Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-29
THE NEW WORLD.

Ex-senator Chandler, of Michigan, has
been appointed Secretary of the Interior, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr..
Dclano Mr.. Chandler entered upon the duties
of his office on the 10TH
Isaac McAfee, colored man, has re-
Gently been sentenced to twenty-five years i'm
prisOnment for having placed distractions on the
Selma 81 Dalton Railroad about year ago, caus-
ing a serious accident Two white men are to be
tried for the same offense.
A building was dedicated to the especial
uses of the Sovereigns of Industry, at Springfield
Mass on the 10TH the first in the United States
built by the order.
Prof. Watson, of the Michigan State
University, has discovered a new planet. 1t
shines like star of the tenth magnitude.
A Washington special of the 10Th says
the receipts from internal revenue for the three
months ending Sept 80, being the first quarter
of the current fiscal year, had shown an increase
over the corresponding quarter of last year OF
S1,780,356.
Recently the Deputy Sheriff of Portage
County, Wis, named Baker, was killed by Amos
and Isaac Cartwright, while serving some proc
ess upon them. On the morning of the 18th about
FORTY men went to the Stevens Point jail, over
ooOH>
out the Courtwrights and hung them to an ad-
Joining tree.
Three children belonging to Mrs. Gen
ty, of Oil City, Pa, undertook to kindle fire
with kerosene on the 10th, during the absence of
their mother The usual result followed. Two
of them were burned to death and the house re-
duced to ashes,
Reuben Benton, while playing croquet
Do t,a in
jured by an accidental blow on the head with
mallet.
A Centennial excursion reached Phila-
delphia on the Goth, consisting of delegations
from Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Toledo, Cleve-
land and Buffalo. The excursionists numbered
up and were very Hospitality treated by the Phil
adelphians. A like excursion from st. Louis,
indianapolis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh was i'll
the city.
Union and Confederate soldiers recent
ly fraternized at Elizabeth, N. j. Fourteen vet
eran companies participated in the reunion.
Iqulque, a seaport of considerable i'm,
portance in Peru, South America, was recently
almost entirely destroyed by fire.
The dead bodies of an old man and
three boys, Italians, were discovered in the eel
lar of tsmall tenement-house by Denver pc
S0S1A
cut from ear to ear.
Frederick Hudson, distinguished jour
nalist, for many years managing editor of the
New York Herald, was killed at Concord, Mass,
or the Dist, while crossing railroad track III
front of an approaching locomotive.
On the evening of the Goth a large mass.
meeting was held in New York city to protest
against the exclusion of the Bible from the pub
lie schools.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has
lately decided that the action of the Wood Coun-
ty canvassers in throwing out the vote of the
town of Lincoln last year was illegal. This de
cision was made in the contest for county offices
but the counting of the vote of the town elects
A. S. McDill to Congress instead of Judge Cate
who was given the certificate of election. This
canvassers were fined $500 for throwing out tbs
vote.
On the evening of the 21st the watch
factory at Freeport, ILL.,, was totally destroyed by
fire. involving the loss of S1500O0. The structure
was insured for $4,000 The fire is supposed t.
have been the work Of an incendiary.
At the special election held in Califor
MIA on the 3Oth Prof. Carr, the Republican can
didate for superintendent of Public instruction
was elected All the Judges in office in Sal
Francisco, both Democratic and Republican, wer
reelected with a single exception.
Gen. Sci Meredith, distinguished cit
zen of Indiana, died at his home IN CamDrldg
City on the 21st of cancer in the stomach.
The will of the late Isaac M. Singer, th
sewtng-machine inventor, was offered for probat
IN New York city ON the list The property BIZ
queathed is valued at S140OO,O0o
The criminal libel suits growing out O
the Beecher-Tilton scandal have been mol y,ros,
by the District-Attorney of Brooklyn.