Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-03-21
THE MEM WORLl1.

Gold closed in New York on the nth at
1145s@1151a.
In the Senate, ON the 10Th, Senator Nor
ton made an argument in the .Cald well case,
| in which he contended that the Senate had
right to protect itself against criminal,
although the Legislature electing him might
| be Indifferent on the subject,si The power to
expel a member was necessary to enable the
House to perform it's high functions, and
was Incidental TO the protection of the
State. r
The Indiana Legislature adjourned sine die
on the 10th. 8 e 80 n.
The Ohio House of Representatives on
the 10TH adopted resolution-H to 6-to
censure the Ohio members of Congress who
voted for the retroactive salary bill. A
motion to amend the resolution SO as to
censure President Grant for signing and ap-
proving the bill was lost-yeas, "a; nays, 81.
The grand jury at Evansville, Ind, on the
| 18th, indicted Frederick j. Smith, alias
Never, for killing woman whose headless
body was found buried April 10, 1865.
The Falls City Tobacco Bank, at Louis
Vile, KY, was broken into and robbed, on
| the night of the 9Th, of bonds and other Sc
| d CurILl6B OFCI P1OOfOOO.
The President mas reappointed, as Gov
eminent Directors of the Union Pacific Rail-
| road, Hiram Price and James F. Wilson, OF
Iowa;J. G. Harrison, Indiana; ]. Fl. Millard,
Nebraska, and D. s. 8. Ruddock, Connecti
| cut. ,-. ..a &
| 1t has been publicly charged in New York
that Mrs. Putnam received $4,000 in con-
sideration of her appeal to Governor Dix to
have the sentence of Foster, the car-hook
murderer of Putnam, commuted to.a lesser
| punishment.
A Virginia, Nevada, dispatch of the 11th
saws that the epizootic had reached that
place, and was so universally spread that
work in the mines had been almost entirely
abandoned. EA#
Rev. j. F. Clarke, of the Methodist Epis
copal Church South, stationed at White Sui
phur Springs, West Va, has been expelled
from the church for immortality.
At Charlotte, Clinton County, Iowa, re-
Gently, party of five, in trying to ford the
Maquoketa River with team, were swept
under the ice which had accumulated in
large quantities near by, and of the five oc
cupants of.the wagon but one, "a woman, was
saved, and but one body Of the drowned re
| covered.
At Rolling Fork, Miss, afew days ago, 9
| family of four persons were horribly murder
ed and an attempt made to destroy their
remains by burning the building in which
the deed was committed. Robbery was
supposed to have been the cause of the
crime, and the perpetrators had not been ar
| rested.
At Cascade, Mich, few nights ago, the
house of NJ. g. Smith was destroyed by fire
caused by the explosion of a kerosene lamp
Mrs. Smiths clothing caught fire from the
explosion, and she was badly, and probably
| fatally, burned. The flames spread SO rap
idly that a son of Mr.. Smith, fourteen years
old, asleep in another part of the building
was burned to death, it being impossible to
rescue him. i. -.
Mrs. Sally Herndon, of Cairo, Ill, attempt
| ed recently to. kindie fire by, pouring
''non-explosive" oil on some live Goals. An
explosion followed, and the foolish woman
would probably die of injuries received. q.
The Illinois House of Representatives, on
the 18th, passed resolution-yeas 1O3
nays 4"emphatically condemning the &C
tion of our Representatives in Congress
from this State who, by their own votes, in
creased their.own pay to 81, 500 perannum. =
The Massachusetts, Legislature in joint
convention n,the f2th, elected Hon. George
| s. Boutwell, to the seat in the United States
Senate made vacant by the resignation OF
Hon. Henry Wilson. The vote was as fol.
lows: Boutwell,, 1872; Dawes, 115; 4oring,
2; J. R. Tarbox, Q; VIM. Whiting, 2; G.
Greene. 2-making 275 votes in all.
Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, has been
chosen President pro tenn. OF the United
States Senate. The Democrats Rhave been
allowed two representatives on each Of the
| new standing Senate Committees.
Judge Richardson assumed charge of the
Treasury Department at Washington, as
/ Acting Secretary, on the 18th.
| A New. York telegram of the s12th says
Congressman W. R. Roberts, of that city, in
/ communication addressed to the Secretary
of the Treasury, directs his back pay as q
member of the Forty second Congress to be
! paid into the Treasury of the United States
1t was said that Merriek f(Md.) also refused
1 his extra pay, and that Judge hoar MASS,
accepted dhis, but afterward turned it over tc
charities. .>, ,..,-- -4.-s,:
An extensive fire occurred at indianapolis
Ind. on the night of the, ,11th, involving 9
loss of about 100000. Daniel Glazier, CHIEF
Engineer of the Fire Department, was almost
instantly killed by falling wall.
News from the New Hampshire election
on the 14th was to the effect that Straw (Re
publiean) was elected Governor by between