Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-12
CURRENT ITEMS.


United States.
TT is said that Jay Cooke, the banker,
owns over $4,000 acres OF land In Iowa.
NEW tin deposits have been found on
the Coast Range mountains, in Los An
,, .geles county, Washington Territory.
Reports at the New York Merchants
Exchange show that twenty eight vessels
were lost at sea in October, valued at near
ly 81 100000.
THE Oregon State A Agricultural Society
reports instances of the raising of 115
bushels of oats and 81 bushels of wheat to
the acre.
SINCE the foundation of the Prussian
Bible Society, in Berlin, in the year 1914,
it has distributed upward of 100000
copies of the Holy Scriptures.
IT is ascertained that there were ten
lives lost by the recent flood inWindham
and Windsor counties, VT
PROVIDENCE was enlivened the other
evening by the sight of young woman
boxing the ears of her lover on the street,
because he had escorted another lady
home.
BY the law of North Carolina, any per-
7 son that wears any disguise or mask in
order to frighten somebody else is guilty
of a misdemeanor, and liable to fine and
imprisonment.
Two OF the leading daily newspapers of
San Francisco have been united. The
Alta and Times have consolidated under
= the name of the Alta California and San
Francisco Times.
SnAs WELLS, light colored mulatto,
recently obtained. verdict for 1915, at
Springfield, Ohio, against the Trustees of
that township, for the refusal of his vote
at the late election.
A YOUNG girl was recently found guilty
of infanticide before the Criminal Court
q of Stockholm, and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for life. Upon hearing the dread
sentence she drew pair of scissors from
her pocket and stabbed herself to the
heart.
COMMISSIONER DELANO recently received
letter from Cincinnati enclosing large
amount of revenue stamps, which read as
follows: "DEAR SIR: Enclosed please
find three hundred and sixty-ive dollars
worth of stamps, which I stole. I've re-
formed
The following is copied from placard
inviting worshippers to Bethesda Chapel,
in Clapham, England Ned Wright, who,
before his conversion, was convicted three
times of burglary, will deliver a gospel
Z address. Come and welcome! No collec-
4 toni"
''~~ AT the recent special election of tax
payers of the city of Newburg, New
York, Mrs. Margaret McQuaid, widow
lady owning property in the city, depos-
tied her ballot with the inspectors, un-
questioned and unchallenged The lady
is the first of her sex who has ever voted
at public election in Newburg.
TAny pacca1 tbro,,rb Do,,I A.
other day, on her way to the settlements
on the Red river Of the North, in search of
husband from whom she was divorced
several years ago in Brazil. She had mar
ried again and was widowed and the old
love reasserting itself, had come all the
way from Rio Janeiro to seek reconcil-
iation with her first husband.
A LITTLE child six years old got upon
the rear car of train at Huntington, Mass,
few days ago, and was held there by a
person supposed to be a brakeman, until
the train was under full headway, when
he was let down, the fall fracturing his
skull and otherwise injuring him so that
death would probably ensue.
A CITIZEN of Montereau, France, caught,
the other day. a fish of almost priceless
value, for in opening it, it was found to
contain magnificent breastpin, orna-
monds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds of
extraordinary beauty. The breastpin is
valued by Paris jewelers. at the fabulous
{ sum of 100000 francs
SOME weeks ago a terrible conflagration
occurred at the little village of Radoczin,
In Hungary. While the men and women
had left their houses to work in the fields,
fire broke out in barn, and consumed
10 out OF 130 houses composing the vii
lage Twenty-one little children, who had
been left by their mothers in their houses,
perished in the flames
THE Beverly (EnglandD Guardian makes
mention of a novel way to make q man
pay debt. In the window of photo
graphic gallery is the following announce
ment: "Wanted, Mr.. -, groom of =,
to call and pay for his portraits. N B.
This notice will remain here till the por-
traits are paid for" Attached to the notice
is a carte de otstte of the unlucky creditor
AT Macon, Ga, there is young man
seventeen years old, not even knowing
the alphabet, who can solve the most diff
cult mathematical problems Being asked
what would horse bring, there being 80
nails in his shoes, allowing cents for the
first, 8 cents for the second, 81, 81, and so
on? This required thirty-two distinct
yet he did it in three minutes
THE Toledo Commercial says a gentle
man near that city has been experimenting
in the cultivation of cranberries He had
four acres under cultivation this season,
yielding $50 bushels, These he sold at
the rate of $3.50 per bushel, the total pro-
ceeds OF the four acres amounting to ST.
$50, or 1885,, ,25 per acre. The Commercial
thinks 1t probable that the marshes in the
vicinity of the lake CAN be ade valuable
for the cultivation of the cranberry.
DURING the burning of the steamer
Stonewall, on the Mississippi, a group of
men in the water sought to save them.
selves by the aid of a floating bale of hay,
which was too small to float them all. A
savage contest arose for its possession, all
struggling to obtain lodgment upon it,
when. one more desperate than the rest
was reused to demoniac passion, and
drawing a knife plunged it into a CON-
panion's body, and the lifeless form rolled
over into the current, which was Redeemed
by his blood. The act of fiendish impulse
was speedily avenged, for the whole party
are believed to have been drowned
In Turkey there is to be universal edu-
cation, and it is to be compulsory where
necessary. Each child, while getting a
general education, is to be instructed in
the faith of its parents. Turkey has an
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