Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-09
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menced operations on the 29th, and nearly all
the other large manufacturing establishments
in the New England States, which had either
closed or reduced their forces, had resumed or
were about to resume on full time and with
full forces.
The enumeration of school children in the
State of Indiana has just been completed,
showing 631, 149 white and 9, 1S3 colored school
children, total of 640,S3
Twenty or thirty Mexican banditti recent
~ made a raid upon the town of Kingston,
CAL, surprised, seized and bound the entire
people of the place, and then deliberately
robbed their victims and made good their
escape.
Ex-City Treasurer Gage, of Chicago, has
turned over all his property without reserve
to the city and the same has been accepted
Mr.. Cages assets, putting all his possessions
at the lowest figures, reach the sum of $685.
5O2 while his deficit, including bank accounts
and interest, is placed at S507, ,703.5S.
The engineers strike continued on the Goth,
and outrages are reported as having been per-
petrated by strikers at several points on the
line of railroads. 1t is stated that at Indiana
polls ON the morning of the Goth dozen men
went to the engine-house of the Jeffersonvile,
Madison e. Indianapolis Railroad. One held
revolver to the head of the watchman, and
the others broke up and disabled nine engines
One Panhandle engine standing unattended
was started by a striker, resulting in its wreck
A Columbus (Ohio) telegram of the Goth
says the railway authorities thought the strike
must break before many days, and on the
other hand visit to the rooms of the Brother
hood of Engineers showed them to be as deter
mined as ever. They said Chief Engineer
Wilson's order had no effect on them.
The Secretary of the Navy received dis
patch on the 30th from the commander of the
Ossipee, announcing that the Virginius sunk
on the night of the Goth off Wilmington.
Washington dispatch of the 3Oth states
that Mr.. Cushing had been instructed, after
his arrival at Madrid, to give his attention
towards securing, upon the part Of Spain,
policy of political and administrative reforms
(among which is the abolition of slavery,
which shall tend towards the restoration of
peace in Cuba. ..-,s9~
The trunk liues of railways between the
East and West have issued q new freight
schedule, advancing the tariff on all classes of
freight. ~-
The local division at indianapolis of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has
issued a card, in which they say they
are not willing to stand idle and see
their good name tarnished by
the base representations of those arrayed
against them; that many acts of violence had
been perpetrated which they emphatically de-
precated, no matter by whom committed; that
they had endeavored to discover the perpetrat-
ors, and could not The perpetrators do not
belong to the Brotherhood, and it was be-
lieved the outrages were committed by men
hired to blacken the good name of the mem
bers of the Brotherhood and weaken their
cause by carrying them on and charging them
to the strikers.
The steamer Virgnius foundered off the
North Carolina coast on the 26th during the
prevalence of heavy gale. 1t seems the Os-
sipee, with the Virginius in tow, left the Dry
Tortugas on the 10th. On the Goth strong
gale commenced, and the Virginius began
leaking badly. On Christmas Day her
condition was SO critical that the Os-
sipee put into Frying Pan Shoals,
| off Cape Fear, with her charge, and came to
anchor The next morning the Virginius sig
nailed the Ossipee she was sinking. The crew
were at once transferred to the latter, the
| hawser was cut, and the Virgnius went to the
bottom,g leaving only portion Of her main
mast above water. u aa3.0 4@t
| The United States authorities are charged
by the Havana newspapers with having pur-
posely sunk the Virginius in order to avoid
turning her over to Spain. 'i'35y1 '
r ty iccin or
| of Internal Revenue, died in Washington on
the LIST, of pneumonia, aged forty-one years.
The President and Mrs. Grant held their
usual New Years reception on the 1st, aided
| by the Cabinet officers and their wives. ! j.
| It was recently announced that all mines
worked by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal
and Iron Company had suspended work for the
season; and the pi assumption was that large
number of others would do the same, as the
orders on hand were generally supplied. s't
| In pursuance of orders from Washington, a
| large number of workmen at the Charlestown
+ Mass Navy Yard were discharged onthe 3ist
alt. ...-sa...s. Z. e. 5-.9
New York dispatch Of the 31st ult says
! the United States District Attorney had stated
that no further proceedings would be taken in
the case of the Virgnius. 1t is not likely that
the vessel would ever be raised, and it was
deemed requisite that the vessel should be
| produced before she could be libeled.
According to the news received on the morn
| ing of the I'd, the engineers strike was about
ended, the engineers resuming their places at
many points. The engineers on the Pennsyl-
vania road had decided to agree to the reduc-
tion of wages for the present, at least, and
| hoped to have the matter decided by arbitra-
| tion. -...s tsr -e
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis
| train, due at Indianapolis on the evening Of
the 3lst ult., ran over broken rail about
half mile west of Brownsville, throwing the
rear coach of the train down small trestle
about ten feet in height, overturning the
coach and killing Mr.. Chester and child, of
Lebanon, Ohio, and John A. Line, of Con-
nersyille. Ind, and injuring eight or ten
others.
The State Central Committee of the Anti
Monopolists of Iowa, has called State Con-
vention to meet in Des Moines on the 25th day
of February.
The Virginia Legislature convened at Rich
mond on the 1st Kempers official majority
for Governor is 27,239. In his message,
| speaking of the relations between the races,
the Governor says: 81 do not hesitate TO
affirm, so encouraging and decisive has been the
progress of the last four years, so clearly de-
veloped by the past are our obligations of to-
day, that if we are guided by prudence; if we
go forward with courage, tempered with for
bearance, and if no Federal legislation shall
| intervene to disturb the relations between the
races, we cannot fail to bring our great exper-
iment to a successful and prosperous issue"