Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-10

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crooked whisky and sentenced to pay fine of
| $1,000 each and to be imprisoned in the County
Jail for four months.
The remains of the late Vice President
were consigned to their last resting place at
Natick, Mass, on the LIST, with solemn and inn
posing ceremonies.
The steamer Sunnyside was cut IN two
by the ice near West Point, N. Y, on the morn
ing of the LIST, and sunk in deep water. Eleven
persons were drowned, six of whom were walters
and chambermaids on the boat and the re-
| mainder passengers.
The navy-yards at Portsmouth, N. H.,
| and Brooklyn, N. Y, exhibited great activity on
| the list. According to a Philadelphia dispatch
of that date the irOn-cads at League Island were
| ready for sea- The fleet consists of nine or ten
| vessels, among them the Powhattan, Talapoosa
| Alliance, Alert, Huron, Dispatch, Passaic, Nan
| tucket and Wyandotte
The Bank of America, at New Orleans,
La, suspended on the list.
John w. Bingham, one of the principal
parties lately Indicted for whisky frauds at
Evansville, Ind, at his trial in Indianapolis,
on the 3D. withdrew his former plea Of not guilty,
and pleaded guilty to five separate indictments.
had previously confessed their guilt.
In private letter, recently published,
Chief-Justice Waite declared that he had no as
plrations for the Presidency. He says the Consti-
tuition might wisely have prohibited the election
office of President.
A Hindoo employed near Kingston, ia
maica, recently beheaded five children from re-
igious fervor.
Hon. Ira Harris, formerly United States
Senator from New York, died at Albany on the
3D. lie was seventy-three years old
The first fast evening mail train be-
tween st. Louis and New York left the latter
city on the evening Of the 1st
The carelessness of fiagman is said
to have caused the recent accident on the New
York Central Railroad, near Buffalo.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has re-
Gently reiterated the opinion that an agent of an
insurance company, authorized to take risks and
issue policies against fire, may waive by parol
condition in policy issued by him.
Gen. Babcock, on the ed, addressed a
letter to the President demanding a court of in
quiry and an immediate investigation of the
charge that he was concerned in the ST. LOUIS
WHISKY iIduuS.
The anniversary of the Methodist
Freedman's Aid Society was held at Washington
on the evening of the I'd. 1t was largely at
tended
VIM. M. Evarts has been selected as
the orator for the Centennial opening ceremonies
and Henry w. Longfellow for the poet. A grand
son of Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, has been
selected as the reader of the Declaration of indie
pendence.
Patrick Toney, of New York city, on
the night of the list saturated the clothing of his
wife with kerosene and then set it on fire. She
was fatally burned.
| The schooner j. e. Jenkins recently
| foundered in Lake Ontario, near Oswego, N. Y,
| and all on board, nine persons, perished
A meeting of the Executive Committee
of the Independent party was recently held
in Chicago, presided over by S. M. smith,
of Illinois. Resolutions were adopted de-
manding the repeal of the Specie Resump-
ton and National Bank acts; the establishment
of a monetary system adapted to the demands of
legitimate business: civil-scrviCe reform, ETC.,
| and calling for delegate convention to be held
| in indianapolis, May H. 1876, to nominate candi
| dates for President and e-President of the
| United States.
The navy-yard at Philadelphia was
sold on the I'd for $1,0O0,OG0. The Pennsylvania
Raiload Company are supposed to have been the
purchasers.
A New York special of the I'd says that,
according to the tax-lists of that city, VIM. b.
Astor's real estate at the time of his death was
worth about $25,O00,000. He was also taxed for
| 1886, goo worth of bank stock, and was known to
| have been large holder of State, city and ma
| tional bonds. The dispatch says that good
Judges estimated his estate to be worth not to ex
| coed S45,000,000
F. r. Riddle has been nominated for
| Congress by the Democrats of the Fourth Ten
nessee District, to fill the vacancy caused by the
| death of j. NJ Head.
TAFT and Weimer were found guilty of
| defrauding the revenue by disposing of crooked
| whisky, at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 3D.. Louis
Rindskopf, of the same city, sent to jai! for
contempt in refusing to answer certain questions
concerning payments to ring officials disclosed by
| his check-book
In the Avery trial at st. Louis, on the
3D., the jury brought in verdict of not guilty on
the first second and fourth counts of the indict-
ment, and guilty on the third. He was taken to
| Jail.
The trial of the Chicago whisky con-
spirators has been set for Jan. II, 1875.
A few days ago barrel was received at
| the office of the United States Express Company
| at Chicago, which, on being examined by one of
| the employees, was found to contain the bodies
of a beautiful woman and newly-born babe. On
| the ID the matter was investigated and the re-
mains identified as those of Mrs. Emma P.
| Adams, of Chicago, which were buried in Grace
l.. @ha Of nhor a
resurreetionists have been arrested.
At greenback mass-meeting recently
held in Indianapolis, resolutions were adopted
demanding the repeal of the Specie-Resumptlon
act, the permanent retirement of National Bank
notes and the substitution therefor of legal
tender money issued directly by the Government
The announcement was made in New
York city on the evening of the 4th that VIM. NJ
Tweed, the " Boss,' had escaped fromthe custody
of Warden Durham, OF Ludlow Street jail. The
Warden states that he had accompanied the pris
oner to his wife's residence, and while there had
acceded to his request for private interview
with Mrs. Tweed in an upper room. Durham and
mis- Deputy remaining below in company
with one of the prisoners sons. After
waiting about ten minutes the Warden sent the
son to ask his father to return Immediately
Shortly after the young man returned with the
j announcement that his father had disappeared
The house at once searched but there was
no trace of the missing Boss" The police
authorities were promptly notified. and de
tectives sent out 10 scour the city IL
all directions. Sheriff Conner offered
reward of $4,000 for his recapture. Up to the
morning of the 9th no limitations of his where
abouts had been anywhere obtained. Police
Commissioner Matsell, on being Intercepted
said he had no theory as to how the escape wal
brought about, but that he believed there wat
COLLISION somewhere. A New York special Of