Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-03-21

was prODaoly elected To congress from inc
First District, and the Second District was
doubtful. In the Third District the Demo-
cratic candidate is elected.
| At Vallejo, CAL, on the 18th, James D.
Page shot his wife and then blew his own
brains out. Domestic difficulties.
| President Grant visited Philadelphia on
the 18th, where he was the guest 1of Hon.
E. A. Borie. In the evening he attended
banquet at the Union League house, and
subsequently returned to Washington.
Mrs. Putnam has written letter denying
that she was paid by Fosters father or any
one else for. petitioning to- have the con-
demned mans sentence comm ated.
7 The Rhode Island Republican. State Con-
vention have made the following nomina-
tions: For Governor, Henry Howard; Lieu
tenant Governor, Charles @. Van Zandt;
| Secretary of State, Joshua M. Addeman; At
torney General, Willard Sayles; General
| Treasurer, Samuel Clark.
h.. A Washington special of the 18th says:
| ''The country has been generally misinform-
ed in relation to Congressional legislation
with regard to the postal laws. The Farms
worth bill, reducing letter postage to two
cents, and providing for the prepayment of
postage on all mail matter, passed the
House, but failed in the Senate. There was
an amendment to the Post Office Appropria-
tion bill, which repeals all existing acts with
regard to free mail matter. This, of course,
includes: exchanges between newspapers and
| free postage on papers circulated in the
counties where they are published. This
1 law takes effect on the LIST of July"
The Massachusetts, House of Representa-
tives has rejected the Woman's Suffrage re-
solution by vote of 142 to SO.
Ia passing the House resolution Of GEN.
sure against members of Congress who
voted to increase their back pay, the Ohio
Senate added an amendment extending the
censure to those who voted against the
extra pay and then accepted it.
The Annual Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South has found the Rev.
DR.. Huston, of Baltimore guilty of immor-
atty and he has been expelled from the
Church. An appeal will be taken by his
counsel to the General Conference of the
| Methodist Church.
Governor Dix has refused to commute the
sentence of Foster, the car-hool1 murderer.
Four prisoners, awaiting trial for peniten-
tiary offenses, made their escape from the
county Jail at South Bend, Ind, on the
| night of the 18th.
| AT franklin, Pa, on the morning of the
14th, Thomas f. Anderson, cashier of r.
Lamberton's bank, committed suicide by
| shooting himself with a revolver. just
previous to taking his life he had gone to
the bank and gathered together all the
money, bonds, and other securities, together
| oh in
the CRATE and set on fire. It is estimated
that the value of the securities burned was
] about 800, 900, of which perhaps $40, 900 can
be recognized and saved. 1t is supposed
that Anderson was q defaulter, and that as
the bank was about to change hands, he
! took this method to avoid his inevitable ex-
posure. He was about thirty four years of
age, had wife and family, and fully enjoyed
the confidence of his employers.
The execution of George Driver for the
murder of his divorced wife in Chicago last
November, took place on the 18th. Just
previous to being swung off he seized the
rope, and holding it up before those assem-
bled to see him executed, he said: "Whisky
/ did this for me. When any OF
you take drink of whisky hereafter,
think of this rope and remember my fate" !"
On the same day, at Knoxville. ILL.,, Osborne,
who so brutally murdered Mrs. Matthews, a
young married woman, at Yates City, was
also executed on the gallows, after making
a full confession of the crime for which he
had been tried and sentenced to death.
A complimentary reception and dinner
was rendered to Congressman Qakes Ames,
on the 18th, upon the occasion of his return
to his home at North Easton, Mass. Mr..
Ames, in reply to a complimentary toast
made short speech in which he said that
his s'whole offense, If offence it can be
called, is in selling $4,000 of stock to eleven
members Of Congress at the same price l
paid for it, and at the same price l sold the
same stock to others, and if the parties
purchasing the stock had simply told the
truth, and said they had right to purchase
! it, that would have been the end of it; but
from the fact of their denial, the public sus-
/ pected there must be something criminal in
the transaction, and to find out what the
/ crime was, Congress appointed committee
to inquire if Oakes Ames had bribed any
member of Congress"
The principal business portion of Eyria,
Ohio, was destroyed by fire on the night of
L
An old man named John Zeimetz and
/ his grand son, Matthew Zeimetz. were
burned to death in the town of Worth, near
Chicago, few nights ago. They were in
] their dwelling house which took fire from
some unknown cause and was rapidly con-
sumed, giving the inmates no chance to
escape.
A grand demonstration was held in Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, on the night of the 18th,
1 over the news that the Attorney-General OF
the United States had decided that that was
the initial point of the Union Pacific Rail.
way.
] In recent examination for promotions in
the Internal Revenue Bureau, at Washing
ton, under,the civil service rules, one lady
secured a fourth class clerkship of. 81 300,
and another third class clerkship of 81 900,
while of ten otheripersons. appointed to Sec
ond-class clerkships, 81 400, six are women.
The Falls City louisville, Ky,) Tobacco
Bank robbery foots up about 1880, 900. in
bonds. The bank offers reward of $500
for the return of the bonds, or twenty-five
per cent. of. the amount returned, and no
questions asked; also offers, a reward of $500
each for the capture of the burglars.
The new Railway and Warehouse e-Com-
missioners of Illinois are FL, D! Cooke of
! Mclean County; D. A. Brown, ,.of sangamon;
j. NJ. Pierson, of Madison. -.
George Francis Train has been pronounced
/ insane by DIR. William A. Hammond, New
York physician.
1. Pardons have been Issued by the President
to John G. Robinson, of South Carolina,
i and William G. Dupries, of North Carolina,
/ both convicted of Ku-Klux crimes, and
sentenced to two years Imprisonment in the
Albany Penitentiary. The former had served