Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-03-28

about $3.50, 900, of which it has been ascer-
tanned that some $4,000 or $4,000 was
procured by forged paper.
Bonds to thevalue of Sl6S, 900 of the Penn
sylvania & Western Railway Company were
stolen from the Company's office, in Broad
street, New York, on the 18th.
Thomas L. James has been appointed
Postmaster of New York City, Uice Patrick
II. Jones, resigned, to take effect April L.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
decided in favor of the constitutionality of
the Local Option law of the State, giving
the people of certain wards the right to de-
eide by vote whether or not a license to sell
liquor shall be granted therein.
The Democratic nominations in Rhode
Island are: For Governor, Charles r. Cutter;
Lieutenant Governor, Samuel 81. Wales |;
Secretary of State, VIM. j. Miller; Attorney
General, George w. Bliss; Treasurer, W. P.
Congden.
Senator Frederick Sawyer, of South Caro-
lima, has been appointed by the President
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, oice
Richardson, promoted to the Secretaryship.
Hon. John Gofarth has been appointed and
confirmed as Assistant tAttorney-General.
The joint Congressional resolution, con-
graduating Spain on having adopted Re-
publican form of government, has been
forwarded by Secretary Fish to Minister
Sickles. The resolution was also signed by
the President, and accompanied by letter
requesting it's early presentation to the new
Government.
The Wisconsin Senate sustained the Gvo-
ernor's veto of the La Crosse Bridge bill,
giving the Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad
Company the right to bridge the Mississippi
River at La Crosse on a different location
from that fixed by the United States engi-
neers The final defeat of the bill was the
occasion of great public rejoicing in La
Crosse.
President Grant has commuted to impris-
onment for life the sentence of ex-policeman
O'Brien, who was convicted of the murder
of one Cunningham in Washington City ia
August last, and sentenced to be hung.
News from the Modoc country on the Goth
says that about 600 troops are in the field
waiting orders. Canby's plan seems to be to
surround the lava bed and starve the
Modocs. For that purpose four posts will
be established on the outskirts of the lava
sections and on the shore of the lake.
A German named Albert Goetze was brut-
ally murdered in Chicago, on the 18th, by
one of gang of rowdies who entered
saloon where dance was being held, and
grossly insulted a girl who was in company
with Goetze, at which the latter attempted
! to eject him. The murderer escaped.
The U. s. Attorney-G General denies the
statement that he had rendered a decision
| declaring the eastern terminus of the Union
Pacific Railroad to be at Council Bluffs.
Near New Albany, Ind, a few nights
since, boy and girl, the children of col
ored man named Reed, were burned to
death in their house, ia the absence of the
father. An older boy escaped from the
burning building.
| a man named George Macdonald, suppos-
ed to be the chief operator in the recent
| Bank of England forgeries was arrested on
the steamer Thuringia on it's arrival at New
York on the Goth. About $4,000 in gold
and quantity of diamonds were found in his
possession. He protested his innocence.
Lieutenant Frederick Grant, son of the
President, has been assigned to duty on
General Sheridan's staff, at Chicago.
The Massachusetts, House of Representa-
tives refused, on the 10th, by vote of 49 to
| 1877, to rescind the resolution censuring Mr..
| Sumner passed by the last Legislature.
| On the 21st, William Foster, the car-hook
murderer of Mr. Putnam, was hanged in New
York City, in the presence of about three
| hundred spectators. In Boston, on the
same day, James McElhany was executed
for the murder of his wife. There were
about four hundred spectators present.
The Bulbs Head Bank of New York City
has failed, and it is stated that large defal-
cations have been discovered on the part of
some of it's officers. 1t was State institu-
tion, and carried large amount of de-
posits, especially from butchers and drov-
ers.
A dispatch from st. Louis, 20th, says:
"The strike on the st. Louis, Kansas City &
Northern Railway is practically ended.
Everything has been quiet to-day, and trains
have run without molestation. The Com
pany has now over fifty new engineers, and
freight trains will resume running to-mor.
row. About forty strikers, and those en-
gagged in obstructing the road, destroying
property, and interfering with trains, are
now in Jail at different points, and are to
be prosecuted to the utmost extent OF the
law"
Local option elections were held through
out Pennsylvania on the 21st. By these
elections each ward or township ia the State
settles for itself whether it will license liquor
selling. The larger towns, like Pittsburgh,
and the mining and manufacturing districts,
are shown by the returns to have given
heavy majorities for licensing. The coun-
try districts vote the other way.
Another mysterious murder has occurred
in Brooklyn. Charles Goodrich, wealthy
resident of that city, was found dead on the
morning of the 21st, in the basement of q
residence where he was in the habit of
sleeping alone. Three pistol shot wounds
were in his head, two of the bullets being
imbedded in the brain. It was thought that
some thief was aware of the fact that
Goodrich was in the habit of sleeping in
this house alone, and supposed that he car
ried considerable money about him, and that
he had broken into the basement, and on
Goodrich's coming down stairs had wayiald,
murdered and robbed him.
The Wisconsin Legislature adjourned sine
die on the 20th.
A dispatch from Lewes, Del, says that the
bark Jens Larsen, from London, for Phila-
delphia, went ashore at Indian River inlet on
the Doth. The captains wife and daughter,
the first and second mates, and two seamen
were drowned in attempting to land.
Governor Bagley, of Michigan, has ap-
pointed Mrs. Harriet A. Tenny, State Libra
rian, and Samuel Fl. Row, State Commis-
sioner of Insurance.
Near Wickenberg, Arizona, March 18th,
the Apaches murdered Augustus Swain and
James Mcdonald. Their bodies were horri-
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