating drink. Widespread statistics
are cited to support their conclusion that
the crimes of people are in proportion to
their facilities for becoming intoxicated, and
they assert that, if the liquor traffic were
properly regulated, there would be a dimi-
mutton of nearly one hundred per cent. in
the number of crimes. ~ vr>y s,-.-rr.
At the annual session, in st. Louis, on the
21st, of the American Woman Suffrage As
sociation, the following officers were chosen
for the ensuing year: President, Colonel I.
w. Higginson; Vice-Presidents, Julia Ward
Howe,o Hon. Henry Wilson, General VIM.
Curtis, Vim. L. Carlson Mary A. Liver
more, Mrs. w. T. Haggard, Mrs. Langley,
Mrs. Cutter; Secretary, Mary B. Blackwell;
Treasurer, John K. Weldman Chairman Ex-
ecutive Committee, Lucy Stone. Among
the resolutions adopted was one calling upon
Congress to enact law establishing woman
suffrage in the District of Columbia, and the
Territory, and also for the admission of wo-
men to positions under the Government,
with equal pay for equal work; also, to sub
NIT sixteenth Constitutional amendment
to States abolishing political distinctions of
sex. s.-.'"9. -''''
The Memphis Industrial Exposition, which
closed on the 22d, is said to have been de-
cided success, financially. and otherwise.
q President Grant has directed the issue of
a pardon to Reuben J.. Young, of Alabama,
convicted in May, 1879, of being implicated
In the Ku-KluX conspiracy, ard sentenced to
| be imprisoned for ten years and to pay fine
of 81, ,0O0.',. 81. 49,.
The Commission to investigate the out
RACES on the Rio Grande border have COM
pleted their report, which is very long.
The Commissioners confined their investi-
CATION to the distance of 500 miles, from the
mouth of the Rio Grande to Rio Grande
! City, estimating that the Americans in
/ cluded within the limit have by Mexican
raids suffered to the extent of 100000, to
say nothing of the murders committed by
Mexicans. They think that If they had con-
tinued their investigation as far as Ell Paso
it would have been discovered that the total
losses, including those caused by Indian
raids, would have increased the sum total
to 500, 100000. They urge protection to the
people on the border by an increase OF
cavalry, otherwise a predatory war will re-
suit. e .a.
The Revenue Marine report, commenting
upon Civil Service competitive examinations
in that service, says that whatever the result
in other branches of the service, this COM
petitive examination has been attended by
the best results. 1t has given the service
the best corps of junior officers it ever pos
sessed, and has inspired among them Wig
orous competition in pursuit of professional
attainments.
The National Board of Underwriters, re-
Gently in session in New York, has resolved
unanimously to charge an advance of SO per
cent. upon all Mansard roofs, except those
constructed of fre-proof material.
Colonel Blood was again arrested on the
3d. in civil suit brought by Challis, and in
default of $1,000 bail lodged in Ludlow street
prison. He had just given bail in another
| suit when arrested.
Mrs. Putnam, wife of the victim of Foster,
the New York car-hook murderer, has been
awarded $1,000 damages in her suit against
the street railroad company, one of whose
cars was the scene of the assault, and whose
employees, she claimed, should have protect
ed Mr.. Putnam.
| Roberts glycerine magazine, at Scrub
Grass, Pa, exploded on the 23d, killing Harry
j. Wolfe, telegrapher, and r. A. Wright, tor
pedo agent. OnlY the fragments of their
bodies were recovered.
| It was recently stated at the Police Head
quarters in New York that since the middle
of October thirteen persons had been report
ed missing, and no trace of them could be
found.
| The official returns of the vote in New
York for Presidential Electors show the
following result: Grant and Wilson, 440,-
629; Greeley and Brown, 392. .279; O'Conor,
| 1,454; Temperance candidate, POL. Total,
1924, ,563. Grants majority over Greeley 5S,-
| $50; over all, 56,695.
| At Princeton, md, on the 22d, Thomas
Camp was hanged for the murder of John
r. Bildersback. .....
| A sensation has been caused in San Fran
cisco by report that Mrs Fair had entered
into plot, previous to her second trial.
with restaurant waiter named Franz for the
poisoning of Judge Dwinelle and the op-
posing counsel.
|
men were snowbound at the western end of
the Winona & st. Peter Railroad, in Mime
sofa, and were in danger of starvation,
proves to have been greatly exaggerated.
Later news is to the effect that an abund-
ance of supplies were within reach, and no
special distress was anticipated. 5a&s.
| There was a destructive fire in Milledge-
vile, Ga, on the 22d, which destroyed the
hotel block, containing several stores and
residences.
The official count of votes in Tennessee
show: Greeley, 94,219; Grant, s5,633. Gree
ley's majority, S,5S6. Brown, for Governor,
97,60O; Freeman, SO, $50; Browns majority,
1881. Maynard for Congress, SO, ,825; Cheat
ham, Is, SIS; johnson, $4,000; Maynard's
majority over Cheatham, 15,247; over John
son. 1925. eds g9@a fsa ,b3.IEe ss
The gratifying news. is received that
another of the boats in which the passen-
gers and crew of the burned steamer Mis-
souri, embarked was saved, and that several
persons who have been counted among the
lost have reached Nassau in safety. The
telegraphic account of their experience at
sea states that several of those who left the
burning vessel in this boat became crazed
| by their terrible priyations and jumped over
board. e. .-e,..
The West Virginia Legislature has elected
D. D. Johnson, of Tyler, President Of the
Senate, and William w. Miller, of Wheeling,
| Speaker of the House. asaI1
AT Bryan, Texas, they were SO anx-
| ious to build church that one man gave
hundred days labor with his own
hands, another seventy-fve, and another,
| having but one hand and one eye, as