Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-07-18

p6IIOTulaHceS III ludb city Il SOOu start, TTeSl
dent Grant announced his inability to be
present, owing to the illness of his father, but
| he hoped and trusted 'that the Centennial will
receive on the 4th proximo such 'go-of' as
will attract the attention of the nation to it,
| and awaken determination on the part of the
people to make it a grand success; also that
foreign nations may have awakened in them q
spirit of honorable rivalry with our young Re-
public in the exhibition three years hence"
The Masters of the various Farmers
Oranges in North Carolina met at Raleigh on
the 9th, and organized a State Grange. Will
liam S. Battle, of Edgecombe, was made Presi-
dent.
From June z to July 2 the total number of
deaths reported in Nashville from cholera was
CAT. Of these, pa were white and 403 colored
There were some cases of course not reported.
The Anaericdn thinks the whole number would
foot up not less than 750. The highest num-
Der in any one day was 70, on the Goth of June.
Passengers on board the recentIy-wrecked
steamship City of Washington state that the
loss of the steamer is due to the criminal care
lessness of the officers and crew. 1t is almost
certain that had the accident occurred at night
at least one hundred lives would have been
lost.
United States Attorney General Williams has
decided that the Is per cent. of increase of
compensation of the employees of the Senate
and House of Representatives, as provided by
the act of March 3, 1878, applies only to those
employed during the Forty-second Congress,
and does not apply to persons whose employ
ment in that capacity commences after the 4th
of March, 1878.
The Bureau of Agriculture at Washington
has given orders for the purchase of 400
bushels of Chilian wheat, and the same guam
tity of French wheat, for the purpose of
meeting requests from various parts of the
country. By the first of August it is expected
the Bureau will be able to meet all requests
for wheat, but supplies of other cereals will
not be furnished till September.
Minnie Waltham, alias Kate Stoddard, the
woman who murdered Charles Goodrich in
Brooklyn, on the S1st of March last, has at
last been discovered and arrested, and has
made full confession. She had been board
ing at house on High street. in that city, and
working in New York during most of the time
since the murder She was identified in the
street, on the 18th, by young woman who
had been a former acquaintance of hers, and
who had been for some time employed by the
police authorities to aid them in their search
for the murderess. After her arrest her
trunks were searched, and in them were
found Goodrich's watch and chain, his
finger ring and pocketbook, the
latter containing forty dollars in bills, be-
lieved to be the identical money taken from
the murdered man. Although sorely pressed
for money at various times, and even forced
to sell portion of her clothing to get food,
she had not parted with single article belong
ing to her murdered paramour. There was also
found in her trunk a six-barreled revolver,
with which the murder was done, and which
had, apparently, not been touched since.
Three of its barrels were still loaded; the other
three she had emptied into her lovers body. The
only plea she makes for herself is, that, after
living with her for a long time, he wished to
throw her off, and that she could not bear
to part with him. So she "killed him for
love-"
The Chicago Journal of the 10th says the
Western crop reports, except from those
localities which had been recently devastated
by storm and flood, were generally favorable.
1t thinks the loss of field and garden crops,
farm buildings, timber, ETC., throughout the
Northwest, by the recent extensive storm,
may be safely estimated at between So 600, 900
and S3,OO0,OO0.
In Milwaukee, one night recently, little
child of Mr.. Mosier was burned to death by
the explosion of kerosene lamp. The par
ents had retired, leaving the lamp burning
near the child's crib.
The trial of the Modocs implicated in the
massacre of General Candy and the Peace
Commissioners, was concluded on the 9th.
The evidence for the prosecution is said to
have been of the most positive character,
leaving no doubt of the guilt of the pris-
oners.
Bills of Indictment have been found against
the four seconds in the recent Mordecai-
McCarty duel at Richmond, Va, for the
willful and malicious murder of Mordecai.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th says the
Commissioner of Customs was having tho
rough investigation made into the charges of
fraud against several prominent importing
firms in New York.
A suit has been commenced in the United
States District Court, New York City, against
Duden, Freres & Co., lace importers, for
$1O200O the penalties for alleged irregulari-
ties in importing goods involving frauds on
the revenue laws.
The Coroner's inquest on the Goodrich MUIR
der case, at Brooklyn, was resumed on the
18th, the confessed murderess, best known as
Kate Stoddard, being present. She stated to
the Coroner that her real name was Lizzie
Lloyd King; that she was twenty-six years of
age, and was born in Plymouth, Mass By
advice of her counsel, she declined to say any
thing in relation to the charge against her. The
property found in her possession was
identified by several witnesses as having be-
longed to the murdered man. The
iury returned a verdict that Goodrich
''came to his death by pistol wounds in the
head, inflicted by Lizzie Lloyd King, alias Kate
Stoddard." The Brooklyn Eagle states that
there is no doubt the woman is insane, and
that six years ago she was an inmate of lu-
natic asylum. 1t appeared in the evidence
that after the murder she carried away with
her cup full of Goodrich's blood, and, in its
congealed state, she had been eating portion
of it every day since. 1t is believed that the
man Roscoe is concerned in the murder, and
that the prisoner is endeayoring to shield him
for some cause. He has not yet been arrested.
The Connecticut Legislature adjourned sine
die on the 18th.
Grand Rapids, Mich, suffered heavy loss
by fire on the 18th. One hundred dwellings
and a number of stores, mills, hotels, and
other buildings, the whole covering six of the
most thickly built squares in the city, were de-
stroyed. The loss was estimated at 100000;
insurance about 100000
Albert Sanders, colored, was. executed at
Prince Frederick, Nd, on the 18th, for the
D17rdalI last December.