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

to make women eligible to educational offices
passed by a vote of IS to 81.
A railroad bill was passed by the lower
house of the Iowa Legislature on the 7th.
Under its provisions railroads are divided into
three classes-A, B, c. Roads in class A are
allowed to charge three cents per mile for the
transportation of passengers; in class B, three
and half cents; in c, four cents. Roads in
class A, for freight, 10 per cent. less than the
printed schedule in the bill. In class B, per
cent. more; in class G, 20 per cent
more. The penalties for violation are
very severe, and the State pro-
vides SO, 900 for the prosecution of roads, to
be drawn subject to the order of the Governor.
An individual may recover five times the
amount of damages sustained
What is known as the Potter Railroad bill,
concurrence in which had been reconsidered
and refused by the Wisconsin Assembly, came
back from the Senate on the 7th, with the pro-
vision authorizing the Railroad Commissioners
to raise rates in certain cases in their discretion
struck out, and, as thus amended, was finally
concurred in.
At Valparaiso, Ind, on the Sth, there was
great excitement in consequence of the pre-
vailing temperance epidemic. On the preced
ing day the ladies visited Tom Wards saloon,
during his absence, about fourteen of them
gaining entrance. Mrs. Ward ordered them
out, and as they refused to go a sort of figh
ensued, in which Mrs. Kellogg, one of the
crusaders, was quite seriously injured
Mrs. Ward grasped hold of one end of a scarf
which Mrs. Kellogg wore about her neck, and,
some of the crusaders grasping the other
end, there was lively pull for possession.
The knot in the scarf was in consequence
drawn so tight as to choke Mrs. Kellogg, and
she tainted and fell to the floor.
Washington dispatch of the 9th says the
Executive Committee of the National Grange
of Patrons of Husbandry are maturing plan
for the formation of a Statistical Bureau in
CONNECTION with the National Grange, for the
collection and dissemination of information in
regard to the condition of crops throughout
the country. The new Bureau will be located
in Washington, and in charge of D. W..
Allen, Secretary of the State Grange of South
Carolina. Subordinate Oranges will report
direct to the State Grange all information of
interest relating to the crops, and the differ
ent State Oranges will report by telegraph to
the Statistical Bureau of the Order at Wash
ington. The Bureau will compile and sum-
marize the reports into a monthly report of
the crops in all sections of the country, and
will simultaneously transmit reports by tele-
graph monthly to all State Oranges, which, in
turn, will furnish them to every subordinate
Grange within their jurisdiction. This in
formation will not be furnished to the press
for publication, it being intended exclusively
for the benefit of the members of the Order.
President Grant has directed that Col. Mel
son A. Wiles, of the Fifth Infantry, and Col.
George Getty of the Third Artillery, be as
signed as members of the Howard Court of
Inquiry, in addition to the officers originally
assigned to that duty.
The Postmaster General has given to the
Vice President an opinion of the postal car.
system He believes that it secures the most
economical and expeditions transportation OF
the mails, and advises its retention and en-
largement, as one of the most valuable feat
ures of the service.
In the recent local elections throughout
Massachusetts several ladies were chosen
members of Boards of Education.
A San Francisco dispatch of the 9th states
that several freight trains on the Central
Pacific had been caught in snow blockade
and were temporarily abandoned. At Summit
Valley the snow was twenty-five feet deep on
the level. Several engines and snow-plows
were off the track. Several passenger trains
were also showed in. At Cisco over six feet
of Snow had fallen during the recent storm.
The dwelling of George King, of Independ-
ence Iowa, was burned at four o'clock on
the morning of the 9th, and Mrs. King and
two children and Mrs. Moses were burned to
death.
The number of Oranges in Wisconsin was
recently reported by the Secretary of the State
Grange to have increased to 1893. In January
last there were 346. When the organization
of those that have applied for recognition is
complete there will be 430 Oranges.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, on the Sd, a petition was
presented and referred OF a large number of busi-
ness men of New York city, asking Congress to
put an immediate stop to any further issue of
greenbacks by the Secretary OF the Treasury, and
to cause the retirement, and at once, OF the legal
tender reserves issued. Bills were reported from
enthusiastically, authorizing the Secretary
of War to issue a supply of arms to Nebraska
with amendments, to provide for the incorpora-
ton and regulation of railroad companies IN the
Territories Of the United States. The bill in ref
erence to the Centennial Exhibition was taken up,
and motion was made and debated to refer the
bill to the Committee on Appropriations. ..Ad-
journed.
In the House, on the Sd, bills were
passed-amendatory of the Homestead laws; to
prevent the determination of fur,bearing animals
in Alaska. The bill to regulate commerce among
the several States was taken up, and Mr. McCrary
who reported the bill from the Committee on
Railroads and Canals, addressed the House in ex-
planation and advocacy Of the bill. The bill re-
lated he said, exclusively to interstate commerce.
gress to regulate such commerce Mr.. Arthur
member of the same committee spoke against the
bill as being proposition in the nature of an
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