Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-05-08


Certificates of deposit. lt.............. 51,860,0O0
Fractional currency. 47436,620
Coin certificates. S3,1lO,SO0
Interest NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 37,1S1 ,584
Total debt ,297, ,145, ,sO1
Coin. ...:.... O;aO1, ,s5a
Currency. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 5,25S,074
| Special deposits held for redemption
| of certificates of deposit as pro-
vided by law :. ......... ....... 1880, 900
Total in Treasury. ............. $147, ,42O, ,oa6
Debt, less cash in Treasury. $2149 725, ,a5
Decrease during month. ..... $2,sS5, ,451
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway
| Companies, interest payable in
lawful money, principal outstand-
Interest accrued and not yet paid. 1,s9a, 40
| Interest paid by United States..... 22,3S6,691
malls, etc. ....................... 5,O51,41S
States. ..................... 1885, ,273
SENATOR BOUTWELL, testified before the
Ways and Means Committee in the Sanborn
investigation on the 1st. He said he was sure
the Sanborn business was never a matter of
conversation between himself and Secretary
Richardson, and he never had any personal re-
lations with Sanborn, only hearing of him at
the Chief of Special Agents Bureau when in
quiring into the qualifications of several special
agents. The fact that Sanborn had con-
tract was not brought to his knowledge,
officially or personally, nor had he
officially or personally knowledge of the
contract made with anybody else under the
law. Mr.. Boutwell,, in his testimony, sustains
Messrs. Richardson and Sawyer in the asser-
ton that Solicitor Banfeld knew more of
Sanborn and the details of his contract than
any other officer of the Treasury. Mr.. Bout
wells attention was called to an order signed
by him and addressed to Collectors and Asses
sors directing them to assist Sanborn in such
way as he might ask in the examination of
official records. Mr.. Boutwell, said he stood
by this as legal and proper; it merely allowed
him to see the records in Assessors and Col
lectors' offices with reference to persons who
have withheld taxes due to the Government,
so as to avoid going after those who have al
ready paid their taxes.
JOSEPH WALTZ, who murdered scissor
grinder on the night of May 2, 1878, was hung
at Hudson, N. Y, on the 1st. The day before
his execution he assaulted Charles Ernst, his
keeper, with an iron bar, and wounded him so
seriously that he would probably die.
Gov. TAYLOR, of Wisconsin, issued proc
lamation on the LIST warning the railroads not
to violate the new law, and declaring that he
will employ the whole power of the State to
enforce it. The following is the concluding
portion of the proclamation:
Now, therefore, 1, William r. Taylor, Governor
of the State of Wisconsin, do proclaim and make
known that the law of the land must be respected
and Ob6yed.
without its protection, none are so strong as to be
above its restraints. If the provisions of the law
will not abate, but rather multiply, the anticipated
evils. 1t may well be that the law is defective IN
some Of It's details; but it is still the law OF the land
enacted by the Legislature in the exercise or It's
conceded powers, and in accordance with the
clearly-defned sentiment of the people OF the
State 1t is the right of all to test it's validity
right is coupled the duty of yielding a general
obedience to its requirements until 1t has been
pronounced invalid by competent authority. l
am not without hope that better counsels
will yet prevail with the railroad companies
Of the State; but if they, or any Of them, are
fixed in the determination to pursue the policy an
nOunced, upon them will fall the penalties OF the
law and the consequences of a severe popular
condemnation. 1 therefore enjoin all railroad
to submit to the law; for, since the Executive is
charged with the responsibility of seeing that the
laws faithfully executed, all the functions OF
his Office will be exercised to that end; and FOR
this purpose he invOkes the aid and cooperation
of all good citizens.
GEN. j. F. FAGAN, Major General in the
Confederate army, on the 1st assumed COM
mand of Brooks forces throughout Arkansas,
and issued an address calling upon his old
comrades to rally to his standard. Both par
ties seemed to be waiting for some definite
news from Washington before precipitating
events.
THE trades unions Of New York have de-
cided to resist any attempt to make ten hours
instead of eight days work.
THE shop men of the Allegheny Valley
Railroad, in Pittsburgh, Pa, to the number
of 400 struck work on the I'd to obtain four
months back pay due them.
ERNST MINTZING, alias Love, the murderer
of the Hamnet family near Pittsburgh, Pa,
who was arrested in Allegheny City on the
night of the 1st, has made full confession
of the terrible crime, and says he murdered
the family with an ak, the object being to OBJ
tain possession of Hamnets money, he sup
posing that considerable sum was in the
house He says he only got about fifteen dol
lars.
On the evening of the I'd, as the employees
in large paper mill (Condit's) in the village
of Shawangunk, N. Y, were about leaving
that establishment for the day, large rotary
boiler exploded, nearly derlolishing the build
ing, and burying many laborers in the ruins.
Seven persons were killed and three fatally
wounded. The explosion was terrific, the
boiler, weighing five tons, being thrown
600 feet Intense excitement prevailed, and a
mob threatened to lynch the superintendent
on account Of alleged criminal carelessness in
using condemned boiler.
COUNCIL BLUFFS has been designated as the
legal terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad
by the House Committee on Pacific Railroads
THE following is summary of the leading
information furnished by the National Crop
Reporter Indianapolis of the I'd:
The unusual backwardness of the season has de-
layed very much all kinds of spring work, and at
the date of the last full reports prepared April 49,
there had been practically no seeding at all in the
State OF Minnesota, and but little blowing in Wis
consin. AT the date mentioned about 40 per cent.
OF the estimated area had been sown in wheat and
but little more than one-fourtn of the oats The
average area sown in wheat in the states of Illi-
nois, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin was 81
per cent. OF the estimated probable total,
62 per cent of the oats, and of potatoes 80 per
Of the most encouraging character. The condi-
ton OF the roads at the date of reports was:
South OF the forty-ffth parallel uniformly bad,
owing TO the prevalence of wet weather. North