Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-03-13

received 3S4 votes and the anti-temperance
394. A majority of the Aldermen were under
stood to be liquor men.
A Havana dispatch of the 4th reports the
killing of ex-President Cespedes, and his
burial at Santiago de Cuba.
Chief Justice Waite was inducted into Office
at Washington on the 4th.
President Grant has appointed the follow
ing-named gentlemen to be Government Di-
rectors of the Union Pacific Railroad: James
F. Wilson, Iowa; J. FL. Millard, Nebraska;
John G. s. Harrison, Indiana; John A. Tib-
belts, Connecticut, and Francis B. Brewer,
New York-all for one year from March IL,
1874.
The Massachusetts, Total Abstinence Society
has adopted the following resolutions:
Resol0ed, That, inasmuch as women and children
the chief sufferers of the untold evils of intem
perancc, it is eminently appropriate that the
part in the efforts Of the day for the
suppression OF this universally acknowledged
immortality, and we look with deep interest on
the women's movement in regard to temperance
reform, and cherish the hope that divine Provi-
dence will direct and overrule it for permanent
good.
great success in temperance reform can be ex-
pected till the Christian church and ministry take
decided stand ON the side of total abstinence
A disastrous fire occurred in Boston on the
4th. 1t broke out in the Eastern Railroad
freight sheds, and was caused by the break
ing of a carboy of vitriol. A train of twenty
loaded freight cars was burned. A large
building of brick and wood was thoroughly
gutted. Loss between $1OO 900 and 100000.
A Worcester (Mass.) dispatch of the 4th
says it had been decided to abandon Dio Lewis
plan of operation against liquordealerr, and
new AMI entirely original plan had been
adopted. A large committee had been organ
lied, and in SUBJ committees of two or three
it was proposed to first visit the owners
of buildings occupied by iquor-dealers,
and by prayer and intercession induce
them to sign a builders pledge not
to let their premises to any one
for the sale of liquor They would also
visit the dealers at their homes. The move
ment was to be private, and no street work
would be done.
The Maryland State Grange met in secret
session at Baltimore on the 4th. Of the fifty
two Oranges in the State forty-seven were
represented.
A call has been issued for an Independent
State Convention, to meet at Salem, Oregon,
April Is.
James B. Groome was inaugurated Governor
of Maryland on the 4th.
The Indian Appropriation bill, reported in
Congress on The 4th, appropriates $4,931, ITO,
against $5, ,54l, ,419 last year.
In New York ON the 4th the criminal suit
for libel of Luther G. Challis against Victoria
G. Woodruff, her sister, Tennessee Claflin,
and her husband, Blood, was brought to trial
in the Court of Sessions. The defendants
were without bail, their bondsmen having
surrendered them into the hands of the Sher-
if, and failing to obtain new sureties they
were taken to the Tombs on the 5th. An ap-
plication for reduction of bail was refused
by the court
Miss Ada M. Noyes, the actress, died in
New York on the 5th of hydrophobia. She
was bitten by pet poodle about two weeks
before.
Deputy o. d. Hinckley, of Wisconsin, is
engaged in organizing Farmers Oranges in
Maine. Several are already organized, and it
is anticipated that State Grange will be in
operation in April.
Mrs. Madden, of Cairo, ILL.,, filled lamp
with kerosene by the fitful glimmer of lucifer
match. The can and lamp exploded, and Mrs.
Madden received injuries from which she
will probably die.
At Columbus, Ohio, on the 5th, about 200
ladies, divided into four squads, visited large
number of saloons and beer cellars. Quite
number of signatures were obtained to the cit
izens' pledge, but not one liquor-dealer could,
by song orprayer, be induced to sign the dealers
pledge. at some of the saloons the praying
women were insulted and ridiculed by the
dealers friends of both sexes, and at one
point the disturbance became SO threatening
that in accordance with the advice of the
Chief of Police the ladies thought best to de-
sist. Among the signatures to the citizens
pledge was that of James G. Ball, the Mayor
of the city. The ladies showed no signs of
growing weary in their work, and were, in
fact, much stronger in faith and numbers
than before, the insults offered them having
had much to do in bringing about that result
During the recent absence from his home of
Anthony Coggswell, of Chapmanville, Pa,
his wife died and was buried. On his return
he had the coffin opened and it was found
that the body had turned in its place, indi-
eating that the woman was only in trance
when she was inferred. This discovery so
affected the husband that he is now maniac.
The report of the killing of Cespedes, ex-
President of Cuba, is confirmed. He was sur
prised by the San Quentin battalion on Feb-s
ruary 81 and Immediately shot. His body was
brought to Santiago de Cuba and buried on
the 1st inst.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
written letter to members of Congress, show
ing that the aggregate amount of internal
revenue collected from September, 1862
when the Internal Revenue laws went into eff
fect-up to February %, 1874 CAST month es-
timated) is 81, ,792 ,555, 900. Of this amount
there is due from late Collectors $2,525, 100,
for the recovery of which suits have been
begun.
Ex-President Millard Fillmore died at his
residence in Buffalo at lilo on the night OF
the 7th. He was conscious to the last. At 8
o'clock, in reply to question by his physi-
clan, he said the nourishment was palatable.
These were his last words. Death was pain
less
Gen. Schenck, United States Minister to En-
gland, and ex-senator Cattell, representing
the Treasury Department in Europe, arrived
in New York on the 7th, and Caleb Gushing
sailed for Spain the same day.
The Mayor of Philadelphia issued proela-
nation on the 7th, giving notice that the Sun
day Liquor law of that city would be strictly
enforced. The Supreme Council of the
Liquor Dealers Association has requested all
persons connected with the Association to
close their places of business on Sunday.
The Kansas Legislature has passed bill
authorizing railway companies of the State to