Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-02-20

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at Gadshill on the 31st ult. In addition to
this, it is understood the Governor of Arkansas
has offered $4,000 and the Postoffice Depart
ment $500, making an aggregate of s17, 500.
| Major General James B. Steedman has been
| elected to succeed Chief-Justice Waite as dele
gate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention.
The woman's temperance crusade opened in
| Jeffersonville, Ind, on the 18th, with an i'm
mense prayer meeting in one of the churches.
| About two hundred ladies had banded together
and proposed to move upon the saloons in that
city after the manner of their sisters in Ohio.
The ladies in Northern Ohio are preparing for
an active campaign in the same direction. The
campaign was opened in Oshkosh, Wis, on
| the 18TH A praying band visited some of the
saloons, and preparations were making to be-
siege them all. v@
The Diocesan Council of Wisconsin met at
Milwaukee on the 18th, for the purpose of
selecting a Bishop in place of the late Rev. DR..
| Armitage. That day was devoted to discus
sion. On the 18th, after stormy day, DR..
| De Knven, of Racine, was nominated by the
clergy on the fourth ballot, but rejected by the
laity, and the Council adjourned sine die.
The Mississippi House of Representatives
| has passed resolution, by vote of 81 to SO
requesting Senator Alcorn to resign.
| A mob marched toward the Captain Gen
erals palace in Havana on the evening of the
18th, to demand that the Government send into
the field the entire battalion of volunteers
with their own officers, instead of one-tenth
of the battalion, as ordered in Jovellar's recent
DEGREES. Mounted police met the rioters and
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| 18th, but further trouble was feared.
| The Postmaster General has recommended
the passage of law for the establishment on
all railways of the United States of a special
mail train, to run at high rate of speed, for
the sole purpose of transmitting mail matter.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives
on the 18th concurred, by a vote of 119 to
4S, in the resolution of the Senate resembling
| the vote of censure on Senator Sumner passed
| in 1872.
| An ice-house attached to a brewery in Phil
| adelphia fell in on the 18th, and seven men
| were buried in the ruins, most of whom were
killed.
Gen. Sheridan telegraphed from New York
| on the 18th to Gen. Sherman, at Washington,
that in his opinion general outbreak of the
| orders him to repress the threatened disturb
| ance with all the force that he can collect in
his department, even if he has to go as far as
| Fort Riley for cavalry. Every savage that is
caught off his reservation is to be held as an
accomplice in the murders of Lieut. Robinson
and Agent Appleton.
| On the night of the 18th the safe of the
| First National Bank of Quincy, ILL.,, was blown
| open, and $3.50, 900 in currency and bonds were
stolen. A reward of $4,000 has been offered
for the capture of the robbers.
The National Grange on the 18th voted to
excommunicate the Boston Grange. The Sec
retary was instructed to notify all State
Oranges 'that the Boston Grange is no longer
connected with the Patrons of Husbandry, and
henceforth no fraternal recognition can be ex
tended to it by any Grange, State or subordi
nate, and the Master of the Massachusetts, State
| Grange is hereby required to make formal
| demand for the surrender of the dispensation
and ritual of the Boston Grange, and when
received to return to the State Grange the
money paid for said dispensation and ritual,
| and return them without delay to the office of
the Secretary of the National Grange at
| Washington" The report of the Committee
on Transportation, after being presented and
| partially discussed, was withdrawn on the
| grourd that it was too specific and not gen.
| eral enough in character, and the whole mat
| ter was postponed until the next annual meet
| ing. The National Grange then adjourned to
meet in Charleston, S. c., the first Wednesday
| in February next.
Judge Rogers of the Cook County Criminal
fla hp ut opnt
found against ex-Treasurer Gage, of Chicago,
for failing to turn over the city moneys, but
the first indictment for perjury is quashed on
points to meet which second indictment was
found by the last Grand Jury.
Several cases Of trichina spiralis have re-
Gently appeared in Chicago and vicinity, di-
rectly traceable to some ham eaten by the suf-
ferers. A microscopic examination of a shred
of the edible, which was taken from family
attended by DIR. Fischer shows the creatures
very plainly. Two of the Aurora Qndiana)
sufferers have died from the effects of trichin-
osis, and the bodies have undergone post
mortem examination. The microscopic view
of portions of the flesh of the victims after
their death developed the startling fact that
millions of the trichna were seen alive, coil
ing and uncoiling in the tissues.
The anniversary of the Illinois State Wom-
ans Suffrage Association occurred in Chicago
on the 18th. The following were elected
officers of the Association for the ensuing
year: President-Mrs. Jane Graham Jones;
Secretaries-Miss Alta NJ. Hutlett, Mrs. c. V.
Waite.
The First Reformed Episcopal Church of
New York, was organized by Bishop Cum
ynip fIo Nbo
that two churches in Philadelphia and one in
Brooklyn were speedily to be added to his
charge.
The news from the Western frontier on the
10th indicated an extensive Indian war.
Further outrages are reported. A Cheyenne
(Wyoming Territory dispatch says: ga war
is inevitable between here and the Sioux In
dian reservation. The country is rolling and
fine grazing, and there are not less than $4,000
head of cattle there, but we would rather have
war than peace when we are robbed and MUIR
dered with impunity."
Special dispatches to the Cincinnati Gazette
of the 10th from various parts of South
western Ohio report about eighty out of one
hundred and forty places where liquor was
sold closed since the beginning of the temper
ance movement. The reports come from four
teen towns and villages. The women of
Logan, Leesburgh, New Vienna, Washington
and Blanchester had won complete victory
Muncie, Ind, reported eight out of eleven
places closed. The average time of the move
ment in these places is less than two weeks.
The Mississippi Senate has defeated the
House resolution requesting Senator Alcorn
to resign
President Grant has ordered that the Count