Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-06-20

lications through the mails.
George Edmonds, coal miner of Steuben-
vile, Ohio, recently bought twenty-five
pound can of blasting powder and put it in 8
cupboard in his dwelling. While he was at
work and his wife out on an errand, his chill
dren found the can and set fire to it. Three
of them were killed outright, and the fourth
so badly injured that it could not live. The
children were all under ten years of age. The
house was almost destroyed. a ssa s
According to a Memphis dispatch of the
10th, the cholera was undoubtedly Increasing
in that city. The interments that day were Is,
against II the day before, while the undertak-
ers had received, at six O'Clock, orders for IA
for the 18th.
The Postmaster General has decided not to
abrogate the postal-card contract, but to give
the contractors time to obtain better paper and
continue the work.
The remains Of the late Minister Orr were
received in New York on the 11th, and were
escorted by the Knights Templar and de-
tachment of police to the Governors room
at the City Hall, where they were to lay in
state.
The New Hampshire Legislature has chosen
the following State officers: Secretary of State,
B: F. Prescott, of Concord; State Treasurer,
| Solon A. Carter, of Keene.
Frank H. Walworth was arraigned in the
| Court of Oyer and Terminer at New York on
the 18th, on the charge of having murdered his
father He pleaded "Not guilty"
DIR. Lewis E. Meyers, dentist of Middle
town, N. Y, while drunk recently, stabbed his
| father in the breast, near the heart, with
sharp instrument. 1t was thought The wound
would prove fatal. -
"A recent issue of the Chicago Journal says:
an every instance where, previous to the re-
cent judicial elections in this State, the farm
ers and anti-monopolists nominated a dis
tinctive candidate of their own, and then
united in his support at the polls, the farmers
candidate for Judge was elected. l."
tits reported that Captain Jack, in an interview
with General Davis, said: "Bogus Charley and
Shacknasty Jim killed General Candy. Allen
David, the klamath chief, advised them to Kill
General Candy, so they did it. am telling
the truth did not kill him. I had it done,
but did not do it, don't lie. Bring the men
that saw me do this thing. 1 want to face
them. If | had my chains off I would tell all
the men who did these things"
The massacre of the Modocs is denounced
in unmeasured terms by the Oregon papers.
The Illinois Press Association commenced its
ninth annual session at Quincy on the 18th.
At the opening of the session there were about
fifty editors present
The newly-elected officers of the Masonic
Grand.Lodge of Wisconsin are as follows: R.
Delos Palford, of Mineral Point, Grand Mas
ter; H. E. Hubbard, of Lacrosse, Senior Grand
Warden; J. S. Burroughs, of Fond du Lac,
Junior Grand Warden; W. FL. Hiner, of Fond
du Lac, Grand Treasurer; Geo. E. Hasl1inson,
of Green Bay, Grand Secretary.
The Ohio State Medical Society, at Colum-
bus, on the 18th, selected Toledo as their next
place of meeting, and elected H. j. Harrick, of
Alvond, President; M. J. Conkln, of Dayton,
Secretary; H. Edwards, of Lancaster, Assistant
Secretary and S. S. Gray, of Piqua,
Librarian and Treasurer.
In the case of DR.. West, the alleged murder
er of negro in Delaware, report of which
was published at the time, the jury brought in
a verdict of not guilty, on the ground of self
defense.
Joshua Nicholson and his accomplice,
Hallahan, have been sentenced, at Annapolis,
murder of Mrs. Lampley.
The cholera at Nashville was abating on the
11th There were twenty-four interments at
Memphis on that day, against eighteen the day
before.
Mrs. Fisk, as executrix of the estate of
James Fisk, Jr., has recently brought suit sim
liar to the suit brought by the United States
Government, against the Union Pacific Rail
road Company and Others The Credit-Mobi-
lier Company, Gov. Dix, the Hon. George OPP
DYKE the estates of Oakes Ames and James
Brooks, Oliver Ames, Cyrus H. Mccormick,
Edwin D. Morgan, and others, are made par
ties defendant. 1t is charged that 10000
shares have been distributed among the
persons forming the Credit-Mobilier cOmbina-
ton, for which no money was paid, and that
vast and fraudulent profits were made on the
various construction, telegraph, coal supply
and other contracts. The declared object of
the suit is to have receiver appointed to take
charge of the property of the Union Pacific
and Credit-Mobilier Companies; to have the
stock fraudulently issued returned or paid for;
and, finally to have the property or the pro-
ceeds from its sale distributed among the rail
roads bona .ttde stockholders.
At Decatur, ILL., recently, Fred. Bickes, a
hardware dealer, who had for some time past
been hard drinker, shot his father in the head
with small revolver. Bickes, Jr., had been
on a drunken spree, and went into his fathers
house while the family were at tea, and was in
vited to partake, when he commenced abusing
his mother, using the worst of language. His
father ordered him to desist, when he drew
pistol, leaned over the table and shot his
father in the face The wound was thought
to be fatal. Young Bicl1es then stepped away,
placed the pistol near his eye and fired, the
ball lodging in the brain, inficting a mortal
wound.
The Illinois Press Association at its meeting
in Quincy on the 10th, elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: President, E.
d. Buck, Charleston Courier; Vice-Presidents,
S. J. Bradbury, Waukegan Patriot; E. II. n.
Patterson, Oquawka Spectator, Chas. P. Rich
ards, Duquoin Tribune; Recording Secretary,
Cadet Taylor, Wenona Inder; Assistant Sec
retarv, A. Holt, Kankakee Gazette; Correspon-
ding Secretary, C. N. Whitney, Princeton Her.
aid. Treasurer, J. W. Clinton, Polo Press:
Executive Committee, E. L. Merrill Springfield
Reoistey. Jas. Shoaf, Paris Gazette J. D.
Moudy, Richview Democrat. A long series of
resolutions were adopted including the follow
ing: erf
: ResoIUed, That the press should advocate right
regardless of consequences speak the truth on all
Subjects plainly fearlessly, heroicaly. 1t should
be light in dark places. a scourge to the wrong
and tireless champion of the right.
ResolUed That capital without labor is valueless,
and labor without capital comparatively useless.
Both, under the restraints of law and guided by
knowledge and education, are the greatest bless
ings vouchsafed to man in this world OF labor and
rewards.