Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-03

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Mr.. Murray, editor of the South Bend
Qnd) Herald was recently shot by Justice VIII
| lam Palmer, the ball passing through his lungs
and inficting severe and dangerous wouna. Inc
| trouble arose from misunderstanding with fe-
male employe, whose cause Mr.. Palmer cham-
| pioned.
A committee appointed by the National
Grange to arrange marriage ceremonial has re-
| ported adversely and their report has been sus-
tanned.
In the case of Leopold Wirth and Robert
Kiewert for connection with frauds upon the rev.
enue lately on trial at Milwaukee, the jury on the
25th rendered verdict acquitting the former and
disagreeing as to the latter, standing, 1t is sal
eight for conviction and four for acquittal.
In the case of an attorney who brought
an action to recover for services in procuring d.
vorce for female client, the Indiana Supreme
Court recently decided that a promise made by a
married woman'to pay, after she is divorced for
services rendered to her by attorney during her
cOverture is void, and promise made after she
is divorced topay the same is in valid for want OF
consideration.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Conven-
ton was lately held at ST. Louis, at which
States and Territories. Resolutions re
adopted favoriug Southern transconti-
mental railway from the Mississippi River, Did
Ell Paso, and giving the reasons why such rail-
way should be constructed; that extensions OF
and connections with the Texas & Pacific Road
should be built from the most eligible points to
New Orleans, Memphis and Vicksburg; fayoring
Government aid to such enterprise in the form
of guarantee of interest, not principal,
on a limited amount of S per cent.
construction bonds, payable in fifty years, SO
that the entire liability assumed shall not in any
event exceed $4,000 per mile per year. reso-
luton was adopted providing for an address to
the people of the United States and the Presi-
dent and Congress in behalf of the enterprise.
The convention adjourned sine die on the Gath.
On the evening of the Goth business
| meeting of the Brooklyn Plymouth Church was
held at which an answer to Mrs. Moultons letter
demanding an investigation of the pastors con-
duct was read. This answer declared that her ac-
cusations against Mr.. Beecher were not good
defense for her conduct, but her proposition to
call mutual council of churches was accepted
nevertheless
Hon. John Turner, a we'll known attor-
ney, and editor of the Mansion (Wis.) Stor. at
tempted suicide in the Villas House, at Madison,
Wis, on the Goth. A Mrs Ingersol, whom Mr..
Turner defended last fall upon charge of muir
der, and whose acquttal he had secured, charged
him with committing forgery in the set lement of
an insurance claim. The ball entered the body
near the heart and passed downward and out
ward. At last accounts Mr.. Turner's recovery
was scarcely hoped for, ....-.
The Manufacturers and Builders Bank
of New York city suspended on the 26th A run
cod 10fS xySrnrrc parDl
which institution took advantage of the sixty
days notice required of depositors before with
drawing their funds. There was slight run on
the Security Savings Bank.
In his annual report Lieut.. Gen. Sheri-
dan recommends that the care and management
of the Indians be confded to the War Depart
ment, and that they be made subject to law like
civilized beings. He also favors compulsory ed
ucation and advises the settlement Of the Black
Hills question.
The Moody and Sankey meetings at
Philadelphia, on the 2Sth ult., were very largely
attended. One hundred and fifty ladies asked for
prayers at the women's afternoon meeting and
1G0 young men at the evening meeting. The in
terest in the revival work was increasing.
The Chief Clerk and about a dozen
other clerks of the Interior Department were re-
moved or transferred by Secretary Chandler, on
the 9th, on the recommendation of Commits
soner Smith. This makes a clean sweep Of all
the clerks associated for any considerable time
with the past history of the bureau.
Henry W. Beecher was on the 9th
subponaed as a witness in the libel suit Of
Bowen Us. The Brooklyn Union.
The official majority for the new Con-
stitution in Missouri is 76, 1888. This instrument
went into effect Nov. 80.
Ex-Gov. English has been appointed
United States Senator from Connecticut to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Senator
Ferry.
According to Washington advices of
the 27th the negotiations with Spain were pro-
crossing favorably, and the relations between
this country and that were excellent.
The Cherokee National Council of the
Indian Territory counted the votes cast last
August on the 9th, and declared Rev. Charles
Thompson duly elected Principal Chief over
Ross by a majority of eleven. The Ross men
would have q majority in both houses of the
Council. r. ar rs =. ~z
The rumor that Secretary Bristow was
interested in distillery at Louisville, KY, was
authoritatively denied by that official the 27th
He telegraphed to the United States District-At-
torney at st. Louis on that day that he did not
desire the matter to rest upon his denial, but
asked that the Grand Jury be requested to give
the rumor rigid examination. He repeated the
request that the whisky frauds be probed to the
bottom, and that no one connected with them
should be permitted to escape, and in that re-
questth President had united.
THE MARK FITS.