Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-09-29

The East.

junction against the New York city officials
permanent, surprises both friends and enc
mics of the movement. The effect of the in
junction, it is thought, will secure the retire
ment OF Hall, Tweed and Connolly. There
is certainly more excitement among polite
lans IN New York just now, than there has
been for years past...... Sixty thousand Union
torpedoes were seized on Sunday by the
chief of the bureau of combustibles of the
fire department of New York, were opened
and emptied into the Hudson river......Irene
Robinson, 19 years of age, who ran away
from her home at Peoria, ILL.,, two years ago,
was found in this city last night, dressed in
boys clothing. She had assumed the name
of William Frank, had worked as teamster,
laborer, and canal boatman- She ran away
from home because her father wanted her
to marry against her WILMA tremendous
fire broke out at Burlington, Vt on Sunday
morning at 3 o'clock, and ragged until nearly
noon. large amount of property was de-
stroyed and the loss will reach nearly $780,
000
DISPATCHES from New York, dated the goth,
state that Connolly was ahead in the Tam
many fight. Payment has been stopped on
all city warrants, and financial matters in
the city are at stand-still 1.-The verdict
of the Coroner's jury, rendered on the 18th
inst, at New York, holds the proprietors of
the Beekman street establishment, where
The fatal fireworks explosion took place, re-
sponsible for the lives lost NJ. Gold
schmidt, one of the proprietors, was killed
by the explosion. His funeral took place
on Mon ay. Klueber, the other proprietor,
is IN the Tombs IN default of $4,000 BAIL
Two cases of Asiatic cholera are reported
to have appeared at Perth, Amboy, N. j.
The rumor is probably hoax The Tam
many war still continues at New York, and
dispatches from headquarters, dated the
2Ist, state that Connolly had the best of the
tight at that time. The PythIan, base ball
club of Philadelphia, d feated the Unioues,
OF Chicago, at the former place, on Wednes-
day they are both colered clubs A
scheme for the locking up of a large amount
OF &old is again on foot among the brokers
IN wall street. The object is to create a
demand and thereby increase the premium.
when 1t will come back on the market. and
somebody will have to suffer- Patrick
Barr, on trial for the murder of his wife, at
.Plttsburg, Pa, confessed the deed in court.
ON Wednesday.
DISPATCHES from New York on the 2lst
state that the janitor of the Court House and
his assistant have been arrested on charge
of robbing the Comptroller's office of vouch-
creates the greatest excitement, as if is re-
ported that lot of half-burnt papers have
been found in an ash box, and it is suspected
that they are the remains of the State
Vouchers...... Gen. Burnside has gone to Eu-
r0pe......A jury of inquest at Maunch
Chunk, Pa, as to the cause of the death by
collision of three men and serious injury to
three others, in the Delaware and Lacka-
wanna railroad collision, censures the rail-
4ho
accident.
The West.
GERMAN murdered his uncle and amt.
and then hung himself, near Kingston, ILL.,,
on Sunday ......A break occurred at the Ne
vada State Prison, at Carson City, recently,
by which 29 prisoners effected their escape.
Five guards were wounded, and one killed
IN attempting to arrest the outbreak Two
prominent business men of Madison, Wis.
were drowned in Lake Mendoza, on Sunday
last Their names were John T. Wilson and
r. Bemls. They were crossing the lake in a
yacht, in company with Hon. JAS Ross, of
Madison, and D. Knight, of Milwaukee,
when squall struck the boat and capsized
1T. The former two chung to the boat but
short time, when they sank from exhaus-
tion. The latter gentlemen chung to the
boat all night, and were picked up at eight
O'Clock the next morning, near the Insane
Asylum.
The Normal School at Oshkosh, Wis, was
opened on the 10th inst.....A freight train
on the Milwaukee and St. Paul road ran off
the track near Spring Green, Wis, on Tues
day, and killed a brakeman named Dunn.
There are 100 convicts in the State
prison at Waupun, Wis.,. The tobacco crop
OF Rock county, Wis, this season, is valued
at 81 ,250,000......T The Albert Lea Mimi
Standard, says the potato bugs are making
their appearance in some parts of Freeborn
county again, after an absence of two or
three months. 1t was the general impress
SION that they had got rid of these pests,
out 1T appears that they have returned in
time for next seasons operations
The gross earnings Of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad for the six months ending
April 80, 1871, were 1925 ,Oe2.73, seven per
cent. of which goes into the State Treasury.
800. Edward Maddox, the young man who
was stabbed by John Mcconnell on Sunday
night, died on Tuesday "... Senator Gibson,
of the Gallatin (Ill) Senatorial District, died
recently ......A sewer caved in at Indianap-
oils on Wednesday morning, burying gang
OF workmen, eiglt of whom persisted before
they could be rescued I'M. j. King was
killed in his planning mill at Joliet, ILL.,, on
the Goth inst, by being hit in the head by
spllnter......A. j. Anderson was accidentally
shot and instantly killed on the steps of his
hotel at Tomah, Wis, on Wednesday.
THERE was heavy frost in the vicinity of
Nekoma, ILL.,, on the night of the goth inst
.....Ex-Governor Randall, of Wisconsin, is
reported to be out for Doolittle for Governor
of that State......A riot took place at Spring
field, ILL.,, on Thursday, in which constable
got an arm broken and several persons re-
celved considerable punching. The
first col red jury ever sitting in California
were impanneled by the Coroner of San
Francisco on Thursday ......A little eight
year old girl fell dead in the streets of La
Sale, ILL.,, on Thursday afternoon, while re-
turning from school......Joseph Scott, q
brakeman on the Rock Island road, was
accidentally killed at Des Moines, Iowa, on
the 2lst inst.
The South.
DISPATCH from Kansas City saws the
express Office at Ellis, Kan, was robbed
Tuesday night of $22 ,OOO.....J. c. jennings
was accidenuy drowned in the Tennessee
river, at Decatur, Ala, on Thursda,. He
struck his head on a rock in diving The
United States registered bond for $40. 800
No. Ass, caveated by the Treasury depart
ment, was offered for sale at Wilmin gton.
N. c. The person offering it was arrested
THE Missouri State Auditors report
shows the total taxable wealth OF that State
to be $571, l66,523; of st, Louis county,
Sl9S,6l7 $40. The two next richest counties
are jackson, in VIII 'ch Kansas City is situat-
cd, ST. ,43S,525 and Buchanan, embracing
st. Joseph, $l2, 040, 433. Besides these, there
are 70 counties which range above 81, 900 900.