Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-24

of the lease of Samana Bay to an American
Company, that it is not likely to give rise
to any diplomatic complication, but the
wholesomeness of this tendency to acquire
territory beyond continental limits is doubt
| full.
The Turkish Government has sued the
London Times for libel in publishing COM
munication, alleged to have been signed by
the Turkish Minister in London, containing
untrue statements with reference to the
finances Of the Government of Turkey.
TUE NEW WORLD.
Gold closed in New York on the Goth at
113I@1139S.
The new Chief of the Sandwich Islands,
who fills the place of the deceased Kama
hameha as Regent, is a Yankee by the name
of Elisha H. Allen, who has long been Chief
Justice in the Islands: He was formerly
leading lawyer in Bangor, Maine, and at one
time represented his district in Congress.
Durant has commenced suit against James
Brooks and Oakes Ames, to recover Credit
Mobilier shares alleged to have been fraudu-
lently obtained or unlawfully appropriated.
The Commissioners appointed to make
valuation of all the real estate in the Dis
| trict of Columbia belonging to the United
| States, except public buildings, and also
grounds which have been dedicated to pub
lie use as parades and squares, report the
total valuation at $16, ,186, 1856.
The New Hampshire Republican State
Convention met at Concord on the l4th.
| Governor Straw was nominated for re-elec-
tion by acclamation. Edward P. Hodsdon
was nominated Railroad Commissioner
Recent attempts to secure the repeal, by
the Chicago Common Council, of the law
prohibiting the sale of liquor on the Sab
BATH have finally failed, the ordinance as
originally adopted being retained.
| The two Houses of the Missouri Legisla-
ture voted separately for United States SEN
| ator on the 18th. The vote in the House
stood: Bogy, SO; Henderson, 33. In the
Senate Bogy, 25; Henderson, 10; absent, g..
One of the fues of the boiler of the steamer
| Julia st. Clair collapsed near Eufaula, Ala,
few nights ago, scalding thirteen persons,
| mostly colored deck hands and hremen. One
man died instantly. One was drowned, two
were mortally injured, and one unaccounted
for.
/
the 14th, General w. McMuflen was elected
United States Senator to fill Kellogg's unex-
pired term. For the long term Governor
Warmoth received votes in the Senate and
Is in the House, the largest number cast for
any one candidate. Pinchback was elected
| United United States Senator by the Kel-
| logg Legislature. In the Senate, when a
motion was made to go into an election for
United States Senator for the short term,
a number of Senators stated that the Senate
was not informed that such vacancy ex-
listed.
The Kansas Legislature met on the 10Th.
The House organized by selecting josiah
Kellogg, Of Leavenworth, Speaker; A. X.
Banks, of Lawrence, Clerk.
| The recent terrific hurricane of snow, at
tended by intense cold weather, in the
| Northwest, was most calamitous in its ef-
| fects throughout Minnesota. Scores of per-
sons who were caught in the storm are
frozen to death. All the railroads and the
common roads in the State were blocked
with huge snowbanks, rendering trans
portation impossible. The storm broke
upon the State, from the northward, very
suddenly, and continued to rage furiously
for over two days. Some idea of the extent
of the storm and it's fatal effects may be
formed from the following particulars
given in st. Paul dispatch of the 18th:
''The list of deaths by the late storm is receiv-
| ing hourly accessions. So far the greatest num-
| Der of casualties are reported from Brown County,
in the vicinity of New Ulm, within few miles of
which eighteen persons are known to nave per
ished. A gentleman from Redwood Falls says
that when he left there, thirty-seven deaths
| had hpan rpOOrtad of DprS0nS frozen In RoaV1Ie.
Chippewa, Yellow Medicine and Redwood
Center. Among the fatal cases mentioned in S1b,
P. sanderberger. Those named from Brown
County are Thomas O'Connel, with team: Mr.
Tenny, a young man named Morehouse; L. M:
Fox, wife, child, and nephew, of New Uln, were
| overtaken by the storm on the Redwood road, be-
! tween Madelia and Marshall They. protected
| themselves with the sleigh-box and sacks OF flour
! child died. The mother held the dead body OF her
child in her arms until Friday morning, when
they were discovered and taken TO Marsna 81 ~
sane. A dispatch from Fergus Falls says that the
loss of life in that vicinity already reported 1s
twenty, while the loss of stock can be counted
| by hundreds Houses have entirely disappeared
| beneath the huge snow-drifts, and travel is en-
| tirely blockaded and stopped. A Morris dispatch
| mentions the finding of the dead bodies OF T.
Fretland, man named Oleson, and Mr. Beakey.
A son of Mr.. Beakey is missing, and has undeubt-
edy perished. Hans Oleson was found, after
being ont forty-eigbt hours, badly frozen, and
will probably die Christian Heg was caught in
| the storm on Tuesday and buried In drift, wnere
he remained until Saturday afternoon, when ne
was found. badly frozen, but may recover. Hon.
Fl. r. Wells, of Preston, Fillmore Comfy,
reports the loss of a minister and famliy
/ from Lime Springs, Iowa, who were v1satlng IN
! Fillmore County The minister. with his wife ana
| two children, undertook to reach home, and wnen
near home the horses gave out and he TOOK one
| child and made his way TO the house, but In re-
turning to the cutter where he left MS wlie and
remaining child, he was lost, and was found the
next day frozen to death His wife and child, left
/ in the cutter were also found dead, but the one
taken to the house was found alive"
In the Kellogg Legislature on the 18th,
John Ray was unanimously elected United
States Senator, to fill the term made vacant
by the resignation of Kellogg.
The President issued proclamation on the
| 18th to the effect that "from and after the
fourth day of March, 1878, except as herein
specified, persons holding any Federal
civil Office by appointment. under the
| Constitution and laws of the United States,
will be expected, while holding such office,
to hold no Office under any State or Terri
torial gift, or under charter or ordinance OF
any municipal corporations, and, further,
that the acceptance or continued holding OF
any such State, Territorial or Municipal
office, whether elective, or by appointment,
by any person holding civil Office as afore-
| said under the Government of the United
y q+o+as .o+bor than iudicia1 officers under the