Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-01
Elkins' (Rep.) majority in New Mc1

Elkins' (Rep.) majority in New Me,
| leo is about 1900.
The Wyoming Legislature is divided
politically as follows: Council-Two Republi
cans and eleven Democrats; House-Nine Re
publicans and eighteen Democrats.
Early on the morning of the Oath the
Herndon House, at Marshall, Mich, was destroyed
by fire and G. S. Avery, Antoine Gruber, Eliza
King and Martha Varsden were either burned to
death or fatally injured while trying to escape
from the burning building. Others received Sc
rious but not fatal injuries.
A couple of trapeze performers-male
and female-whiie performing in a New York
city hall on the evening of the Odd, fell head
foremost from the ceiling to the floor and were
fatally injured.
President Grant and family reached ST.
Louis on the. oath.
Geo. w. Gage a prominent citizen Of
Chicago, formerly proprietor of the fremont
House and more recently of the Grand Pacific
died in that city on the 24th He was sixty-three
years old.
The Nationa. A Agricultural Congress
was in session at Cincinnati on the 22d, 23d and
dent, and there were elected one President
for each State and Territory. G. e. Morrow, of
Chicago, was chosen Secretary and j. o. Grit
fiths, of Nashville, Tenn, Treasurer. Resolutions
were adopted advising the completion of the four
great water routes recommended by the United
States Senate Committee, more especially the CEN
trail one, and recommending the reduction of the
tax on tobacco to ten cents per pound. The next
Congress will meet in Philadelphia.
The commissioners to treat with the
Indians at Red Cloud Agency were considerably
alarmed on the Gath, by the warike attitude OF
some of the Indians and for time fight seemed
inevitable. The Indians were finally pacifed. A
.spatch of the above date says the commission
ers entertained little hope of negotiating sat
isfactory treaty.
On the 25th publication was made
of the acceptance of Secretary Delano's res.
ignation. The date of his letter resigning
the Secretaryship of the Interior is July
5, and that of the President accepting it is Sept
%. In the latter the President expresses the
belief that Delano has filled every public trust
contided to him with ability and integ rity. The
resignation is to take effect Oct. 1.
The report of the commission to inves
tigate and report concerning the Chicago Gus
tom House building was made public on the 26th
1t was to the effect that some of the materia
used in the structure should be rejected and
some notifications made in the plan, and thai
then the building could safely be proceeded
with The Secretary of the Treasury indorses
the report and the work is to be resumed IN the
spring in accordance with the suggestions of the
commission.
Rev. HI. G. Tilton has declined the nom
nation for Governor of Wisconsin on the TEN
peranCe ticket
On the 22d horrible murder was com.
mitted near Belle Center, Ohio, the victim being
young girl named Allie Laughlin. The perpe
| traitor of the deed was James w. Shell, who, &C
cording to the testimony of his wife, enticed the
| girl into the woods and, after desperate strug
| gle, killed her with a knife Shell told hi
| wife what he had done and threatened to kill
her also if she revealed the story. She testified
| that her husband had made previous threats
| against the life and person of Miss naughlin
| When the crime became known at Bellefontain
| there was great excitement, and on the nigh
| of the 23d Schell was taken from jail BY
an exasperated caowd and hanged to al
| adjacent tree. He protested his innocence to thu
last and charged his wife with the murder of thu
| girl, of whom he said she was insanely jealous
Mrs Shell, was lodged in jail at Bellefontaine OF
| the 18th as an accomplice, she having confessed
| to a previous knowledge Of her husbands inten
| ton 20 commit the horrible crime.