Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-23


le Robert E. Withers (Democrat) to the Unit
1t States Senate.
4 The National Woman's Suffrage Associate
% commenced its session at Washington on Il
+ 10th, SusanB. Anthony presiding.
The Patent-Rights Convention met at Was
u ngton on the 18th, and elected j. NJ Thatche
II of that city, President.
IS The proprietors of all places of amuseme,
e in New York have been notified by the polio
= that hereafter no sacred concerts will be a
) lowed on Sunday nights.
: The Prohibitionists of Connecticut hay
nominated State ticket, with the name 9
Fl. d. Smith, of Southington, at its heat
Resolutions were adopted condemning tn
/ depravity of Democrats and the hypocrisy c
f the Republicans, and p.onouncing the licens
law failure
Mr.. Matthews, step-father of ex-Vice-Pres
ident ColfaX, died at Buchanan, Mich, on tn
10Th.
The Kansas Farmers Cooperative Associa
tion, recently in session at Topeka, adopte
resolutions urging Congress to render grea
; centers of Western trade as accessible t.
ocean tonnage as New York or Boston; strong
ly discountenaneing any continuance of tn,
practice OF voting county bonds to railroads
denouncing the free-pass system, and asking
Congress to throw the Indian Territory oper
to white men. They also resolved thai
they will act in politics hereafter independ
emily of existing parties. They reiterate the
doctrine that railways should be subject to
National and State regulation, and call upon
Congress to provide for cheap transportation
between the States. The Executive Commit
tee of the Association state that there are 13l
auxiliary societies in the State, independent of
the Oranges, which number 1000.
At st Joseph, Mo-, on the evening of the
! 14th Mrs. James McGinnis had filled a lamp
and lighted it, and was in the act of putting
it on the chimney piece when the lamp ex-
ploded, filling the room with sheet of fire.
A daughter, aged seventeen, who was stand
| ing near, was enveloped in flames, and Mr.
McGinnis sprang to the rescue of his family
| He threw the mother and infant daughter
! through window into the street, and in at
| tempting to save his eldest girl his clothing
caught fire, and he and the girl
were literally roasted alive. A son
| aged seventeen years, threw bucket
of water on his sister and extinguished the
| flames, but she and the father were SO horri-
bly, burned that the flesh dropped from their
bones, and they died soon after the accident.
Mrs. M. and her infant daughter would prob
| ably die, and the boy was also seriously
burned.
The Georgia Legislature met on the 18th.
The Governor, in his message, takes cheer
full view of public affairs. The State debt is
$S, ,e00, 900, and the estimated value of taxable
property 1850, 200. The Senate approved
the final action of Congress on the salary
question.
The Secretary of State of Texas, having re-
fused to recognize the Legislature in session
at Austin, and to deliver to them the election
returns that body, on the 18th, appointed a
mittee made a formal demand upon the Gov
ernor that he direct the Secretary to deliver to
them the official returns. The Governor re-
piled that he did not think the committee en-
titled to them, but that if they would help
themselves they would meet with no opposi-
ton. The committee repaired to the Secre-
tary's office, and the returns were pointed out
to them, when they took possession, the Sec
retary protesting in writing against the pro-
ceedings.
Ex-State Senator Graham, of New York,
has been sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years for having, as President of the Waikiki
National Bank, appropriated the funds OF
that institution to his own private use, and
proved q defaulter for large amount.
The leaders in the attemptto get up street
riot among the workingmen in New York City
the other day, have been held for trial.
A ,off fba GRANGE To-
Gently returned from visit to the destitute
farmers of Lyon, Osceola and O'Brien Coun-
ties. He is said to have found one thousand
families in need of succor, and thinks that five
hundred of them must depend on charity for
support till spring.
The new Texas Legislature, on the 10Th,
after counting the votes of the late State cleo
ton, formally declared Richard Coke elected
Governor and R. D. Hubbard, Lieutenant
| Governor, both Of whom were thereupon
| sworn into office. The Attorney-Ge General
at Washington received dispatch on the
10th, from the United States Marshal
at Austin, saying: "The newly-elected
Governor Coke was inaugurated last night
Armed men are guarding the approaches to the
offices and to the Capitol, and other armed
men have possession of the legislative halls. A
conflict seems inevitable. A message from
YOU may save us from disaster" The Attor-
ney-General replied that he could only appeal
to the parties to peaceably adjust their dill
culties if possible. "Cannot some cne Hego
tiate a settlement? / have no power to inref
| fere with force, nor have you any duty to per.
form, in respect to the Eatter, except to ust
your moral influence
Up to adjournment of the Iowa House on
the 10Th, ninety-ive ballots for Speaker had
been had, still resulting in tie-forty-nine to
forty-nine-two members having paired off.
| The candidates voted for were John I'll. Gear,
Republican, and J. w. Dixon, Anti-Monopoly.
| The Cheap Transportation Convention, in
session in Washington, adjourned sine die on
the 18th, the next session to be held at Rich
mond at time to be fixed by the Executive
| Committee. Before adjournment Josiah
Quincy was elected President, with Vice
President from each State, and R. FL. Fergu-
son, Secretary The majority report OF the
Committee on Railways was adopted, declar-
ing in substance:
That relief must come from legislation, by
which our system of railways can be regulated
and improved, and by competition, which VIII
completely cary out the reform wecn IsS1
providing for Bureau of Commerce and Trans
portation, etc. that members of the association
shall endeavor to obtain the passage Of certain
laws in their respective States, including a law
prohibiting all railway companies from making
unjust and excessive determinations against places
which are not competing points, and law obliging
all railway companies to transport the cars Of
| other companies or of individuals, for just and
impartial Compensation, with the same dispatch
as for cars belonging exclusively to said roads; I;
calling for legislation making 1t penal ofense for
public officer to accept or use free pass OF
any railway company, and prohibiting railway
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