Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29
General News Summary,
THE OLD WORLD,

Charles Frederick August William, Duke of
Brunswick, Germany, died recently, of apo
plexy, aged 60 years. By his will he leaves
the whole of his landed and personal estate to
the city of Geneva
A Vienna special of the 18th says: "The
distribution of the prizes was very tame af-
fair. There were only about 5000 persons
present. Archduke Charles Louis made a
congratulatory address on the successful ter
mination of the Exposition, after which the
list of successful competitors was read"
A battle was fought, on the 18th, between a
force of Carlists and three columns of Spanish
Republicans, in whicl the former were VIC
torious. The eagag aent occurred in the
open country bs~swe41 ~ towns of Berga and
Caseras.
A cable telegram of the 18th says that so far
this month twenty newspapers in the French
provinces had been suppressed by the Govern
ment.
Resolutions have beer adopted by the Inter-
national Patent Rights Congress, recently in
session at Vienna, to The effect that only the
inventor himself or his kgal successors shall
obtain patent; the granting of patent can
not be refused to foreigners the duration of
a patent for an invention to be for fifteen
years, or for shorter tern, with the option
of extending it to that pefod the complete
publication of a patent to b. obligatory; the
expense of granting a patentto be established
on moderate but progressive scale a specifi-
cation of all patents in force must be accessi-
BILE to the public.
Kenealey, the leading counsel for the de-
fepse in the trial of the 1ichborne claimant,
concluded his address to tie jury on the 21st
He commenced to speak pn the 22d of July,
and occupied the attention of the court every
day with the exception of he usual adjourn
ment from Saturday to Monday and an extra
adjournment from the 31s of July to the 5th
of August in consequence of the illness of
juror.
Dispatches were received at Madrid on the
21st announcing that a battle had taken place
near Berga, between the Republicans and
Carlist insurrectionists, in which the former
were victorious, the Carlsts having ninety
killed and three hundred wounded. The
siege of Berga had been rased, and the In
surgents were in full retrea.
The Turkish troops havesucceeded in cap
turing and killing the Cahyanny brigands,
who were implicated in the brutal massacre at
Marathon. The brigands made desperate
but futile resistance, and we're finally over
powered.
Prince Napoleon has beeneected President
of the Council General of Corsica by major
ity of thirty.
Advces from the north of spain, received in
Madrid on the 22d, and whid were deemed
trustworthy, report the Carlisi troops as being
discouraged and insubordinate. The Republi-
can army, under command of General Sanchez
Bregna, numbering u, 900 men, had entered
Bilboa. The Carlist forces occupying the city
withdrew without Offering battle.
A collision occurred IN the Great Northern
Railway at Retford, England, on the 23d, be-
tween a freight and an excursion train. Both
were badly wrecked, aid four persons were
killed and fifteen badly injured, several of
them beyond hope of recovery.
Vienna dispatch ofthe 23d says the chol-
era in that city was on he increase.
Advices from Carlit sources on the 23d
state that Berga had ben invested again by
the Carlist army. Bothsides claimed a victory
in the recent battle BEIGE that town.