Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-05-06

in Virginia, and the Fourteenth Infantry
now in Kentucky, to proceed with all pos
sible dispatch to Sioux City, Iowa, and
report thence to the General commanding
the Department of Dakota, for assign
ment to duty. The order removes all
| troops now performing duty in those
States. The understanding is that the
move has something to do with the ,condi.
ton of affairs in the Red River country,
and refers to the neutrality of American
soil during the existing troubles. There
are already in the Department of Dakota
three regiments of infantry and bat
talon of cavalry" 81
The house of Mrs. Martha Kean, in
East Mansfield, Mass, was burned on the
25th, and a young man named Frederick
Ames perished. 3 jg2
Nearly 800 brickmakers were on a
strike at Croton Landing, N. Y, on the
26th, in consequence of reduction of
wages.
The Auburn (N.. " City National
Bank was robbed on the Goth of $31 600
in greenbacks. 9f .F aa1
A Washington dispatch of the 26th
says there is now an imminent and GER
tain prospect of an Indian war.
The Navy Department at Washington
has received all the papers pertaining to
the Oneida and Bombay affair Admiral
Porter says that, after thorough investi-
cation of all the facts of the case, the De-
partment is led to the belief that the Bonn.
bay is solely and wholly to blame for. the
accident. The report is denied that the
officers of the Oneida were drunk and ca
rousing in the cabin at the time, and leav-
ing the deck in charge of a midshipman.
He also says the Oneida had full CON-
plement, as letter of Admiral Rowan,
on file at the Navy Department, shows.
The iron railroad bridge across the Wa
bash river at Terre Haute was completed,
and special trains passed over it on the
Goth.
The Gas Works at Virginia City, Ne
vada, were destroyed by fire on the Goth.
Nine hundred and forty officers and
men belonging to the Fourteenth United
States Infantry, who have been stationed
at Nashville, Tenn, for some months, left
on the morning of the Goth, on special
train for Sioux City.
A Lawrence, Kansas, special of the
27th states that the Indians had recently
attacked the settlers near Independence,
and wounded two. The whites resisted,
and the fracas was for the time ended by
Friend Gibson, Agent of the Osages, call
ing out the military and driving eighteen
families out Of the country. It is stated
that the government agent had been en-
gagged in settling the tribes on settlers
claims, for which the settlers had made
amicable arrangements with the Indians,
and that the Immediate cause of the dis
turbance seems to have arisen from the
settlers refusing to allow the Indians to
cultivate square patches from their clear
ings.
A Washington telegram of the 27th
says: {" The latest official adYices received
here do not mention fears of general
Indian war; but certain accounts of
threatened demonstrations have been con-
sidered sufficient to call for reinforcements
of government troops on the front as a
precautionary measure" 1t is stated that
the propriety of allowing British troops
to pass over our soil and through our
waters to the Red River country, for the
purpose ofputting down the rebellion, was
fully discussed in recent Cabinet meet
ing at Washington, and it was unanimous
ly agreed such thing could not be per
mitted f1ato @ a d5
The large factory of the New York
Watch Company, in Springfield, Mass {,
was completely destroyed by fire on the
9th, together with the valuable ma
chinery. Loss, 100000 One hundred
hands are thrown out of employment.
A terrible calamity occurred at Rich
mond, Va, on the 27th. The Court of
Appeals was in session, and the room was
crowded with eminent citizens, many To-
cal politicians, and great many of the
public at large, drawn there by curiosity
to hear the decision upon the question of
the Mayoralty. At II o'clock the galleries
of the courtroom, which were crowded,
fell in. The floor followed, and descended
thirty feet to the floor below, which was
the floor of the House of Delegates of
Virginia, in which some few of the mem-
bers of the court were waiting The list
of killed is given as follows:
Patrick II. Aylett, Captein Charters, Chief of
| the Fire Brigade; E. N ochofelds City Assessor
DR.. j. b. Brook, ediLor of the Enquirer; j ullus
| A. Hobson, CITY Collector; s. Dugger, member
| of the House Of Delegates; 7. A. Brewis, OF AL
exandria: Samuel Eaton, of Boston; Powhattan
| Roberts, Commissioner in Chancery of the Court
| of Common Pleas; Jas. A. Blamire, of Berlin,
Prussia; s. E. Burram, of Syracuse, New YORK
y; z; Howard. lawyer; Ash Levy, merchant )
ward Thomas H. Wilcox, ex-Confederate Gen
eral; Samuel H. HairstOn, OF Henry county
Charles J. Truman, of Washington, d. C.; Robert
FL. Maqry, Jr., land agent; Edward Ward, OF Eng
| Robertson, colored Baptist minister; Colonel
Plchigrew; T. II. Foley, Deputy United States
| Marshal; w. e. Randolph, of New York; K T.
Bradshaw, grocer, and thirty three others--among
| them captain, one sergeant, and nine priyates
| of the police on duty in the building.
| Among the wounded were Ex-Governor Weils
| ribs broken and otherwise internally injured; Ma
| jor II. K. Elyson, slightly; Mayor Cahoon. slight
| ly; L III Chandler, Judge John A. Meredith, JAS.
Nelson, John Howard Bush Burgess, Collector Ct r, o.
| Virginia and New York Steamship Line; Hon
| Thos s. Bocock, ex-Speaker of the United States
House of Representatives leg amputated; Gene
| Army; Colonel George W. Brent, of Alexandria
1 Captain George W. Allen, Post Warden; w. c.
Eom newspaper o9rresp9nde9t ana prsker anos
| the Petersburg bpdeT; VIM. III. Sopper, of Balti
more, and about one hundred Others.
A private telegram from Richmond