Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-04-25

the stronghold of the Modocs had been cap
tured, and Captain Jack and his band had fled
to the hills southeast of the lava bed, the cav
airy being in hot pursuit. Five of the Govern
ment troops were killed and ten wounded.
Panama has experienced another revolution.
A battle was fought and one on each side
was killed.
The Dominion Government has abolished
the tolls from freights on vessels passing
through the Burlington Bay Canal at the head
of Lake Ontario.
Mail intelligence from San Salvador confirm
the worst reports of the terrible earthquake
that visited that city ON March 10. The first
really violent shock occurred on the 4th OF
March, at about 5 p. m, destroying many
houses. The quaking continued at frequent
intervals until the morning of the 10th, when,
at a. M, two light shocks, succeeded by a
heavy one destroyed the entire city. Sopo-
pango, napango, San Tomas and Santa Teca
have all suffered to a lesser extent, as well as
every town within radius of twenty miles
Fortunately, owing to the alarm of the 4th,
such residents as had not left the city were liy-
ing in the patois or in the public plaza, hence
the number of lives lost, though great, was
diminished. Only two buildings-the Hotel del
Plaque and the Government Palace-are left
standing. The loss is estimated at $12, ,0O0,0 600.
The aggregate killed and wounded is 800.
Concerning the new postal law Washington
dispatch of the 18th says: "The third section
of the Postal Appropriation Act of the last
session repeals all laws permitting the trans
mission by mail of any free matter whatever
from and after June 80. Under this law, quar-
terly prepayments of postage will be required
on all newspaper exchanges and county news
papers the same as is now and will be then re-
quired in the case of all mail subscriptions,
namely: five cents per quarter for weekly
newspapers, thirty cents per quarter for papers
published six times per week, and thirty-tive
cents per quarter for daily papers Prepay
ment per quarter or per year is to be made
either at the Office where mailed or at the office
where delivered In other words, the same
rule will be applied to all newspapers, by
whomsoever sent or received"
A petition has been presented to the New
York Gas Company, bearing the signatures of
seventy strikers, asking to be returned to their
former places at the old time and wages.
About roo members of the order of st. Girls
pin recently struck in Cincinnati, in conse-
quence of their employers refusing to recognize
their order.
Details of the peace conference at Camp
Verde, April g. were received on the goth. The
conference resulted in the unconditional sub
mission and surrender of the two worst bands
of the Apaches. Peace was brought about
through the complete rout of the Apaches,
who have for the last twenty years defed the
Government. Over 200 warriors have been
killed in the last campaign in the fastness of
the Apache country.
President Grant and party reached st. Louis
on the 18th.
The Supreme Lodge of the World of the
Knights of Pythias adjourned on the goth, to
meet at Pittsburg on the Sd of April, 1874.
Edward Booth received an ovation at New
Orleans on the 10Th, upon being released from
the parish prison, where he had been inearcer-
ated twenty-four hours by Judge Hawkins for
contempt of the Superior District Court in con-
tinuing business and refusing to pay taxes to
Governor Kellogg's collector, Judge Hawkins
having issued an injunction restraining Booth
from doing further business until his taxes
were paid. A procession with band of music
escorted Booth from prison through the princi-
cipal streets to his place of business. At the
corner of Camp and Gravier streets, Kellogg
was hung in effigy to lamp-post, and the efigy
was afterward burned. A telegram of the Goth
says the impression was gaining ground that
the presence of United States troops would be
required in every parish of the State to enforce
10 4ho Ko1l A
special of the Goth announces that large meet
ing of the property-holders of Ouchita and ad-
Joining parish was held at Monroe on the 10Th,
which was addressed by Governor McEnery.
The meeting resolved to pay no taxes to the
Kellogg government.
A dreadful accident occurred on the Ston-
ington q Providence Railroad on the 10Th.
While running from Stonington to Boston, a
passenger train fell through the bridge at the
Richmond switch. Six cars were burned-three
passenger and three baggage-and seven pas
sengers were killed outright or burned to
death. The engineer and fireman were burned
to crisp at their posts. A special dispatch of
the Goth gives the following particulars;
''The train left stonington about thirty-five
minutes late and was running at the rate of
forty miles per hour AS it approached the
bridge the fireman and engine-driver
of the watery gulf before them
but saw the danger too late to prevent the dis
aster, or even save their own lives by leaping
from the engine. The locomotive jumped the
gap, about thirty feet wide, and landed on the
other side in a sand bank, plunging into it with
such force as to wreck her completely. Some
idea of her speed may be ascertained from the
20 hot q of broken
shot through the boiler so that it remained
like shaft exposed at both ends. The en-
gineer, VIM. Guild, when discovered, was be-
tween the driving-wheel and engine, there
being but Just enough Of his body left to
identify him. The fireman, George Eldridge
was crushed to a jelly. There were
about eighty passengers, and the scene can
better be imagined than described. AS
overturned stoves and lamps set fire to the
woodwork, cries for assistance rent the air
from the smoking caldron, frantic husbands
calling for wives. wives for husbands, sons ana
daughters. Some escaped through the car
windows, others were pulled out of the water
below, while many more were writhlng beneath
the ruins One man with his body partly out
of the window could extricate himself no fur
ther and was calling wildly, "Oh, save me, l.
am burned to deathp' His screams and moans
were not needed, and death put an end to his
sufferings When Mr.. Allen met his death he
was standing on the Ir0nt pl~atloIni ~ VI ca,
and as the train struck his foot was caught i'll
a graphing iron and in this condition he was
burned to DEATH"
General Pieltan, the new Captain General of
Cuba, arrived at Havana on the 18th, and was
received with due formalities in the presence of
a large concourse. Little enthusiasm was man
ifested.
A Lincoln (Neb.) dispatch Of the 21st says
reports of the recent storm west of there
show that it was one of the most severe ever
known. There had. been great losslof life and
property. Many persons were frozen to death
in their houses. Men perished near Grafton,
Harvard and Hastings, on the B. g. NJ. Rail
way, while trying to feed their stock. The
ind fod and