Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-17

| various pOrClOnS Oh Lne west on the 0tn ana
| 7th. In many instances the Temperance ques-
| tion was made an issue and the anti-lcense
party was generally defeated in the larger
towns and cities, and met with various degrees
of success in other localities. Washington
Court House, where the temperance crusade
originated, was carried by the anti-crusaders.
In the small towns in Southern Ohio the tenn
perance ticket was generally successful.
THE Cincinnati election on the 9th was car
ried by the Democrats by between 1900 and
| 5000 majority. Cleveland and Columbus also
| went Democratic.
NOTWITHSTANDING the success of the anti
| temperance ticket at Dayton, Ohio, the cru
saders repaired to the curbstones on the 7th
and continued their praying efforts. At
| Rapp's saloon they were surrounded by a
| furious crowd. Knives were brandished and
| riot appeared imminent to that degree that
| the Police Commissioners were obliged to in
| terfere and request the women to retire
from the street. The Mayor subsequently is
sued his proclamation forbidding street
crusadng. The Indiana Supreme Court, on
| the 7th, held Section II of the Baxter law,
which declares places where liquors are sold
to be common nuisances, unconstitutional aud
void; also Section Is of the same law, so far
as it attempts to dispense with a statement of
the name of the party to whom liquor is sold.
SOLICITOR BANFIELD was examined in the San
born investigation on the Sth, and testified that
he had never drawn any contract, signed any
paper, written any letter or done any act in con-
nection with the Sanborn business except by
the direct order of the Secretary Of the Treas
ury. He said that he had never been con-
suited about any of the contracts under
this law except the first, to Kelsey, on which
nothing was collected. Everything else done
by him was under specific instructions from
the Secretary of the Treasury. Gen. Butler
came before the committee and complained
that witness had been examined in reference
to his private affairs and that he had not been
notified to be present to hear the testimony
and, if he deemed it proper, to cross-examine
the witnesses. He lad much experience in
committees, and it had been his uniform
practice whenever witness made statement
involving member Of either house to sus-
pend the examination and to send for the
member. He simply asked for that measure
of courtesy to himself. He denied any con-
nection with the Sanborn matter, except what
he would be glad to tell.
THE bankruptcy proceedings against the
extensive Sprague Manufacturing Company,
of Rhode Island, have been discontinued and
the case is dismissed.
DISPATCHES from Port au Prince of late
datestate that the announcement of the death
of the late Senator Sumner was received with
great sorrow by the Dominicans. Flags were
placed at half-mast from the forts and public
buildings, and solemn and impressive funeral
service was held at the Cathedral, which was
attended by the President, Cabinet and the di-
plomatic corps.
THE steamer Tigress, of Polaris fame,
while fishing off the coast of Newfoundland,
recently, exploded her boiler. Two engineers
and twenty of the crew were killed.
THE resignation of B. G. Jayne, Special
United States Treasury Agent at New York,
has been accepted by the Treasury Depart
ment.
SANBoRN testified before the Ways and
Means Committee on the 9th that his collec-
tions amounted to $427, ,O36, of which one-half
went to the Government. His total expenses
were $156, ,4S3. The expenses attendant upon
his late trial in Brooklyn and in coming to
Washington are not included in this amount.
Four persons were instantly killed at Pat
tenburg, N. j., on the Stb, by the. explosion
of steam boiler. A number of persons were
injured by the flying debris.
ACCORDING to Salt Lake dispatch of the
9th man supposed to be John T. Bender,
tl,oO oil Of tha had
brought to that city from the Severier Valley,
and a young man supposed to be his son was
also in custody at Salt Creek.
A SEVERE snow-storm visited Cairo ILL.,,
and vicinity on the Sth.
DURING recent gale, two fishing smacks
were capsized off Kenosha, Wis, and eight
persons drowned. A similar accident oc-
CURED near the harbor of South Chicago,
which resulted in five persons being drowned.
AT Davenport, Iowa, on the 9th, me eting
of liuuor-dealers and brewers was held, and
an organization formed to agitate for strin-
gent license law for Iowa, in lieu of the pres
ent prohibitory law. Similar organizations
are to be formed in other portions of the
State.
THE authorities of Richmond, Ind, on the
9th, decreed that no more street crusading
should be allowed in that city. All the sa-
looms had closed, and the ladies were paying
prayerful attention to the wholesale estab-
lishments.
OFFICIAL proclamation has been made by
the President of the ratification of the treaty
between the United States and San Salvador
for the surrender of criminals.
AN expert testified in the Sanborn inquiry
on the 10th that there were millions of with
held taxes which could only be collected by
some such instrumentality as the Sanborn
law. He, himself, had information of
$50,OOO,Ooo of withheld whisky taxes.
Mr.. Nudge, Chief of the special agents
in the Treasury Department, stated Sanborn's
connection with the department, and his
duties as a special agent. Those duties
were in his capacity as an employe of the
Adams Express Company to detect and give
information of the cases of smuggling that
were constantly going on between Canada and
Boston. Mr.. Nudge admitted that he had
allowed $4,000 paid to Wallet Martin,
whisky detective, and formerly in the employ
of Sanborn, but he was unable to satisfy the
committee of the legality of paying out OF
the customs funds the expenses of private
contractor to engage, for his own benefit, in
detecting frauds in the internal revenue. The
only explanation of itwas that he did not know
until December last that Sanborn had any
such contract The witness had appointed,
as special agent TO Europe, A. G. Fay, of
New York, mentioned in the case as Sanborn's
attorney, or as Sanborn's friend, and had
| allowed his expenses to the amount of about