Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17
TH4E NEW WORLD.

The German Uptown Savings Bank,
of New York CITY, suspended on the 18th, with
liabilities estimated at SS3O,00O. 1t was thought
it would pay eighty cents on the dollar.
John @. Smith, ex-Member of Congress
from Ohio, was on the 18th appointed Commits
soner of Indian Affairs and accepted the Office
A State Convention was held at Colum-
bus, Ohio, on the sth, to consider the tramp ques
ton. Twenty-Five cities and towns were repre-
scented by seventy-eight delegates. Several adj
dresses were made and resolutions adopted, en-
bodyng the following suggestions among 9TH
ers: That the multiplication of tramping va
grants can only be eradicated by furnishing en-
ployment of such a character as to make their
labor remunerative; that the plan of establish
ing warehouses; in all cities and towns large
enough to maintain them is recommended, and
also additional legislation whereby tive or more
towns can unite in the erection of such work
houses; that magistrates be given authority to
arrest all Migrants and commit them to these
warehouses, on conviction; that the work-house
system be extended over the entire State; disap-
proving of furnishing tramps free transportation
from one place to another; advising the abandon
ment of private charity after such warehouses are
established and advising the employment of
tramps on the public highways or at other labor
outside the work-house.
A National Council of the Union League
of America was held in Philadelphia on the 9Th,
at which the following declaration of principles
was CdOpted and promulgated: That the credit of
the Government at home and abroad, must be
maintained; favorng improvements beneficial to
commerce and productive to labor; favoring pub
lie schools and their protection from sectarian in
terference; the entire separation of church and
State, and giving to all citizens of the United
oil
obey the letter and spirit of the law and support
the Government.
Rev. DR.. McLaren, the new Bishop of
the Diocese of Illinois, was consecrated at Chi
cago on the Sth. The ceremonies were of a
solemn and imposing character. The consecra-
tion sermon was preached by Bishop Welles, Of
Wisconsin.
Mary Ann Kinnerly attempted to kin
die the kitchen fire with kerosene, at Davenport
the other day, and was ter IDLY, and perhaps
fatally, burned.
The production of coal III the anthra-
cite regions in Pennsylvania will be suspended
from Dec. IS to Jan. -, and probably until the
opening of navigation next spring.
The St Louis Grand Jury on the 9th
found an indictment against Gen. Babcock by a
vote of IL to- 2. Letters were sent to ex-Dist.-
Atty. Patrick and eX-United States Marshal Il ew-
comb informing them that no evidence had been
introduced duplicating them in the whisky frauds
They also addressed letter the President thank
ing him for the moral support he had given to
the investigation and assuming him of their con-
tinued esteem and confidence. A dispatch was
received later in the day announcing the removal
of ex-senator Henderson, because of an alleged
attack upon the President in his address to the
jury at the time Avery was convicted. This re-
moval was subsequently suspended to allow the
sending of a correct copy of Mr.. Henderson's re-
marks. The Military Court of Inquiry in Gen.
Babcock's case convened at Chicago on the
9th, organized and adjourned to await the arrival
of testimony from st. Louis.
The Kentucky State Grange elected the
following principal officers on the 9th: Master,
NJ. D. Davie; Overseer, w. ID. Stone; Lecturer,
DIR. r. d. Smith; Treasurer, j. w. Clark; Secre-
tary, Eugene Barnes; Executive Committee, +.
Gano,J H. Harris, Richard Waters.
The committee of the Arkansas Legis-
lature appointed to inquire into the circum-
stances attending the election Of Senator Dorsey
have reported unanimously that they find no
PROOF tending to support the charge of bribery
and corruption. The renort was adopted by the
Legislature without dissenting vote.