Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-08-23
The West.

Inc Typographical Union NO. L. OF In
dianapolis, has forwarded on for the relief
of the Portland printers, fifty dollars.
A woman at Oshtemo, Mich, on Sunday
cut the throats of her two children and then
served herself in the same manner
The telegraph states that some one in
Chicago has sent to the Treasury fourteen
thousand dollars as belonging to the Gov
eminent
A mammoth iron company has been or
ganizing in San Francisco with capital of
$50, 100000. Eighty ships are loading in
that city with wheat for England.
On Thursday night, the 10th, the dead
house, situated near the United States Ar
senal, at St. Louis, was fired and totally
consumed, together with FIVE bodies.
That portion of Laporte county lying
few miles east Of Michigan City. was visited
on the 10th by one of the most terrific storms
that has ever been witnessed in that neigh
borhood.
Near Houston, Minnesota, about twenty
miles west of La Crosse, thirty persons were
drowned by sudden rise Of Root river.
Twelve bodies have been recovered and
buried.
The heavy rains during the first half of
this month have severely affected the wheat
crop, and the market is higher in conse-
quence. In Chicago, the weather reports
carried it up II cents in one day.
A Kansas paper says: "Two men of the
horse thieving fraternity danced in the air
on Lightning creek one day last week They
Immediately retired to hole in the ground
after their exercise"
The cholera seems to have reached its ex
IRENE point of fatality in Cincinnati, and is
now on the decline. The number Of deaths
has fallen from Sc to So In St. Louis it is
still on the increase, and on the 18th,
there were 161 cases and 81 deaths.
It is reported that Gen. Fremont will be a
candidate for the United States Senate from
Missouri, provided the next Legislature is
radical. The General can hardly claim a
years residence in Missouri, though his
friends claim it for him.
The Detroit Tribune understands that Rev.
w. L. Armitage, of st. Johns church, has
accepted the call to the Episcopal bishopric
of the diocese of Wisconsin, recently ten
dered him, subject to certain conditions
which will undoubtedly be fulfilled.
1t is seriously asserted by some of the
most eminent and scientific men in the
medical profession that the disease known
as Asiatic cholera has not made its appear
ance this summer in any part of the United
States. The deaths that have been reported
in number Of cities as having occurred
from cholera have been the result, if the
opinion of those gentlemen is correct, Of a
malignant type of dysentery or 3" cholera
morbus."
Mr.. Brennan, an industrious German cit
zen of Carlinville, ILL.,, was slightly bitten
upon the arm, by his dog, some eight weeks
ago. He shot the dog, and thought no
more of it until Friday, the 10th, when
the horrible symptoms began to be devel-
oped. Without describing their well known
manifestations, we will only mention that
the mad stone owned by Mr.. Sam. Tribble,
of Piasa, was sent for, and applied on Sun
day morning, without producing any favor
able effect. The man died in two or three
hours after its application.
The people of Milwaukee are good deal
excited by, reason of big swindle just
practiced on them by a grand gift enterprise
which has been Furnishing in that town for
some time under the firm name of Lud-
lum, Hale & Co. One hundred thousand
tickets were to be sold at one dollar each,
and the grand prize was advertised at
$4,000, with numerous smaller ones.
Seventy five thousand tickets had been sold,
when the managers suddenly reached the
conclusion that it would pay best to leave,
and they did it-since which nothing has
been discovered.