Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-03
NUMBER II.

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The German Emigration Society, Of Wash
ington, together with the National Agricu.-
tural Laborers' Association, of London, it is
said, propose to send to this country, early
in the spring, half million of German and
English farm laborers aad mechanics.
A recent Washington dispatch says there
were parties in that city from Montana, who
were prepared to show to the satisfaction of
Congress that there is no tribe in existence
known as the "Teton" Sioux, for whose ben
eft an appropriation of 5000, 900 was asked
last year, and for whom further appropria-
ton of 100000 is provided in the Indian
Appropriation bill, which had just passed
the House. These parties proposed to file
sworn affidavits showing that the disburse-
ments of the moneys to the so-called tribe,
especially under the agency of Superinten
dent Wall, lately renewed, were made on
fraudulent vouchers,
By the recent heavy snow storms at the
East the streets in the cities were blockaded
and business almost entirely suspended.
Railroad trains were greatly impeded. The
storms were general throughout the coun-
try.
dispatch from Yrska, California, says
that on the 21st party of soldiers, with
wagon, en- route from Camp Bidwen to Cap
tain Berrand's camp, on Lost River, was at
tackled by about fifty Modocs. Two soldiers
were killed and four wounded. Five mules
were killed. The soldiers killed were scalp
ed. No Indians were known to have been
killed. The Indian troubles were on the in
crease, and the Governor of California would
be asked for company of volunteers. The
seat of war is partly in Oregon, partly in
California on either side of the boundary
line.
An ice gorge on the Mississippi River, just
above Memphis, broke on the night of the
Goth. Six steamers and ten barges at Mem
phis were sunk, and four steamers badly in
jured. Damages about $250,OSO.
The recent election for municipal officers
at Tampico, Mexico, is reported to have
been very disorderly. During the counting
of the votes disturbance arose. Eight
were killed and wounded. Great excite
ment prevailed. Both parties, called Tam
picienos and Tametipecos, claim to have
won the election.
The evening receptions of the President
and Mrs. Grant will commence January 10,
and continue January 20 and February IL.
Commissioner Walkers resignation has
been accepted, to take effect on February
1, not January l, the date for which 1t was
rendered.
By the burning of the City Pest House of
Boston, a few nights age, 300 smallpox
patients were turned out of their beds and
cast upon the community.
By the sinking of the ship Peruvian, with
a heavy cargo from the East Indies, just as
she was reaching her destination at Boston,
on the Goth, twenty five lives were lost, and
nearly a million dollars worth of goods.
The developments in the New York Centre
street fire, where several girls were burned
TO death, show that those unfortunate vic
Tins owe their death to niggardliness or
carelessness. A dispatch of the 2Sth says
the various parties interested in the owner
ship of the property in Centre street still re-
fused to take steps for exhuming the bodies
of the burned girls from the debris. The
Boards of Health and Police stated that
they had no legal authority to remove the
ruins.
In his cross examination, on the 2Sth,
Stokes denied that he had ever made any
threats to shoot Fisk.
Several incendiary fires having recently
occurred in New York City, there was some
talk on the 2Sth of Vigilance Committee,
and there was possibility of violent
movement for the suppression OF the Inter
national Societies in New York and its
vicinity.
Numerous protests are arriving in Wash
ington from Wyoming Territory against the
dismemberment of that Territory and its in
corporation into Colorado. The friends of
female suffrage in Wyoming are particularly
exercised.
A suit threatening the titles of over hun
dred owners of real estate on the South Side
in Chicago, and involving property to the
value of nearly $2,000,000, has been begun in
the Superior Court of that city.
The Michigan Southern & Lake Shore Rail
road shops at Adrian, Mich, were burned
few nights ago; loss $4,000.
At the Belfast furnace, Irorton, Ohio, the
other day, Ellis Moore, James Venters and
Andrew Diles went into three boilers to
clean them, leaving open the valve connect
ing the boilers with the remaining ones OF
the battery. The engineer, supposing the
boilers containing the men to be disconnect-
ed. soon afterward turned on steam, and
Venters and Diles were so parboiled that
they died in few minutes. Moore sue
ceeded in escaping.
At last accounts twelve men were believed
to be buried under the Cottonwood ava
lanche in the Utah Mountains. The slide
came from the very mountain top, dis
tance of mile, with frightful speed and
force.
A letter from Wilmington, N. c., Decem-
Der 81, states that Andrew Strong, one of
the notorious outlaws of Scuff1etown, was
shot dead by a young man named Wilson,
whom Strong had warned to leave the place.
His body was delivered by Wilson to the
Sheriff, who Immediately paid him 81, 900 for
it, which is the standing reward by the
county for any of the Lowry gang, dead or
alive. Wilson is also entitled to $1,000 re-
ward from the State. The only member of
the gang now alive is Steve Lowry.
A New Orleans telegram of the 2sth says,
on the authority of Governor Warmoth's
private secretary, that the statement pub
lished in Washington, to the effect that the
Governor had abandoned the contest and
advised the Legislature not to meet on the
9th Of January, was untrue.
IT has been decided in England that
bankrupt may not refuse to answer ques-
tions which are put TO him touching his
estates and effects, even when such ques-
tions tend to criminate him. Such rule
might possibly be initiated to good ad-
vantage everywhere, though it has been
country with the same immunity in this
regard as if they were arraigned as Grim
inals. But the English courts seem to
have gone too far in the other direction,