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

raised in defense of the act, all asserting that
the killing of the crew was unjustifable and
demanded prompt action on the part of the
United States Government.
The Duquesne and the Mechanics Savings
Banks, and the banking house of Millar q
Sons, of Pittsburgh, and the Savings Deposit
Bank, of East Liberty, Pa, have suspended.
The assets are said to be ample to secure
creditors.
The Republicans have majority of eleven
in the New Jersey Legislature.
Hon. s. s. Mallory, formerly United States
Senator from Florida, and Secretary OF the
Navy in the Cabinet of the Confederacy, died
at Pensacola on the 9th.
There were no new yellow fever cases nor
deaths in Memphis on the 18th. Ex-Acting
Mayor Cicalla, charged with appropriating to
his own use supplies that he drew ostensibly
for a widow and her children, was expelled
from the Board of Aldermen by unanimous
vote.
Active preparations were being made at the
navy yards on the 18th, getting vessels ready
for active service At the Brooklyn yard the
Kansas received her supply of stores in the
sail. Executive Officer Ransom said that
orders had been received from Washington
about fitting out vessels, but he was not at
liberty to make them public. He thought
there were prospects of a war with Spain, and
thai the Government would undoubtedly pro-
ceed by taking Cuba.
On the 18th Secretary Fish instructed Minis
ter Sickles to enter with the Spanish Govern
ment protest against the proceedings at San
tiago, characterizing them as an outrage on
civilization and humanity, and an insult to the
American Government. General Sickles re-
piled that he had had an interview with the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and acted in ac-
cordance with his instructions; and, further,
that the Spanish Government was clearly i'm
pressed with the sense of its responsibility,
and has promised to act in such manner as
would show its disapprobation of the proceed
ings at Santiago, and, at the same time, its
friendship for this Government.
A letter has been recently published from r.
M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, in which he pro-
poses that the United States Government
should loan $400, ,000 900, without interest, to
the former slaveholding States, to be by them
loaned, also without interest, to the ex-slave-
holders of such States Mr.. Hunter says this
is in accord nee with the views and sugges-
tions of p 5sident Lincoln during the war.
Oranges of the Patrons of Husbandry
have been recently formed at Harvard and
Danvers, Mass, and State Grange is to be
formed on the 1st of December. On the 18th
there were thirteen Oranges in Massachusetts,,
including the Boston Grange, whose charter is
in dispute, and the Order was rapidly extending
throughout the State.
Two German steamers recently sailing from
New York received large number of applica-
tions from emigrants, which had come out by
them, to work their passage back, some of
them offering all the money they had left for
the privilege So many men are out of en-
ployment that the newly arrived emigrants
have been unable to procure work, and the
panic will probably thus prove a serious bar
to immigration.
The annual meeting of the Illinois State
Grange is to be held at Bloomington on Tues
day, December 9, commencing at ten o'clock
q. M.
The mother and sister of General Ryan, one
of the victims of the recent butchery in Cuba,
are residents of Chicago.
The accommodation train from Brownsville,
Tenn, for Memphis, was thrown from the
track near the former place, on the morning Of
the 18th, by bar of iron that was tied on the
track, and the engine and one car were wrecked
Only one passenger, lady, was seriously in
iured, as, fortunately, the engineer discovered
the obstruction in time to apply the air brakes
and check the speed of his train, else all on
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wounded.
Havana dispatch of the 18th says the
trials of all the prisoners taken on board the
Virginius had been concluded. Only eighteen
would be saved from death. Of these several
are engineers or tiremen who were ignorant of
the destination of the expedition, and four or
five would be set at liberty The others
would probably be condemned to the chain
gang.
The London morning journals of the 18th
commented at length on the shooting of the
crew and passengers of the steamship Vir-
ginius, and all expressed hope that the exc
cutions would be avenged by the Government
of the United States.
News had been received in Washington on
the 14th that the balance of the crew Of the
Virginius had been shot, making Ill in ALL
The Associated Press dispatch says the cap
ture of the Virginius and the shocking bar
barities perpetrated by Spanish authorities at
Santiago de Cuba, formed the subject of seri-
Gus consideration in the Cabinet on the 18th,
and definite action toward maintaining the dig
nifty of the United States in the existing compli-
cations was taken. Itwas semi officially stated
in New York on the 14th that the demands
made on the Spanish Government by the
United States were of such nature that it
would be impossible for the former to accept,
and that it would result in rupture between
the two powers. The demands of the United
States had been transmitted by telegraph to
Minister Sickles at Madrid.
Orders were received at the navy yard in
Boston on the 14th to fit out the frigate Brook
| lyn so that she can sail on the 18th of Decem-
Der. 1t was stated that the Franklin was also
| to be got in readiness for sea.
The outstanding legal-tenders on the 14th
amounted to 1862, 81, Gil.
The official returns from the Fifth Michigan
Congressional District give Williams (Repub-
| lican) a majority of $50.
An ordinance to repeal the Sunday ordi-
nance has been defeated by large majority in
the Cincinnati Board of Aldermen.
1t has been recently decided, in the United
States Circuit Court at Indianapolis, that a
drover whose leg had been broken in an acci-
dent on the Indianapolis & st. Louis Railroad
had valid claim for damages, although he
rode free, and the Company was mulcted in
S., 900 damages for his benefit.
AT an Anti Chinese Convention, recently in
| session in San Francisco, resolutions were