Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-15

i ously interrupted business.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was
cited by Mrs. Woodruff as her authority fol
some Of her charges against the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, emphatically denies the allie
cation, and declares her conviction that Mrs.
T Woodhull's statements are untrue in every
particular.
| The Illinois Supreme Court on the 9th, de-
| cided to issue attachments for contempt in
the case of the proprietor and managing edi
tor Of the Chicago Journal. The Court
awarded new trials to Rafferty, and Perfect
Chicago murderers, on the ground that tho
court below erred in not granting them a
change of venue. In the case of Gregori
Peril another Chicago murderer, the sentence
of death was affirmed. His execution is to
take place December 26. ... t
Governor Washburne, of Wisconsin, has
issued a proclamation appointing November
% as day of Thanksgiving throughout the
| State.
Several cases of the horse disease were re.
ported in Milwaukee on the 9th, all of mild
type.
In Toledo. Ohio, at the recent election,
two ladies voted in the Third Ward, and
|
but the Juds res declined to receive them.
| A majority of the horses in Richmond,
Va: were sick on the 7th. The disease was
on the incre ase in Charleston, S. G. In Bal
timore no cu RS were running, owing to the
prevalence of the disease In that city.
! The elect on for President of Mexico re.
| suited in the almost unanimous choice OF
Lerdo de Tejeda. The votes against him
| werefew and scattering. The programme
that the President proposes for himself has
been made public, and may be condensed
| into this phrase, "LAtle politics and much
administration.'' The newly elected Presi-
dent has ceased to exercise any of the extra
ordinary powers with which he was in
| vested. .4ETtE -#t.lG
Manton Marble, of the New York World,
returned to his post as editor of that paper
on the 7th, in restored health
The New York Times of the 18th claimed 8
popular majority of 701, 800 for General
Grant. The World estimated it at 52O,916.
The Supreme Court of New Jersey has
unanimously decided that an act to submit
the question of "License or no license" to the
people is constitutional. This is against
the opinion of Attorney-General Gilchfist,
given to the Legislature last winter
George Francis Train offered himself as
bail for Mrs. Woodruff and Tennie G. Cla-
fin, but they announced, with thanks for
the offer, that they preferred to be inde-
pendent and remain in Jail for the present
The following National Banks have been
authorized: Third National Bank, of San
dusky, Ohio; capital, 100000. The Pella
National Bank, at Pella, Iowa; capital,
$4,000.
Hon. Schuyler Co1fax contradicts the re-
port that he will be a candidate for United
States Senator against Mr.. Morton, and also
the report that he is about to return to the
editorial profession.
Governor Baldwin announces that the
Sault Ste. Marie Canal will be closed for the
season at noon. December 1.
Thirty horses died in Chicago on the 7th;
twenty the day before. The deaths were
generally attributed to the horses being
worked too soon after being sick. The en-
ployment of oxen bad become quite general
in the city. Street cars and omnibuses were
still idle, except where steam power was
used to propel the former.
The Merchants and Planters National
Bank of Union, at Union, South Carolina
capital 800, ,OO0-and the German National
Bank, of Louisville, Kentucky-capital
$237, ,O00-have been authorized to transact
business.
A Baltimore (Md) dispatch of the 7tb
says: "An election was held to-day in the
Sixth Ward to fill a vacancy in the City
Council. Just before the closing of the
polls crowd of about 1000 persons was
gathered around the corner of Fayette street
and Broadway. A party of men, mostly
colored, left the crowd, and proceeded about
midway to Broadway, when they turned and
deliberately fired upon the crowd in front of
the voting place, killing Isaac Boss, aged Is,
and mortally wounding John Conway, aged
35. Another boy received a flesh wound.
Immediately after firing they broke and ran,
| when those fired into returned the shots.
Some Is or 90 shots were fired in minutes
time. Previous to the firing which was
wholly unexpected, no disturbance what
ever had occurred"
General Burnside arrived at New York on
| the 4th from Europe. --~---~7-
The United States Grand Jury indicted
Mesdames Woodhull and Clafin, on the 4th,
and thus precluded their hearing before the
United States Commissioner. Stephen Pearl
of being implicated with them. Bench war
rants were served upon the female defend
ants, and the bail fixed in the sum of $4,000
each, in default of which both were re-
manded to Ludlow Street Jail to await trial.
restaurant keeper in Washington was
recently fined 500 and his license was re-
veked because he refused to entertain col
ored persons in his establishment.
In a final interview with the President, on
the 4th, the Ute Indian delegation expressed
their entire satisfaction with the arrange
ments made for their maintenance of friend
| ly relations with the United States in future
in virtue of which the present reservation OF
75O, 600 acres is to be thrown open to all the
Utes of Utah, Colorado, (some 13, 900 in num-
ber), and stocked so as to give them start
in civilized life.
Three men were suffocated to death by
| gas in mineral well, in Avon, n z, which
was opened on the Sd.
Snow fell at Augusta, Me-, on the Sd
the first of the season.
Governor Baldwin, of Michigan, has issued
a proclamation appointing Thursday, No
vember 2S, as day of public Thanksgiving.
Steam dummies on the street railways and
OK teams for general purposes were in use in
Chicago on the 5th. The weather was un-
favorable and the horse disease was on the
increase, Reports from the country indicat-
ed a general spread of the epidemic through
out the State.
X On the night Of the 1st q band of armed
menw to the house OF Samuel Hawkins,
negro living in Hickman Precinct, Fayette
County, KY, took him and his wife and
| daughter away and hung them to tree