Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-03-27

band assembled at the Lorraine Church, where
they encountered large crowd, and as the
ladies were leaving for their homes they were
hooted at and jeered by the excited mob. The
police, assisted by number of gentlemen
present, escorted theladies to place Of safety.
A policeman attempted to arrest one of a
crowd of roughs and fight was started, in
which the police were obliged to use their
clubs, which they did with good effect,
making several arrests. The streets
were crowded with excited Germans,
and riot at one time was imminent,
but the arrival of reinforcement from the
police headquarters put matters in better
shape. During the excitement the German
brewers organized procession, composed of
lager-beer wagons loaded with beer-kegs, on
which sat large number of men drinking
beer as they moved through the streets, The
| Mayor had issued a proclamation forbidding
unlawful assemblages. The Springfield Qll.)
| saloons were besieged on the Goth, but no con-
verts were made.
A Washington telegram of the 21st says the
Senate Committee on Finance had agreed to
compromise bill fixing the amount of green
back circulation at $685., 200, 900, thus legaliz-
| ing the reissue of that part of the reserve now
outstanding, which is reported to be $26, ,O0O,-
| 600. The bill will also authorize free banking
| on the National Banking system, but will con-
| tain requirement that legal-tender notes
shall be retired proportionately as new Ma
tional Bank notes areissued.
President Grant is reported to have said, in
| conversation with leading Republican Sen
| ator on the 21st, that a statement that any
| legislation tending to imitation must run the
gauntlet sof his veto was wholly without
| foundation; that he had conversed with no
one on that subject at all; and that, if he were
himself a member of Congress, he should re-
gard an intimation of veto in advance of leg
islation as an unbecoming threat by the Exec
utive, and should resent it.
Judge Dent, brother of Mrs. Grant, died at
his residence in Washington on the morning of
the 22d.
Frederick Douglass has been elected Presi-
dent of the Freedman's Savings Bank at
| Washington, which has branches in nearly all
| the Southern States. DR.. G. B. Pares, another
| colored man, has been chosen Vice President.
Forty out of seventy clerks employed are
colored. ~
has decided to wind up its affairs Since
| April, 1864, the society has received and ex-
| pended over $3.50, 900, and has supported sew
enty teachers among the colored people of the
| South.
| An extensive fire occurred at Indianapolis
| on the 22d. Twenty stores, many of them
new, were destroyed. The losi was estimated
at between $500, 900 and 100000.
A horrible murder was recently perpetrated
near Centreville, Ill. The victims were Fritz
Steltzereide, aged about eighty; his son and
| daughter-i -in-law, and two small children, one
an infant The throats of the two men were
| cut, and the skulls of the woman and chill
dren crushed. The murdered family lived on
| farm three miles south of Centreville.
| Joseph Booth fell under the cars at Vir-
ginia, New, a few days ago, and both his legs
were cut off. A young man who witnessed
| the accident tainted, and his hair, which was
| jet black, turned instantly gray. Both men
| would probably die. e
| Two sons of the Siamese Twins were in
| Philadelphia on the 21st, and would immedi-
| ately leave for home with the remains of their
parents. They deny that the family intended
| to exhibit the remains, and said they were to
| be at once decently inferred. The sons have
obtained from the physicians statement de-
nying that the bodies were given them for
autopsy as result of pecuniary arrange
ment.
A White House (N CO. dispatch of the morn
| ing Of the 23d says the reports of terrific rum
blings and roaring noises at Bald Mountain
were confirmed. Scientists direct from the
| scene said there was no doubt of volcanic
| action going on. Shocks were hourly felt, the
| crockery in some residences being thrown
| from the shelves. The citizens were fleeing.
Religious meetings were held night and day.
The savants thought volcanic eruption very
probable. l""
| The Rhode Island Democratic State Con-
vention met at Providence on the 23d, and re-
solved to make no nominations for State of
ficers. 1t appointed a State Committee and
adjourned. f@Atf@
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Central
Committee have resolved to hold the State
Convention in Pittsburgh in May.
On the morning of the 2Sd the town of FL
gin, ILL.,, was visited by destructive confla-
grafton. More than two squares in the busi-
ness portion of the city were burned over,
| 100000.
A special dispatch to the Chicago Inter-
| Ocean, dated March %, says that Detectives
Sinner and Baldwin had fight with James
Younger, near st. Catherine, Mo-, on the 21st,
and that Younger and Baldwin were both
wounded, Younger getting away as usual.
All the Union printers Of New Orleans
| struck on the23d against reduction of wages.
| The proprietors offered fifty cents per 1000,
| while the printers demanded sixty.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, on the 18th, several petit
| tons were presented in favor of an increase in
| the volume Of currency, and one from citizens
| of Detroit in opposition thereto, and favoring
| speedy return to specie payment. "A memorial
| was presented and referred from the Legislature
| of Wisconsin in reference to the improvement of
the St Croix River, and for the preliminary survey
for the canal from Lake Superior to the Falls of
St. Crox: "A bill was passed to authorize
| the President to accept for citizens of
the United States the jurisdiction of certain tribu
mails In the Ottoman dominion and in Egypt, es
tablished, to be established under the authority
| of the Sublime Porte and in the Government of
Egypt. MIR. Logan addressed the Senate on the
bill to equaize the distribution of the currency,
advocating an increase in the volume of the cur
| rency... Adjourned
In the House, on the 18th, bill was
passed exempting Kansas and Missouri from the
operation of the act of May, 1872, which forbids
the pre-emption of iron and coal mines The
Legislative Appropriation bill was considered in
Committee of the Whole. .. The Military Academy
Appropriation bill was reported from the Appro-
priatlon Committee. "A bill was reported from
the Military Committee and made the special order
for the first Tuesday in April, to provide for the
gradual reduction of the army The transporta-
tion question was debated at the evening session
Adjourned.