Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-11-21
Four heats were run, in the third of which
ssTrue Blue, fell disabled ON the track.

"True Blue" fell disabled on the track.
Official returns from the Thirty-second Sen
atorial District of Wisconsin show that Field
Republican, is elected over Dewhurst This
is said to give the Senate to the Republicans
by one majority.
In the Circuit Court at Appleton, Wis, FL.
verdict of $4,000 against the Chicago & North
western Railway for his forcible ejectment
from the ladies' car last winter.
The Secretary of War is reported to have
said on the 18th to an intimate friend who
called on him: ''You are aware that
have been considered somewhat bloodthirsty
in this matter, but the entire Cabinet are now
of my mind. At a Cabinet meeting held
yesterday we were a unit, and if the American
people are not satisfied with the measures re-
solved upon at that meeting to vindcate the
national honor, they must be very hard to
please"
The Postmaster-G General has finished his
annual report. He renews his recommends
tion of a Government postal telegraph, and
enforces at length his views in favor of Post
office savings banks. He makes no recon-
mendation of subsidies to steamship lines for
carrying the mails.
Work continued in the navy yards on Sun
day, the 10Th, seven hundred men being en-
ployed at Philadelphia, getting monitors ready
for service.
A fire in Haverhill, Mass, on the 10th, de-
stroyed eighteen buildings. Three men were
burned to death. Eight hundred hands were
thrown out Of employment by this fire, which
destroyed several leading shoe factories.
Several inches of snow fell at the East on
the 10th.
Clarence Prentice, the only surviving son of
George D. Prentice, was thrown out of his
buggy and killed few nights ago, near
Louisville, KY.
A Havana dispatch of the 18th says the re-
port received from Cienfuegos that fifty-seven
more of the Virginius prisoners had been
executed was not confirmed by later advices
from Santiago. A dispatch dated Santiago de
Cuba, November H. says a man-of-war had
arrived there to convoy the Virginius to
Havana. The attitude of the authorities was
unyielding. They insisted on they perfect
right to dispose of the Virginius as pirate
in accordance with international law, and that
no one had a right to interfere with them.
There had been no more executions, but trials
were progressing.
The steamship Cleopatra, which arrived at
New York on the 18th, brought back the news
paper mails she took on her outward-bound
trip to Havana The Spanish authorities re-
fused to allow them to be landed
In conversation relative to Cuban
matters on the 18th, President Grant said the
Government was being careful in what it was
doing, and might do, to work upon facts and
not upon assumptions and unfounded reports,
as it was essential that we should be prepared
to maintain our position. He said he shared
in the denunciation by the public of the cap
ture on the high seas of vessel sailing with
regular clearance papers under the United
States flag, and the startling events which
followed. Spain never having considered the
Island of Cuba in state of war, and there
being no proclamation by the United States
according belligerent rights to the in
surgents, the Virginius, if regularly cleared
for the Island of Cuba, has a right
to enter Havana or any other open
port of the Spanish possessions. This Govern
ment did not recognize any right on the part
of Spain in the present state OF affairs to IN
terfere, in any manner, with our merchant
ships upon the seas, except in the usual right
in her own ports, and within one marine
league of the coast of Cuba or her dominlons,
and of this fact she is aware. He said further,
that, as a matter of course, 1t is the determin-
alton of this Government to protect our citi-
zens in all their rights, and to compel respect
to the flag The present naval preparations
,aoIo rui+ thic in yayU and not TO lOlfl-
ate war by the President, that power being
vested in Congress, but to be prepared for all
possible contingencies.
After January l the charge for registering
domestic letters is to be reduced from fifteen
to eight cents.
A mass meeting of American and Cuban
citizens was ED in New York on the night of
the 18th, at which it was unanimously resolv-
ed that the Government ought TO take the
promptest and most decisive measures in re-
lation to Cuban affairs, and invite war as
preferable to submission to the late outrages.
Continued activity was manifested at the
navy yards on the 18th. 1t was stated that
work upon the Spanish iron-clad Arapides,
which was on the dry-dock at the Brooklyn
navy yard, had been suspended.
A Chicago morning paper of the 18th says
the dispatches from all parts of the country
indicated that the popular sentiment as to the
Cuban business was ''warlike to degree that
has not often been witnessed in this country.
In many places this takes the form of offers
of troops, and it is scarcely extravagant to
cay that these are sufficient already to consti-
tute an army that could march from one end
of Cuba to the other In this State alone the
companies that have rendered their services
would make brigade of infantry and regi-
ment of cavalry"