Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-22

The full returns give Grant a majority OF
5,439 In New Hampshire. His majority in
/ Pennsylvania is about 13S, 900. 70 % IS. y
! The Board of Assistant Aldermen of New
York City on the 14th tabled the resolution
of the Board of Aldermen forbidding the
erection of Mansard roofs, unless of fire.
proof material. 1t is said that insurance
men have determined to class such struc-
! lures as extra hazardous, and some compa-
MES have fixed the rate of insurance at fifty
per cent. :sgo4ss 2nfaeiol .
/ One daily, fifteen weekly, and eleven
monthly papers were burned out of their
quarters by the Boston fire, while almost
every establishment in the city suffered more
or less. Rev. Robert Laird Collier tele-
graphed to Chicago on the 14th that the
number of families burned out would not
probably amount to more than three hum
dred. 1t was supposed there were twenty
five thousand sewing women and clerks
without present employment. eE.
q The Boston Relief Committee on the 14th
voted in favor of accepting the generous
contributions from other cities in aid of the
sufferers by the recent fire. ''-'.''.. .g ..-.'.
/ Comptroller Knox estimates that the Bos-
ton banks have lost about two millions-one
twenty eighth of their resources. ...1 a5ls
Horses were recently ylng IN New FORK
City at the rate of thirty daily. The NOR
tality was caused by dropsy and glanders,
resulting from neglected cases of epizootic.
These two forms of disease had, in most in
stances, shown themselves when complete
recovery was supposed to have been effected.
Horses, apparently in perfect health at night,
would be found in the morning with legs
and body swollen to an astonishing degree.
The treatment adopted was administering
tonics, vegetable and mineral, and, where
necessary, the application of stimulant to
the outside of the body. .'..i...ti
The following are the casualties of the
Boston fire as far as known on the 14th.
Killed-Lewis c. Thompson, Lewis Porter Alb
! bott, Frank Olmstead. William Ferry, Daniel
| Cochrane, and five others, names unknown
Wounded-Thomas Maloney, Colonel Freeman,
William j. Woodora, G. w. Gardner, Francis
Crosher, Charles Paine, Thomas Waldron, John
! Richardson, Peter Digham, Albert G. Abbott.
Missng-Joseph Burr, George Smith, Walter +.
| TwomblY, John Dillon ~ s.. tu itui cHI
Albert G. Abbott, believed to be fatally in
| jured, was to have been married on Thanks
| giving Day. His brother Lewis, killed,
leaves a widow and three children. Their
mother, it was thought, would not survive
the shock caused by the news of the fate of
her sons. ....u... ....-.---t.. ..s,.a.. 80
Benjamin Erlanger, proprietor of the Dem
yer Savings Institution, is said to have
absconded with $40, 900 belonging to depos-
| itors. A hundred of the latter are poor
servants girls, and many of the others are
working people. .Ha-lH sf.f
The Indiana Legislature met in special ses-
sion on the 18th. W. K. Edwards was chos-
en- Speaker of the House, and G. w. Friedley
as President of the Senate. ej a II
w. G.. Moreau, editor of the Logansport
Qnd.) SIN, was shot a few days ago, butnot
fatally wounded, by Judge Dykeman, whom
he had attacked in his paper. n EH 4a.42
A st. Louis telegram of the 14th says Col
onel Hay, Republican, in the Fifth District,
is defeated by a small majority, which leaves
the Congressional delegation four Republi-
cans and nine Democrats. zet .~" s
Grant has majority in California of about
$4,000. oi-se.- ,sle.a 90
A recent Cuban letter states that there
were Is, 600 insurgents under arms, but there
was a scarcity of clothing and medicines
among them. Several skirmishes had oc-
Cured lately. Spanish desertions were fire.
quent.
| The Spanish Minister in Washington, at
the instance of his Government, called on the
President on the 18th, and congratulated him
on his reelection.
| Several cases of dropsy have occurred
among the horses in Washington.
| In the Pennsylvania Constitutional Con-
vention on the 18th, Charles r. Buckalew
| &, ~ y11oa of Tro
zer, of Colunbia, who resigned for that pur-
| pose.ss 81 %SE2 III -cl f@s s'a'a- a
l. A Rochester IN. " dispatch of the 18th
says warrants had been issued by United
States Commissioner Storrs for the arrest Of
Susan B. Anthony and fourteen other fe-
males who voted at the late election. The
parties would probably be brought into
court in a few days.
/ Grants majority in New Jersey is officially
stated at Ii, ,557.
The Boston Advertiser of the 18th places
the total losses by the destruction of build
ings and merchandise by the great fire at less.
than $74, ,000, 900, about $4,000, 900 of which
falls upon non-residents. The total insur-
ance upon these losses it estimates at $45,
100000, of which at least $3S, 900 will be
paid. q has ta6 naF"F- .HFteb z
A telegram of the 18th reports numerous
deaths among the horses in Buffalo, N. Y,
from affection of the kidneys and dropsy,
caused by overwork. The epizootic was re-
ported on the 18th as becoming general
throughout the Pennsylvania coal regions
The mules were attacked by the disease. Z
The contents of many of the safes dug out
of the ruins of the Boston fire have been
found so charred as to be worthless. 'aI
Of the nineteen members of the next Con-
gress from Illinois, fourteen will be Repub-
licans and five Democrats. 5t 4b Ee.ssa-
The subscriptions in one day in Chicago,
for the Boston Relief fund, exclusive of the
100000 contributed by the Chicago Relief
society, are stated at $3.50, 900. -a a.r.- 81
General Oglesby's majority for Governor
in Illinois is officially announced to be 4O,-
$40. The majority for Grant and Wilson is
about $4,000. a-ss -<e ..,' 8.@-t,. b
In his late message to the Indiana Legis-
lature, Governor Baker recommends that
provision be made for calling convention
to revise the Constitution of the State, and
also favors the building OF two additional
hospitals for the insane, and the enlarging
of the present institute for the education of
the blind; also recommends the completion
of the House of Refuge and other public
buildings. ~ =. s1
Two young men of Valparaiso, Ind,
named Drago and Pomeroy, in the early part
of the season made wager on the Presi-
Dental election and drew up written con-
tract, binding the losing party to wheel the
winning party from Valparaiso to Chicago
on wheelbarrow. The distance by road is
fifty miles. Drago bet on Greeley and Pom
eroy on Grant. They started on the journey