Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-28
THE NEW WORLD.

InG WIDOW OF Inc IalG IIeSluGuL LII
coin was adjudged insane by a jury in the Cook
County Court at Chicago, on the 10th, and she
was removed to private insane asylum at Bata-
via, ILL.,, on the following day. The evidence
showed that her mind had been affected eyer
since the death of the late President.
The argument in the Tilton-Beechef
case began on the 10Th, Judge Porter opening in
behalf of the defendant. He was very severe in
his denunciation of Messrs. Moulton and Tilton,
the latter of whom was present during the entire
day.
On the 10Th, at Chicago, several OF the
persons implicated in the whisky frauds were
held to bail to answer criminal charges i'll sums
ranging from $4,000 to $4,000.
The President received the Sioux In
dian delegation on the 10TH
The funeral of the late John G. Breck
inridge took place at Lexington, KY, on the 10Th
1t was largely attended.
Hon. Jesse D. Bright, formerly United
States Senator from Indiana, died at his home in
Baltimore, Nd, on the Goth, aged sixty-three
years.
The injunction against the removal OF
the capital of West Virginia from Charleston to
Wheeling has been enforced The Governor de-
MED the authority of the court to interfere, but
decided to obey the writ. The State officers
have made their headquarters at Wheeling lcav-
ing the property of the State in the custody of the
court officers and holding them responsible for its
safekeeping.
On the Goth the town of Osceola, Pa,
was nearly destroyed by fire. All the public
buildings except two churches were burned, to-
gether with 200 dwellings. More than 1200 people
rofIu
Der was consumed, and the fire, extending to the
neighboring village of Houtzdale, caused consid-
erable additional damage. At last accounts the
fire was still raging. The loss in Osceola is esti
mated at $2,00O,000.
The Wisconsin State Republican Con-
vention will be held at Madison on Wednesday,
July z, for the nomination of State officers.
An appeal has been prepared by the
Illinois Humane Society for the organization of
societies throughout the Northwest for the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals. The headquarters
of the society are at 275 East Madison street,
Chicago, and the managers will forward to appli
cants such publications as may aid in the forma-
tion of State or local societies, and to this end it
invites correspondence. All letters should be
directed to Albert w. Landon, Secretary, at the
above address.
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women met at st. Louis on the 10Th. resolu
tion was adopted requesting the Constitutional
Convention in session at Jefferson City to incor-
porate a clause conceding the ballot to women
On the 21st fires were raging in the
forests around Osceola, Pa. Relief was greatly
needed for the suffering residents. Houtzdale,
six miles from Osceola,was also reported entirely
DESTROYED and the woods in the neighborhood on
fire.
The Sioux Indian delegation called
upon Secretary Cowan and Commissioner Smith
on the 21st, but nothing satisfactory was DONE
Some of the chiefs desired to change their hotel,
because where they were stopping they could OBJ
tain no firewatcr, but Commissioner Smith re-
fused to make the change
The lady pupils of st. Vincent's Insti-
tute, in New York city, have presented to Card-
nal McCloskey a $4,000 diamond cross.
On the 21st, at Philadelphia, the United
States Centennial Commission elected Gen.
Joseph r. Hawley President, and John L. Camp
bell Secretary Six Vice-Presidents and an Ex-
ecutive Committee were also chosen.
The mail contracts in which frauds
were discovered have been ordered to be re-
let.
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siders the prospects of trouble from the grass
hoppers in several of the Western States far less
gloomy than heretofore.
Ferdinand Myers has been appointed
Supervisor of Internal Revenue for the ST Louis
District, in place of Mcdonald, removed.
A sort of equine cerebro-spInal menin-
gifts prevails in St. Louis, and proves fatal in
many cases.
Dan O'Leary on the 22d concluded, al
Chicago, the unprecedented feat of walking SO
miles in 153 hours, . minutes and so seconds
He claims to be the champion pedestrian on
record.
The New York Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 22d.
According to Tyrone (Pa) dispatch
of the 23d the destruction caused by the fire at
Osceola and in the forests of that section had
largely exceeded previous reports. Scarcely a
vestige of the village remained
Several of the Sioux Indians at present
in Washington left the quarters assigned them by
the Government and went to the Washington
House 1t was thought that the negotiations for
the sale Of the Black Hills reservation might
fail.