Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-05-24

construction to an immense audience. All
the leading politicians of the State and some
of the neigh boring States were in attend
ance. In his remarks, he deprecated the
restoration policy of the President and the
committee alike as unsatisfactory.
The strike of the New York ship carpen-
ters, joiners, and caulkers continues, and
the employers say if it lasts much longer
they will remove their business to other
ports. The average amount received
weekly as aid to the caulkers is from
81, 500 to $4,000. The Workingmen's
Union, it is said, are about to contract
loan of $25, 900 to the strikers.
While Mrs. Alice Warren, Of Burrillville,
R. 1, was away from her home the other
day, working in the factory, her two chill
dren, girl of four and boy Of six years,
were drowned in the mill pond while at
play. The mothers first knowledge of the
sad fact was seeing their bodies float down
past the nil where she was working. Her
husband was killed at Webster, Mass,
year ago.
There was severe gale on Sunday after
noon, the 18th, in the eastern portion Of
New York At Whitehall an engine house
was blown down; at Lake George the roof
of the Fort William Henry Hotel was carried
away; at Saratoga the small steamer on the
lake was driven from its moorlngs and much
injured, and a sand cyclone passed over
New York city occasioning much oonsterna-
ton, but little serious damage.
Another daring highway robbery was
perpetrated in New York On the afternoon
of the 18th. Mr.. J. Fl. Higgins, cashier of
E. S. Higgins & Co., carpet dealers, doing
business at Broadway, was proceeding
through Forty-third street, between Seventh
and Eighth Avenues, with a carpet bag con-
tanning SIG. 400, which he had just drawn
| from the bank for the purpose of paying off
the hands employed in the factory of the
firm, when he was brutally assaulted and
knocked senseless to the ground by o ruff
fan, who was Immediately joined by two
others, one of whom sprang from o butcher
cart and dealt Mr.. II. powerful blow on
the head with O heavy weapon. The rob-
bers then seized the bag, jumped into the
cart, in which was the third aceomplice, and
made off with their booty. After his recov-
cry from the shock, Mr.. Fl. was able to give
such q description of the Williams as to lead
| to the hone of their gneaCv
- Officer Kenney, of the Brooklyn police
discovered, ON the morning of the 18th, the
body Of a man floating near the Atlantic
Dock Company, in Buttermilk channel.
The body was secured, and Captain Thomp-
son was notified, who, on examination, be-
came satisfied thay4t was the body Of Pres
ton King, late Collector of Customs at New
York. The officers of the Gust M House
among them a nephew OF Mr.. King, have
examined the body, and unhesitatingly pro-
nounce it that Of the deceased Collector. A
cord was securely tied round his waist, his
hair was worn off his head, and mis- face
was much disfgured. The remains are now
10 the hands of his friends. An inquest
will be held on Thursday. The remains are
not much bic ated, and are less decomposed
than might have been expected, considering
the fact that they were in the water Just six
months and one day-the Collector having
thrown himself into the North river on the
morning of the 18th day of November, 1865