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

Landing on Staten Island at about seven
o'clock on the preceding evening was stopped
about two miles out by band of Italians,
who tore UP the track. Particulars of the
outrage had not been received save that the
robbers secured the cash-box on the train,
but were themselves arrested and locked up.
LowENsTEIN was executed at Albany, N. Y,
On the 10th, for the murder of one-armed
peddler last fall. He maintained to the last
that he was innocent.
PRAGUE BRYANT (colored), the murderer of
Alex. Steele, was hanged at Pulaski, Tenn ,
| on the 10th.
| New ORLEANS dispatches of the 10th say
| that serious erevasses had occurred in the
4 lower Mississippi and caused considerable
| damage. The leVee in the vicinity of New
/ Orleans had broken in not less than score of
| places The plantations in the Sunfower,
Tallahatchie and Yazoo bottoms were also
| threatened.
THE President has pardoned Albert Lemon
convicted of forgery in November last in the
United States Circuit Court of Indiana; also
Walker Dawson of South Carolina, convicted
of being Ku-Klux.
| A FIRE occurred at Williamsport, Pa, on
the 18th, destroying $780, 600 worth of prop
erty, including large amount of lumber, a
| large planning mill, saw-mill and fourteen
frame dwelling houses 1t was reported that
| one man was burned to death.
THE twenty.frs ballot for United States
| Senator in the Massachusetts, Legislature was
taken on the 18th, as follows: Whole number
| of votes cast, 1856; necessary to choice, 1l9.
! Dawes, 6S; Hoar, 81; Curtis, 63; Adams, IA;
| Sanford, z; Banks, g.; Washburn, 4; A. H.
| Bullock, Is; Edward Learned, 3; Judge Pit
man and Whittier, one each.
JUDGE BLoDGETT, of the United States Court
of the Northern District of Illinois, has re-
Gently decided that what are known as "puts,"
where the intention Of the contracting parties
| is only to settle the difference" and not de-
liver and receive the thing specified in the con-
tract, are void as ''wager" or gambling con-
tracts in other words; that "put' is bet
against the price of some commodity at fu-
ture time, like an "option," and therefore
void like other bets, because contrary to good
morals and public policy.
w. IT. JACKSON, President of the National
Agricultural Congress, has issued circular
relative to the third session Of that body, to be
held at Atlanta, Ca, commencing May IL,
1874. 1t says: "This is purely representa-
tive body, since, by the amended constitution,
agricultural or kindred societies which shall
have contributed or may contribute five dollars
to defray incidental expenses of the body are
entitled to one delegate each without reference
to the number of membership" It's requested
that notification be made of the appointment
of delegates to Charles w. Greene, Secretary,
Jacksonville ILL.,, at as early date as practi-
cable.
THE Michigan State Woman's Suffrage Con-
vention will be held in Lansing on May 6.
MURAT HALsTED, editor of the Cincinnati
Commercial, has been arrested and held to bail
for publishing an advertisement of gift con-
cert in violationsof the Ohio law.
THE work of taking the regular State de-
cennial census in Michigan is to be completed
this year, as provided by law, between the
first Monday of April and the third Monday of
May.
THE French Government, on the 18th, issued
circular prohibiting newspaper attacks upon
the Septennat, and declaring that President
McMahon's powers are incontestible.
A WASHINGTON Associated Press dispatch
of the 18th says: President Grant, in con-
versation to-day on the subject of finances,
said he had no hesitation il asserting that he
was opposed to imitation in the general accep-
tation of the term; that is, to an increase of
the currency beyond the actual business ne
cessities of the country; but at the same time
he had given no opinion concerning the meas
ure before Congress, nor had he indicated
what his action would be relative to any bill
that might be passed"
ONE of the New York Cremation Society's
members having recently died, the organiza-
tion have practically applied their idea of dis
posing of the dead. The body was put up
right in a fre-proof receptacle, through
which intensely heated air was forced. The
father of the deceased paid the bill-S3.25-
and now has the ashes of his son in an urn
on the parlor mantel-piece.
A SECRET session of the International Work
ingmen's Association was being held in Phila-
delphia on the 18th, in which every labor
union in the country had representatives. AS
far as could be ascertained, the purpose of the
meeting was to take such action as will more
firmly bind together the laborers engaged in
all branches of industry in the United States,
and to prepare for general and determined
onslaught on what the body term $" the un-
scrupulous and monopolizing capitalists"
THE iron-workers of Pennsylvania, accord
ing to dispatch from Pottsville on the 18th,
to the number of 10000, were on strike, be-
cause of the refusal of the masters to accept
the schedule of prices recently adopted by the
Puddlers' Union. The membership of the lat
ter organization is between $4,000 and 10000,
and the treasury is said to be sufficiently well
supplied with money to sustain the members
long time should the strike become general,
as it threatened to be-
THE ladies of Jacksonville, ILL.,, prepared
petition fifty feet long, containing the names of
1,700 citizens, to present to the Common
Council of that city, asking that no more sa-
loon licenses be granted.
JAMES SHoAFF, editor of the Paris Qll)
Gazette, died on the 18th from the effects of
morphine administered by himself.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was ex-
18th.
Hon. SCHUYLER CoLFAx has written a let
ter peremptorily declining to become can
didate for Congress from his district next
fall.
THE Wisconsin State Institution for the
Education Of the Blind, located at Janesville,
Wis, was totally destroyed by fire on the
evening of the 18th. The fire caught in the
kitchen. Loss, $3.50, 900.
CONGRESSIONAL.
IN the Senate on the 7th an 11nfayOra-