Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-07-25

York Custom officers, in their recent investi-
| cations, have discovered such evidences of
| fraud on the part of a well-known importing
house as to compel the payment of about
| $500, 600 as penalty to the Government, and
| the Imprisonment of at least one member of
| the firm.
There were 257 eonviets in the Iowa Peni-
| tentiary on the 30th of June
Nine fatal eases of sunstroke occurred at St.
Louis on the 10th and 17th
Governor Thos A. Osborn has been chosen
| to deliver the opening address at the coming
Kansas State Fair. asa...fE
In the Industrial Congress at Cleveland, on
the 18th, resolutions were adopted favorable
to the immigration of free labor, but demand
ing Governmental protection against the COM
petion of labor imported under contract to
serve fixed period at certain wages; in favor
of the adoption of laws making arbitration a
legal means of settling difficulties between en-
ployers and employees, and recommending the
miners of the country to organize National
Association.
While initiating O balloon at Philadelphia the
other evening, the canvas took fire and the
aeronaut was badly burned.
Mrs. Jacob Sherfins, wife of hardware
merchant at Winona, Mimi, was burned to
death the other morning by an explosion of
kerosene oil with which she was lighting q
fire. She died in about four hours after the
accident
The Salt Lake Journal of the 10th announces
that Ann Eliza Webb Young, seventeenth wife
of Brigham Young, had forever left him, car
rying off a lot of furniture and personal ef-
fects. Her lawyers are about to institute a
suit for divorce and alimony in large sum.
A special from Mount Vernon, Ind, on the
16th says the cholera was raging fearfully at
that place. Commencing on the 10th there
had been about thirty deaths. Business was
almost suspended m
The Chicago Times of the 18th says there
were two meetings of railroad officers in that
city, the day before At one of these it was
determined that lumber should hereafter be
charged for by weight instead of by the
foot, and that the tariff for the transportation
of cattle should be increased to what it was
before it was reduced by the competition that
has been in progress for the last four months.
At the other, which was meeting of the
General Superintendent of roads in the State,
action was taken to permit the Chicago, Alton
& st. Louis Road to issue passes, good until
the first of January, to shippers of cattle.
A terrible kerosene accident has recently oc-
cured at Waterman, Ill. 1t seems that some
children were attempting to start fire by
using the explosive OIL and were set on fire
just as their mother, Mrs. COPPER, was enter
sx,o- 4l,ol cos1a %In
children and ran out doors with them in her
arms. All three were terribly burned Mrs.
COPPER living about eight hours after the acct
dent, the younger child, babe, only about
two hours, and the other CHILD, two years old,
could not long survive.
The complete ticket nominated by the recent
Minnesota Republican Convention is as fol-
lows: Governor, Cushman X. Davis, of st.
Paul; Lieutenant Governor, Alphonso Barto,
of Sauk Centre; Secretary of State, s. p Jen-
nison, present incumbent; Treasurer, Mons.
Grinager, of Albert Lea; Attorney General,
George P. Wilson, of Winona.
The officers elected by the National Indus
trial Congress are: President, R. Schiling, of
Ohio; First Vice-President, N. j. Reed,
(colored) of Virginia; Second Vice-President
E. Sniggs; Third president, E. McLaugh
lin, of Illinois; Secretary, s. Keefe, of Penn
sylvania; Treasurer, J. c. Keefe, of Pennsyl
vania.
The preamble and one of the resolutions
adopted by the Illinois Temperance Union, re-
Gently in session at Jacksonville, are as fol-
lows: H#f
WHEREAS The manufacturers and. dealers in in
toxicatng liquors have organized society in this
fa4a toad 1nrrs frn1 fnr fI,oY nnf
breaking down the laws of the State repressing the
evils growing out of the sale Of intoxicating drinks
and also for the purpose of violating and opposing
all laws made for suppressing the sale of such drinks
on the Sabbath, in order to prevent the disturbance
of the proper quiet of the Sabbath day and repress
ing vice; therefore,
Resolved, That all men who favor law, order and
good government in the State should regardless of
creed, sect, nationality, unite their influence and
means in sustaining the wholesome laws of the
land.
Resolutions were also adopted thanking
Mayor Medill, of Chicago, for the enforce
ment of the Sunday laws in that city, and
rendering thanks to the Father Matthew Tenn
perance societies, composed of Irish fellow
citizens, ''for the noble stand they have taken
in favor of the enforcement of the laws Of
the land, and the timely and cutting rebuke
they lately, as a body, administered to our
common enemy"
young daughter of William Wall, resid
ing near Fulton Junction, Iowa, tried to kin
die a fire with kerosene. The flames commu-
nicated with the can, which burst, scattering
the burning oil all over her body. Before il
could be extinguished, her flesh was burned to
a crisp, and she could not long survive.
Ex-Governor Colby, of New Hampshire,
died at Concord ON the 21st, aged so.
Mile praeidanf of fba RroOlrIxyn Tr11ct
Company, was recently drowned at Coney
Island, and it has since been discovered that
he had overdrawn his account about $780, 0,0c0,
and had also accepted of worthless securities
to the amount of about $300,O 1t is strong
ly suspected that he committed suicide, though
many of his friends think his death was purely
accidental.
The Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Com
having been called upon for an
opinion in the matter, have officially stated
that reduction in favor of all persons alike
who are sending articles for exhibition at in
dustrial fairs would not seem to give any busi- |
ness advantage to one person over another,
and therefore would not be an unjust discrim
nation. We quote: "The facts that these
articles are designed for exhibition at indus
trial fairs; that such fairs are matters of pub
lie encouragement; that no one is injuriously |
affected by such reduction, and that all per-
sons sending this class of articles are treated
alike, would seem to justify what would
otherwise, as between rival business men, be |
prinaa tacie evidence of unjust discrimination. |
When reduction does not pecuniarily injure |
any one, but on the contrary encourages the
interests of the country, and thus
accords with public policy it leaves, we think,
no good reason to declare such reduction an