Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-05-02

the bodies on the stove.
The New York Senate, on the Esd, voted
IL to 12-to repeal the Usury law.
News from the Modoc seat of war up to the
23d states the loss of the Modocs in the recent
fight at seventeen killed and many wounded.
Captain Jack and his band were still in their
lava-bed stronghold and General Gillem was
trying to cut off their escape and supplies.
The Treasury Department at Washington
has received information of considerable vio-
lence being committed along the Texas border
by Mexican desperadoes. Recently an Ameri-
can ranchero, living near Fort Qutman, was
brutally murdered by the Mexicans, his body
thrown into the Rio Grande, and his animals,
horses and mules, driven into Mexico by his
murderers. Immediate pursuit was started by
party of citizens, and the Mexicans were
overtaken. A fight ensued, in which the pur-
suing party was defeated and returned to
Quitman without having accomplished the re-
covery of the animals or the arrest of the
murderers. 1t is also stated that in Arizona
and New Mexico, Cochise, nominally at peace
with the United States, continues to practice
his favorite pastime, and occasionally roasts a
white man, merely as matter of amusement
Doc Oolburn, messenger for Captain Dar-
ling arrived in Kansas City on the 22d, and
reported the finding of thirteen dead bodies OF
white men, all in one place. The bodies were
found on Medicine Lodge Creek.
The Commissioner of the General Land Of
flee at Washington has recently issued regula-
tions under the act providing for the sale OF
United States lands containing coal, approved
March last as follows:
Any individual of 21 years of age and citizen of
the United States, who has declared his inten-
lion to become SUCH may enter by legal subdivisions
any not exceeding 100 acres. Any association
may enter not to exceed 800 acres. Any assocla-
ton, if not less than four persons, who shall
have expended not less than $4,000 in work
ing and improving any coal mine n, or mines
prce enter acre nGs W6efe @ land 4 is situated
more than fifteen miles from any completed rail-
road and $40 per where the land is within ff-
teen miles of such road In conflicts, when I'M I'M
quent to March Sd last, or shall be hereafter COM
menced, priority of possession and improvement
shall govern the award, when the law has been
fully complied with by each party. A mere pos
session, however, without satisfactory improve
ments, will not secure the contract to the first oc-
cupant, when the subsequent claimant shows his
full compliance with the law.
A boy named Wilfred Fits is in Jail at
Exeter, N. H., charged with the killing of an
other boy, named Emerson, while he, the MUIR
derer, was in a somnambulistic state. Recently,
while in a similar condition, Fits got hold of
razor belonging to one of three prisoners in
the Jail, and attempted to cut their throats.
According to a recent statement in the New
York Tribune arrangements have been made
for q, 800 passengers to Europe by steamships
sailing from New York during the next three
months.
Henry Fralich was hanged in Syracuse, N.
Y, few days ago, for the killing, in August
last, of Peter Schaaffer.
A singular affair has occurred in Madison
Wis. Several months ago one Jacob Smitz
mysteriously disappeared, and his wife made
contradictory statements as to his whereabouts,
and a belief was entertained that she had made
away with him. A few days ago she locked up
and left the house. Believing she intended
fight, she was arrested, and the house was en-
tered by officers, who were assailed by the
missing man, who proved to be a raving ma
MAC, and who had been for long time con-
cealed and cared for by his wife.
A New York special says that it is now as
serted in Wall street that the recent tghtness in
money was, in great part, the result of the
operations of two railroad Presidents in con-
nection with the deposed President of another
road Tom Scott was one of this triumvirate,
j. F. Tracy, President of the Northwestern and
Rock Island Roads, was another, and Jay
Gould, ex-President of the Erie, was the
third.
News from the Modoc country up to the 25th
states that there had been no fighting since the
18th. 1t was reported that the Modocs had
left the lava-bed.
A special from New Orleans 25th, says ''Gov-
ernor Kellogg has sent State militia into Tan
giahohoa parish, installed the officers, scatter
ed mob who had collected, and restored Or
der. He has secured a steamboat, on which
is mounted q 12-pound howitzer, for service in
the rivers and bayous, and has organized
battalion of cavalry He has also directed the
Attorney General to prosecute Governor Nc
Emery under the Usurpation act, and also for
treason, and has offered large reward for evil
dence which will lead to the conviction of those
who were engaged in the recent massacre in
Grant Parish"
The epizootic has at last reached the Pacific
coast, and at San Francisco business was great
ly impeded for want of horses. Cinnamon
were employed to carry and haul burdens.
1t is stated in Washington dispatch of the
25th that the Commissioners to the Vienna Ex-
position have been suspended, and Legrand B.
Cannon, Theodore Roosevelt and Charles F.
Spang, now in Vienna, and Jackson S. Schultz,
VIM II. Aspinwall, Samuel G. Ward, William
T. Blodgett and James Renwick will act until
the suspensions are removed or permanent
Commissioners are appointed. The scientific
and honorary Commissioners do not come I'M
der the operation of the suspension order.
The suspension of the Commissioners to the
Vienna Exposition, it is stated, was due to al
legged irregularities and eXactions on the part
of some of them in the disposal of privileges,
etc. A Vienna journal intimates that large
sums were paid to the suspended Commission
ers before leaving America by number OF
large firms for various concessions. The money
was accepted on pretext of subscription for
the erection of a model school-house, and the
journal ironically remarks that they thus ex-
hibit the fruits of that institution. Itmentions
that two restaurant-keepers, Germans, paid
each $1,000 for the school-house. Gen. van
Ruren had addressed to President Grant a
strong remonstrance against his suspension.
On the night of the 26th, the residence of
Mr.. KIees, about two miles from Otis, Ind,
a small station at the crossing of the Lake
Shore and L. N. A. & C. railroads, caught fire
and burned so rapidly that an old gentleman
by the name of Kreist, with his daughter Mrs.
Klees, and five children were burned to death.
Mrs. KIees could have escaped alone, but went
into another room endeavoring to save her
children and was lost. Mr.. Kreist was lying
with a broken leg perfectly helpless, and could
do nothing but await his fate. Mr.. klees and
his brother-in-law, Mr.. Nreist, escaped but
were severely burned. So great was the heat
of tho fire that the bodies were burned to