Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29


The Bureau of Education at Washington
has information that Chicago and Cincinnati
each received from the Vienna Exposition the
grand medal of progress for system of edu-
cation, teaching and instruction, and Cleve-
land and Jacksonville, H., are awarded di-
ploma of merit in the same department. In
this one department of education, teaching
and instruction, twenty-five prizes were award
ed to United States exhibitors
President Grant and party arrived at Long
Branch from their New England trip on the
22d.
The Ohio State Convention of colored men
met at Chillicothe on the 22d. John Booker,
OF Columbus, was chosen President, and G..
L. Maxwell, of Xenia, Secretary. Several
| Vlce-Presldents were also elected. About
one hundred delegates were present. Resolu-
tlons were adopted-protesting against ''the
unjust discrimination permitted toward us bv
the representatives of the party whom we aid
in securing official positions;" declaring the
colored voters of Ohio ''do not consider them
selves under eternal obligations to party
which faVors us as class only in proportion
as it is driven by its own necessities" and urg-
ing the colored men of the State to refrain
from Internationally pledging themselves to
the nominees of their local conventions, and
that they use their best discrimination in de-
termining for themselves, in each locality
whom to vote for, or whether to vote at ALL
Catholic priest, whom Bishop Foley had
deposed, has brought suit in the Circuit
Court of Chicago against the Bishop to recover
$25, 900, claiming to have been damaged to
that extentby the action of the Bishop, which,
he alleges, was violation of the canons of
the church.
Judge Emerson has sustained the defend
ants demurrer in the case of Ann Eliza
Young VS.. Brigham Young, for divorce,
against the jurisdiction of the District Court.
The Judge held that the Probate, not the Dis
trict, Court had jurisdiction in divorce cases.
| Cincinnati dispatch of the 22d gives the
following particulars of the recent collision
on the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad:
The Hillsboro and Loveland accommoda-
ton, to which the accident occurred, left the
Montgomery station on time. The freight
train, bound from Chillocothe to this city, in
charg of Conductor Pewett, was behind time.
1t is said that his watch was fifteen minutes
slow, and, in addition, it is reported that the
regular engineer, Smith, and he had some
words at Loveland, in which the engineer said
he would get him into difficulty before he got
to Cincinnati. At any rate, the freight
make the switch at Montgomery
Station, but failed, the collision
occurring at sharp curve, while this freight
train was running on the passenger trains
time. The two engines grappled each other,
reared upward, and stood almost erect. the
baggage car following. The passenger coach
es remained on the track, but the shock was
terrible to the passengers, none of whom were
| seriously hurt, but some slight injuries We're
| sustained by some persons en- the passenger
train. Charles Rother, the fireman, remained
on his engine, with his father, Ewood Rother,
the engineer, and was crushed between the
fre-box and the tender, and the father escaped
without apparently serious bodily injury, but
he appeared SO moved by the excitement
of the disaster that he came from the wreck
with disordered mind. Brakeman James
Gerriogo had, in response to the signal "down
brakes" wound up his brake, and was assist
ing the baggage-master, Samuel W. Harvard
who is also brakeman, when the shock came
Both were Immediately crushed to death.
Both resided at Hillsboro, Ohio. Walter
Rhodes, the express messenger, of this city,
| brother of j. H. Rhodes, of Adams Express
Company, received injuries from which he
died after reaching the Cincinnati depot this
morning, making four deaths. All the other
injuries received were of no consequence. 1t
appears clear that the men who bravely re-
mained at their posts and lost their lives,
| saved the passengers from a fearful casualty
The officials of the road acted with prompt
ness Physicians were taken from this city,
and determination is apparent on the part of
the railway officers to hold the conductor and
engineer of the freight train responsible before
the Criminal Court
The inquest was held at Montgomery, the
scene of the accident, in the afternoon to-day,
and the verdict of the jury was that those
killed came to their death by the criminal
neglect of Conductor Pewett and Engineer
Smith, of the freight train, in running out of
their time. The jury recommended prosecut-
ing them for manslaughter.
From the developments in the Wawaset in
vestigation it seems that when the fire broke
out the engineer was tending bar. He served
two or three customers to drink while the
SIN okewas issuing from the immediate vicini-
ty of the boiler and fire-room.
Several frame buildings three miles south of
Louisville, KY, were destroyed by fire on the
morning of the 22d, and a negro family, con-
sisting of father, mother, and four children
were burned to death.
Representatives of the Patrons of Husband
ry of the Georgia State Grange met in Athens
| few days ago, the number of delegates pres
ent being sixty four. The number of Oranges
organized in the State was ninety-six. Great
enthusiasm in the Order was manifested, and
much important business was transacted.
The War Department has promulgated, in
general order, the finding and sentence in
the case of the Modoc captives, Captain Jack,
Schonchin, Black Jim, Boston Charley, Barn.
cho, alias One-Eyed Jim, and sloluck, alias
Cox. The verdict is guilty, and the sentence
death by hanging. The President approves of
the sentence and directs that it be carried into
effect, which, by order of the Secretary of
War, will be done at Fort Klamath, on the Sd
of October.
fire in Belfast, Maine, on the Oath, de-
stroyed over one hundred and twenty-five
buildings. Loss nearly $500,O00. One hun
dred and thirty families were rendered home
less.
The Rev. John Todd, D. d., long a pastor
of the First Congregational Church, in Pitts
field, Mass, and author of 'The Students
Manual" and numerous other books for the
young, died on the oath, in his seventy third
year.
A special telegram from the camp on the
Big Bend of Muscle Shell River of August
goth, says that General Custar's cavalry expe-
dition had an engagement on August 4th, at
the mouth of Tongue River, with 400 Indians.
The fight lasted three hours, resulting in a
loss of ten Indians killed and wounded.
Our loss was four men killed. On the 11th,
while in bivouac near the mouth of the Big
Horn, the same command was attacked by
near 1000 Indians. They were repulsed
with loss of forty killed and wounded Our
loss was one man killed and three wounded.
A st. Louis telegram of the 23d says the