Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-01-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.



john Schanner, a German, from
Chicago, is under arrest at Boston on
charges of embezzlement.
ALI the pews in Plymouth Church,
!. New York, left unsold OH Tuesday night
were disposed of on Wednesday, at
rates in excess of those of last year.
The total amount realized was about
$4,000.
The celebrated Durand divorce case
of New York has been settled. Durand,
a prominent merchant of that city. was
sued for $4,000 d; images, claimed by
his wife for disowning her. He claimed
that she was not his wife, and never was.
Thinking her demand for 900 exor-
bitant, he persuaded her to throw OFT
$4,000, and take the balance, and SO
she did.
"A terrific explosion, causing the
death of three men, occurred Friday
night, in the iron foundry of Miller n.
Difare, in Brooklyn. The water in the
boiler being allowed to go too low, was
the cause of the explosion. The engin-
Ger and firemen were instantly killed.
and the dead body of a painter en-
pIoved about, the building was picked
up in Bushwick creek, three hundred
feet distant from the scene of the disas-
ter.
A fire occurred in Brooklyn Friday,
eleven houses being destroyed and the
occupants turned upon the streets with
very little clothing. The fire originated
in one of row {, f two-story frame Gotta
h. paY
from one to another that eleven were
demolished before the firemen could
check them. Twenty-Five families. are
rendered houseless, aud q good portion
of their furniture destroyed.
The Atlantic and Great Western
mail train, bound west, on the 29th,
ran off the track about five miles west
of Meadville, near Sutton's. The rear
car, which was filled with emigrants,
was thrown down an embankment 80
feet, turning over several times. One
man named Hopkins was killed, and
two others badly hurt. One of them is
not expected to recover. Fifteen others
were slightly injured. = The train was
about two hours late, and was running
very rapidly when the accident occur
red. The cause is unknown, but is sup
posed to have been a poor rail, as one
was found broken, and the ties were en-
tirelv broken off. The injured parties
were brought to Meadville,
About o'clock Thursday night, as
u boy, aged about 9 years, named VIM.
Wolf, son of Mr.. S. Wolf, residing at SO
London Terrace, West Twenty third
street, New York, was returning home
from private evening school, i'll Ninth
avenue, and when in close proximity to
his own door, was seized about the neck
by some unknown person, while cloak
was thrown over his head to prevent
him giving an alarm. 1t was not until
he felt himself being rapidly hurried in
the direction of Ninth avenue that
he fully realized his situation. When
aboutseven or eight doors from his own
residence, he gathered all his strength,
broke loose, and fled in the direction OF
his fathers house. The unknown party
ton furnished, it is supposed that the
apparent female was in reality a man in
feminine attire. This is another Of those
bold attempts at stealing children OF
wealthy and respectable citizens for the
purpose OF securing reward,
The Marshall House, situated at the
west end of the wire bridge over the
Allegheny river at Franklin, Pa, took
fire at | o'clock Friday morning. The
flames communicated to the bridge, and
the cables soon becoming red hot,
parted from the anchorage, precipitat
ing the bridge structure into the river.
oh ho
bridge at the time. VIM. Neil, a far
mer; Mrs. Mcintyre and Miss Mary
Mcintyre, wife and daughter of the toll
keeper, who were engaged in removing
furniture on the bridge, were fatally in
,iured. The bodies were recovered. Mary
and George Mcintyre, John and Alex
ander Mccarthy, J. Heange and two I'M
known persons, were seriously injured.
Wilfred Kilgore, the freight agent of
the Allegheny Valley Railroad, is sup
posed to be buried in the ruins. as he
was known to have been on the bridge.
The West.
C. W. Deland, for many years
prominent dry goods merchant at Gin
cinnati, died there on the 4th.
Rev Father Kerwin, the we'll known
Roman Catholic priest, stationed at Ke-
nosha, Wis, died very suddenly, at $50
o'clock, Friday evening.
An old lady named Olive Whitman
was so badly burned, at Sun Prairie
Wis, on Friday evening, by her clothes
catching fire from a spark from the
stove that she died soon after.
A Salt Lake City dispatch says Nc
Kay, the leader of the mail robbers Of
the Central Utah, has been recaptured.
One thousand dollars reward had been
offered by the Government.
The legislature of Illinois, Ohio,
New York, Pennsylvania, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Mississippi organized on
the Sd inst, and those of Michigan,
Wisconsin, and Missouri on the 4th
inst.
citizen of Peoria, ILL.,, and Chairman of
the Board of Supervisors, who was in
!jured by an accident on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railway, at
Pennington, on Wednesday, died on
the 9th. Deceased was 81 years of age.
He leaves a wife and nine children.
The Ohio Secretary of States report
is Just printed. He gives the population
of sixty-seven cities and villages in Ohio,
having over 1900 inhabitants each, as
shown by the census, of 6S7 900 being an
increase of 24S,000 in ten years, or SO
per cent. The increase in the popula-
ton of Ohio, ontside of these towns, is
only about 10000 in the last decade.