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


The Hon. Walter B. scates has been ap-
pointed Collector Of Customs for the port of
Chicago.
The railroad between Topeka and Leaven-
worth, Kansas, is completed, and a train
passed over it on the 14th.
There were seven deaths by suicide in
Cincinnati, last week, besides several other
fatalities. ~
There is great scarcity of all kinds of
mechanics at St. Paul, Mimi. Stone mas
ons and stone cutters are offered $45 per
day.
A Cincinnati despatch of the 14th says
"The frost last night killed the tomatoes,
sweet potatoes, bean vines, and a portion of
the strawberry vines"
A lumberman named Walker, of Wausan,
Wisconsin, had his legs crushed to jelly a
short time since. His comrades raised $500
for his assistance. zot
| General Mann has been confirmed by
the Senate as Collector of Internal Revenue
for the 1st district of Illinois, vice George
Schneider, removed.
4 Mrs. Rincher, of Cincinnati, Ohio. was
burned to death on Friday. She was using
coal oil to make the fire burn more rapidly,
when the vessel in which the oil was con-
tanned exploded, covering her with fame.
A little son was also fatally burned.
The works of the Marine Dock Company,
in carondelet, below st. Louis, were burned
on the 18th, together with the steamer Jen-
ME Deans. Loss in the buildings $50. 900.
and on the boat the same amount-no in
surance. The fire was the work of an in
cendiary.
The jackson County Owls. Banner reports
that 81. SIX indians recently attempted to MUIR
Ger family named Warren, residing in
that vicinity. The neighbors, however.
came to the. rescue, and drove the savages
oil before they had succeeded in accom-
pllshing their devilish purposes
a criminal, confined in the jail at Raven
na' Ohio, recently becoming obstreporous
| ana manageable, was effectually Quoted
| by the injection into his cell of two pounds
of chloroform. He was then pinioned. and
within eighteen minutes of the time the ex-
pertinent began, he was fully restored to
! consciousness - =
/ The Perry NJ onument, on Gibraltar rock.
/ the foundation stone Of which was laid with
imposing ceremonies, in the presence of !,
vast crowd from the Lake Erie cities and
towns, on the 10th of September, 1853. and
the second stone Of which was never laid.
is at last to be built, at the expense of jaw
| Cooke. who has purchased the island.
The Presbyterian General Assemblies.
| Old and New Schools, met at st. Louis on
the 18th. In the former the sermon was
preached by the Rev. DR.. John NJ. Lowrie !:
and in the letter, by the Rev. Shaw Buff
falo. The Rev. DR.. R. L. Stanton was
chosen Moderator of the Old School BODY.
and Prot. Hopkins, of Auburn, N. Y. of
the New School
The delusionist,' Vim. Hops, who was
long guest of Chicago visited his old home
a few days since. His seven children re-
side there, with the relatives of the murdered
| Mrs. Hops. The doors of the entire com
rnunity were closed against him. He ,Oas
not permitted to enter any house. His chill
dren would hold no communication with
him, and the miserable man turned from
the scenes of his former peaceful, happy
home, wanderer and an outcast upon the
face of the earth.
The railroad running from st. Louis to
Springfield, Mo-, was sold on the 18th inst.
to John C. Fremont for $1.3OO,OO0. Sew
enty-seven miles of this road have already
been completed. Its owners claim that it
will be worth $l2 10000 when completed
Four or five millions will be necessary to
finish it, This line is intended to be q part
| Of the route provided for the Southern Pa
cific railroad in the Senate bill reported bv
| Senator Brown of Missouri. Fremont obi.
| gates himself to finish it within four years
| from the. dale of purchase.