Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-11

| company, liabilities S5UJ,tUU; Inc EaSDerDOOK
Steel-Pen Company, capital $4,000; Judson
| Bros, pork packers, New Haven, Conn. liabili-
ties 100000, assets $4,000.
The Michigan Republican State Con-
vention to select delegates to the National Re-
publican Convention will be held at Grand
Rapids on the 10th ofMay. A State Central Com
mittee will also be chosen.
A writ of hG6eGS corpus, returnablc at
White Plains, y. Y, Feb. s. was issued on the list
| in the case of Edward S. Stokes, the murderer of
James Fisk, Jr.
The Connecticut Republican State Con-
ventioD will meet on tue 29th inst The Demo-
cratic Convention of the same State will meet on
the 23d.
The list OF churches called to the Ad-
visory Council to be held in Plymouth Church
Feb, Is, comprises III churches of New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Ohio Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Minnesota. Missouri, Kansas and the Dis
trict Of Columbia, besides several prominent cer-
| gymen without charge.
A terrific gale occurred along the At
lantic coast and back in the country, on the
morning of the I'd. Considerable snow fell in
| some sections and great damage was done by the
wind The shipping along the coast suffered
considerably. Many buildings were blown down.
and large number were unroofed The damage
| done at Baltimore exceeded $4,000, and at AL.
bany, N. Y, 100000. The Centennial buildings
| at Philadelphia were badly damaged.
Nine of the parties recently convicted
and sentenced, at indianapolis, for completely in
whisky frauds, were placed in the State Prison at
| Jeffersonvie, Ind, the evening of the I'd.
Prior to their present trouble the prisoners occu-
pied high positions and were numbered among
| the best citizens of Evansville.
The United States Supreme Court has
decided that the Winslow patents for putting up
| and canning green corn are null and void, the
principle involved having been anticipated by an
| English tent
At meeting of the Republican Con-
| gressional Committee, held on the evening of
| the 3D., Simon Cameron was chosen Chairman
ard Judge Edmunds Secretary. An Executive
Committee was appointed. consisting of Messrs
| Logan, Platt of New York. Rusk of Wisconsin,
| S. w. Dorsey, j. r. West, Hubbell of Michigan,
! Cragin of New Hampshire, and Sinnickson of
| New Jersey.
The Kansas Legislature has passed an
act giving bounty of five dollars per bushel for
| grasshoppec eggs and fifty cents per bushel for
young grasshoppers.
Gen. Sherman has written a letter to
| Private Dalzell, member of the Ohio Legisla-
| ture, in which he says: 81 never have BEEN am
| not now, and never will be a candidate for the
high office of President before any convention of
the people," He expresses decided preference
for Gov. Hayes, of Ohio for that Office.
A New York dispatch of the Sd saws
all the leading coal companies had agreed to sus-
pend mining operations from Feb. to March Il.
The motion to quash the indictment in
the cases of Messrs Hesing and Rehm, the Chi
cago politicians indicted for completely in the
whisky frauds, argued on the 4th, and denied
| by Judge Blodgett, of the United States Court.
| Their trial was set for March 7.
The Rialto paper mills, at Port Union,
Ohio, were burned a few days since The loss is
estimated to reach $250,000.
On the night of the 4th, the Examining
Committee of Plymouth Church received letter
from Henry c. Bowen, in answer to the COM
plants of Mr.. S. V. White, a member of said
Committee. III this letter Mr.. Bowen expresses
his belief in the guilt of Mr.. Beecher, as charged
| by Messrs. Tilton and Mou.ton, and challenges
the church to appoint its own committee to in
vestigate openly and vigorously his (Bowen's)
words and deeds, either in or out of the church,
from the day Of his birth to the present hour. The
| Committee prepared letter to Mr.. Bowen, sum-
monisg him to appear before them on the evening
of the Sth to give proof of the assertions contained
| in his letter.
The jury in the case of Land is on trial
for the murder, some time ago at Vineland. N. j.,
of an editor named Uri Carruth rendered YER
| dict on the night of the 5th, finding the defend
ant SC not guilty. byreason of insanity,
| Miss Won Hillern Ia German woman)
|
days. pedestrian match in Chicago on the evening
| of the 5th, the latter winning the contest by
about two miles. The distance walked by the
winner was 233 9-10 miles. Both were we'll ex-
| hausted by their tramp, the winner being more
ssed up of the two.
The Secretary of the Southern Histori-
cal Society, replying to Secretary Beknap's letter
in relation to official records, says the people of
the South anxious that the whole of their Of
| fetal records should be given to the world and
that the Society he represents wonld heartily CO.
| operate with the Department in obtaining miss
ing Confederate documents, only STIMULATING that
| the War Department will afford the Society SINH
lar facilities in the prosecution of itswork.
| A false alarm of fire, in a crowded opera
house in Cincinnati on the afternoon Of the 5th,
| caused shocking calamity A large number of
| ladies and children had gathered in Robinson's
| Opera House to witness the "Allegory OF the
Great Republic" given by j. M. Hagar, assisted
| by large number of public school children. just
as the performance was about to begin, some one
in the balcony raised the cry of fire. and the
crowd in the gallery rushed for the doors Those
in the lower part of the house were unable TO
move because of the rush down the stairways
from above. AT the door of the building four
women and five children were trampled to death
or otherwise killed, and several others were
seriously injured.
| The dwelling house of George Heindle,
living Fear Hollowayville, Ill, was burned on the
night of the 4th and Mr.. and Mrs. Heindle and
| two young children persisted in the flames. The
olde daughter, young lady nineteen years
| old, escaped by leaping from the roof in her
| nght-clothes.
| A call has been issued for a Greenback
Convention to be held in New Haven, Conn.,, on
the 22d, " to take such steps may be necessary
to force both political organizations to recognize
| the voice of the people in the coming
| paign.h
Jefferson Davis has lately written
letter to Judge Lyon of Richmond Va, in which
! he denies that Union soldiers at the South were
treated with premeditated neglect and cruelty.
| He says: at is admitted that the prisoners in
our hands were not as well provided for as we
would like to have had them. Can the other side
| say much?' etc. With regard to the question
of amnesty he says he has no view of the future
which makes it desirable to him to be in
| cluded in an amnesty bill, and adds: Viewed
| Ill the abstract, or as a general question,
would be glad to see the repeal of all
laws infiicting the penalty of political disabili-
ties on classes of people; that it might, as pre-
scribed by the Constitution, be left to the courts
to hear and decide the cause, and to afix the
penalties according to pre-existnc legislation >,