Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-09-27

committing the act, she made mourning
dresses for her children, bound her hus-
bands hat with Grape, and laid out her own
burial clothes.
Among the prominent officers who have
signifed their intention to be present at the
Pittsburgh Soldiers Convention are Gener-
ais Burnside, Logan, Butler, Banks, Geary.
Schurz, Governors Oglesby, Cox, Fairchild,
and many others. A wigwam is being con-
structed at Pittsburgh for the occasion,
which will hold 10000 persons.
A man named De Canine was accidentally
run over by q train of cars at the Elizabeth
IN. J. depot, on Wednesday last, and was
mangled in SO shocking a manner that his
heartrending solicitations to be put out Of
world were complied with, and he was shot
through the head. The injuries he had re-
oeived were past surgical aid. &a
Stephen H. Phillips, of Salem, Massa-
chusetts, formerly Attorney General of that
State, who went out to California last spring,
has received and accepted an appointment
as Attorney General in the Government of
| the Sandwich Islands. The salary of the
office is $4,000 year, in gold, with the
privilege, also, Of practicing in the Adni-
rally Courts Of the Islands.
Eminent Catholic clergymen are already
arriving in New York from the Pacific coast,
to attend the second Catholic council, which
is to be held in Baltimore during October,
and over which Archbishop Spalding has
been delegated by the Pope to preside.
The4object of the council is to regulate the
discipline Of the church in this country, and
to arrange some systematic plan fer the
| education of the Catholic youth. Forty
one bishops and other prelates. and one
hundred priests, will take part in the de-
alterations. a.sa.a.rra .,s.a3 1.ss..4.,.
A shocking murder vas perpetrated in
Worcester, Massachusetts, on the 18th.
| Shortly after that hour an alarm of fire was
| given, and it was found that barn near
the house Of one Thomas Fallon was On FIRE.
The man Fallon helped to put out the fire,
and while engaged with others in doing so
| some one went into his house and found his
wife lying insensible and covered with blood,
which had proceeded from wounds in her
| head. The cry of murder was raised,
and on hearing it Fallon attempted to es-
cape, but was arrested. He did not deny
the crime, and said that he had used brick
bat in making the murderous attack. Mrs
-allon died about five o'clock the same
morning.
The pail Of gloom hangs over Johnstown
Almost every house is q hospital, and those
Of the Inhabitants uninjured are busiIy en-
gagged attending the wounded. The ten or
twelve surgeons of the place ere worn
down with their labors, and are to be re-
lieved by surgeons from Pittsburgh and
neighborhood. There have been seventeen
deaths in all, and fifty amputations. The
number of wounded is three hundred and
seven, four ffths Of them having fractured
limbs and internal injuries. A citizens
meeting, to furnish relief to the sufferers,
was held on Saturday evening, the 18th, at
which the following donations we're an
nounced: President Johnson, $500; Maj.
Gen. John W. Geary, 5000; D. j. Morrell,
Union candidate for Congress in the district,
5000; Cambria Iron Works Company,
$1,000. The platform which caused the
accident was supported by GLOVE Truss"
and is reported to have been sufficiently
strong for ordinary purposes.