Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-05-24

was found floating in the river at Chicago on
Tuesday morning. "A bullet wound was dis
covered in the left breast short distance
above the heart. He is supposed to have
been murdered and robbed...... While Hen ry
SWeener, an express messenger, was az
tempting to get on a train at Milwaukee,
WIS, tuesday evening, he missed his foot
ing and fell under it, receiving injuries that
are considered fatal. ea 'a ec7f
KILOGRAMS to the Detroit Tribune from the
Portage lake mining district, Wednesday,
report that the strike is practically over,
and the miners at Schoolcraft, Pc wake, and
Franklin mines have resumed work. None
OF the troops have reached Houghton.. AT
Indianapolis, Ind, on Wednesday, Valen-
tine Jacobs, while attempting to escape from
the police, fell down back stairway and
received fatal injuries. Charles Fl. MGR
| rlll, young man 10 years of age, whose
parents reside in Wilmington, was killed by
the cars on the Chicago, Alton and st. Louis
railroad, near the rolling mills in Joliet,
Ill., Tuesday night. The trades unions
had procession in Chicago, Wednesday.
About 1000 persons participated.
The South.
On Saturday, negro in jail at Cartha ge,
Tenn, charged with rape on white lady,
was taken out by five mon and hung to
tree and afterwards shot with pistols.
AT the Lexington, KY, races, Tuesday, the
fastest time in mile and aquarter dash ever
made was by four-year- old bay colt named
Frogtown. Time 2:094. "
Washington.
THE President has written letter fully
indorsing the Supplemental Civil Rights bill
of Sumner, which was defeated on Thursday,
but was reintroduced again in the Senate on
Friday......A report was in circulation Fri
| day that a telegram was received from Lon
| don stating that there is no promise of an
arrangement between the United States and
Great Britain respecting our claims for con-
sequential damages, both countries adhering
| to their respective positions ...... The Presi-
dent on Friday approved Of the following
bills: To regulate elections in Washington
and Idaho Territories; for the relief Of
| Robert Williams, Jr., Collector of the Third
| District of Ohio; for the relief of the pur-
chasers of lands sold for direct taxes in in
surrectionary States; for relief of G. S.
Baker, Mayville, Mo-; for the reissue of GER
tain bonds; to extend the time of payment
for their lands by persons holding pre-
emptlons on public lands in the States of
| Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and
the Territory of Dakota; to pcrpetuate testi-
mony in the courts of the United States to
change the time for the holding of Circuit
and District Courts in the Western District
of Wisconsin, at La Crosse.
PETITIONS have reached Washington, from
Minnesota and other Western States, COM
| planning of the heavy exactions of private
| parties who have control o. the bridge
| across the Missouri river at Omaha, and
| asking the interpositiOn of Congress......
| President Grant has issued proclamation
| extending the provision of the act allowing
| consular jurisdiction over the crews of YES
sells in American ports to Consuls of Sweden
| and Norway.".".The President, it. was Off
cially announced Sunday night, asked and
| received the resignation of his brother-in
| law, Collector Casey, of New Orleans, and
that of the Deputy Collector of the port.
Mr.. CAsEY's successor as Collector of Gus
| toms at New Orleans will not be rppointed
for several days.....The action of the House,
on Monday, in ordering all debate on the
Tariff bill finally closed at four O'Clock on
Thursday, and assigning sessions for every
evening till the middle of next week, is con-
sidered as equivalent to resolution for final
adj ournment......Th President on Monday
transmitted to the Senate the correspond
ence between the United States and Great
Britain relative to the Treaty of Wash
ington, accompanied by brief message.
The message and documents were ordered
printed in confidence, end referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations. There is
scarcely question that the Senate will ad
wise the acceptance of the additional article
to the treaty.
THE correspondence in relation to the
Treaty of Washington has been published.
| 1t is very voluminous. The following is
| Earl Granville's PROPOSE ton, as telegraphed
| by Minister Schenck: Whereas, The Gov
eminent of her Britannia Majesty has con-
| tended, In the recent correspondence with
| the Government of the United States, as
follows, namely: That such indirect claims
| as those for national loss, as stated in the
| cases presented on the part of the Govern
ment Of the United States TO the Tribunal
of Arbitration at Geneva, to have been sus-
tanned by loss in the transfer of the Ameri-
can commercial marine to the British flag
enhanced insurance; a prolongation of the
war, and the addition of large sum to the
| cost OF the war, and the suppression of the
rebellion, firstly, were not included in the
| Treaty of Washington; and secondly, should
not be admitted by particular vessels alleged
to have Teen enabled to commit depreda-
uons upon the shlpplng OF belllgerent by
reason of such want of diligence in the per-
Torrance of the neutral obligation as that
which is imputed by the United States to
Great Britain; and whereas, the Govern
! ment of her Britannia Majesty has also de-
clared that the principle involved in the
second of the contentious, hereinbefore set
forth, will guide their conduct in future !;
and whereas, the President of the United
States, while adhering to his contention that
| said claims. were included in the treaty,
adopts for the future principle contained in
the second of said contentious, SO far as to
declare that it will hereafter guide the con-
duct of the Government of the United States,
and the two countries are, therefore, agreed
in this respect In consideration thereof the
/ Presidentof the United States, by and with
the consent of the Senate thereof, consents
that he will make no claim on the part of
the United States in respect to indirect
losses,a aforesaid, before the Tribunal of
Arbitration ataGeneva. - 5 v~@ 49, ~assA
Foreign.
FRIDAYS dispatches from Spain show that
the instruction still continues, and the
situation is, unchanged. Information of
an explosion Of petroleum and gunpowder in
Tripelitza, Greece, whereby a number of