Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-24

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General Sherman presided, and General Logan
delivered an grafton. The President and about
four hundred officers were present and partic-
ipated in the ceremonies.
Returns received at Des Moines, Iowa, up to
II p. m. on the 10th, from nearly two-thirds
of the State indicated the. election of Gov
ernor Carpenter by about 1000 majority.
The State Register of that city claimed the
Legislature also by a good working majority
in both branches.
Dispatches from Columbus, Ohio, of the
10th, say that the result of the election for
Governor was still in doubt and could only be
determined by the official count. The Re-
publieans at 12 p. m. claimed the election of
Noyes by 1900 majority, and the Democrats
the election of Allen by 1000.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Illinois,
recently in session in Springfield, adjourned on
the evening of the 10th, to meet next year in
Chicago.
The Railway and Warehouse Commissioners
of the State of Illinois, according to a
Springfield dispatch of the 10th, had been in
session in that city on that day. Several
questions which had been propounded by
shippers had been considered and answered as
follows: A shipper on the Illinois Central
Railway complains that the company charge
tariff upon estimated and not actual weight,
in transporting lumber, and insist on their
right to do so. The Commissioners decide
that actual weight must be the standard. A
Rock Island coal company inquiries: First,
has railway company the right to discrim-
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point? The Board reply that the company
has not the right, and refer to their published
circular Second, are the railway companies
obliged to put in switches for parties owning
coal mines near their tracks? The
Board answer by referring to section 5, article
Is, of the Constitution, which says: 'All
railway companies shall permit connections to
be made with their track, so that any such
consignee, and any public warehouse, coal
bank, or coal yard may be reached by the cars
on said railway" Third, are the railway
companies obliged to furnish cars to mining
companies to transport coal on the line of their
road? The answer is Yes, if reasonably
practicable.
A Washington dispatch of the 10th says
that the representatives of the Samana Bay
Company had arrived in that city and had de-
cided to demand the protection of the Govern
ment against the Insurgents of San Domingo,
who, at present, appeared to be rapidly gaining
advantage over Baez.
A Philadelphia dispatch of the 10th says that
Charles Gibbons and others, of Philadelphia,
who are owners of canal-boats on the Pennsyl-
vania canals, had filed printed charges with
the President against Secretary Richardson,
based upon the fact that the Treasury Depart
ment has continued to enforce its construction
of the navigation law, and to require canal
boats to register as marine vessels and take out
license, in spite of the decision of the United
States District Court that such tax was not
legal These printed charges close with for
NAL articles of impeachment, which these gen.
tlemen offer to establish if they can be heard
before court of impeachment.
The wife of Senator Pool, of North Carolina,
died at Washington on the 10th, after long
illness.
The newly-appointed Turkish Minister, Ar
istarche Bey, presented his credentials to the
President on the 10th. ttte eI9G
A private dispatch from Calvert, Texas, of
the 10th. says the yellow fever in that place
had been worse than at Shreveport. Over
seven per cent. of the population had died.
The deaths from fever at Memphis on the 10th
numbered twenty-six, and at Shreveport six.
A New Orleans dispatch of the 10th an
nounces that the passengers and crew of the
steamer Missouri, wrecked in the vicinity of
Key West, Florida, had arrived in that city.
The wreck was caused by the carelessness of
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drowned but the passengers were all saved.
A Louisville dispatch of the 10th says a
terrific explosion had occurred on the evening
of that day, at the City Hall, caused by foul
sewerage, gas and leaky gas pipes. The flag
stones around the structure were shattered,
and the building itself was shaken as if by an
earthquake. Several persons were injured,
but none, fortunately, were killed. H
A Lincoln, Nebraska, dispatch of the 10th
says that there had been heavy prairie fires in
that State originating from sparks of locomo-
tives In Saline County ten children and one
woman had been burned to death. There had
been also an immense destruction Of property,
grain, haystacks, etc. a
Cincinnati dispatch of the 10th says that
every county in the State had been heard from
though not officially. The returns had elected
Allen by s92 majority. The official returns
are likely to vary this total somewhat. 1t was
thought that the remainder of the Republican
ticket had been elected, as Noyes ran behind
his ticket in several strong Republican coun-
ties. 4t gt#a e;
A Parsons, Kansas, dispatch of the 18th says
the colored residents of the Indian Territory,
formerly slaves of the Choctaws, Chickasaws
Creeks, Seminoles and Cherokees, had recently
held convention at Armstrong Academy
at which they adopted memorial to Congress
asking for equal rights in the Territory with
the Indians, and to secure and protect them in
such rights. They asked for the sectionizing
of lands and organization of Territorial gov
ernment such as the Indians conceded in the
treaty of 1866, and was advocated by Colonel
Boudinot. A delegation was appointed to
visit Washington to carry out the views OF the
convention. The colored people claimed to
number $1,000 out of the $4,000 producing
population of the Indian Territory, and to
raise by their labor eight-tenths of the pro-
ductions of the Territory. T seY
At Republican meeting held in Baltimore
on the evening of the 18th, Postmaster General
Creswell advocated the Postal Telegraph and
Postal Bank of Deposit, insisting that the
latter offered the surest means by which de-
positors could be protected from lawless spec
ulation and guarded by absolute security.
A New York dispatch of the 18th announces
that the firm of E. W. & j. P. Carvers,
brokers, had gone into bankruptcy.
A st. Louis dispatch of the 18th says the
st. Louis banks had decided to resume cur
rency payments on the 27th.
A Dubuque, Iowa, dispatch of the 18th
announces that Richmond, Radcliffe & Co.,
wholesale milliners, had failed, and a number