Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-11-22

show Republican majority OF 4O,O00.
The Republican majority in Wisconsin is
about $4,000, and in Illinois about 10000,
the official figures being nearly complete.
A German, while out hunting, last Thurs
day morning, near West Bend, Wisconsin,
aecidently shot Mr.. A. Drake. killing him
almost instantly.
The Merchants Union Express Company
have opened an Office in Des Moines, Iowa.
| The result is q tremendous reduction in
rates by the old companies.
The Quincy Why of the 18th pronounces
the story Of the burying alive and subse-
quent rescue of woman near That city a
hoax originated by some unknown person.
Sportsmen have been deer stalking with
great success in Gratiot county. Michigan
Game is reported TO be very abundant in
that region. One gentleman was rewarded
with twenty eight deerskins in few days
hunting.
A man in Linn county, Kansas having
sold his farm ON the 9th instant, started
home with three thousand dollars in his
pocket, and was robbed of the money by
two ruffans as he was passing through the
woods
The number Of white male inhabitants in
Indiana, as returned to the Auditor of State.
agreeably to the act of the last Legislature,
IS 336, with Green county yet to be re-
ported.
The Chicago Times On the 18th came out
in an elaborate article, saying there is no
use trying to stay the tide of radicalism,
and advocating impartial suffrage without
regard to color, but with qualifications.
The move excites much comment.
The janitor of the Brown County (Ohio)
Court House, who was shot by the burglars
who blew open the safe of his Treasury of
that county, has since died of his wounds.
1t is likely that the men now charged with
the burglary will also be indicted on the
charge Of murder.
john P. Haley, an old and respected citi-
zen, met with an accident causing instant
death, at the railroad depot, on the 5th, at
Mt. Sterling, Illinois. In attempting to
jump off while the train was in motion,
Mr.. Haley missed his footing and fell be-
tween the cars upon the track. Two cars
passed over, nearly cutting him to pieces,
and killing him instantly.
rare family festival occurred in St.
Paul, GA Thursday, the 9Th. It was the
occasion of the marriage of young Ger
man citizen, ON the twenty fifth anniversary
Of the marriage of his father and mother,
and the iftieth anniversary of his grand
parents wedding, both of which couple we're
present, and took advantage of the occasion
tocelebrate their silver and golden we'd
dings respectively:
On Thursday, the 9Th, loaded gun fell
from the ceiling of the house of Mr. Cor
billie, of Bourbonnais, Illinois, and the
hammer striking on chair as it fell, the
contents were discharged in the direction of
g, window around which six children were
playing. Five of the children were hit by
the shot, and more or less cut by the broken
glass. Two of the children were very Sc
verely wounded, but probably not fatally.
The St. Joseph Htrazd ONO of the 10th
inst. says that an organized band of horse
thieves, counterfeit passers, and rascals are
now acting conjointly in Northwestern Mis-
souri,, Eastern Kansas, and Southern Ne 4
braska. The party are regularly organized,
with secret passwords and means of COM
munioation There are five grand divisions,
with headquarters respectively at St.
Joseph, Atchison, Heaven worth, Nebraska
City and Omaha. % ae'f
A case of premature burial is said to have
occurred recently q short distance from
Quincy, Illinois. A Mrs Mcclure, a farm
er'sw wife, was supposed to have died on Sun
day, the 4th, and was buried in a vault be-
longing to the family. On Wednesday
groans were heard from the vault, when
the husband and neighbors repaired thither,
and breaking open the door, opened the
coffin and found the woman alive She had
torn her hair and wounded her fingers in
vain efforts to escape from her narrow
prison.
On the night Of the 18th of October,
when Wells, Fargo & Co.'s fast freight stage
arrived at Crystal Lake, near the summit of
the Sierra Nevada, on the Bonner Lake
route, man who had been riding on the
back part of the stage walked into the
house, and she approached the fire he fell |
on the floor and expired. A doctor who
examined the body said the deceased had
been frozen to death. No one knew who
the person was, or where he got on the
stage; he had no baggage, and was only
protected from the cold by linen coat.