Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-12-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

The East.
"Boss :" Tweed was arrested at New York
on Friday, on an Indictment for felony, and
imprisoned " at the Metropolitan Hotel
MFRS. Andrew J. Garvey arrived at New
York on Thursday, from Switzerland, and is
instructed by her husband to say that on
condition of his not being prosecuted he
will disclose all that he knows concerning
the ring frauds. Mrs. Garvey lrtlmates
that her husband srsvelations will implIcate
Hall, Sweeney, and Henry Smith,. W al
dron, q wealthy Californian, who attempted
suicide about ten days since, died IN hospltal
at New York on Thursday ......At the Ameri-
can House, Boston, on Friday morning Col
B. F. Lawrence, a gentleman aged 6Z, from
Elgin, ILL.,, in temporary tit OF insanity,
leaned from the third story window, and
falling upon the iron pickets sustained I'M u
ries which will probably prove fatal. One
of his legs was terribly shattered, necessi-
tating amputation 1.-THE execution of John
Ware, for the murder of his father, took
place at Camden, N. j., on Friday. Ware
maintained a stolid demeanor, and exhibit
ted no agitation. He wrote long confes-
sion, which he gave to his counsel, and in
which he says he killed his father because
he i'll treated his (John's) mother......A fire
in Paterson, N. j., on the night of The 18th,
destroyed the Reform church, Buckeyes
stationery store, Paget's jewelry store, He'd
don's shse store, and four dwelling houses.
Loss over 100000.
TWEED was released on bail Of $4,000 by
Judge Barnard in New York on Saturday.
There was great excitement over the course
taken by Barnard in fixing upon such an
insignificant sum for bail, and fears were en-
tertained by his friends that he would be
lynched.. :. Auburn, N. Y, papers state that
Hon.. William II. Seward is very low from
paralysis. COL Lawrence, of Elgin, ILL.,,
who jumped from a window of the American
House, Boston, in fit of insanity on Friday,
died on Saturday morning The residence
of John Edsoll, at Ridgefield, N. j., was
robbed on Thursday night last of bonds,
money, notes, ETC., valued at 800 ,0O0......
Levi Gassell, from Monticello, Iowa, shot
himself in the cars near Cobourg, Ont, on
Friday night and has since died.. Consid-
cradle money was found on his person.
EIGHT men attacked the jailor at New
Brunswick, N. J., on Sunday night, gagged
and bound him !; then attempted to gain the
interior of the jail, but the assistant jailor
fred on them and called the police, the ruff
fans fleeing. It is suspected they intended
to release a bank robher incarcerated there.
The Brooklyn Aldermen have voted
1000 for the use of the Board OF Health
spread to East New York ...... Henry T. Tuck
erman, the well-known scholar, poet, and
essayist, died in New York on Sunday, aged
58....F -Four men, while walking on rail-
road track near Milburn, N. j., on Saturday,
were struck by locomotive, and three of
them instantly killed.."..Two hundred feet
of the roof of the iron depot of the Rensse
laer railroad at Saratoga, n. Y, was crushed
by the weight of snow on Monday afternoon.
Nobody hurt.....A Port Jervis, N. Y, dis
patch states that there are 20 miles of
freight cars blocked at that place for want
of motive power, owing to the mismanage-
mcnt of the Erie railway.
AT Liberty, N. j., VIM. Beust was burned
to death while attempting to rescue his
child from burning house,. Olive Logan
was married in, New York on Tuesday to
Writ Sykes, by Rev. Robert Collyer.
49, 5 The West.
HENRY WILLIAMS, colored man, was SEN
fenced at Chicago on Friday, to twenty
years imprisonment for the killing of a man
named Grayson at Chicago last October. .....
The " Blackhawk Brewery" at Davenport,
Iowa, was burned on the 18th inst. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
A BOILER exploded in Wahl Bros glue
factory, Chicago, on Sunday, instantly kill
ing John Rich, the boss carpenter, and Chas
Becker, the foreman. Joseph Meyers, another
employee, was probably fatally scalded......
Carl Maenert, a, German, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the head with a ps-
toll, at Chicago, ON Sunday. He left letters
stating that he was tired of life and the long
struggle with misfortune. His wife had been
sick for some months, and the shock so I'M
har hot no
maniac. Three little children are left to
charity THE final games in the Cleveland
Chess Congress were played on Friday, and
in the evening the distribution of prizes was
made, as follows: First prize, 800, G. I'll.
Mackenzie, New York; second price, $50, I'll.
Hosmer, Chicago; third prize, $40, F. H.
Elder, Detroit; fourth prize, $35, Mux Judd,
Cleveland; fifth prize, $50, P. Ware, Jr.,
Boston sixth prize, $40, HI. D. Smith, Michi-
gan; seventh prize, SIS, II. Harding, Michi-
gan...... Tucson dispatches say the Apache
Mojave Indians, who murdered Loring and
party, near Wyckenburg, have fed from the
Date Creek Reservation to the mountains
1.-THE Lower House of the Missouri Legis-
lature, on Saturday, passed a concurrent
resolution, asking Congress to pass law
granting full amnesty to all who had been
deprived of the rights of citizens Chris
tian Hess, of Pekin, ILL.,, was killed on Fri
day by runaway team......The schooner
Hutchlp92n,, from Alaska, arrived at San
Francisco, brings from Adaka Island three
shipwrecked Japanese seamen whose junk
drilted ashore, they having been disabled off
the coast of Japan, and drifted by the Japan
ese Gulf Stream $500 miles in nine months,
finally reaching there. Twenty three others
had starved on board. They will be sent
back to Japan by Consul Brooks.
AT meeting of the Chicago Common
Council Monday nioht q committe of five
was appointed to investigate numerous
charges against Aldermen and city officials
of bargain and sale in the matter of appoint
mentss to Office, the award for city printing,
&c.....The Swansea Smelling and Refining
Work at Chicago were destroyed by fire on
Monday night. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000. Michael Garvey, a farmer living
near Bloomington, ILL.,, was run over and
killed at the depot of the Chicago and Alton
road, in that city, on Saturday night.
THEsmau-pox is raging fearfully at George
town, O.. Business of every description is
almost entirely suspended. Schools in and
around town have closed, and people from
the countryewill not venture inside the cor
poration ...... Gregori Peri has been sentenced
to Imprisonment for life for the murder of
Michael Ready, at Chicago colored boy
named Frank Roberts was arrested in Indi-
annapolis onSaturday night while attempting
to set fire to the Metropolitan theatre,.....A
young lady Of Monroeville, Ind, who knows
how to,guage the means of newspaper men,
has brought breach of promise suit against
one of the editors of a Fort Wayne journal
for $11.T5....a. =. Fernando Styre, farmer of
Blue Mounds Wis, committed suicide on
Monday last, by hanging himself in his
barn Temporary insanity was the cause of
the act..., The neat marsh near Owatonna,