Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29
THE NEW WORLD.

A portion of a passenger train going East
over the Great Wesern (Canada) Railway,
plunged into the Welland Canal on the 10Th,
the draw bridge being open. Fortunately no
lives were lost.
| The Attorney Genera has recommended to
the President that padons be granted to s.
Hood, of South Carolina, and Adolphus Du-
priest and George Holhnd, of North Carolina,
who are serving out TENS in the Albany Peni-
tentiary for Ku-Klux eutrages.
A recent Washington dispatch says num-
Der of letters had beer received from Quaker
and other friends of tie Indian peace policy
throughout the country, asking clemency in
behalf of the Modoc Indians lately on trial for
the murder of General Candy. Many of these
letters raise the question that the trial of the
offenders was illegal under the decision of the
Supreme Court in the Milligan civil case that
courts being in existelce, a military tribunal
had no jurisdiction. Another question raised
is that General Candy was killed while in ac-
tion as Peace Commissioner, and not as an
officer of the army in war. These questions
will come directly before the President for his
action.
The Massachusetts Republican State Central
Committee have decided to change the time of
holding the State Convention at Worcester to
September 10, as the hall was engaged from
the 18th to the 24th-
j. G. Abbott, General Deputy of the Patrons
of Husbandry, who has been engaged for some
time past in organizing Oranges throughout
New England addressed a public meeting at
Boston, on the evening of the 10Th, on the OBJ
jects of the Order, and then established
Grange in that city.
Rev. Gardiner Spring, for sixty three years
the pastor of the Brick Church (Presbyterian)
congregation, in New York City, died at his
residence in that city on the 18th, aged SO
years.
1t is reported that in a small house near
La Cygne, Kan, during the night of the 18th,
two women and two children were consumed,
and all are believed to have been murdered,
and the house fired, by the husband of one Of
the victims, named Kellar.
j. Puffenberger, the engineer of the coal train
which caused the recent terrible collision on
the Chicago & Alton Railroad, was under ar
rest in Chicago on the 18th. Edward Beane,
the conductor on the coal train, who resides in
Joliet, had not yet been arrested, although
efforts were being made to discover his where
abouts. Puffenberger seeks to throw all the
blame for the collision on the conductor, al
leging that his (Pufenberger's watch was
fifty minutes slow, and that he was not aware
of this fact. By the rules of the Company,
when the orders for the running of trains are
violated, the engineer is equally responsible
with the conductor of the train violating the
regulations. Beane was sad to have been at
his home the day after the accident, in half
crazed condition 1t is said that after the ac-
cident he was observed running up and down
the track, begging some one to shoot him.
At meeting held at Beloit, Wis, on the
10Th, the Southern Wisconsin and Northern
Illinois Agricultural Association organized,
electing the Hon. Ell. N. Davis, President; S.
J. Goodwin, Esq, Chief Marshal; Henry f.
Hobart, Secretary and Treasurer; eleven Vice