Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-04-19

THE Secretary of the Treasury transmit
ted bill 70 the House on Wednesday, with
recommendations that it pass, providing for
the appropriation of $61,174 to reimburse
Treasurer Spinner for losses incurred by
embezzement, etc.
Foreign.
A DISPATCH from Yeddo, dated March 26,
announces that an attempt had been made
by party of twelve persons to assassinate
the Mikado of Japan. The efforts of the
would-be murderers proved unsuccessful.
The guards of the Mikado captured two of
the party, but the other ten escaped. This
attempted assassination caused great uneasi-
ness on the part of the Government. Orders
have been issued forbidding foreigners to so
| beyond the limits of the city of Yeddo.....
The London Echo says Sir Travers Twi5s,
whose wife mysteriously disappeared during
the examination of Chs ffers upon a charge
of publishing articles defamatory Of her
character, has become insane.
THE city of Antioch, in Syria, has been
visited by an earthquake, causing a terrible
loss of life. One half of the city was totally
destroyed, and 800 persons lost their lives.
Great distress prevails in that portion Of
the city that was not demolished, and the
remaining inhabitants are sadly in need of
assistance.
A LONDON letter says that the object of the
visit of the Queen to Germany, though os-
tensibly to see her half-sster, the Princess
| henhohe-Langeberg, is really to hush up
a scandal which threatens the royal family.
| The story is that Prince Teck, son of Prince
Alexander of Wurtemburg, has been accom-
| panied in his late travels by a well-knOwn
London actress, and that the Princess Teck,
| the Princess Mary of Cambridge, who was
born in 1943, and who is four years the
senior of her husband, was SO enraged there
by that she was about to apply for divorce,
to prevent which her Majesty went to Baden.
1.-THE Pope has refused to receive a sum
| of money offered him by the Italian Govern
ment. In declining the gift he declared
that when it became necessary for him to
| accept aims as a means of subsistence, he
| would only receive them from the Catholic
| world...... Mount Vesuvius is again in state
of violent eruption. A column of flame
shoots several hundred feet above the crater,
and stones, ashes and cinders fall in dense
showers around the summit. Tourists are
| fastening to Naples to witness the spec
tacle......Additiona particulars of the recent
dreadful earthquake at Antioch represent
| that the River Orontos rose and swept over
| the lower portion Of the city. The two
| bridges across the river were carried away,
and great portions of the city walls were
thrown down. Assistance is rapidly being
sent from the adjacent cities to the scene of
the disaster.
THE Anchor line steamship Dacian, with
cargo valued at over half million of dol
lars, from London for Halifax and St. John,
went ashore on Tuesday morning on flint
rocEs, Clam Harbor, about forty-fve miles
from Halifax. The crew, passengers, and
part of the cargo were saved. The vessel is
a total loss ......A Paris dispatch to the Lon
don Times says that Theirs has abolished
the passport system. Henceforth travellers
will be registered at the frontiers. No tax
will be levied therefor, nor will they be
subjected to the scrutiny of the civil officers
while in the country "...The claimant of
the Tichborne estates appeared in court on
Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to the
Indictment against him. A writ of certio-
rart was issued removing the case to the
Court of the Queens Bench, where the
prisoner will be tried in June. Meanwhile,
he is re-committed to Newgate. Forty
seven thousand women of Alsace and Lor-
raine have addressed petition to Bis
marck, in which they ask that their
fathers and sons may be exempt from SER
| vice in the German army for a. few wears