Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14

crimes, and sentenced to Imprisonment in
Albany Penitentiary.
A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica, JAM
81, says that Sir John Grant had arrived at
st. Thomas from England, to resume the
Governorship of Jamaica. The English
Government has been largely petitioned to
extend his administration for seven years.
The Rev. William Storrs, Vicar-General of
the (Catholic) Arch Diocese of New York,
died in that city on the 9Th.
Philadelphia has appropriated 100000 in
aid of the Centennial Celebration.
Leo Canman has been sentenced to ten
years. Imprisonment in the State Penitentia-
ry, for abstracting money from registered
letters while clerk in the Chicago post
Office.
McNulty, the Peoria wife-murderer, was
hanged at Peoria at one o'clock p. m. on the
7th. He made a long speech on the gallows,
protesting his innocence, and asserting that
some of the witnesses for the prosecution
had sworn falsely against him.
President Grant visited Wilmington, Del,
on the 9th, and was enthusiastically received
by the officers of the State and city, and the
citizens generally.
The act abolishing the franking privilege
does not do away with the free exchange of
newspapers, nor the free distribution of
papers within the county where published.
The Senatorial Bribery Committee at JEFF
ferson City made their report to the Mis-
souri, House on the Sth. They exonerate
Senator Bogy of any attempt at bribery in
the Senatorial election. They find, how
ever, that General Doris did try to bribe
two members, but it had no bearing on the
case. All the members of the committee
signed the report except Headlee, Republi-
can, who would make a minority report.
Ex-Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, died
suddenly at his home in Harrisburg, while
at breakfast with his family, on the Sth.
At KANSAS City, February 9, the old wall
of the Ferguson House fell, crushing frame
house adjoining, and instantly killing
mother and daughter named Dohohue and
another young lady named Rieley. Another
broken in two places, one leg broken, and
her breast crushed in, but was still alive. A
child two years old escaped unhurt.
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, Vice.
President elect, on the 10th, rendered his
resignation as Senator, to take effect
March 8.
Governor Dix, of New York, states that
the $50, 900 which ne received some years ago
from the Union Pacific Railroad, was for
his salary as President of that Company,
and not as gratuity or for any other pur-
pose.
The horse disease has reached Sacramento,
California.
Franklin B. Evans, recently tried and con-
yicted at Exeter, n H., for the murder of his
niece, Georgiana Lowering, gil twelve years
of age, has made confession of his many
crimes. Among other things 1T is confessed
that in 1858, he stole away and killed his
little niece in Derry, N. H., aged five years.
In 1861 he assaulted and cut the throat of
girl of fourteen years, in Augusta,
Maine, for which, by the way,
another man died in prison. In 1865 he out
ragged the person of Isabella Joyce, aged
fourteen, and then killed her and her
brother John, boy of twelve, in Bussey's
Woods, near Boston. He is also charged with
a similar crime upon the person of woman
found dead in the woods near Fitchburg,
Mass, in addition to outraging and murder
ing the girl for which offence he was con-
victed.