Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-04-25

turbance, and several arrests were made.
On the evening following the murder of
General Candy and Peace Commissioner
Thomas, the Modocs attacked Colonel Mason's
pickets, one and half miles east of the
Modoc camp. The -pickets were quickly re-
inforced and drove the savages back. One
Modoc was killed, and ten horses were cap
tured. The funeral ceremonies, on the 18th,
over General Candy and Commissioner
Thomas in the camp were very impressive.
A call has been issued for the Iowa Republi-
can State Convention to be held at Des Moines
on Wednesday, June 25, for the purpose of Sc
lecting candidates for Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Judge of the Supreme Court, and
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The President, his wife and daughter, ac-
companied by General Babcock, left Washing
ton on the evening of the 10th for st. Louis.
A recent issue of the Augusta (Ark.) Betlle-
tin contains the details of horrible affair
which is alleged to have occurred few weeks
ago in Union County, in that State. According
to the account negro had brutally outraged
and killed a married lady, having kept her for
three days tied to tree in the woods. He was
captured by party of colored men, and ac-
knowledged the crime. His captors took their
prisoner to the husband of the murdered wo-
man and asked him what they must do with
the fiend. He told them to burn him. The
men who had him were all negroes. They
built two log heaps and put him in
the middle. They were twenty-four
hours burning him. They cut off his toes
and made him swallow them, and then cut
strips of his skin and of his body, and made
him broil them on Goals and eat them; and
they would roll him in the Goals and take him
out and talk to him, and put him back. At
last they built hot fire, put him on top of it,
and let him burn to ashes. There was not a
white man that had anything to do with it,
Three other negroes, who knew where the wo-
man was at the time she was being searched
for, but would not tell, were shot to DEATH
Peter Fay, of Brooklyn, N. Y, who kicked
his little sou to death because the little fellow
refused to purchase beer for him. has been
found guilty of manslaughter in the fourth
degree.
An Omaha dispatch of the 18th says the
recent great storm lasted for three days with
unparalleled severity, its force being mostly
confined to the limits of Plum Creek on the
west, and Columbus on the east. Persons did
not dare to leave their houses during Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday. But one case OF
loss of human life had so far been reported,
but it was probable that the loss of stock had
been great.
The remains of General Candy and DIR.
Thomas reached Yreka on the 18th. They lay
in state all day on the 14th, and were visited by
nearly the whole population.
Vice President Wilson is reported as having
said on the 10th that peace with the Modocs
was now out of the question, and that they
should be exterminated at any cost. Still the
peace policy should not be abandoned in deal
ing with other Indian tribes.
A New Orleans dispatch of the 18th states
that United States troops had been sent to
Grant Parish and would be stationed along the
river to prevent further trouble.
Later accounts from the Modoc country
state that after General Candy was shot he was
stabbed in the neck by Captain Jack, and
stripped of all his clothing. Commissioner
Thomas was also found naked.
Captain Williams, of the lost steamer At
Iantic has been censured by the Halifax In
yestigating Commission. Were it not for his
bravery after the ship struck, the certificate
under which he is allowed to sail would be
Cancelled altogether; as it is, it is revoked for
two years. The company is likewise censured
for starting the steamer with an insufficient
supply of coal for the voyage. ....s
A new swindling dodge has been brought to
light in Washington. A man styling himself
"Rev. j. Hall Barney" with confederate
named Sutton, has been sending circulars to
Government employees, purporting to come
from the White House, and bearing the name
of General Babcock, soliciting contributions
for suppressing election frauds, and to reim-
burse the Treasury for money lent for election
purposes" Barney has been arrested.
Announcement was made on the 18th that
the various through lines between Chicago and
New York had agreed upon reduction OF the
freight tariff, as follows: First-class, 81;
second-class, 80 cents third-class, 70 cents;
fourth-class, 60 cents; special class, 45 cents.
This is a reduction of 25 cents on the first
class, 20 cents on the second-class, 10 cents on
the third-class, and 5 cents on each of the
other classes A further reduction was antici-
pated on the full opening of navigation.
A destructive fire has recently occurred at
Chicopee, Mass, two large cotton mills and
5000 bales of cotton being burned. Loss over
S5OO,0OO. Eight hundred hands were thrown
out of employment by this fire.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has
sustained the validity of the blanks used by
telegraph companies, in an action brought to
recover damages for the non-delivery of an un-
repeated day message, written upon the usual
blank of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany. The court held, in effect, that the COM
pany assumed no responsibility for dispatches
not insured or repeated.
Attorney General Williams, in Washington,
received dispatch on the 18th from j. r.
Beckwith, United States Attorney at New Or
leans, stating that Deputy Marshal De Klyne
had returned from Colfax. According to his
statement, the details of the recent disturbances
there are horrible. The whites of Grant Parish
''attempted to GUST the incumbent Parish
officers by force, and failed, the Sheriff pro-
tecting the officers with colored posse.
Several DAYS afterwards, recruits from other
parishes, to the number of 800, came to the
assistance of the assailants, when they de-
manded the surrender of the colored people.
This was refused. An attack was made, and
the negroes were driven into the Court
House. The Courthouse was fired, and the
negroes slaughtered as they left the burning
building After resistance had ceased sixty
five negroes, terribly mutilated, were found
dead near the ruins of the Courthouse.
Thirty, known to have been taken prisoners,
are said to have been shot after the surrender
and thrown into the river. Two of the assail-
ants were wounded" Attorney-General Will
liams teelgraphed back to Mr. Beckwith as
follows: 'sYou are instructed to make thor
ough investigation of the affairs in Grant
Parish and, if you find that the laws of the
United States have been violated, you will
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