Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-09-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The East.

Hon. PHINEAs BARNES, the leading lawyer
in Portland, died on Monday, aged Co.,.
The horse disease is still prevalent at Brook
Ign, N. Y, and there are about 260 horses
belonging to the city railroad company laid
up with it......The failure of the potato crop
in Ireland, and the news in regard to the
grain crop of Europe have produced an i'm
preston in Wall street that the foreign mar
kets will take ali our surplus wheat as fast
as it can come to market.
VERY disastrous fire occurred at Will
Transport, Pa, on Tuesday morning. A
large number OF business buildings were
burned. The loss is estimated at $225,OOO.
......JOhn Foley, in a state OF Somnambu-
lism, walked out of his window in New York
on Tuesday night, and was instantly killed.
1.-THE Quarantine Commissioners have
appropriated $25, 900 for the erection of an
extra building for the reception of 900 per-
sons coming from cholera ports.
THERE was almost another street car MUIR
der in New York on the 23d inst, Mrs. Har
rngton, who tried to detain thief escap-
ing from the car, who had taken her watch
being fired at, but fortunately uniniured.
The name of the scoundrel is Geo. Gunner.
......Felix Darcy killed his wife and made
an Intellectual attempt to kill his two chill
dren, in New York recently, and then cut
his own throat..... Horace Greeley will start
in few days on lecturing tour among the
horticultural, geological and agricultural So
cletles of the West...... Mrs. Marcus Bate
man, of Utica, N. Y, died on Wednesday
from the effects of bug poison admins
tered by herself. Domestic infelicity was
the cause......A large number of Southern
and Western merchants are now in New
York looking around among importers, and
getting ready to purchase their winter stock
1.-THE Board of Health has been directed
to quarantine for 80 days vessels from all
ports infected with yellow fever, cholera,
ETC., at New York.
The West.
A SAN Francisco dispatch of Aug. 20. says
the Mission Indians of soutern California
are fighting among themselves. Some lives
were lost. 1t is feared that isolated white
settlers may be attacked. . On Aug. 5
Sergt. Maj. Harrington, of the Sd cavalry,
and Chas. Whisker, were murdered by
Apaches near Camp Verdi, Arizona, and
horribly mutilated. The Indians, 200 strong.
raided within Is miles of Prescott, captur-
ing many cattle.....A German cigar-maker
from Buffalo, about Is years of age, whose
name has not transpired, jumped overheard
from the propeller Idaho at Milwaukee, on
the night the 10th inst, and was drowned
He is supposed to have been laboring under
an attack OF delirium tremens at the time.
1.-Two mammoth buildings on Franklin
square, Buffalo, for the accommodation
of the international Industrial exhibition
are completed and connected with the skat-
lng-rlnk by strong bridge spring over
Franklin street. The buildings will be open
to receive goods Sept. 4. Entries are coming
IN rapidly, and great success is anticipa-
ed......On the morning of the 10th INST, at
Red Oak station, on the Burlington and Mis-
souri, road, so miles from Council Bluffs,
Iowa, man named Cowdry shot divorced
wife of his through the right lung, inflicting
mortal wound He then placed the pistol
to his own head, fired three times, each shot
piercing his skull. He did not live five min
utes after he was shot. The trouble that
caused the divorce led to the murder and
subsequent suicide Cowdry formerly resided
at Biggsville, ILL.,, where he was married to
Miss Nellie Fuller, the woman shot by him.
A FATAL ARRAY occurred at Newton, Kan
sas, recently, in which three persons were
shot dead......Jerorne Brooks was sentenced
&c be hung at Delphi, Ind, recently, for
numbering man named Staten, at Logans-
port, Ind, three months ago......A man and
boy were burned to death at Muskegon.
Mich, in an old house, on Tuesday.
Peter Anderson of Red living, Mimi, suicided
on the 23d inst. Cause-whisky in too
large doses...... Eighty carloads, aggregat-
ing 100000 pounds, of fresh teas, have
been shipped overland from San Francisco
within week. A full cargo by special
steamer is due there next week, and will go
Overland.....A Salt Lake dispatch saws g.
Grasshoppers in vast numbers are appear-
ing in some of the principal agricultural
counties. The deposit CT eggs threaten
seriously the crops OF every kind next
season. There is much alarm among gar
deners.
Gov. POTTs, Of Montana, writes under date
of August IL, that the people of Gallatin val
ley are so frightened at the presence of large
bodies of Sioux Indians that he fears they
will abandon their crops and flee to places
of safety. He says the movements of the
Sioux points to a general Indian war on the
settlements. He is organizing the settlers
ana armlng them. The greatest need is
more troops, and the Governor hopes Sher-
man will send m.....Sherman island
Cal, continues to astonish the farmers Mr.
Boggs has just harvested 26 acres of wheat
that averaged fifty bushels to the acre. and
an adjoining farmer, Lewis, has cut 20 tons
of hay from four and a half acres ...... The
jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad has
the Michigan Central. DR.. John Macal-
lister, prominent physician of Chicago,
died IN that city on the 23d inst.
The South.
HAD. MORSE, a noted gambler, was shot
and mortally wounded, in Memphis on the
10th inst, by Wynne Cannon. They had a
difficulty early in the evening about wo-
man. Meeting ABOUT midnight, Cannon
states that Morse attacked him and fred
four times, two shots taking effect near his
heart. Cannon was arrested, and subse-
quently held to bail in $5,OOO..At New
Orleans, on the 10Th inst, a car attached to
the Mobile freight train ran off the track
opposite Dumane street. Leon Bar, whole
sale grocer, and Capt. Jacob Schultz, former
master OF the tug boat Gladiator, drove past
in a double-team buggy. The locomotive,
in blowing off steam, frightened The horses.
Both gentlemen were thrown to the pave
ment, Mr.. Bar was instantly killed. Cap.
Schultz died on the way to his residence
IA negro who outraged and murdered
little girl, near Fulton station, Hickman
county, KY, a few days since, was taken
from Jail on the night of his arrest, shot
through seven times, and left for dead.
Next morning he was found sitting up, was
taken to Jail and his wounds dressed, but
atterward the citizens took him out and
hung him He had nfassad bic