Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-10-18


try exchanged $500, and afterwards found
herself like the man with the elephant-not
knowing what to do with her treasure.
The West.
Hudson, Wis, has been visited by third
fire, and the. only remaining hotel, the Boy
den House, was burned to the ground. ,ae
Norman B. Judd has been nominated by
the Republicans Of Chicago for Congress, as
successor to "Long John" Wentworth.
The United States Marshal has ferreted
out the haunts of a gang Of counterfeiters,
at St. Louis, and captured the parties.
A fast young man in Monroe, Iowa. got
his store, worth $1,000, insured for $4,000
and then burned it. He is in Jail waiting
trial.
Kit Carson, Breyet Brigadier General, has
been selected to command battalion of
New Mexican volunteers, organized for
mounted service along the northern frontier
of New Mexico.
Fifteen horses were burned to death in a.
livery stable at st. Paul, on the 18th. The
stable was entirely consumed, together with
its stock of horses, carriages, etc. Loss,
$4,000. ~~.r9 -
The lower House of the Oregon Legisla-
ture has declared the former action of that
body, in ratifying the Constitutional amend
ment, to be fraudulent, and the Secretary
of State has been authorized to transmit
the resolution on the case to Secretary
Seward.
Gen. Butler had a very narrow escape at
Berea, Ohio, on Monday. The rear car of
the train in which he was travelling had
been set apart for himself and friends, and
while occupied by them an express train
coming up, and which could not be stopped,
smashed into Buffers car, making splinters
! fly and throwing the occupants around pro-
miscuously. No one was seriously injured.
The st. Joseph (Mo.) Herald says with
the exception of stragglers from the rear
guard, the grasshoppers have departed from
that section, having done but little damage,
and are now moving off in a southeasterly
direction. But now comes new army from
the great plains--the locusts They origin
ated far west of the Rocky Mountains,
and are moving eastward with alarming
rapidity, and in vast numbers. The ad-
vance is said to be within forty or fifty miles
of Lawrence, Kansas.
Advices from New Mexico state that game
has almost entirely disappeared, and in
consequence the Indian tribes are starving.
AS matter of course the Indians have
made incursions upon the settlers stock, and
the settlers, scarcely appreciating the claims
of starving Indians, have resorted to the
rife, and blood has been shed on both sides.
The only thing, probably, that prevents a
bloody Indian campaign, is the very sensi-
BILE and humane plan already adopted for is
suing rations to the starving tribes.
A bold and daring robbery was commits
ted on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad,
near Seymour. Ind, on Saturday evening,
the 9th. Two robbers entered the car con-
tanning the Adams Express Company's 81 fes,
forced the messenger to give them the key,
and one of them opened it and took cut
fifteen thousand dollars in greenbacks
They then threw out another safe containing
twenty thousand dollars in gold, partially
stopped the train, and made their escape
The gold was recovered, but the robbers,
with the currency, are still at large.