Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-11-21
TINE NEW WORLD.

A boiler in New York City, used by street
contractors, exploded on the 11th, killing
seven persons and wounding several others.
All of the killed had either the whole or por-
tion of their heads blown off.
At a Cabinet meeting in Washington on the
18th, the case of the Virginius was discussed.
No official information relative to the seizure
of the vessel had yet been received, and hence
no decision could be reached in the matter.
Secretary Fish is reported to have said, in a
conversation with reporter, that the shooting
of General Ryan and his associates was cold
blooded murder. The Secretary added that
the Government cannot now act, because it
does not have any basis upon which to proceed
firmly and intelligently. 1t may be a week
yet before the news is presented in an official
shape"
Joseph Arch left this country few days
ago for England; also Mark Twain, who only
arrived from there two days before.
The financial and commercial advices from
New York were still more cheering on the
18th, and the Journal says the feeling on
Change in Chicago had correspondingly i'm
proved.
Eleven ladies were elected as School Super
intendents in Illinois at the last county elec-
tions.
1t has been definitely ascertained that the
Reformers in Wisconsin have one majority in
the Senate and eighteen in the House.
The Interstate Industrial Exposition held
in Chicago, and which was recently brought
to a close, was a success in every respect.
The net receipts over expenses, exclusive of
the cost of the building, were $6S, 900. The
structure cost S267, 900.
A Havana dispatch of the 10Th says that on
the 18th the captain and thirty-six of the crew
of the steamer Virginius were executed at
Santiago de Cuba, and on the next day, twelve
more of the Cuban volunteers on the vessel
were shot, among whom was Franchi Alfaro.
The Spanish say that Alfaro came to assume
the Presidency of the so-called Cuban Repub-
]ic. He offered the authorities $1,000000 if
they would spare his life Captain Joseph
Fry, commander of the Virginius, was native
of Florida, forty-six years of age. He leaves
a wife and seven children in New Orleans.
The excitement in Washington against the
Cuban authorities, which had somewhat ceas-
ed was revived on the 18th by the startling
announcement of the execution of forty-nine
more of the crew and passengers OF the
steamer Virginius. 1t seems the order of the
CASTELAR, Government in Spain, demanding a
stay of proceedings, had been disregarded
The Secretary of War was in consultation on
the 18th with the different Bureau officers in
Washington on the subject of preparing YES
sells for sea- A telegram says: "The Madrid
Government being unable to enforce its au.
thority in Cuba, that of the United States will
be impelled to assert its powers in all cases
where the interests of citizens of this country
and its own honor require decisive action
The President and all the members of his Cab
met are in accord on this subject"
Several passengers, both men and women
by the steamer City of New York, from New
York, on the 9th, which arrived at Havana ol
the 18th, were arrested by the Spanish authori
ties on landing. They were accused of com
plicity with the insurgents.
The principal discussion in New York on tn
18th was the slaughter of the captain and tn
crew of the steamer Virginius, and the feelin
OF Indignation was universal. Not avoice wa