Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-09-27
The West.

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the Allegheny the boundary line.
The West
Large and important Methodist Confer
ence gatherings are in progress in Iowa.
The grand lodge of Good Templars for
the State of Illinois convened at Decatur,
on the 18th. 1t is their fourteenth annual
session.
The billiard tournament for the benefit
of the Soldiers Widows and Orphans
Fund opened on the afternoon of the 23d,
at Brunswick's, Chicago.
The st. Louis Chamber of Commerce
has appropriated $1,000 for the yellow fe-
yer sufferers in New Orleans, and appoint
ed committee to solicit individual sub
scriptions.
The distillery run by Funkhouser & Ball,
at Lafayette, Ind, was seized by Govern
ment officer on the 10th, for defrauding the
revenue. 1t was placed in the hands of a
receiver. The amount involved is stated
variously at from fifteen to fifty thousand
dollars.
Advices from the West indicate that hos
tile Indians are again active on the lines OF
travel on the Plains and in Montana. The
inhabitants of that territory are loudly de-
manding aid from the Government to stop
the outrages, or for authority to do it them
selves.
George L. Van Solen, night clerk at
the Wheeler House in Chicago, was arrest
ed on Saturday, charged with the murder
of DR.. Henry Harcourt, near St. Paul,
Minnesota, two years ago. The details OF
the plot, show an audacious GOODNESS gel
dom paralleled in criminal annals.
A special dispatch from st. Louis dated
the 10th inst, says: Nearly one hundred
deaths from cholera have occurred here
during the past two weeks, arising, doubt
less, from the indiscreet conduct Of of the
Board of Health, in resembling the order
relating to the sale of vegetables, &c
Mike McCoole and Aaron Jones, who
are stopping at the Southern Hotel in St
Louis, are having high old time there
They give grand sparrlng exhibition on
| Saturday evening, and after that begin
their starring excursion among the roughs
and plug uglies of the principal cities.
Hon. F. Redman, Secretary of State fol-
Missouri, visited the Office of the WestIscht
Post, on Thursday, the 10th, and used abu
sive language to one of the editors, which
resulted In terrific personal fight. After
pummelling each other for several minutes
the combatants were finally separated by
Carl Schurz, the editor-in.c chief OF the
Post
A special from Omaha says the Indian
Peace commissioners consider the result OF
the meeting at North Platte as satisfactory
beyond their anticipations. No Indian
Chiefs left the Council Disguised, as re-
ported, but all express friendliness, and
voluntarily offered to go and advise the
hostile Chiefs to meet the Commissioners.
The Kiowas, Camanches, Arapahoes, and
other Southern tribes, express desire for
| peace
A special telegram from Port Huron,
Mich, says that the tug W. K. Muir, while
towing some vessels past the mouth OF
Black river, at about 10 o'clock on the
night of the 18th inst, suddenly collapsed
her flues with such terrific violence that
her boilers were thrown to the forward
part of the vessel, and such damage done
to her hull that she sunk in ten minutes.
Her crew in officers and men numbered IL,
and of these, seven were instantly killed,
and the other five severely injured, one OF
them fatally.
A prominent citizen of San Francisco
has offered, upon certain conditions, to give
$4,000 for the foundation of Labor
Exchange"-an Institution for the protec-
ton of labor, and the advancement of in
dustry; place where every one who
seeks employment can find it without fee
or reward; where the minutest informa
ton and statistics respecting every branch
of industry shall be collected and impart.
ed gratuitously, SO that every one may
learn without expense where his labor OF
services are needed.