Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-31
LATEST NEWS,
THE OLD WORLD.

Henry Wainwright, the murderer of
Harriet Lane, was hung at Newgate, England,
on the 21st. He left written statement ac-
knowledging the justice of his punishment.
Gen. Jsvellar, the Spanish Minister of
War, has been appointed Captain-General of
Cuba.
A Naples dispatch of the 21st says
Mount Vesuvius had lately showed increased
activity, and Prof Palmieri had predicted long
eruptive period. M
A Lisbon telegram of the 21st says the
Portuguese Government had sent gunboat to
the island of st. Thomas, in the Gulf of Guinea,
to put down an alleged instruction of the me-
groes,
The election of Senators by the French
Assembly has resulted in the choice of fifty eight
Republicans, thirteen Legitimists, four Orleanists
and one Bonapartist.
A Berlin special of the 21st says it had
been ascertained that the number killed by the
dynamite explosion at Bremen Haven was 12S;
wounded, 81; 20 were hopelessly MANNED, and
there were Sc widows and 1876 orphans, for whose
benefit it proposed to raise fund Of SIS, 900.
According to Vienna special of the
22d eighty insurgent delegates had recently met
at Jamnetza, in Bosnia, and formed a sort of pro-
ed the Sultan's frman announcing certain re-
forms as utterly unworthy of their confidence.
The British training ship Goliath was
burned at Gravesend on the morning Of the ed
1t was reported that twenty boys had persisted.
A Shanghai (China) dispatch of the 22d
announces the appointment of Chen Lang Pin
and Yung, Heng Ministers to the United States.
A Vienna dispatch of the 23d says thir-
ty six Turks had been arrested near CONSTANT
nople for conspiracy to murder their Christian
neighbors.
A Berlin dispatch of the 23d says the
Prince of Montenegro was about to interfere in
behalf of the Herzegovinian insurgents.
A London telegram says information
hau been received at st. Petersburg that the
Khokand insurrection had been quelled. The de-
feat of the neighboring insurgents, with heavy
loss, had also been announced.
The Khedive of Egypt has directed an
expedition to be sent to Abyssinia to chastise
the natives for the recent massacre of 900 Egyp-
tian troops. The expedition is to number $4,000
men, and will be accompanied by every Ameri-
can officer in the Egyptian service.
A London telegram of the Gath an
nounces the death of Right Hon. Earl Stanhope,
historian and eseayist
A special from Penang says the British
Gen. Claiborne reports the capture of Kintah with
out loss The rebel leaders had fed to Palane.
According to Berlin dispatch of the
26th the leading American residents of that city
had called a meeting for the purpose of protest
ing against the structures of the German press
on American character in their comments on the
Bremen Haven plot.
Herr Renner, correspondent of the
schlesieche Zeitung, has been arrested and NAL
reated by Turkish troops in Bosnia and the Ber-
lin Government has been asked to interfere.
A Madrid telegram of the 26th says the
royal palace at Barcelona had been almost en-
tirely destroyed by fire on that day.
st. Petersburg dispatches of the Goth
say that the disorders in Northern Khokand
would be made the occasion by Russia for the
annexation of the remainder of the country.