Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-07-11

| for the life of his mother, as they could not
| be regarded as any justification of his crime;
that they should only regard those fears
which were personal. The law did not make
Lit justification when killing was done through
i fear that the life of another was in danger.
They could, however, consider whether the
fear that his mothers life was in danger did
not give point to the fear which he enter
tanned for his own life on the meeting on the
morning of the Sd of June. The jury retired
at 4:30 p. M, and at S:25 came into
court and announced their verdict to be "guilty
of murder in the second degree" The Court
announced that it would suspend sentence un-
til the following Saturday.
The vicinity of Indianapolis was visited
by extraordinary thunder storm on the
night of the 1st, which did considerable dam
age to the crops. Four houses in the city
were struck by lightning, and in one of them
two girls were seriously, and perhaps fatally,
| injured
| A severe storm passed over a portion of
Preble County, Ohio, on the morning of the
I'd, doing considerable damage to the wheat
crop. At Camden, that county, it assumed
| the proportion of a tornado 1t was fifty feet
| in width and came from southwesterly drec-
| ton. Houses, stables, trees and fences were
demolished.
There were three deaths from the effects of
excessive heat in New York City ON the I'd.
| destructive tornado visited Neosho Coun-
ty, Kansas, on the night of the 1st A fearful
storm prevailed, the heavens being filled with
flame, while the rain fell in torrents. The
| tornado came from the southwest. 1t first
struck the stone house of Mr.. Giddens,
half mile south of Galesburg, blowing it
down and burying three children and
Mrs. Giddens in the ruins. The children,
aged fourteen, twelve, and ten years, were in
| stantly killed, and Mrs. Giddens seriously in
jured The gale next struck Mr.. Rogers
house, southeast of the town, and demolished
| it. Mr.. Rogers was badly injured and his
wife fatally Mr.. Jones' house, west of the
town, was moved fifty yards. Andrew Rhodes
house, east of the town, was moved from its
foundation. The tornado did not strike the
town of Galesburg. 1t was narrow belt and
swept everything in the track-houses, fences,
trees and crops-clean as the mowers scythes.
Much damage has been done to the wheat anC
corn crops.
The following appointments have recently
been made in the Canadian Cabinet Alexan-
der Campbell, Minister of the Interior; John
O'Connor, Postmaster General T. N. Gibbs,
Minister of Inland Revenue Hugh MacDon-
aid, Minister of Militia.
News from Honduras states that the filibus-
tering steamer General Sherman had landed a
revolutionary party, headed by E. Palacios, at
Utilla, Honduras. The Government of Hon
one installed. Palacios and his followers were
marching on Guatemala, and it was thought
they would overthrow the existing Govern
ment of President Barrios and re-estabish
that of the Jesuit or Church party.
The Military Commission appointed to Try
the case of Captain Jack and company met at
Fort Klamath on the 1st. Major Curtis,
Judge Advocate announced that he was not
ready to proceed with the trial, and that Mrs.
Bob Riddle, of interpreter fame was by the
bedside of an ailing relative, whereupon the
Commission adjourned until the 5th.
William j. Sharkey has been sentenced to
be hung in New York City, August Is, for the
murder of Robert S. Dunn.
By the injunction issued at the instance of
the Government counsel in the Credit-Mobiliec
suits on the I'd, the Union Pacific Railway is
forbidden to pay any interest to bondholders
whose stock was got directly or indirectly
through the Credit -Mobiier or its contracts.
Payment of the July interest has accordingly
been made only to those who were able to de-
clare that their stock came from clear hands.
The Fourth was celebrated at Philadelphia
by formally transferring to the Centennial
Commission the site granted it by the City of
Philadelphia and by other exercises intended
to inaugurate the preparations for the cele-
bration in 1876 of the completion of the first
century of American Independence. A proc
lamation was made public by the President re-
citing the Act of Congress under which the
Exposition was to be held, and inviting the
people of other nations to take part.
Commodore Vanderbilt has been elected
President of the Lake Shore 81 Michigan
Southern Railway, in place of the late Horace
f. Clark
The Commissioners of Excise of New York
City have resolved to strictly enforce the law
against selling intoxicating beverages Qager
included) on Sunday, and also not 20 grantany
license hereafter to any place where music is
introduced.
In the Connecticut State Senate resolutions
have been passed condemning the Back-Pay
bill of Congress, and commencing the Senators
and Representatives in Congress from that
State for opposing it.
A number of celebrations were held through
out the Northwest on the Fourth under the
auspices of the Patrons of Husbandry. At
Springfield, ILL.,, Ex-Governor Palmer was the
speaker; at Urbana, ILL.,, General Black; at
TT Of
Pontiac, ILL.,, Hon. S. M. Smith, and at Mar
shall, Wis, Judge Horace s. Orton The at
tendance, generally, was large at these cele-
brations.
The number of cholera cases reported on
the Sd was-in Cincinnati, four; Nashville,
five; Memphis, six; Louisville, three. The
disease was said to be spreading in Middle
Tennessee particularly in Bedford County
The Secretary of State has for warded to
the representatives of foreign nations in the
United States, copy of the Presidents pro-
clamation in reference to the International
Exhibition to be held in 1876, with request
to transmit them to their respective govern
ments.
If is stated in a regular Washington dis
match of the 9th that the Second Auditor of
the Treasury has just completed settlement
of the accounts of Jacob Thompson, Secretary
of the Interior under Buchanan's administra-
ton, and acting at that time as trustee of the
Indian fund 1t is shown that there is a de-
felt of 1921, 900. The statement is made that
it had not been possible to take up these ac-
counts until recently, owing to the fact that
all previous accounts required to be settled
before reaching Mr.. Thompson's case.
The Postmaster at New York City says that
under the new Postal law there has been a