Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-12-19

gers had been sent to Bahia Honda, a harbol
on the coast of Cuba, about sixty miles south
west of Havana, where the surrender would
take place.
According to Havana dispatch of the 18th
on the night of the 18th several hundred mer
marched, cheering and shouting, to the Plaza
de Armes, in Havana, and, gathering in front
of the Captain Generals palace, gave noisy ex
preston to their dissatisfaction at the depar
ture of the Virginius, and their disapproval OF
the course of the prominent persons who fa
vored the delivery of the vessel The crowd
fingered around the palace till midnight, when
Captain General Jovellar addressed them, and
prevailed upon them to go to their homes.
Havana was very quiet on the 14th. The
ringleaders of the demonstration on the night
of the 18th had been arrested, and would be
tried by court-martial.
According to late Washington dispatch
the President had received the resignation of
Minister Sickles, but declined to accept it.
Trustworthy information has been received
in Washington showing that the Spanish Gov
ernment was procuring perjured af1idavits,
in New York, to prove that the Virginus was
a Cuban vessel, and her crew enlisted Cuban
sailors.
Samuel Nelson, ex-Judge of the Unit ed
States Supreme Court, died suddenly of apo
plexy, while sitting in his chair, at his resi-
dence in Cooperstown, N. Y, on the 18th.
Donald Mckay, an employee in the Office
of the Clerk of the Criminal Court of Chi
cago, has been convicted of issuing fraudu-
lent naturalization papers, and sentenced
to three years. Imprisonment in the Peniten-
tiary.
Late intelligence from the Saginaw Bay con-
veys the information that the steamer City of
Detroit had foundered, and that all on board
were probably lost Her officers and crew
numbered twenty persons. There were no
passengers ON board, so far as known.
Rev. DIR. C. E. Cheney, of Christ Church,
Chicago, was, on the 14th, formally conse-
Grated Missionary Bishop of the Northwest of
the newly-organized Reformed Episcopal
Church" Bishop Cummins officiated on the
occasion.
A large number of working men met in Gin
cinnati on the night of the 18th, and passed
resolutions that any government should be
overthrown that failed to furnish employment
w lUo pun C1OlACuo, SAO cuOPICu ICOOluO1OhS
ratifying the New York resolutions to demand
work or remission of rents till April.
The Iowa State Grange will hold the next
meeting at Des Moines. Resolutions were
adopted on the 18th, setting forth that Con-
gress has the right to regulate freights and
tariffs; in favor of abolishing the office of
County Superintendent; remitting State dues
of Oranges within the limits of the grasshop-
per plague fixing the salary of the Master at
$1,000 year and expenses; and appointing
relief committee to aid the Northwest suf-
ferers.
According to Columbia Is. CO. dispatch of
the 18th, the father and mother of the Bender
family, the discovery of whose systematic and
horrible crimes in Kansas sent a shudder
through the entire country in May last, had
been arrested at bivingsville, in that State. A
son and daughter, living in North Carolina,
were being sought after.
Professor Agassiz died at his residence in
Cambridge, Mass, on the night of the 14th.
He was sixty-six years of age.
A locomotive boi ler exploded at Columbus,
Ohio, ON the 14th, instantly killing Daniel
Cooper, the engineer, and throwing David
Lougery, the fireman, great distance into
the freight yard, but injuring him only
slightly. Two other persons were injured.
The engine was blown to atoms, some of the
heavy pieces being thrown 500 yards distant
David A. Gage, late City Treasurer of Chi
cago, is reported defaulter to the amount of
between $500, 900 and $4,000
Victoria G. Woodruff was arrested in jack
con Miohiuau on tha evening of the 14th on
the charge of selling obscene literature.
The United States Supreme Court at Wash
ington has decided that the State Of Nebraska
has the right to tax the property of the Union
Pacific Railway within the boundaries of said
State.
The vacancy IN the Illinois State Board of
Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, oc-
casioned by the death of Colonel Cook, has
been filled py the appointment of Judge James
Steele, of Edgar County.
The Iowa State Grange adjourned on the
18th to meet at Des Moines on the second
Thursday in next December. Before adjourn
ment several resolutions in favor of various
transportation schemes were adopted, among
them one for double-track freight railway
from Council Bluffs directly through on the
shortest line to Norfolk, Va. Statements were
made in the Grange during the debate preced-
ing the adoption of this resolution, that En-
glish and German capitalists were ready to ad-
vance the required money to build and equip
the road.