Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-09-10
THE NEW WORLD.

The United States Commissioner of Pat
entss j. M. Thatcher, has rendered his resigna-
ton, to take effect Oct. !.
After seven weeks idleness the Atlantic
cotton mills at Lawrence, Mass, started up on
the Both ult These works employ 1000 hands.
Gov. McCreery was inaugurated at
Frankfort, Ky, on the 31st ult.
By the explosion of can Of kerosene
ut Miles, Mich, on the 31st ult. an infant child of
Michael Glayn was burned to death and ten
year-old daughter so badly injured that fatal re-
suits were feared. The accident occurred in the
usual way-pouring oil on live Goals.
The public debt statement published
Sept. l shows, among others, the following facts:
Total coin bonds outstanding, $170S, 1893, 300; le
gal tenders. $374,315,565; fractional currency
$41 137O18; total debt, $2,266,3 08, 1926; cash in
Treasury, $40, 499637 debt less cash in Treasury
$2125, sos, 7S9; decrease during August, $685.
O49; decrease during the fiscal year commencing
June 3d. S2,879,Y36
Geo. A. Smith, Second President Of the
Mormon Church, died at Salt Lake on the morn
ing of the list, aged ffty-eight lie leaves five
widows and a large number of children. Dele
gate Geo. @. Cannon will succeed the deceased
On the list the Secretary of the Treasury
called in for redemption $13,OOO,O0O of $40 bonds,
interest ON the same to cease Dec. l, 1875.
Gen Gershom Mott has been appointed
State Treasurer of New Jersey in place Of SOoy,
charged with being defaulter
The fourth annual session of the Louis
isviIls CKy) Exposition began on the evening of
the lst..
Four children of M. Mier, of Ascension
Parish, La, died on the list, after taking dose
of French worm-lozenges.
An attempt was made on the I'd to inter
in the Catholic Cemetery at Montreal the re-
mains of Guibcrd, whose burial had been inter
dicted by ecclesiastical but directed by the civil
authorities. A mob of 1000 persons drove off
the hearse and its attendants.
Sooy, the defaulting Treasurer of New
Jersey examined on the I'd, and committed
o Jail in default of $4,000 bail. The deficit in
is accounts has been ascertained to be $44, f16
aAccorting to St. Louis dispatch of the
1st the Investigation OF the charges against
Indian Agent Gibson, at Usage Agency, Kansas,
had been concluded, and the Commissioners had
adjourned TO Lawrence to examine certain docu-
rnents and make up their report. The evidence
was said to be damaging, and it was thought his
removal would be recommended.
The Merchants Exchange Bank of San
Francisco resumed business on the I'd. An
nouncement was made that capital had been sub
scribed sufficient to pay all demands upon the
Bank of California and place the institution on a
sound basis
On the I'd the New York Herald pub
lished an account of an interview with Mrs.
Mosher, widow of burglar who was killed some
time ago, in which she declared her firm belief
that Charlie Ross still living. The trial of
Westervelt still in progress in Philadelphia.
There was great. exciteme nt over Mrs. Mosher's
statement
On the night of the list the Planters
National Bank of Louisvile,' KY, was robbed of
SifoOeO.f The teller, Louis Rhem, stated that
three men had taken him from his house during
the night, compelled him to go to the bank and
produce the keys to the safe which they robbed
The story was discredited by the officers
who charged him with the theft. He
declared his innocence, but finally con-
fessed that he was the thief and
had committed the robbery before midnight and
buried the money under his house. 1t was all
subsequently recovered and Rehm locked up.
Martha Williams, a colored servant girl
at Pleasant Hill, Mo-, was fatally burned on the
ID by the explosion of can of kerosene with
which she fastening the burning ola recalCitrant
fire.
San Francisco dispatches of the I'd in
dictated that the Democrats had carried the State
election of the preceding day on large plurality
and elected all of the four Congressman. 1t was
thought they had secured plurality if not ma
iorfty in both branches of the Legislature. In
San Francisco the Independents were thought to
have secured most of the officers.
On the evening Of the I'd the trial of
Harris, accused of attempting to incite insur-
rection, was concluded by verdict OF mot
guilty. No witnesses for the defense were in
troduced, the prosecution failing to show GRIM
inal intent In any of the acts with which the
prisoner was charged
Six men were hung on the same gal
lows at Fort Smith, Ark, on the 3d. for murders