Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-12-04

are aDOut 10 eXGenu TWO extra LTdchS HOii
Albany to Chicago, to be used exclusively for
freight.
THE hoax published in the New York Her
aid few weeks ago, pretending to give de-
tailed account of the escape of wild animals
from Central Park and the killing and maim-
ing of large number of persons, has caused
the death of Henry Martin, of Plainfield, N. j.,
who became SO excited ever the perusal of the
horrible story that he sickened and subse-
quently died.
INDEPENDENCE, Mo-, lost $15O,O00 by fire
on the night of the 25th.
A recent decision of the Supreme Court of
Indiana is to the effect that oolored children
are not entitled to public school benefits, be-
cause, at the adoption Of the State Constitu-
tion, colored people.were not citizens. The
court held that the Fourteenth Amendment
did not supersede the provisions of the State
Constitution.
ON the 25th meeting composed of leading
men of the Independent party met at Indian
apols, and adopted declaration of princi-
pies favoring new political organization
and advocating the withdrawal from circula-
ton of all National and State bank notes and
the issuing of paper money by the Govern
ment directly to the people, such money to be
legal tender for public and private debts, in
cluding duties on imports.
AT the meeting of the State Grange of In
diana, held ON the 25th, a resolution was
adopted declaring " that the State Grange, in
council assembled, has no sympathy with any
past, present or future attempt that may be
made by any political party or political as
pirant to absorb little reflected warmth, de-
cency, or support by persistently calling and
publishing their meetings at the same time
and place of ours, and that decent respect
for our Order requires that such attempts be
suitably rebuked by publishing this resolu-
tion."
WESLEY UNDERWOOD who was to have
been hung at Palmyra, Mo-, on the 9th, for
the murder of Richard Menifee in March,
1871, hanged himself in jail on the night of
the 24th.
THE General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons, lately in session at Nashville, Tenn,
elected and installed the following officers for
the ensuing year: John Frizzell, of Ten
nessee, Deputy General Grand High Priest;
R. F. Bower Low, of Louisiana, Grand King;
John McClelland, of Massachusetts, Grand
Treasurer; G. G. Fox, Of New York, General
Grand Secretary; Henry Bostwick, General
Grand Royal Arch Captain.
The jury in the Washington safe burglary
case on the 9th found Williams not guilty,
and disagreed as to the guilt of Whitley and
Harrington.
A RECENT decision of the United States Su-
preme Court holds that Indians, in their tribal
relations have no property rights in fee, and
that the timber and minerals on Indian reser-
vations are part of the realty and cannot be
sold or leased.
THE 'longshoremen of New York struck on
the 9th
THE troubles in the Scranton (Pa.) coal re-
gions are on the increase. A large number of
the workmen are unemployed, and riots, MUIR
ders and thefts are of almost daily occur
renee.
ON the 9th the body of an infant, reported
to have been stolen, the night before, from the
bedside of its mother in Freemansburg, Pa
was found in the river at that place, and Mrs.
Goss, the mother, was arrested, charged with
drowning it.
AT late meeting in Indianapolis of the
Western Bureau of Railway Commissioners it
was decided to advance the rates ON all
classes of freight from Western points five
cents per hundred.
THE woman's suffrage amendment was de-
feated at the recent Michigan election by a
majority of 95,S77, and the proposed Consti-
tuition as a whole by a majority of 81, ,762
votes.
KIDDER's majority as Delegate to Congress
from Dakota is 2,408. Kidder is Republi-
can.
A New ORLEANS dispatch of the 9th re-
ports the recent arrest of nineteen citizens of
Lafourche Parish, La, on warrants charging
them with violating the Enforcement act.
THE Indiana State Grange at its recent
session appropriated $1,000 for the relief Of
the Nebraska grasshopper sufferers, and sub
ordinate Oranges were called upon for addi-
tional subscriptions. There is balance of
$14, ,SO057 in the treasury.
JONES, who was recently elected Clerk of
the Kentucky Court of Appeals, has been de-
| clared ineligible because he once accepted a
| challenge to fight duel. He has taken the
case to the Court of Appeals, claiming that
| the Returning Board had no authority to in
quire into the evidence.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has ordered
the sale of $2,O0O,000 gold in New York
| during December.
| ELIAS WILLIAMS and George Smith, both
carpenters and both intoxicated quarreled
recently in Hamilton County, N. Y. During
the struggle Williams threw Smith over
wooden saw-horse and sawed off his head
severing it entirely from the body. Williams
soon afterward cut hi own throat.
A NEW YORK woman, named Janesch, has
been held to await trial upon the charge o.
having deliberately placed her little child on
a hot stove and holding her there until she
was burned to death.
| JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has recently de
,clined the Russian mission, according to a
New York telegram of the 2Sth.
DURING riot at Shoustown, Pa, ON the
| Doth four italian miners were killed and sew
eral severely injured.
THE official majority of Hardin (Dem.) fol
Governor of Missouri is 81, ,462. A majority O
1,10S is reported for the Constitutional Con
vention, with three counties to hear from.
THE King of the Sandwich Islands reached
San Francisco on the 2Sth, en route for Wash
ington.
MAYOR HAvEMEYBR, of New York, died OF
the 30th ult. of apoplexy. Alderman Vance
took the oath of Office as Acting Mayor OF
the afternoon of that day.
On the 30th ult. Judge Barrett, of the New
York Court of Oyer and Terminer, granted
writ of habeas corpus on the application of th,