Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-09-26

support in efforts to secure responsible repre-
sentation.
The New York State Prohibition Convention
met in Syracuse on the 17th. After the adop-
ton of resolutions arraigning the Republican
party for faithlessness to its pledges to the
temperance cause, and declaring want of
confidence in either political party, the Conven-
ton nominated a State ticket as follows:
Secretary of State, Rev. B. 1. Ives;
Comptroller, D. T. Elliott; Treasurer, Simon
Brownell; Attorney General, Walter Earring
ton; Canal Commissioner, Thomas Edgerly;
State Engineer, j. c. B. Wallace; Inspector of
Prisons, Rev. Isaac Harris.
The Americans engaged in kidnapping Lord
Gordon Gordon were tried at Fort Garry, on
the 10th, found guilty, and sentenced to twen-
ty-four hours i'm mprisonment
TFliere-was something like stock panic in
Wall Street, on the 18th. Rock Island and
the Western fancies reached the lowest point
within five years.
Rev. DR.. Benjamin Fl. Paddock was conse-
Grated as Bishop of the Diocese of Massachu-
sets, at Brooklyn, N. T., on the 18th.
The seventh annual reunion of the Army of
the Cumberland Society was held in Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 18th. Generals Grant,
Sherman, Sheridan and other distinguished
officers were in attendance.
Another destructive confiagration occurred
in Chicago on the afternoon of the
18th. Four acres were burned over and
about 200 families rendered homeless.
There was an intense excitement among
business men, and for a time fears
were entertained that The 'Great Blaze" was
about to be duplicated The conditions
seemed favorable for such an event. The
wind blew almost gale from the southwest;
the buildings were mostly wooden affairs, dry as
tinder, and almost as infammable as gunpow-
der, so that there really seemed occasion for
the general apprehension that existed. Owing
to the character of the buildings the loss was
comparatively small one, not exceeding, it
is estimated, $250,000.
The propeller Acorn, of the Vermont Cen
tral line of steamers, en- route from Ogdens-
burg to Chicago, was burned to the waters
edge on the evening of the 18th, at Collins
dock, about five miles above Alexandria Bay.
The fire caught in the fire-hole. The passen-
gers, fifty in number and the crew were all
saved with difficulty. She was heavily laden
with cargo of general merchandise, which
was lost
The Pacific mail steamer Costa Rica, from
Honolulu, was wrecked at Diablo Point, at the
entrance of San Francisco harbor, on the night
of the 18th. She was trying to come in with
full head of steam, but dense fog prevailed
and she struck the land with tremendous
force, making hole in her bow through
which the water rushed in torrents. The pas
sengers took to the boats, and all eventually
reached the docks in safety.
Jay Cooke & Co., the well known bankers
and brokers of Philadelphia and New York,
have suspended payment Stocks took tum-
BILE as soon as the intelligence reached
Wall street, caused more by apprehen-
sions of the future than by the existing
condition of affairs. Prominent Wall street
men attribute the suspension of the firm not
somuch to sustain their Philadelphia house as
to their operations in Northern Pacific, which,
it is said they sought to carry beyond their
strength. Shortly after the suspension of MIR.
Cooke, the house of E. W. Clarke & Co., of
Philadelphia, suspended. In New York, the
failure of Richard Schell and Robinson
& Suydam, stock brokers was announced.
second "Black Friday" occurred in
the Gold Room and stocks of all kinds be-
gan to weaken, everybody manifesting fever
ish desire to get rid of everything in the form
of speculative security. Western Union declined
8 per cent; n Y. Central, 8; Pacific Mail, 4;
st. Paul, common, 4; Rock Island, s; Erie, IL;
Union Pacific, 21a; Lake Shore, 8; Indiana
Central, 5; Ohio & Mississippi, 81; Toledo &
Wabash, 4s4; Northwestern, 2&, and Harlem
q t., oil 0cbo Of too
changed hands. The aggregate losses were
immense. The effect on gold was to advance
it to 1927 to 1921. The London house of
Cooke, McCulloch 81 Co., is thought not to be
compromised by the failure of the present
house. The embarrassments of the house are
said to be directly traceable to its connection
with the Northern Pacific Railway.
The German bark Malvina Schott arrived at
Wilmington, n c., on the 18th, bringing six
survivors of the bark Vorwarts, which was
lost during the recent storm. Captain
Schrebbs and three seamen were lost. The
survivors were without food or water for.three
days, and suffered terribly.
Carl Vogt, the alleged murderer of Cheva-
lier Bois du Bianco, in Brussels, Belgium,
was, on the 18th. discharged from the custody
of the United States Marshal, by whom he had
been held to await extraditon, but was inn
mediately arrested on civil suit to recover
property stolen from the murdered Chevalier.
A dispatch from Philadelphia of the 10Th
says that ten other failures had occurred in
that city besides those of Jay Cooke & Co.,
and E. w. Clarke & Co., reported on the day
preceding as follows: De Haven & Brothers;
Gilbough, Bond & Co.. Geo. FL. North; J. P.
& 81. E. Yerks; Charles P. Bayard; John P.
Lloyd; Henry H. Douglas; II. Heber Ball;
T. c. Knight, and Ell. L. Fell & Bro Runs
had been made upon all of the banks, but up
to the time of closing business they
had paid every dollar demanded.
The most decided attack had been made upon
the Fidelity Trust and Safe Deposit Company,
there being prevalent impression that it had
been connected in some way with the houses
of Cooke and Clarke. The aggregate of funds
drawn out was something over 81 900, 600. The
President had arrived and it was believed
that he had come to offer the sympathy and
probably the assistance of the Government to
Jay Cooke & Co.
A New York despatch of the 10Th says the
excitement in that city had largely exceeded
that of any preceding day. Nineteen addition
al failures had been announced, among others,
those of Fisk 81 Hatch; White, Defreitas g.
Rathbone; Beers q Edwards; E. j. jackson;
Thomas Reed & Co.; W. II. Warren; Green
leaf, Norris 81 Co.; George Alley; Theodore
Bedell; A. NJ. Kidder; Hay & Warner; Day
& MorS Fitch & Co; E. D. Randolph & Co,
of Tom Scott, of the Pennsyl-
vania Central Railway, and W. c. Conner The
sacrifice of stock values had been largely in