Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-06-13

sentedsas a bosom friend of Macmillan,
sold out the entire Imperial concern for
$4,000 in hard cash, and the work of
treachery was arranged so completely and
carried out so successfully that Macmillan
and his entire force, bag and baggage, were
handed over to Escobedo without hostile
shot being fired Macmillan acted his
part heroicaAy HE sent his sword to Els
cobedo, STIMULATING that he should not be
subjected to insult, but awarded the con-
sideratien due TO a prisoner and that iflapy
one must be shot, he should be the first led
to execution Up to the latest 'advicesn no
executions had taken place. ~ Escobedo
says that $4,000 prisoners surrendered, in
Guiding thirteen general officers and five
hundred officers Of inferior grades. 81
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The report that the Second National
Bank Of st. Louis has failed isuntrue.I -
5 Z A Convention is called at Cleveland
ON the 10Th, of July ,nexts to adopt the
GENITAL system.
=. S. B. Hampstead, the Panora mail rob-
Der, has been removed to Fort Madison
for safe Keeping sas Ia 5aa 79,-..ee.
Rails are laid forty miles beyond the
point named, but travellers to Denver are
conveyed from there instages. GA II i0E
A majority Of the managers ct the: street,
railways in St. Louis have. resolved to adj
mt colored. persons to all their cars; -.
'N An extensive fire occurred in Warsaw,
Ind, on the 18Th, destroying the Wright
House and other property to the amount M y
of from $4,000 to, 100000. s,socaya al l..
In The steamer Miner, reported to have
been captured and destroyed by Indians,
some weeks ago, on the Upper Missouri,
has been definitely heard from. i.,al ,s-.4 /
Thirty million feet Of logs, valued at
three hundred thousand dollars, went over
the Falls of st. Anthony on the 18th, in con-
sequence of the breaking Of the main
poon' ugG.t3ts If III 10 hf,ygaL i'm a.y...'
- At San Francisco, on the; Sd, the eight
hour labor system was quietly inaugurated
by the different Trades Unions of that city!
The procession was one Of the largest ever
witnessed in San Francisco. - al, -ss.-
A dispatch. from the North Platte river,
three hundred and five miles west of Oma-
ha, Nebraska Territory, announces the safe
arrival there of Senator Wade's excursion
party, all in good spirits. ,.a''' ~
>, At Des Moines,- on the sSth, the jury, in
the case of VIM. S.. Reeves, indicted in
Warren county, Iowa, for killing his little
child by strangling her, gave a verdict of
not guilty, after long deliberation.
On the 7th inst. three Chicago ruffians
decoyeda young woman, who was insearch.
of work, into. a boat on Lake Michigan,
and, after brutally ,outraging her, deft her
on the breakwater. The fiends are still
at large.
The heaviest thunder storm ever known
in Cincinnati passed over that city on the
4th, doing considerable damage to the
streets, and filing the cellars with
water Several houses were struck by
lightning. ''' ~ .''' 'a@' 81
The Council Bluffs NonpdreG of the 4th
contains an account OF fresh Indian out
RACES of a startling nature. A Western
dispatch says !" The mail coach on the
Smoky Hill route was fired into near Big
Timber, a few days ago, and again near
Russell Station The former station was
attacked three nights in succession. q.
The Directors. of the Western Union
Telegraph Company have unanimously re-
solved, in behalf of that gigantic corpora
ton, to accept the provisions of the Ma
tional Telegraph law passed by the last
Congress. By this action OF the Directors,
the Government acquires the right to pur-
chase the company's lines and property,
at a valuation TO be fixed by a commission
of FIVE persons, two. Of whom shall be,
chosen by the, company, two by the Gov
eminent, and one by the, four. This opens
the way for cheap telegraphing at no dis
tant day. ."7i"
The Indian war begins to assume reality.
General Sherman has Withdrawn all the
troops to the south side of the Platte river,
between Forts MCPHERSON and Sedgwick.
Stages are withdrawn from thai portion of
the route, and ranchmen are advised to
cross to the north side. General Sherman
will probably abandon his expedition to
the heart of the Indian country, and for
the present concentrate his forces for the
projection of thestage and railroadToutes.
He admits the great necessity of fully pro-
tecting these lines of communication at all
hazards, and has not troops enough to spare
for wild-goo Sc expeditions. 49,. 81.
8sus <a9y The g1ast.oiJ ri 7gBgo
Two cases of,genuine cholera are arer
ported in Roosevelt street, New York.
The Massachusetts Legislature adjourned
sine die, Saturday evening, June /, after a
session Of five months aH1 e atts
The execution of Gottlieb Williams, for
the murderer Mrs Miller'of Philadelphia,
in September last, took place in 'Moya.,
mensing Prison Williams made no con- i
fession rs,e5- i .-.e,l La
At Albany, on the 4th, Hon. l.. Harris
Hisoox, a member of the New York Con
stitutional Convention, was shot dead at
Stanwix Hal, by a man who talks deliber-
ately of the deed, and says he can justify it.
In Philadelphia, on the 9th, a steam boil
er in the manufacturing establishment in
the rear of 204 Chestnut street exploded,
the whole building, which was
five stories high and $50 feet deep Thir-
teen dead bodies have, been taken m from
tho r1ins, and seven more persons are miss |