Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-19
THE NEW WORLD.

The steamer City of Waco, laden with
oil, anchored outside the bar at Galveston, Tex,
on the morning of the Sth, and little after mid
night was discovered to be on fire. There were
forty-eight persons on board. A heavy wind pre-
vailed, and the steamer burned to the
waters edge. Up to the morning of the
10th nothing had been heard of those on
board and it was feared thAt all had
perirhed, though some hoped the passengers
had taken to the boats and had been blown out
into the gulf.
Henry r. Mann, for the last fifteen
years Treasurer OF Saratoga County, N. Y, has
proved to be defaulter in the sum of $150000.
paper-collar mandatory in which his son was
interested has failed, and is supposed to nave alb
sorbed large portion of the missing funds.
According to New York dispatch of
the 9th the order of United Irishmen Redlvivi
had tried Patrick j. Walsh, one of its members,
for treason and condemned him to DEATH
1t was thought on the 9Th that Bigelow,
the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State
in New York, would have about 1900 majority.
Another of the survivors of the steamer
Pacific, named Neal O'Haley, was picked up on
the morning of the 7th, thirty miles inside the
Straits OF Fuca. He floating on raft, from
which he says Capt Howell had been washed off
and drowned. He says the Pacific was run dewn
by q vessel under full sail. Two boats got away
from the wreck. Up to the Sth five dead bodies
had been recovered.
Several important failures were report
ed in the East on the 10th, among them the firm
of James Wickham & Son, New York commits
sion merchants, and F. Geedowsky, an extensive
furniture manufacturer of Boston.
Early on the morning of the 10th Sc
we're earthqualle-shock was felt in portions of
Missouri and Kansas. At Independence, Mo-,
several brick buildings were considerably dam
aged, the citizens being aroused from their sum
bers, thinking their houses were tumbling over
their heads. The shock was felt at Topeka and
other places in Kansas.
Vice-President Wilson was taken sud-
denly ill the morning of the 10th Just after he
had emerged from bath at the Capitol in Wash
ington, and for time his friends feared fatal re-
suits. He was reported much better on the
morning of the 18th and his speedy recovery was
confidently expected.
Forged coupon tickets, purporting to
have been issued by the Illinois Central Railroad
Company at Chicago, offered for sale in
New York city on the 11th
A State Convention of the New Hamp-
shre Prohib tionsts was held in Concord on the
10th. A. j. Kendall was placed in nomination
for Governor.
Thomas A. Doyle (Rep) has been re-
elected Mayor of Providence, r. L., for the tenth
time.
The new Minnesota Legislature is po-
litically divided as follows: Senate-Republican
"a OPPOSITE n, II. neutrality-suspicious. 65; OPP
position Al.
The New York Legislature stands as
follows: Senate-Republicans 81 Democrats, Ii.
House--Republicans, IS; Democrats, so.
According to the Chicago papers of the
18th an arrangement had been made by the
Lake Shore, the Michigan Central and the
Fort Wayne Railroads to pool their earnings
1t was also stated that all the other lines would
act with the new combination in respect to the
matter of rates.
Additional returns from the Wisconsin
election, mostly official, give Ludington (RepA
for Governor majority of about 900. The hall
ance OF the Democratic State ticket is elected nv
majorities ranging from $50 to 800, except Kuehn
for Treasurer, whowould have from 1850 to s,OOo.
In accordance with the suggestions or
Mr.. Moody the 18th observed as day of
fasting and prayer by the clergymen and churches
of Brooklyn.
The official returns of the Pennsylvania
election, published ON the 18th, give Hartranft
ltsao plurality over Pershing. The Prohibition
vote was nearly 10000.
Inc craft which caused the loss of the
steamer Pacific proves 70 hove No., !, -.
OrPheus, which was afterward wrecLod On the
rocks' Her crew escaped no more snrvivors
OF the Faclhc disaster had been found mn ~ the
18th. "p " 'n0