Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-23

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fenced for the crime of killing his vile.
He is quite old, and for the past five years
had been allowed privileges around the
yards, but he took advantage OF the conf
dence reposed ia him and skedaddled. He
was one of the first inmates of the prison.
The Missouri river steamer Denver, run
ming between ST. Joseph, Mo-, and Omaha,
Nebraska, was burned to the waters edge
at st. Joseph, on the 10th. Loss, $6O,00O.
She was one Of the finest steamers on that
river.
Patents have been received at. Madison
for 100, 600 acres of land, granted in aid of
the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal, and thirty
additional sections for the Fort Howard
military road. Patents for 100000 addi-
tional acres of swamp land Were expected
soon.
On the Sd inst, four settlers in Shirly
county, Kansas, were massacred by band
of Pawnee indians, and the wife of one OF
the settlers carried Off General Hancock
has sent troops to prevent further out
RACES. tits ttta@ n 1875 @7,l
The Victoria Colonist, the oldest and
most widely circulated journal of Vancou-
ver's Island, British Columbia, says, edito-
rally, April Goth: mine out of every ten
men in the colony, in their present state Of
wretchedness and poverty, would welcome
annexation to the United States. :" This
remark was called forth by rumor that
England was about to sell her possessions
to the United States
Advices from South America, by cable
from London, state that the Government
of Paraguay has accepted the prottered
mediation of the United States, though it
was uncertain whether the Allies would do
so or not Fe7 ."rs' %" ~ ta-a
Gable dispatches state that two sanguina7
ry battles have taken place, in Gambia, in
both Of which Omar Pasha was badly
beaten. His loss in both is estimated at
5000 men. The Great Powers have again
united in a petition to Turkey to cede
Crete to Greece. -----.,,..,,.
The rinderpest has again appeared in
England. ~ c~- 1at~tiJ 81
On the 18th, the new iron roof being
constructed at the Union Iron Works, Buff
falo, fell, killing five men and wounding
| fourteen aria ..r,4, ~ ....,..
| President johnson has accepted Ma
sonic invitation to visit Boston on the Oath
of next month, to attend q celebration
there. @HA T}9"fs1jTgE
A meeting of the corporators Of the
bridge to be built over East river has been
held in Brooklyn, for the purpose of or
ganizing under the act of the late Legisla-
ture, and it is understood that the company
will proceed without delay to make ar
rangements for the grand work before
them.
The deficiency in the accounts of the
Assistant Treasurer at New Orleans is
about $1,000,000. All the parties impli-
Gated have turned over their private prop.
erty to the Government 1t is thought
that the Government will not be a loser to
any considerable extent. The Govern
ment deposits in the National banks in
New Orleans are less than the securities
held therefor ......t ..-...,
The friends of jeff. Davis, in Washing
ton, rendered Horace Greeley an ovation
as he passed through that city on his way
home, but he excused himself from accept
ing it, a e..
The Suez canal is rapidly approaching
completion, and it is expected to be ready
for large ships in few months.
Secretary Seward has received dispatch
from st. Petersburg stating that the Rus
sian-American treaty has been ratified
The British steamship Florida, from
Liverpool, bound to Alexandria, Egypt, is
supposed to be lost, with all on board, num-
bering 81.
/ Intelligence has been received at London
that the bark Rover was wrecked in the
Chinese Sea. February 18th, and that all
the crew who escaped from the wreck, with
the exception of one, were murdered by
the natives. 4sjs.s tI....l.r
Senator Doolittle has been sent on
special mission to Russia, and has also
authority to treat with Denmark for the
purchase of the island of St. Thomas, in
the West Indies tr'toti,
A miniature ocean ship, twenty four feet
long, of two tons measurement, aid whose
whole crew will consist of two men, was
placed on exhibition in Baltimore on the
9Th, previous to setting sail for France to
be entered at the Exposition. 3, ~
The death sentence passed on Col Burke,
the Fenian, has been committed to ilnpris-,
for life at hard labor.
While Judge Kelley was addressing a.
large colored meeting in Mobile, on the
evening of the 18th, riot occurred, dur
ing which shots were freely fired, and sew
eral persons killed. '''' = q '''''~
. A serious riot occurred at Brownsville,
Tenn, on the 18th, at the Radical Conven-
ton. Three negroes and two whites were
shot, but not fatally. Reports as to its
origin are conflicting a agt~ ma
A company of troops is repoI ted to have.
been defeated, and forty of their number
killed by the Indians, in Arizona rE3
The reported massacre of the crew of
he steamboat Miner" on the Upper Mis-
ouri, proves to have been an unfounded
loax. .-
Moses A. Hawks, who is charged with
laving murdered his wife to get the insur,
nee On her life, has been indicted at st.
PAUL for murder in the first degree.
A most terrific boiler explosion occurred
n the 18th inst, on the steamer Lansing