Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-02-21
The West.

III y EIhe county treasury OF AElron scqunJy
Iowa, was robbed Of $40, 000last week.
. .ossg The Minnesota House has passed bill
bra proposing an Sarhendn1entt to the Constitu
- g,b,4I ton, striking out the word "wlite," with
out dissenting voice. .o.aa. "a, ie
10 qo1s! A tenant house on the corner Of Central
IT y avenue and Melancthon street, Cincinnati
containing dozen families, was destroyed
by. fire on the 18th inst One person was
- -@burred to death. 81 81
S 1870, \ a general flood has pervaded the West
.s,- : and q large part of the country, more Sc
-.5si we're than for many years, carrying of
81 ,sf bridges, suspending travel, and damaging
i4o, property to a great extent 3altq I'll a.,
~nrld Hart e. Stewart, the defendant in the
late notorious divorce case publishes q
card, announcing that, as his character was
NJ fully Ivindicated in. the late trial. he shall
IL not contest the new trial just granted, but
'0~ allow the suit to go by default ~ n
502&A A treaty has just been concluded with
the Stockbridge Indians, by which they
relinquish the lands now occupied ythem
RI in Wisconsin. A portion of the tribe have
become citizens, and the remainder will
.2Iil continue their organization.
h9ia747 On Thursday evening, the 18th, in Chi
,.;i.5 cage, Mr. James G. Hamilton was shot by
-as his nephew and ward, Edward b. Hamil-
-79 ton, a lad aged Is years, whom he had
brought up as if he was his own son. The
81 wound is not dangerous. When asked why
he shot his uncle, he answered, he was
always scolding me-"
..l. A San Francisco dispatch OF the 18th
says: GA large and beautiful meteor was
observed by MANY persons in this city at
f.. sis yesterday Owing to the sunshine,
its size was not closely defined. The tele-
graph reports that the same meteor was
s, seen at Gilroy and Jacksonville, accom-
esHL panied by q tremendous noise and heavy
- ground shock" ,a
-.5, s The editor of the Salt Lake Vedette, who
arrived on the 18th at Topeka, 0iG the
Smoky Hill route, states that at Downer's
esrl Station there were 1000 Indians, who had
i'a- met other tribes to decide on war or peace
One old chief, who appeared friendly, told
Cd the coach driver if he wanted to save his
-i"' life he had better leave the line before the
grass grew A lady was told, at one of
.r27 the stations, by the principal Chief that he
ao14f'- would have her for his sqauw before long
o., .,,.. i, Henry j. Allen, alias Jno. H. Sergeant
ssa7l charged with perjury and bigamy in Rock
q % county, Wis.,, was arrested at Des Moines,
Iowa, on Thursday. He is also charged
with having, under an assumed name,
sworn to his own death, in order that
his wife might draw $4,000 from the
.vs-,t Hartford Accident Insurance Company
When arrested he was the holder of in
surance policies to the amount of nearly
$6,000.Tacer IA rrrprrr3
sIu 3 M. A. Hawkes., who shot his wife, appa-
= - rently by accident, in st. Paul, last Au-
Vi. } gust, while cleaning his revolver, has just
a.'as been arrested in Chicago for her murder.
., Her life was insured for $1,000 forh his ben
Ditto eft; and strangely enough, it now appears
that she is the second person he has shot
"by accident" A man named Hastead
was shot BY him while they were out snipe
fgshooting,a year previous-Hawkes gun,
singularly enough, containing fourteen
buck-shot. B'a8ag9- 81