Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-10

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officers of North Carolina were inaugurated
| on the 1st.
On the afternoon of the 3Oth ult., fourteen
of the women held in Rochester, N. Y, for
illegal voting at the election, gave bail to ap-
pear at the Albany Court. Susan B. An
thony refused to furnish bail, and was re-
manded.
| Governor Washburne was inaugurated as
Governor of Massachusetts, on the I'd. His
address says that while the Boston disaster
caused commercial embarrassments, the
public finances are gratifying. The funded
debt has been reduced $4,000, 600 during the
year. The total funded debt is now about
$27, ,0O0, 600. He considers the lanor question
as of the first Importance.
At special election held on the I'd, in the
Bradford District of Pennsylvania, to fill
the vacancy in Congress caused by the res
| ignation of Mereur, Mr.. Bonnell, Republi-
can, was elected by about 1000 majority
over Victor E. Piollet.
| Governor Perham, Maine, was inaugurated
on the I'd, and delivered his annual message,
which shows healthy condition of the finan-
eial, agricultural and manufacturing inter-
ests of the State. The Legislature elected
the following State officers Geo. G. Stacy,
| Secretary of State B. B. Murray, Adjutant-
General w. P P. Burleigh, Land Agent !;
| Fl. M. Plaisted, Attorney General.
| The coal miners strike in the neighbor
hood of Springfield, ILL.,, has terminated,
the men resuming work at the old prices.
| The free public library of Chicago was
formally opened on the LIST.
| Tbo T of ha Let
ture permanently organized on the I'd by the
election of Mortimer McIlheney, Democrat,
for Speaker, and j. T. Pratt, Democrat, Chief
Clerk.
| By collision on the I'd between a freight
and passenger train on the Macon 81 West
ern Railroad, in Georgia, eight negroes were
killed and ten or twelve others and three
whites were injured.
The time for filing claims for additional
bounty under the act of July %, 1866, giving
800 to every soldier who enlisted in the
army of the United States after the 10th of
April, 1861, for period of not less than
three years, and received his honorable dis
charge; or $50 for two years enlisted after
April IA, 1861, expires on the 31st of the
present month.
The Postmaster General has decided that
families, firms, or companies cannot combine
to rent Post-Ofice boxes concertly, but that
one box rent must be collected for each
firm, family, or company enjoying such IA
cilities.
The following explanation accompanied
the bank statement of january: "The large
excess of national expenditures over the re-
ceipts during the past month, amounting to
over 81, 100000, is partially accounted for by
the fact that the bank tax of 100000
which was paid during December, does not
appear in course of business in the receipts
for that month. When the accoJthts are
finally settled and the expenditures by war
rant for December are made up, the greater
part of the unfavorable balance will proba-
bly, disappear"
A New York Court has decided that the
United States cannot tax the salaries of
State Judges.
The Governor Of Maine reports that ship
building is again prosperous in that State.
The Northwestern Fertilizing Company's
works, near Chicago, have been destroyed
by fire. Loss about $170,000.
The Legislature of Michigan convened on
the 1st. Charles M. Crosswell was elected
| Speaker of the House. Governor Bagley was
inaugurated on the I'd. The message of re-
tiring Governor Baldwin was read on the
| I'd. The total debt of the State is 81, ,762,-
292.7S. The State owns 3,102,923 acres of
land. The value of school-houses and lots is
| 81, ,469, 1886. There are 5,365 public schools in
the State, with q seating capacity of 3S1, S12.
| The number of children of school age is
| 4O4, ,994. The fixed shool fund is 50, 968, ,272,
and there are school lands unsoid valued at
| 81 500, 1876. The income of the State Uni
versity is SIG, ,359.61, and it's expenditures
$92, 900.
William Cluck, convicted of the murder
of his wife, and sentenced to be hung at
Indianapolis on the Sd, committed suicide
on the 31st ult., by taking morphine, which
he had obtained from some unknown
| source.
The Ohio General Assembly met at Colum-
bus on the 2d. Governor Noyes, in his an
nual message, states the aggregate debts OF
the State to be $50, 1917, ,56937, in which is in
cluded 81, 600, 600 of debt in aid OF railroad
enterprises The receipts for the fiscal year
ending November Is, were 4,757,797; the
disbursements were S., ,05S, 1876.
| Governor Browns Message was read in
the Missouri Legislature on the Sd. The re-
ceipts into the Treasury. for the past year
were So, 866, 1913; balance on hand at the
| commencement of the year, $642, ,626; total,
| So, 3,638, ,749; disbursements, s., ,22O; bal
ance January 1, 1873, 1894, ,529.
The biennial report of General E. N. Bates,
| Illinois State Treasurer, shows that the re-
ceipts of the State Treasury from all sources
during the past two years were S15,252,-
O55 12 and the disbursements $13, POI ,279.1
| and that of the States present Indebtedness
| is 81, 100000.
| All the pris oners confined in the Frank
fort, KY, jail escaped, a few nights ago, by
| cutting through the roof.
The second trial of Stokes, for the murder
of James Fisk, terminated on the 4th,
| the jury rendering a verdict OF guilty OF
murder in the first degree. The announce
ment of the verdict created great sensa-
ton in the court room. The prisoner
turned ashy pale, and his sister wept aloud.
| It is stated that the jury, on retiring, stood
ten for murder in the first degree, and two
for manslaughter in the third degree.
By the recent breaking up of the ice in the
Ohio River and its tributaries, several
steamers and barges were sunk, and other
| damage was done to river property.
Louisiana has notified her agents IN New
York that the payment of interest on the
State bonds is discontinued for the present,
in consequence of delay in collecting the
taxes.
Two British war vessels have recently
gone to the Sandwich Islands, and two
American ships were on their way there.
Cbief-Justice E. FL. Allen is acting Regent Of
the Islands during the interregnum.