Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-11-01
The West.

The first snow Of the season fell at Chi
cago on the 23d Of October.
indianapolis is talking seriously about
adopting plans to furnish itself with an
abundant supply of pure water.
A sea wall, for the protection of portion
of the harbor of San Francisco, is to be
constructed at cost of $2,500,000.
A son, aged twelve years, of Judge No.
BILE. of McGregor, Iowa, was accidentally
shot few days ago, by another boy, and
died almost instantly.
M. Blot, the great French cook is now
instructing the ladies Of Chicago in the
mysteries of this @art of arts" Every
lady is required to take her own spoon fol
tasting. j III. 81 9saalGs33a a.ti 1sne
A man named Perry was recently caught
by Indians, near Ruby, City, Idaho. Wood
en- pins were driven through his body into
the ground, and then his legs and arms cut
off, in which position he was found
| Many of the wells in Lawrence, Kansas,
are so filled with grasshoppers as to..ender
the water unfit for use., The late warm
weather has caused the eggs to hatch to
such an extent that no apprehensions are
felt for the renewal of the grasshopper
plague next year. '
Widow Lear and her three daughters,
who live near Rochester, Indiana, were poi
soned few days since, by eating Siberian
crab apples--cooked ina copper kettle
which had not been used before for eight
years. The Oldest daughter, aged II, died
from the effects, and the. other was not ex-
pected to live when our informant left.
Gen. Sheridan accepts an invitation to
be present at meeting Of the Society of
the Army of the Tennessee, to be held in
st. Louis, November IA. Gen. Grant will
also be present. 1t is true that Gen. Sner-
man has been called to Washington, but
whether his presence there has any connec-
ton with Secretary Stanton's retirement
from the Was Office is not known ao9
A railroad bridge near Winona, Minneso-
ta, was discovered to be on FIRE the other
day, by a, farmer coming to town, who ex-
tinguished the flames Ky the aid Of barrel
of water that was kept on the bridge, but
he had some trouble in stopping an ap-
preaching train, which would have gone
through the bridge had he not succeeded in
warning the engineer, of the danger
The Ohio State Fair at Dayton, week be-
fore last, is reported to have been the most
remarkable ever held in the State.
The crowd WAS so great that the, sale of
tickets was suspended, and the clerks
turned gate keepers and took the money as
it came along. Forty thousand tickets
were sold up to three o'clock on the18th
inst, and fifty thousand persons were on
the ground most Of the afternoon. ''o 7af'
At Red Bud Mills, near Peoria, Illinois, OF,
the 18th, the house of George Grazier took
fire from the explosion of a kerosene lamn.
Mr.. Grazier was severely, if net fatally,
burned as was his oldest boy. But the
most heart-rending part of the whole tragic
afair.is the fact that his three youngest
children, 9 babe one year old, little girl
Of seven, and a boy of nine years, sleeping
In an adjoining room, could not be rescued,
and were all burned to death. ~ sloy %
Captain Fisk, in letter to Governor
Marshall, of MINI esota, says more than
5000 oeni grants have. been murdered by
Indians on Bowman's cutoff route, and the
whole route is strewn with fresh graves.
he ridicules the present disposition o