Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-11-29
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| Chicago is now agitated by first class
mystery inthe shape of q haunted house.
Gen. Logan's complete official majority
for Congressman-at-Large from Illinois, is
S., 987. a.
The drawing Of the Crosby Opera House
| Art Association has been fixed for the 21st
of January next.
| Another serious confagration visited the
business portion Of Chicago, on the 18Th,
consuming $444, 900 worth of property.
| The farmers throughout Southern In
diana say that the present crop of hogs is
the largest and best fatted for the past Ave
/. years.
Passengers from Fort Riley will next
week be able to reach New York City in
seventy two hours, meeting with no delay at
St. Louis. II.
The recovery Of the Jacard diamonds,
and the arrest Of the thief by st. Louis de-
tectives, was effected within about twenty
| four hours after the robbery. d
| A number of Italian fruit vendors have
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been arrested at Cincinnati. for uttering
counterfeit of the new FIVE cent coin. The
counterfeit is well cast, bat is nearly all
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A recent survey of the Mississippi Rap
ids developed tho fact that navigation can
not be improved by digging the channel
The Commissioners report in favor Of a.
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! canal. s}'s ~. &
A man named H. S. 'Stearns killed himself
with Prdssic acid 1.-The Burtis House, Dav7
EXPORT, on Tuesday the goth. The same
day Mrs. II. Fl. Matteolz was found dead in
her bed in the same city. .t. /.
Charles Champagne, work man in
Princes saw mill, near ST.. Raul, onsSatur-
day, the 18th, fell against circular saw,
which cut his hand almost OFF at the wrist,
SO that it hung only by the skin.-
A Jail delivery occurred at heaYenworth
last week, in which nine prisoners suddenly
pushed open. the doors, overpowered the
guards, and escaped Tito the country. One
Of them was recaptured. s.,
In consequence OF the. change in the
route of the Union Pacific Railroad, a large
amount of land in Kansas and Nebraska
has been restored to entry and settlement
under the Homestead and Presumption laws.
A sister of John Morrissey has just been
discovered in Chicago in destitute circum-
stances, and beaten by her drunken hus-
band. AS soon as the Congressman elect
learned her condition and circumstances, he
sent her present of $3.50.
| The Chicago tunnel under Lake Michigan
was finished on Monday the Goth, amid
great rejoieIngs. The two ends met almost
perfectly, and the last earth was removedin
the presence of the Mayor and other civic
authorities. The tunnel, after bricking, is
Eve feet in diameter in the clear, and in a
few weeks steady stream of clear water, s
not warmer in midsummer than So degrees,
will refresh the inhabitants Of the Garden
city. 1t is intended to keep the tunnel open
for the next two or three weeks, IN order to
enable visitors to traverse its length, and
explore this great sublacustrine wonder.
A case has just come to trial in the SUI
preme Court at Cincinnati, in which suit
was entered seven years ago. It is an &C
ton for damages at $4,000, arising from
the destruction of the printing Office Of the
Free South, at Newport, in 1859, by mob.
The plaintiff is William S. Bailey, and the
defendants are Oliver w. Root, Charles Air,
O. M. Winston, and James Berry. Other
parties, who were originally accused, were
Barry Taylor and James Taylor, of New
port but they compromised the matter by
paying ST., 500 to Bailey. The Free South
was an abolition paper. The suit has been
in court for nearly seven years, the machi-
nations of lawyers and other causes of de-
lay having prevented sbeing sooner heard
The case derives interest from the fact that
| the defendants are of the best families in
Newport. It was decided by awarding Mr..
Bailey judgment for $500.
There was frightful locomotive explo-1
sion at Newburgh, Ohio, on the Atlantic
& Great Western railroad, on Tuesday,
the goth, killing Fred. Gardner, the en-
gineer, and James T. Green, the fireman.
GARDENERS body was thrown to tse left and
forward about $50 feet, while that Of Mr..
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Green was thrown to the right and forward
into an adjoining field 500 feet. the bodies
of both being lnangled beyond recognition.
The explosion was remarkable for its COM
pleteness. No one portion of the engine
gave way, but the whole Of it was broken
into thousand pieces and scattered in ev-
cry direction. One piece Of the boiler,
weighing about 800 pounds, was carried
eastward about 1000 feet, falling beside
two hay stacks in an adjoining field. An
other piece, 8x12 feet, Weighing near ton,
was carried about ], 900 feet westward, and
falling on the roof house, crushed through
the roof and down to the floor, dropping at
the feet of the Mortified woman of the house.
No one seemed to have any satisfactory the
DRY of the explosion. The locomotive had
been only two and half months on the
road.
The South.
The cattle disease is raging with singular
fatality in the country around Nashville,
Tennessee. On some farms, where Texas
cattle have been introduced, entire herds
have died.
shooting affair came off in Bardstown,