Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-02
State Grange at Manchester re-

organizing State Grange at Manchester n
Gently.
| Ex-Mayor Oakley Hall, recently on trial fo
completely in the Tweed robberies, has bee
acquitted.
The Grangers of Northwestern Missouri
Eastern Kansas and Southern Nebraska wer
in council in st. Joseph, No., on the 24tl
and adopted the platform of the Illinois Fan
mers' Association. They also added two res
olutions, setting forth determined oppositio
to special legislation, and demanding uni
form currency, on the ground that they wer
now obliged to sell their grain on gold basi
and to buy their supplies on the basis of de
preciated paper money.
/ On Christmas day at Riga, Ohio, there was
shooting match, at which two brothers en-
of a rifle. Ore shot the ethes dead, and Al.
crowd present hanged the fratrcide to tn,
nearest tree.
The city of Chicago has commenced sui
| against ex-Treasurer Gage and his bondsmen
torecovcr the moneys (between $300,000 ant
$400,000) due the city.
1t was stated by telegraph on the 27th tha
all the Sprague cotton mills would be running
on full time i'll few days.
A Committee of Safety appointed by the un
employed workmen of New York, made de
mand on the Goth upon the City Government
for work. They also demanded that all con
tracts be abrogated, and that the city let The
public works directly to the applicants.
The New Hampshire State Grange of the
Patrons of Husbandry, recently organized al
Manchester, adopted resolutions-against
special privileges asking more for themselves
than they are willing to grant for other in.
dustries; denouncing trickery, bribery and
corruption in elections; favoring equal and
just taxation; calling upon the State to give
its children moral and liberal education; ac-
knowledgiug the rights of woman by admit
ting her as an equal in the Order; demanding
justice and economy in public affairs, and
recommending the Order as bond of union
stronger than armies.
Chris. Rafferty,, three times convicted and
sentenced to be hung for the murder of a
Chicago policeman, has been granted a super
sedeas by three judges of the Illinois Supreme
Court. He was to have been hung at Wauke-
gan on the Goth.
The locomotive engineers and firemen on
the leased lines of the Panhandle Railway
west of Pittsburgh struck at noon on the Goth,
in resistance of a reduction of 10 per cent. on
their salaries. The strike resulted III gen
eral stoppage of trains. One report stated
that all branches of the Panhandle and Penn
sylvania Central lines were affected simultane-
ously by this strike.
A committee of the Chicago unemployed
workingmen had an interview with the Relief
Society of the city on the evening of the Goth,
which seems to have ended in an amicable
manner, on the assurance by the officers of
the society that the relief funds were all right
and available on moments notice, and that
the destitute and sufferin9 eallla .-= -
Tor; and that eforIs would be made to give all
possible employment to the laboring men of
the city,
The news of the appointment of Cushing
as Minister to Spain was fayorably received at
Havana.
The Prize Court at Havana has condemned
the steamer Yirginius as q lawful prize.
The President has appointed Caleb Gushing
Minister to Madrid, General Sickles' resigna-
ton having been accepted.
1t was announced on the 2Sth that the Erie
Canal was completely closed for the season,
locking up about 3,00o0 900 bushels of grain,
which will have to remain all winter In this
amount is included nearly 100000 bushels OF
wheat.
The United States steamer Juniata reached
the Brooklyn Navy-Yard on the evening of the
2Sth, having on board the 102 persons recently
prisoners at Santiago de Cuba.
The strike of railroad engineers and fremen
continued on the 2Sth, and violence is reported
from some localities. Switches were misplaced
and trains thrown from the tracks. A train
containing troops bound for Logansport, Ind
to assist in preserving order at that point, was
ditched, and the soldiers were compelled tC
walk five miles into town. Charles Wilson
the Chief of the Brotherhood of Engineers, is
sued a manifesto on the 2Sth, declaring that
the strike on the leased lines Of the Pennsyl
vania Railway Company was in direct violation
of the rules of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers. His advice to all members
of the Brotherhood who had quit
work on account of the strike was
to go to work at once, and to use every in
fueDce in their power to induce all persons
engaged in the strike to resume, and to de-
sist from any interference with the Company's
property or men.
The United States Senate Committee on
Transportation reached New Orleans on the
night of the 27th, and were warmly vel
coined by the commercial organizations of that
city.