Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-11
The . West.

a The West. 1850"
The Legislature of Ohio has finally voted
in favor of admitting colored men to the
right of suffrage. rs asl.ao.a. Il ulia ae
Snow, seven inches deep, fell on the
Platte river, near Julesburg, on the Goth,
and during the storm there was the most
terrific thunder and lightning. I'd. T-s.-
| Captain Wetmore has received $1,000
damages from the Little Mama Railroad,
for an assault committed on him by a bag
gage-man armed with Ratchet.
Captain John Rowell, Of New York, is
building vessel, % feet long, to be pro
PEELED by four sails, arranged like the sails
of windmill, in which he intends to cross
the Atlantic. a1a.-rH1.a :erie.
Myron A. Sanford, a railroad clerk of
Chicago, poisoned himself on the 9Th inst.
He was drinking man, and had become
involved through gambling in grain. He
was respectfully connected, and the cause
of his downfall was liquor.
| 1t is proposed to rebuild the Lindell
Hotel, at St. Louis, not on its present site,
but some eight blocks further west on
| Washington avenue, near to the proposed
Union depot for the railroad crossing the
Mississippi on the bridge about to be built.
The Wisconsin Senate has passed, with
amendments, the bill for an Eight Hour law
which passed the House few days ago.
1t has also adopted the Assembly resolu-
| ton to amend the constitution so as to give
the franchise to women. --al"
At meeting held in st. Louis, on the
| 1st, to consider the feasibility of rebuild
ing the Lindell Hotel, burned on the even
ing of the 3Oth ult, 100000 were sub
scribed for that purpose, and next day
$4,000 more The work of rebuilding
has been commenced. 90
The leading bankers and capitalists of
San Francisco have purchased the steam
ships Idaho, Montana and Crgonian for the
purpose of placing line in opposition to
the steamers for New York gSG Panama.
It is understood the vessels have already
made connections on the Atlantic side.
Idaho advices of March Goth state that
Indian outrages on the Snake and Boise
rivers valleys are numerous. There is hard
ly stock enough left to work the farms
The Indians attacked the Owhyhee stage,
and killed the driver and two passengers.
The others escaped on the horses.
Advices from Utah and Colorado say
that the weather was intensely cold in
March, in some localities the mercury fall
ing forty degrees below zero. The snow
was very deep, and disastrous floods were
looked for in the mountain districts. A
large number of horses and cattle were
frozen to death. oit T.. ...7't
The Montana Post records the appear
ance of remarkable meteor that passed
over that neighborhood on the evening of
the 10th ult. 1t looked to be larger than
the 18th they had the most severe storm of
the season. The temperature all day was
below zero, ranging from one tc twelve de-
grees.
| Brigadier General James Bailey, Sheriff
of Vernon county, Missouri, was murdered
few days ago, in that county, by two ex-
rebel brothers, Lewis and Perry Pixley.
General Bailey was brevetted in conse-
quence of his engineering skill in saving
Commodore Porter's feet, up Red river, in
1864 The murderers are supposed to have
fled to Kansas. e .r,, .s.J.
A strike in the Chicago Times office, on
Friday evening, the 9Th, obliged that paper
to appear next morning on sheet of half
the usual size, to issue which the editors
themselves had to stick type" half the
night. The strike was caused by an I'M
equal distribution of the " fat" to remedy
which thirty-fve of the compositors joined
the Typographical Union in body, an
association with which the Tunes has
waged war for several years.
A child twelve years old, Louise Bark
haus, was most brutally murdered by her
father, in Chicago, on the 31st ult. She
was dying with meningitis, when she was
dragged from her bed, and fogged by her
inhuman parent with strap, SO that she
died in a few minutes, because, as he al
legged, she would not take her medicine.
Only day or two previously, he logged
her for over an hour. The coroners jury
in the case returned verdict in accord
ance with the above facts.
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