Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-17

until the 1st day of August, and of corn until
the Goth day of April of each year.
DISPATCHES of the 7th from the Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs say that serious out
break had occurred among the Indians
in the Indian Territory. The Cheyennes,
Comanches and Kiowas to the number of 1000
had gone upon the war-path, and were COM
mitting depredations attended with unusual
barbarities. Five war parties were thought to
be moving from the north fork of the Canadian
River in the direction of the trail from the
agency to Caldwell, Kan. The agent tele-
graphed that the Indians had said they would
clean out every white man and rancho in that
region An urgent demand had been made
for troops with which to repd the marauders.
YELLOW FEVER and small l-lsox were prevail
ing extensively throughout Cuba, according,
to late Havana advices.
A DISPATCH from Madison, Wis.,, of the 8th
says that ON that morning the Attorney-Gen-
eral had filed in the Supreme Court of that
State bill in equity, complaining of viola
tion of the laws of the State regulating rail
roads by the Chicago & Northwestern and
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroads,
and a petition that they be enjoined by the
court to obey said law so far as it had been
held valid by the late decision of the United
States Circuit Court. An appeal from that
decision had been perfected.
ACCORDING to information received at Chey-
enne on the Sth battle had been fought with
the Sioux about seventy-five miles from Camp
Brown, in which fifty Indians were killed and
md
diers were killed and three wounded.
THE Golden Age of the 9th, according to a
New York dispatch, contained an editorial
taunting Plymouth Church with its continued
silence in respect to the Tilton-Beecher scan
dal 1t concludes as follows: "The fact ad-
mits of only one construction, and whoever
thinks draws the inevitable conclusion There
is silence more oppressive and omfnous than
that of death. The American people now
know what that silence is"
Ex-Gov SHEPHERD, of the District of Column
bia, according to a Washington dispatch of
the Sth, had appeared before the Grand Jury
of the District to procure an Indictment of
Mr. Dana of the New York Sun, for libel.
An attempt would be made to arrest Mr.
Dana and bring him to the District for trial
under the provisions of the Poland law,
passed at the late session of Congress.
THE Democratic Congressional Convention
at Bucyrus, Ohio, on the 250th ballot, after
two days. session, on the Sth nominated John
Cowan, of Ashland County, for Congress.
THE great single-scull race of five miles, at
Springfield, Mass. between Brown, of Hall
fax, and Scharff, of Pittsburgh, Pa, was
rowed on the Sth, in presence of large and
excited assemblage. The Canadian won the
race.
AN attempt was made, according to Madi-
son (Wis.) dispatch of the 9th, to bribe Chief
Justice Ryan the day before, by sending him
a letter containing 500.
A DISPATCH from Cairo Ill.,, of the 9th says
that that city had been visited by an earth
quake shock that afternoon.
On the afternoon of the 9th the mail and
express car attached to an eastward bound
train on the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio
Railway was entirely destroyed by fire, about
nine miles west of Petersburg.
A TELEGRAM was sent to the War Depart
ment, on the 9th, by Gov. Davis, of Minnesota,
appealing to the Government in behalf of the
starving people of the State whose crops for
the last two years had been destroyed by
grasshoppers.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9th says it
had been decided by the Interior Department
that, after homesteader has completed a
term of five years, further residence is not
required to entitle him to patent; also, that
residence in a double house built on the
dividing line between adjoining homesteads is
residence in compliance with the law.
A YOUNG daughter of George Fulton, of
Huntington, Ind was burned to death ON
the evening of the 10th by the explosion of a
can of kerosene with which she attempted to
kindle fire.
By the capsizing of a yacht in the harbor of
Atlantic City, N. j., on the afternoon of the
10th six prominent citizens of Philadelphia
were drowned.
A Fort GARRY (Manitoba) dispatch of a
recent date says that the Ministry had been
defeated by the passage OF resolution de-
elarine a want of confidence. A new Ministry
had been formed.
A ST. PAUL telegram of the 10th states that
Gov. Davis, of Minnesota, had issued circu-
lar calling upon every county in the State to
render aid to those parts of the State which
have been afflicted with grasshoppers.
A BROOKLYN dispatch of the 10th says that
Mr. Beecher, so long ago as the Doth ultimo,
had demanded of Plymouth Church an inves-
tigation into the charges preferred by Mr.
Tilton, and that said investigation was still
pending.
A New YORK dispatch of the 18th says that
Gov. Dix had requested Mayor Havemeyer to
reply to the charges preferred against him.
A FIRE broke out on the evening OF the 10th
in the Weehawken oil docks, Hoboken, n. j.,
during violent thunderstorm, supposed to
have been caused by lightning. 1t was not
extinguished until the evening of the 11th.
Over 100000 worth of property was de-
stroyed.
ST. PAUL dispatches of the 18th say that the
grasshoppers in Southwestern Minnesota have
been lately reinforced by immense swarms
from Northern Minnesota and Northern Da-
kota. In Manitoba, in the region around
Fort Garry, every green thing had been de-
stroyed.
A CLEVELAND (Ohio) dispatch says that on
the 18th the roof of Hovey Block, in that city,
had fallen in, killing one man and seriously
wounding two others. The roof fell during
the prevalence of heavy rain-storm.
THE 10Th was celebrated by the Orange
men of New York and vicinity without dis
turbanee A dozen lodges joined in the pro-
cession.
ALARGE portion of the business part of the
town of Streator H., was consumed on the
morning of the 18th.