Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-03-17
THE NEW WORLD.

The Catholic institution in Brooklyn
N. Y, known as the House for Aged People, was
Burned on the morning of the 9TH. The building
contained 1876 inmates. When the flames had
been distinguished eighteen were found to have
persisted in the upper stories of the building.
Gen. Francis Fessenden, son of the late
ex-senator Fessenden, and the Republican can.
didatc, was recently elected Mayor of Portland
Me, by n mSjority of 526 in total vote of 5,9fS
At eleven O'Clock, on the night Of the
9th, II terrible railroad accident occurred on the
Harper's Ferry branch of the Baltimore 81 Ohio
Railroad, siXty-three miles from Baltimore,
which caused the death of eleven persons and
the manning of many Others A way-freight
train with passenger Car attached, was on its
way north, and when crossing the bridge over the
Shenandoah Valley, at a narrow passage, the
structure gave way, the whole train being pre-
cptated into the river below. The bridge was
1872 feet high and about 200 feet long
Judge Taft, Of Ohio, has been ap-
pointed to the position of Secretary of War, and
has accepted the appointment.
A call has been issued for a Republican
State Convention to be held in Des Mones, Iowa,
May 81 to select delegates to the Republican
b National Convention, and to nominate State Of
fcers.
Mai. Richards, Chief of Police in
Washington formally arrested Gen. Belknap on
the Sth, and brought him before the Police Court
where he gave bail in the sum of $4,000 to APP
pear when wanted
The Michigan Democratic State Con-
vention will be held at Lansing on the oath o,
May
'f In the civil suit of the City of New
FOrt ~,
plaintiff, on the 8th, for S6,537,117.
The Connecticut Reformers met in State
Convention on the OH, and placed in nomination
the following ticket Fer Governor, Charles At
water Lieutenant-GO CrnOr, Francis Gillette;
Secretary of State, Lucien " Penny; Treasurer,
Loren f. Judd; Comptroller, John IL.
Peck. The platform demands the unconditional
repeal of the Resumption law; the abolition OF
the National Bank system; the receipt of green
backs for customs, and the issue of intercOn-
vertible bonds bearing rate of interest suff-
cicntly low TO keep them, and consequently green
backs at par with gold
The wife of Senator Burnside died at
Providence, r. l., on the 9th.
The California Republican State Con
vention to select delegates to the National Con
vention will be held April 26.
On the 9th heavy SHOWS were reported
along the line of the Central Pacific Railroad
The track had been blocked for twenty-foul
hours, The drifts being in some places 100 feet
deep.
The Judiciary Committee of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature has reported against Parton's
petition for special act legalizng his recent
marriage.
The village of Hazel Green, located in
the southeast corner of Grant County, Wis, near
the Illinois line, visited by tr, mendous tor
nado on the afternoon of the 1oth. ---=nty-fsrs
buildings were lcveled. to the ground, and eight
persons were killed outright. Several were Sc
verely injured.
The Iowa House Of Representatives, on
the 10TH passed bill for the restoration of CAPT
tai punishment by vote of So to AZ.
Mr.. Taft, the new Secretary of War
was sworn in, at Washington, on the Eth, aud
formally entered upon the duties of his office.
The Iowa Senate, on the 10th, for the
second time rejected the proposed Woman. Suf
.frage amendment to the State Constitution
ana A severe storm struck Elizabethtown
Mo-, on the evening of the 10th, which destroyed
seventeen houses, killed five persons and injured
several others. AT Hassard, Mo- three dwelling.
duu tHC uopOb WeIS DlOWn UOWn, ana
three persons were killed. Much damage t.
property was done at California and other points
in the State.
= A report prevailed in San Francisco or
the 18th that arrangements had been completed
for the Government to have the product of tn
Virginia and California mines for tie year, an,
apply it to the resumption of specie payments
r. The sale had been completed, but the details hat
not been entirely settled
during the recent severe storm at Du
~~nuque, Iowa, hailstones fell which are said t
nave measured four inches in circumference.
at is said that Gen. Sherman recent,
told St. Louis reporter that he would decline