Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-08
Devoted to the interests of the People.
DODGEvILLE,5 WISCONSIN, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1870.

$ ing OF Forty sixth street, the falling build
! ing crushing in an adjoining dwelling
: killing five persons and injuring others
A young lady of Williamsburg was blown
from her doorstep, and SO badly injured
j that she died soon after q
A Washington special of the Goth say
the appeal of the letter-carriers through
out the country for an increase of salary
had been decided adversely by the House
Committee on Post Offices.
: The Secretary of the Treasury has di
rected the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to sell 100000 of gold and buy
100000 of bonds, on account of the
sinking fund, in April, and, in addition
thereto, to purchase $2,000,00O of bonds
for the special fund-making in all, the
sale of $2,OO0,OOO of gold, and the pur.
chase of $4,0O0,0oo Of bonds for the
month. ~
| By an accident on the Chicago, Bur
| lington 6 Quincy Railroad, at Quincy,
ILL.,, few days ago, three men were SC
severely injured that they subsequently
died. Their widows have sued the rail
road company for damages.
| During severe rain and wind storm in
Baltimore on the night of the Goth, twenty
buildings were blown down or partially
demolished, several houses unroofed, ten
large trees in Druid Field Park torn up
by the roots, and the sloop Caroline sunk
in the back basin.
| A Washington special to the New York
| Supreme Court will probably reverse its
recent legal-tender decision, in other cases
about to be heard involving the same
points, and says the Court, as now consti-
tuted, stands five to four against the pre-
vious action.
The United States Supreme Court, has
decided that the shares of National banks
as the property of shareholder are dis
tinct from the capital and may be taxed,
and the banks may be compelled to pay
tax. The Chief-Ju ustice dissented.
| The mills of the Hampden Paper Com
pany, at Holyoke, were burned on the
night of the 27th. Loss, $250,O00; in
sured for 100000. One hundred and
fifty hands are thrown out of work, but
the company will rebuild at once.
/ Over one hundred men were discharged
from the Washington Navy Yard on the
26th.
Lieut.. Col. Baker, commanding at Fort
| Ellis, Montana, reports, under date of
March %, that the number killed
at the Piegan village was 173, of
] whom 100 were able-bodied men,
and So women and children; and
that 140 women and children were
afterward captured and released He says
| he believes "that every effort was made by
the officers and men to save the non-com-
batants, and that such women and chill
dren as were killed were accidentally
| killed"
Official proclamation has been made in
Washington of convention between the
United States and Belgium, defining the
rights, immunities and privileges of Con-
suls.
| By an accident on the Erie Railroad,
| about two miles east of Wellsburg, on the
Goth, smoking car and two passenger
cars were thrown from the track and went
down an embankment. The smoking car
was occupied by emigrants bound for
Rochester, several of whom were serious
| ly injured. Three persons in the other
cars were also seriously injured.
| Fourteen vessels were sunk in Haver-
straw Bay, N. Y, during the storm Of
March 81, and much other damage was
DONE One schooner was driven into the
streets of the village of Grassy Point.
An emigrant ship is supposed to have
| foundered in Massachusetts, Bay, quanti
ties of wrecked stuff, including bed sacks,
pillows, &C., having washed ashore on
Cape Cod.
| While four miners were descending the
shaft of coal mine near Shenandoah
City, Pa, on the 29th, the rope. broke,
precipitating them to the bottom, over
sixty feet, and all were instantly killed.
Owing to sudden rise in the river the
embankment at the lower lock of the
canal at Keokuk, Iowa, gave way, ON the
26th, and the entire Government work at
that point was flooded, causing great
damage. 7
| A special from Springfield, Mo-, to the
Missouri Republican of the Both ult.. says
eve have just received advices from
Gainesville, Texas, dated March 5, of an
extensive raid of Comanche Indians.
Over forty families have been massacred
| in Western Texas. It is reported also
that several hundred horses were captured
and several houses burned"
More favorable reports were received
from the San Diego, CAL, gold fields on
/ the 31st ult. Rich quartz lodges, discov-
cred thirty miles from San Diego, had
caused another stampede for that place.
Customs receipts for week ending March
20 were $3,452, 1868.
,a se,-s a, PERSONAL s,c't
The Mormon Conference has been post
poned to.the 5th of May:
Deputy Commissioner Douglas tele-
graphed to Washington on the 25th that
Bailey's defalcation had reached $f21 ,629,
and that deficit in his sdisbursing account
i of about $4,000 or $4,000 would be added.
|, Among the nominations sent to the
fSenate on the 25th, was the name of Allen
4 Rutherford. to be Third Auditor of tbo