Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-01

preamble setting forth the grievances of the
agriculturists of the, country, and adopted a
resolution inviting their brethren throughout
the State to meet in convention at Milwaukee,
on Thursday, August 81, 1878, at ten O'Clock
a. M. s'for consultation and such other action
as may be deemed best for, our interest and
that of the State, and to that end we recon-
mend that each Grange in the State be entitled
to three delegates, to be elected by each Grange
and Commissioner, under seal, signed by the
| proper officers" --s.---
/ Seven cholera deaths at Mount Vernon, Ind,
on the oath. None in Cincinnati.
/ One thousand Mormons arrived at Salt Lake
| on the Oath, from Europe. . s. - 81.
| At Logansport, Ind, on the Oath, Miss
Lizzie Bures, a servant girl, employed at the
Freeman House, attempted to start fire in
the stove with coal oil. Her clothes caught
fire, and she was seriously, and probably
/ fatally, burned. sa0l a@ 9 s. ee
A Des Moines Qowa) dispatch of the oath
says the new Rock Island grain tariff for the
Iowa Division reduces the prices up to that
station. West of there they are slightly ad-
| yanced.
| James M. Mcdonald, Vice-President of the
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Mayor of San Francisco.
The laying of the fourth cable between Sgd
ney, Cape Breton, and Placentia, N. F., has
been successfully completed.
Tie Post-o Office Department at Washington
has commenced supplying the small offices
throughout the country with postal cards.
| A called meeting of members of the Repub-
lican party opposed to the nomination of Gen.
Butler for Governor was held in Boston few
| days ago. Among those present were ii. L..
Dawes, E. R. Hoar, George T. Hoar, Speaker
Sanford, III. H. Coolidge, Ex-Speaker Jewell,
Adm Thayer, j. NJ Forbes, and others. The
meeting was called to order by Judge Hoar,
who emphatically denounced the salary grab,
and pronounced himself as willing to do all in
| his power to prevent the State from being car
ried for the author of that measure. A COM
mittee of three was appointed to draw up an
address to the people of the State.'
| An adjourned meeting of Railroad Man.
ayers, Superintendents, and ticket and pas
senger agents, to consider commissions, free
passes, etc., was held in st. Louis on the Oath.
Resolutions were adopted declaring that no
more free passes or half-fare tickets should be
issued after August l, except to officers,
agents and employees of roads. Twenty-one
roads were represented, two-thirds of which
| are west of the Mississippi River.
| According to Minneapolis telegram of the
| 25th it was then generally conceded by parties
| on both sides of the boundary that the re-
capture of Gordon was effected on American
| soil.
| According to dispatch of the 25th, the po-
IF To,1ic 10 haIi thot
the robbers of the Iowa railroad train are the
same that robbed the bank in st. Genevieve,
Mo-, last May, the Russellville (Ky.) bank two
years ago, and the Gallatin (Mo.) bank, and
also committed several other bold robberies.
The report in some sections of the country
that the cholera was prevailing in Chicago, is
emphatically denied by the Chicago papers.
The Times says: "The simple fact is that
there has not been a case of cholera in this
city, and that the health of the city is quite
as good as usual at this season of the year."
The Coroner's jury in the case Of Rafferty,,
the engineer killed on the wrecked railroad
train, have found that he came to his death
by reason of the train on the G. r. l. q P. R.
r., being thrown from the track, between
Anita and Adair, Iowa, without any negligence
ment of the rail, with felonious intent, by a
certain number of masked men to us an
known; and we further find that the said
John Rafferty, refused to abandon his train
when apprised of danger, and died manfully
at his post"
A disastrous fire occurred in Baltimore on
the 25th. 1t broke out in a four-story brick
planning mill, and in short time the building
was enveloped in flames, and the boilers. of
the engine exploded. A stiff breeze drove
the flames to the adjoining buildings, and it
was not long before the four blocks bounded
by Liberty street on the east, Saratoga on the
north, Howard on the west, and Lexington
ON the south, and intersected by Park and
Clay streets, were each ablaze, and several
fine buildings on Mulberry street had taken
fire from the burning brands hurled by the
wind Ten blocks Of buildings were de-
stroyed, mostly dwellings, before the fire was
extinguished The aggregate loss was vari-
ously estimated at from $500,000 to ST.
100000.
Recent fires on Long Island burned over an
area of at least fifty square miles. The Ger
man settlement, called Bohemianvilie, was
swept entirely away, and three young children
unable to escapeperished in the flames.
An application has been madeoto Governor
Dix and petition signed by some of the most
prominent men in the State of New York to
grant young Walworth pardon.
An ordinance to prohibit the sale of liquor
on Sunday was successfully enforced in Cleve-
land on the 27th.
Judge Vinton, of the Tippecanoe Qnd.) Cir
loo oIol1 10 lna ;eiO
in which he concludes that the railway act
passed at the special session of the State
Legislature, requiring railway companies to
issue stock paid for by corporations to tax
payers, ETC., is unconstitutional, and is there
fore null and void. He holds that the stock is
the property of the whole people, and is held
in trust by the County Commissioners. An
appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court.
At GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin, a few days ago,
Johanna Welsh, aged nine years, was build
ing a fire with kerosene, and was fatally
burned similar accident recently occurred
at Auburn, Indiana, to a twelve-year-old gir4
named Culver, who laid the foundation for
fire by pouring coal oil on the ashes. Live
Goals concealed in the ashes communicated
fire to the can, which exploded with great
violence, covering the poor girl with a sheet
of flames. She was burned nearly to a crisp,
and died in afew minutes.
An Indianapolis Qnd.) dispatch of the 9th
says the cholera had made its appearance in
that city. Three fatal cases occurred in one
family; no other fatal cases reported. There
were twenty-one cholera death in st Louis
during the week ending ON the 22etf The
entire mortality for the week was 253, de-
crease of 90 from the previous week. -