Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-05-29
Destructive Conhagration at Independence,
- @ Iowa.
Other Interesting Personal and General
News Items.
THE OLD WORLD.

THE OLD WORLD.
On the 10Th the Carlists attacked an
entrenching party near Bilboa, but were driven
off with the loss of fifty prisoners. Madrid
dispatches of the 22d announce the capture of
vittoria by the national troops under Concha.
A Carlist raid was being made in the vicinity
of Saptander, the insurgents to the number of
1900 being within five leagues of the town.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred in Galata, jew
ish suburb of Constantinople, on the night of
the 18th. One hundred houses were burned.
COUNT SHoUvALoFF, the Russian Minister,
has notified all Polish exiles that they can re-
turn to their native country. Two or three
known assassins are excepted.
THE Hawaiian Legislature convened on the
3Oth of April. The King delivered an address
from the throne advocating commercial
treaty with the United States, but opposing
any cession of territory.
THE German Reichstag was prorogued on
the 21st inst.
THE French Cabinet was reconstructed on
the evening of the 22d, as follows: Minister
of War, Gen. De Cissey; Foreign Affairs,
Cazes; Interior, Fourton; Finance, Magne;
Public Works, Caillaux; Commerce, Grivart;
Public Instruction, Cumont; Justice, Tuil-
hand; Marine, Montaignac.
THE Queens birthday, the 25th, was cele-
brated all over England as general holiday.
Prince Arthur had been created Duke of Con-
naught This is the first Irish title ever con-
ferred on any member of the royal family.
THE italian Parliament, ON the oath, de-
feated measure presented and advocated by
the Finance Minister, and the members OF the
Cabinet rendered their designations in conse-
quence King Victor Emmanuel refused to
accept the tender and directed them to intro
duce new financial bills.
THE NEW WORLD.
KINGSTON kilograms of the 23d announce
the resignation of the President of Hayti.
THE Alcalde of the Mexican town of Jacabo
recently reported that he had burned alive
man and his wife on the charge of bewitching
one of his neighbors.
THE United States Minister to Bolivia, Gen.
Croxton recently died at La Paz.
BROOKS left Little Rock on the 10Th,
accompanied by small squad of cavalry,
and took the road to Fort Smith. The
barricades were removed from the streets,
and affairs were resuming their ante
bell,tza appearance. The Attorney Cen
eral had resigned, and a successor had been ap-
pointed. On the 2Sd the House of Representa-
tives, by a vote of AZ to 9, passed resolutions
requesting Senators Clayton and Dorsey to
resign, and, in case of their neglect, asking the
Senate to- expel them. On the 25th articles
of Impeachment against State Auditor
Wheeler Chief Justice Mcclure, the Associate
Justices, the Circuit Justices, and all the
prominent officials in the State connected with
the Brooks movement were reported in the
Arkansas House of Representatives. The
cases of Mcclure and Wheeler were acted upon
Immediately, impeachment being voted by a
large majority.
A COMMITTEES of the Massachusetts, Legis-
lature visited the scene of the Mill River
Valley disaster on the Goth, and discov-
cred that the flood was wholly due to
the faulty construction of the dam. One
of the proprietors Of the reservoir, living in
Williamsburg, had been threatened with per-
sonal violence by the friends Of those who
were killed, and company of soldiers and
policemen had been detailed to protect him.
A dispatch of the 2lst says that the destitute
and homeless people in the Mill River Valley
number ], 200, and that at least 100000 are
required for present and immediate necessi-
ties. The sum contributed up to the night of
the 23d was $4,000.
ACCORDING to an Associated Press tele-
gram of the 10Th President Grant believes
that the graves of the Union and Confederate
dead should be dedicated alike.
THE Farmers and Mechanics Bank OF
Rochester, N. Y, has suspended.
HON. W. W. EATON was elected United
States Senator from Connecticut by the Legis-
lature of that State on the 10th.
On the 18th mass meetings of workingmen
were held in most of the Eastern cities, oppos-
ing the repeal of the Eight-Hour law.
A CHICAGO paper of recent date published
a report making serious charges against the
management of the insane hospital at Osh-
kosh, Wis.
FoRTY-THREE ladies engaged in crusading in
Cincinnati were arrested on the 18th for cre-
ating disturbance upon the public streets
On the Goth they were tried, and dismissed
with warning not to repeat the offense.
THERE was considerable excitement in
Washington on the 10th in consequence Of
the discovery that copies of the questions pre-
pared for civil il-service examinations had been
surreptitiously issued and distributed. An
investigation had been started to ascertain the
persons guilty of disseminating this kind of
literature.
GEN. DYER, ,.of the United States Army, died
on the goth.
AN indictment was recently found against
Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, for Illegally
converting public money to private uses. A
warrant was issued for his arrest on the Goth,
but he refused to allow it to be served, and
threatened to call cut the militia if the at
tempt to serve it was not abandoned. 1t was
thought he would stand his trial,