Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-02-26

Braisher and Mr.. Robinson were called. Mrs.
| Moulton was on the stand on the 10Th. The
! testimony of the foregoing was mainly cor
| roborative Of the testimony of Messrs. Moulton
and Tilten. - 81 L ~
CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM S. KING, of Mime.
sofa sotaIhas written d letter tothe Legislature OF
MS State In re- alton to the resolutions passed
by that h3dy calling upon him to ap-
pear and testify before the Congressional
comm. .ttce in relation to the Pacific Mail SUBJ
8 sla or resign his seat in Congress. Hecharac-
terlzes the resolutions as every extraordinary
in so far as they correctly illustrate your, lack
of knowledge of the, common proprieties and
decencies of'official position, your painful dis.
regard of truth in your official action, and
your false and hypocritical pretenses of vir-
| tuous regard for the honor of the State of
Minnesota" He pronosnces false the charge
that he had accepted money as considera-
ton for his services ia behalf of the Subsidy
bill, and emphati3ally asserts, as he says he
stated under Cath two years ago, that he
never accepted nor. received dollar in con-
slderatle,n of such SERVICE and that not one
aohf,.r of the money received by him was ever
lLtended or applied to influence vote on
I such; bill. s#Es<H @EG8 -
THE Minnesota Legislature has elected s.
j. r. Mcmillan lRep.l, now Chief-Justice Of
| the State Supreme Court, United States Sen
ator, to succeed Senator Ramsey. y 0nZ lis
THE wife of Senator-elect Mcdonald, Of In
| diana, died few1days ago. 9 - a.
On the 18th negro was admitted into the
senior class of the Boys High Schools in New
Orleans. Twenty out of twenty two in the
class left the school.
A REPUBLICAN caucus was held in Wash
ingtofl on the Doth. 1t was agreed to leave out
consideration of the validity of the elec-
ton of 1872 and to recognize Kellogg as
Governor as long as the Government shall
sustain him as such; the four Conservatives
unseated in the Legislature on the 4th of
January to be admitted, and a new Organiza-
ton of the Legislature to be effected.
THE New York s. New Haven Railroad
Company has been mulcted by q New York
court in the sum of Sis, 600 in favor of a pas
senger who was robbed of that sum, the
court thus announcing that railroad COM
pany must protect its patrons. g.
On the morning of the 10th train on the
Pittsburgh Cincinnati S.St. Louis Railroad
ran off the track near Mingo Junction, and
one baggage car, two passenger coaches, two
sleepers and one special car were thrown
over the embankment and burned. Several
persons were injured, among them j. N. Nc
Cullough, First Vice-Presideat of the P, Ft.
w. & G. Railroad Company, who had three
ribs broken and was badly cut about the
head.
LATER accounts from Fort Sully represent
the snow as three feet deep on the level.
RECENT reports from the Black Hills rep
resent an abundance of gold being gathered
| there.
| NEAR Sheffield, ILL.,, ON the Goth, a Rock
Island passenger coach and sleeper were
thrown into culvert, several persons bein g
injured, and one, f. L. Browning, of Annawan,
ILL.,, killed.
| THREE prominent members of the Conserv-
alive party in Louisiana interviewed the
President on the 22d. The President said his
| duty was to execute the law and not q to
enter into any negotiation or compromise,
| but he would be rejoiced if the opposing par
| ties in Louisiana could come to some under
standing by which the present contentious in
that State could be settled. He further said
he would consult with other parties. 1t be-
| ing suggested to him that some intimation
from Washington would probably be neces-
sary to influence the action of the Republi.
cans in Louisiana, after some consideration
the President referred the committee to Mr.
| Wheeler. The committee then called on Mr.
Wheeler, who stated that he would do all in
his power by acts, influence and advice to
settle the Louisiana question on the basis Of
his propositions. A proposition was then
submitted to Mr.. Wheeler by the committee
which he rejected, he still adhering to his
original propositions.
THREE children were frozen to death be-
tween Exeter, N. Y, and neighboring town
during one of the recent cold days. They
were forced by their parents, who are basket
makers, to start out on peddling tour.
THE glue factory of Wahl Bros, in Chica-
go, covering eight acres of ground, was re-
Gently destroyed by fire, involving loss OF
over $3.50, 900, on which there was an lnsur-
ance of $S6,500. @
! AT VEEDERsBURG, Ind, few nights ago,
Mr.. Henry Eister and wife left their three lit
tie children--two girls and boy-alone IL
their house, and during their absence the
building was burned down and the little ones
lperished in thesiames. wv I