Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-09-05
NUMBER 81.

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AT the Win County, H., Anti-Monopoly
Convention, held on the 1st, Mrs. Sarah Nc
Intosh, of Wilmington, was nominated for
County Superintendent of Schools.
While attending funeral, atJunction City,
Kansas, on the LIST, the horse of a Mr. Sprague
became frightened, and dragged from the
ground post to which he was hitched, and
ran off furiously. Mr.. Fitzpatrick and his
two daughters were walking on the prairie,
and before they could get out of the way, the
swinging post struck one of the girls, frac-
turing her skull and breaking every rib. She
lived but five hours. The other child was
seriously injured The father also. had one
leg broken in three places, two ribs broken,
and his skull injured. There were several
others injured, though slightly.
While the wife of c. V. Decourcy, of Co.
lumbiana, Ohio, was playfully pointing pis-
tol at him on the 1st., it accidentally exploded,
and took effect in her side, killing her in
stantly.
The public debt statement for September is
as follows: -.,-,.+.
Six per cent. bonds. 81, 1,269,S5S $50
Five per cent. bonds. .............. 4o4, 5UU
Total coin bonds ......s....... $1,7S4, ,42o950
Lawful money debt. bt.................. zoo
Matured debt '9o9o oS oSg
Legal tender notes. s.................. 356,0l9,931
Certificates of deposit. 32,240 600
Fractional currency. ......,..a...,... 44o oS9,59I
Coin certificates Observation-Disclosures. "a, ,493, QUO
Total without interest,". az, ,702 529
Total interest Observation-Disclosures 32, ,4S5 693
Cash in Treasury: 81 t#aA. 90,
5 Coin. Sot,dao0aao
currency '....:'. 1",ooo'V'o
Special deposits held for redemption g tf
of certificates of deposit as provid- 49,
ed by law. Observation-Disclosures. oS,%4o,oU
fla Total in Treasury. ............ $131 494, 5S7
Debt less cash in Treasury. 81, ,f4O, ,695, 1866
Decrease during month. .........,...4s So,4SS,o2S
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad As E
Companies interest payable in law
full money principal outstanding. 5 64,693.572
Interest accrued and not yet paid. 6,296,235
Interest paid by United States. 20,447,9S6
mails. etc. % '.................... =. 4,422,111
Balance of interest paid by the United
K States. .....................S S 16,0S5,o4
It is asserted at the War Department that
the President had expressed his determination
not to revoke his approval of the death war
rants of the Modocs on any consideration.
Washington special of the 1st says that it
had been discovered that the late Confederate
General Mosby, whose success in securing
offices for his friends in the South had been
noted, had been engaged in the office-broker-
age business.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has decid-
ed that the Graham Temperance aw,passed by
the Legislature Of that State in 1872 is constr
tutional. isH#91 es aH
The official report of the Wawasset investi-
cation was made public on the 1st. The con-
clusion is reached that the officers were guilty
of gross negligence and misconduct; the
license of the engineer to be revoked, and
suits against the owners recommended.
A horrible tragedy occurred at Knightly's
Station on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail-
road, six miles west of Sedalia, recently. 1t
appears that William Knightly, who has been
laboring under mental arrangement for some
time, killed or caused the death of his sister
Adelaide, aged 40, and his nephew, Louis
Stabbs; then set fire to the house and killed
himself.
1t is stated on the authority of New York
dispatch Of the 1st, that over million dollars
worth of forged bonds had recently been nego-
tiated in Wall street; among Others, $150,000
New Jersey Central Railroad bonds, 100000
Western Union Telegraph, and 100000 Bos-
ton and New York bonds. 1t is rumored that
there is large lot of forged New York Gen.
trail bonds in circulation in the London mar
ket.
The cholera is raging violently in Millers-
burgh, KY, thirty deaths having occurred
within the forty-eight hours preceding Sep
tember 1st The disease is prevalent also in
Paris and Stanford, KY, and Wheeling, West
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