Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-07-07

the Milwaukee fire department, died on the
9th inst He was the best fireman Milwau-
'kee ever had, and his loss is almost irrepar
able.-W. FL. Palmur, employed IN the Hi
nois Central yards in Dubuque, Iowa, was
crushed to death while coupling cars on the
9th inst.-Richard Holcemb, farmer, was
run over by freight train at Louira, Wis,
on the Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad, on
Tuesday and instantly killed.-The wife of
Mr.. S. O. Griswold a prominent lawyer OF
Cleveland, O., was found dead in bed at her
elegant residence on Euclid avenue on Tues
day morning.
A COLLISION occurred on the I'D inst, on
the Nashville and Northwestern railroad,
n ear McEwen's station, between a freight
and passenger car. Neither locomotive was
much damaged, but R. M. Vass, passenger
standing on the platform, was killed, his
head being cut in two and body mangled
W. S. Conadon, baggage master, and John
Bonnar, brakeman, were badly wounded
James Peterson, formerly of Pittsburgh, one
of the largest coal dealers in the South, died
on board the steamer W. S. Pike, near New
Orleans, on the I'D inst, of heart disease
Gertrude Engle, alleged to have produced an
abortion on Emily Robinson, at st. Louis,
the girl said to have been debauched by L..
D. Cameron, was arrested on the charge of
manslaughter in the second degree and re-
leased on S. 900 bail.-The trial of Charles
Earle and John Garvey for numbering Mrs
Sallinger, aged IS years, and robbing her
house of ST 900, on the night of the 23d of
April, was concluded at New Orleans on the
22d, with verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree. The jury was composed
entirely of colored men.
tha nd
railroad, was robbed of its safe last Sunday
morning. The thieves were subsequently
traced to Mobile and arrested, and most Of
the money recovered.-The cases pending
before the Department of Justice in Wash
ington have all been disposed of, and that
department is now entirely clear of every
thing except routine business.-By the LIST
of July Commissioner Pleasanton expects to
have reduced the force of assistant assessors
to minimum number. This will make the
total number 800.
THE Indian raid on Warren's wagon team,
near Fort Richardson, some time since, in
which seven men We're killed, and forty
mules captured, was designed for the cap
ture of General Sherman, of whose coming
the Indians had knowledge. When the at
tack was made, one of the chiefs was heard
to give an order to take Captain Sherman
alve.-Hon. III. 9. Bulls, the recently nomi-
mated Republican candidate for Lieut.. Gov
ernor of Iowa, was thrown from his carriage
on Monday, and sustained such injuries as
will probably cause his death-Morris
Knight, well-known real estate and insur
ance agent, while bathing in the Ohio river,
below Cincinnati, on the 9th inst, under
took to swim to the Kentucky shore, and in
tbn offo n 1oH TIn cd for hair
but too late. He had thirty thousand dol
lars insurance on his life.-A little girl was
suffocated in a barn at Detroit, on Wednes-
day morning, at an early hour. The barn
was on fre.-Two young men were arrested
in Cincinnati, at restaurant, on q charge
of having swindled Winslow & Co.'s bank
ing house, of Chicago, out of 81 900 in money.
Part of the money was recovered.-Judge
Morton, in the District Court of Kansas, at
Topeka, on Wednesday, sentenced Lewis
Ford and Mary Jane Scales to be hanged on
the 18th Of August, for numbering the hus-
band of the latter last November. Ford to-
day confessed that he killed Scales, and that
Mrs. Scales was present, but did not assist.
He also saws he has cohabted with her since
he was 10 years DID, and she often had asked
him to kill her husband. Ford is about %
years old and Mrs. Scales 40. The muir
dered man ives quite old.-A German la
borer, of East Hamilton, Ohio, dangerously
shot himself recently, with pistol, while
endeavoring to show by-standers how Mr..
Vallandigham killed himself
The South
ADv1cEs from the various foreign loan
agents received at the Treasury Department
at Washington indicate that it will be quite
impossible to sell a dollar of the new 5 per
cent. loan, owing to the fact that the market
is glutted with first-class American railway
securlties.-The total number of physicians
who paid taxes to the Government for the
year ending April 80, was 1878. Of these
there were regular or allopathic, 5000;
homeopathic, 1851; hydropathic, 1913 eclec-
tic, $500; miscellaneous or not classified,
4,770.-The wheat and corn prospects, &C
cording to the Department of Agriculture,
are not fattering for the country generally.
The acreage appears to have been somewhat
increased, but the crop will not increase in
like proportion, owing to a variety of causes,
the chief of which is a dry spring in most
parts of the country. The largest increase
in the acreage of wheat is reported from
Kansas, where it is 80 per cent. greater than
last year. The report, on the whole, is not
specially discouraging, except as failing to
show such an increase in this product over
other years as might be expected.-George
Mack, formerly of Philadelphia, and lately
of the firm of Hitzfeld 6 Co., Memphis,
Tenn, died of sunstroke on Saturday.-The
first meeting of the Grand Lodge of colored
Masons of Tennessee was in session at Mem
phis last week.
JACOB REINs, of Louisville, KY, was shot
on Sunday night by Valentine Rabbit,
Jealous rival for the hand of lady to whom
Reins was betrothed. Reins died Monday
afternoon.-A young woman aged about 20
years, name unknown, was murdered on
Saturday morning, near Chase's Station,
MARYLAND, on the Philadelphia railroad, by
party of men who claim to have mistaken
her for man dressed in woman's clothes,
who had been prowling about the neighbor-
hood some time stealing poultry, &c.-The
Census Bureau has prepared sample NOR
tality tables for the printer, and the volume
will be ready as soon as the work of the
population volume, now printing, is finished.
The mortality tables will be the most COM
pete and valuable ever published in this
country. Each State will be given separ-
ately, instead of dividing the country into
sections. The periods will be shorter; the
names of diseases grouped as scientifically
as heretofore, and the percentage of I'M
known causes of death will be greatly re-
duced.-Maior Andrew jackson Donaldson
died suddenly at Memphis, Monday even
ing, of cholera morbus, in the I'D year of
his age. The deceased graduated second in
the class of 1922 at West Point, was Private
Secretary to President Jackson during both
terms of his administration, and afterward
served as Minister of the Republic of Texas
at Berlin.
THE President has been summoned to
Washington to settle the little difference be-
tween Boutwell, and Pleasanton.-Eight
hundre assistant assessors of internal rev.
enue have been removed since last October