Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-09-20
The West.

The West.
Chicago is overrun with young men out
of employment.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company's
artesian well at Julesburg has reached
depth Of five hundred and fifty two feet,
and is, going down at the rate of thirty feet
per day.
The State Agricultural Fairs in Illinois,
Indiana and Iowa ali occur at the same
time this year, namely, on the week COM
mencing September Both and closing Octo-
Der 5th.
Three exceedingly disastrous cenfiagra.
tons visited Chicago on the 18th, destroy
ing property valued in the aggregate at
100000. Three breweries were among
the property consumed.
At Cincinnati, on the 18th, fire broke
out in the block of warehouses corner OF
Sixth and Baymiller streets, owned by w.
B. Moores q Co., five of which were COM
pletely destroyed. The total loss will
probably reach four hundred thousand dol
lars. s.r.gr.EF u no IA
A dispatch from Omaha says telegram
from the Special Agent of Fort Laramie,
reports that ITO lodges of Northern Arap-
pahoes offer to surrender, if the Govern
ment will protect them and their families,
and that orders have been issued to settle
on these terms sses W. 4sra BEE bs1aee 3sfi
The scamp who took $1,000 from the Ma
tional Bank of Madison, Wis, on forged
drafts, under the name of Burns, has been
arrested and safely lodged in Jail. He has
owned up everything and decided to the
bank the farm purchased with the money
drawn from them. He had gone to Tusco-
la, Ill, and had entered a career as Camp
bellite preacher. BOA br iie p .sheH
{ A man giving his name as William F.
Stearns, of Chicago, of the firm of Waller
& Stearns, attorneys. shot himself about
nine o'clock Sunday night, the 9th, in his
room at the Weber House, Albert Lea,
Mimi, where he was stopping. He left a
letter stating that he did SO in fear of being
hung by conspirators against his life. 1t
is believed he was insane.
! Thirteen outrages by the Indians are re-
ported on the Kansas branch of the Pacific
Railroad, in the vicinity of Fort Hooker,
and on the Upper Arkansas. AS an in
stance, it is stated that the Indians fired
into a passenger train six miles west OF
Fort Hooker They had placed ties on the
track, which were removed by the pilot OF
the locomotive, when about thirty five In
dams rose up from ravine and poured a
volley into the cars, without injuring any
one. HG B1ff3 9I&4 u
:. In San Francisco, on the 18th, an, i'm
mense crowd was attracted by the fulfil
ment of an amusing election wager. Hig.
gins, Union, carried a hand-organ the
whole length of the principal street, play
ing as he went, and collecting money fol-
the benefit of, the Protestant Catholic Or,
phan Asylums The leading local candi-
dates, both defeated and successful, attend
ed, The street was jammed for hours,
AMI business haunts were deserted. Over
five thousand dollars in gold and silver was
collected. @s sie
Henry Livingstone, who recently forged
Commodore Vanderbilt's name to $75, O0O
check on New York bank, and used the
funds to buy splendid farm near Black
berry Station, 45 miles west of Chicago,
and extravagantly stock it, was arrested
on the farm on the 18th, and by the inge-
nuity of the detectives, conveyed to Mich
igan City, and thence to New York, de-
spite the resistance of the prisoner, his
wife and all the lawyers that could be pro-
cured. He was recognized by drawing
which the paying teller made of him.
q The Omaha Republican says the popula-
ton of Cheyenne City is now fifteen hun
dred, and among them there is not a gam
bier or a woman of doubtful reputation.
The city is under control of the military,
Gen. Stevenson commanding, and he takes
especial pains to ascertain any arrivals OF
these classes of people, and Immediately
puts in operation the most prompt mea-
sures to rid the place of their presence.
Fort David Russell will have twelve COM
panies of soldiers in it's barracks this win
ter. In addition to these, there will be five
or six hundred Government employees in
the various departments. KS
The Montana Post says: An exploring
party which has been to the headwaters
of the Yellow Stone River has just re-
turned and reports seeing one of the great
est wonders of the world. For eight days
they travelled through volcanic country
emitting blue flame and living streams
of molten birthstone. The country was
smooth and rolling, with long level plains
intervening. 2: On the summit of these
rolling mounds were craters from four to
eight feet in diameter, and everywhere on
the level plain were smaller craters, from
four to six inches, from which streamed
blaze and a constant whisthng sound.
The hollow ground resounded beneath
their feet as they travelled, and every mo-
ment seemed about to break through. Not
a living thing was seen in that vicinity. The
explorers gave it the significant appellation
of Hell'p Ell III 5H9 81
81. The South.
Gen. Griffin, in temporary command of
the Fifth Military District, died at Calves
ton on the 18th.
In quarrel at Lexington, KY, on the
II, Thomas Ferry threw stone, which
ctruok Michael Dov1e IN the temfle Calls