Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-03-07
THE NEW WORLD,

Gold closed in New York on the Sd at
114%@115.
President Grant has pardoned Charles
Howard and James Banks, of Alabama, con-
victed of Ku Klux outrages and sentenced
to Imprisonment in the Albany Penitentiary.
At New Orleans, Memphis, and other
Southern cities, the Mardi Gras festivities
were very generally celebrated on the 25th.
The Governor of Arkansas has issued a
proclamation offering 81 900 reward each for
the assassins of Dodson and Herriott.
A Salt Lake dispatch of the 25th, says,
the severest snow storm known here for
ten years occurred last night and to-day"
| The steamer Chas. s. Hardee, on the 2eth,
struck an obstruction four miles below
Savannah, Ca, and sunk. Six men were re-
| ported drowned.
| Near Greenport, L. l., the schooner Surf,
of Trenton, N. j., went to pieces on the 21st,
and all on board were drowned.
A meeting of prominent business men of
Chicago Tas held on the 27th, for the purpose
of making the preliminary arrangements for
grand industrial exposition in that city, to
be held on the anniversary of the great fire,
about October 9.
At Beachburg, Canada, few mornings
ago, Mrs. Trasher and five children were
burned to death in their house.
The 81, eco in bonds of which Vfce-Presi-
dent Colfax was robbed in Washington on
the 22d have been recovered II Baltimore.
Mail sdvices from Mexico bring intelli-
gence of severe battle within four leagues
ef Guadalajara, IN which the insurgent In
dian chief, LoEada, was completely routed
by the Government forces, under General
Corona. The official report says that Lozada
lost three pieces of artillery, and had many
killed, wounded md taken prisoners. 1t is
said that Lozada had force of $4,000 to
1000 men under his command.
The Republicans of the Second District of
Connecticut have renominated Stephen W.
Kellogg for Congress. The Democrats have
nominated ex- Governor James E. English.
The mattress factory of George A. Sam
NETT, in Boston, was burned on the 9th.
Sixteen girls were at work on the fourth
floor, and it is thought that two failed to es-
cape and were buried in the ruins. Two
Others were badly injured by jumping from
the burning building. The walls of the
building fell outward while the firemen were
at work, and two were killed outright, four
teen were injured-two of them fatally, it
was thcught-and one was missing.
The Chicago Woman's Hospital Medical
College on the 9th, granted diplomas to
six female graduates.
The Michigan Republican State Conven-
tion, in session at Lansing on the Doth,
nominated E. G. Walker, of Wayne County,
aud Andrew j. Clinic, Of st. Joseph County,
for Regents of the Univerity. fudge Chris
tiany was renominated for the Supreme
Court, by acclamation,
Governor Hendf4cks has signed the new
Indiana Temperance bill, and it is now
law.
In the illinois House of Representatives,
or the 18th, bill to abolish capital punish
rAeBt was indefinitely postponed by avote of
5s 20 43.
Alexander H. Stephens was on the Goth,
elected Member of Congress from Georgia.
Governor McEnery issued proclamation
on the Goth calling upon all the arms-bear-
ing citizens of New Orleans, between the
ages of eighteen and forty five, to enroll
themselves at once on duty as miltia-men,
and continue as long as the then existing
emergency in public affairs continued.
The case of the Government against
Phelps, Dodge e. Co., of New York, for vio-
lation of the revenue laws, has finally been
adjusted by the payment to the Government
by that firm of $271 900.
A dispatch from Minneapolis, 2Sth, says
it is estimated that there are from 100000
to 12,00O,0 900 bushels surplus wheat in Min
nesota yet to go forward.
The Morgan Envelope Company, of
crAo o1d dad ha
contract for furnishing the Government
contract is to run for four years, and the
cards are to be ready for delivery May 1.
Fourteen bids were received.
A destructive fire occurred in New Orleans
on the 27th, destroying nearly six squares,
bounded by st. Cloud, Dauphine and Mande-
vile streets and Washington avenue. About
two hundred houses. mostly small frame
dwellings) and their contents were con-
sumed Loss estimated at $3.50, 900. About
two hundred families are left homeless.
The Illinois Supreme Court has issued a
supersedeaS in the case of Rafferty,, the MUIR
derer of Chicago policeman.
The Prohibitionists of Michigan have nom-
mated Ronald Kelley, Of Detroit, and Oscar
D. Spalding, of Hastings, for Regents in the
State University. They made no nomination
for Supreme Judge. .gqearrr
At the suit of Mrs. Lucy Fisk, Judge
Blatchford, of New York, on the 1st, grant
ed temporary injunction restraining the
Credit Mobiler from dissolving until time is
obtained for judicial determination of cer-
tain heavy claims which her husband, James
Fisk, Jr., had against the company, and
IL, 4far md hot a
obtained the shares in an Illegal manner.
The counsel of George Washington Bow
en-, plaintiff in the Jumel will case, on the
1st fled bill of exceptions in
the United States Court, and the |
defendant was allowed twenty days to
amend the exceptions.
By boiler explosion in the Union Iron |
Works, at Newburgh, near Cleveland, Ohio,
on the 1st, man named NJ A. Jones was |
instantly killed and a boy severely wounded.
The Republican members of the Missouri |
Legislature ask the United States Senate to |
order an investigation into the election of
Louis V. Bogy as Senator from Missouri
The Chicago and Alton Railroad, on the
Sd, commenced suit in the United
States Circuit Court, at Bloomington, H.,
against number of farmers, most
ly residents in Mclean County, the
damages in each case being laid at $4,000.
The occasion for the suit is the fact
that short time ago the defendants
got on the train at Lexington,
and offered to pay their fare to
Bloomington at the rate of three cents per
mile. The conductor received the money