Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-10-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The East.

week ending Sept. I'D amounted to SS,509,-
299 nearly 81 100000 more than for the cor
respond ng week last year......At a recent
meeting of the Workingmen's Association,
in New York, it was decided on general
strike in most of the trades throughout the
United States and Canada early next spring,
and measures were adopted for permanent
organization to sustain and render it sue
cessfuk o.. Hon. Geo. W. Benedict, promi
nent citizen Of Vermont, died on the Oath
inst, aged rs years.. In Brooklyn, on Sat
urday, DR.. Perry was convicted of man
Slaughter in the fourth degree in having
caused the death of Emily A. Post by pro-
curing an abortion. The prisoner was SEN
fenced to the State Prison for two years..
Ten more workmen of the United States
Watch Company, at Marion, N. j., have
been arrested for stealing portions of watches
while in the process of manufacture. Tween
ty-one workmen, in all, have been arrested,
and from confessions by some it is estimated
that their thefts exceed in value $500 900.
DR.. CYRUS KNAPP, of Chicago, died sud
denly, in Maiden, Mass, on Sunday, of par
alysis of the heart."..A lady named Doc
little died in dentists chair, at Brooklyn,
N. Y, on Monday, from the effects of chic
reform. Several gentlemen temporarily
stopping in New York have received pri-
vate dispatches from New Orleans, stating
that the yellow fever is raging in the latter
place.
A SENSATION was created in sporting cir
cles in New York on Tuesday, by the APP
pearance for the second time, of American
oarswomep. The occasion was the tenth
regatta of the Empire City Regatta Rowing
Club. Some $4,000 spectators were present.
The double-scull race was won by Annie
Harris and Elizabeth Gustav. The other
races contested for by women were won by
"Shean" GleDny and Mollie Biglin......A
collision occurred in New York on Tuesday,
in the center of the street. between Canal
and Cortlandt street car and Fourth ave-
nue. car. The horses on the Canal street car
were both killed, and several passengers
severely in ured.....A powder mill explo-
sion occurred in POughkeepsie, N. Y, on
Tuesday, causing the death of one person
and horribly mangling several others.
OVER $4,000 were disbursed on the 9th
inst, to the laborers on the Croton works at
New York......D Deputy Comptroller Green re-
fuses to pay any more money to the Depart
ment of Parks. He says $2,996,O00 has been
expended from Jan. l to Aug. 30, 1871, and
that the department is not entitled to any
more...... The New York Tribune has discov-
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who have charge Of the docks of the city
whom it accuses with blackmailing shippers
by the wholesale. The harbor masters
have arrangements with the tug owners to
tow boats, for which three or four prices for
towing are paid the latter, to be shared with
the former, and for the privilege of berthing
vessels. This injustice has been levied
upon every vessel entering the port. SIEVE
raj outrages of this kind are about to be
proved in court. One hundred and thirty
thousand tons of Scranton coal were sold at
auction in New York on the 9th inst, at
$4.124 to 1918. These prices are slightly in
advance of those realized at the August sale.
Stove coal sold at Sc to $6,15......On Thurs
day afternoon, the marines stationed at Folt
TOmpkins, Staten Island, N. Y, while prac-
ticng, sent 30-pound Parrot shot through
the jib of the pilot boat Francis Perkins.
No person was nured, but had the shot
struck few feet lower, or two seconds later,
the result would proably be the sinking of
the boat and loss of life. Not long since the
steamer Plymouth Rock had shell ex-
ploded directly over her by this reckless
firing.
The West.
PROPERTY to the amount of 81 900 900 was
destroyed by fire in San Francisco on the
23d inst.....A dispatch from Salt Lake, dat
ed the 23d inst, says: The grand jury has
adjourned until Tuesday. There are exert
ing rumors that high dignitaries of the Nor
mon church are to be indicted. Squads of
men are arriving, said to be Mormon mi
litia. 1t is generally thought there is a
crisis. The Mormons laugh and keep their
own counsel...". Charles Rogers, an employee
of the Union Pacific railroad, was run over
and instantly killed at Omaha on Saturday
night, near the OFallen station. His father
is supposed to reside in Wisconsin, and his
grandfather in Iowa.
In Tippacanoe county, Indiana, William
Beeler has been sentenced to ten years i'm
prisonment and to pay fine of 500 900 for
burning bridge on the Wabash railroad,
east of Lafayette. He pays the fine at the
rate of IS cents per day for labor in prison.
This will take him Y years to liquidate the
hne.....Advices from Montana to Sept. Is,
state that the Crow Indians offer no opposi-
ton to the Northern Pacific railroad. They
are perfectly willing it should be built, and ,
in fact, have volunteered to have part of
their chiefs and head men to accompany the
engineers and sold ers to aid the scouts and
assist them in any way in their power against
the Sioux.....A dispatch from Salt Lake de-
MES that Brigham Young sought to evade
any process of the court or grand jury. They
say he will obey a summons as witness or
submit even to warrant of arrest, but will
not yield to imprisonment.......M Michael
Money, prominent farmer of Royal Oak
Mich, was gored to death, recently, by one
of his bulls" ESQ.," Roberts was arrested
at Salineville, o., on Saturday, by an officer
of the secret service, for passing counterfeit
money. A considerable amount of counter
felt twos on the Ninth National Bank of
New York was found. Roberts is superin-
tendent of one of the extensive coal mines
operated by the Cleveland Iron Company.
He is wealthy, and was prominent in the
community for his zeal in the cause of re-
ligion and kindred virtues.
THE Chicago base ball club was defeated
by the Rockfords, at Rockford, ILL.,, on Tues
day The game stood II to 2......Mad dogs
are very plenty in Chicago. Accounts of
people being bitten by rabid dogs arc pub
lished daily in that city, but the police
know nothing about it. Query-Can they
read ?...... Chas. Belou, a young man, was
killed in Chicago on Tuesday, by being rip
ped open with circular saw in chair fac
tory..... The mill of the American Sheet and
Boiler Plate Company, at Newburgh, Ohio,
was destroyed by fire on Tuesday, throwing
14O men out of employment and causing a
loss of 500, 00o......T The railroad eating house
at Tomah, Wis, was destroyed by fire on
Tuesday.....A man named Stafford, was
run over and killed near Leetonia, Ohio,
on Tuesday night. Cause-whisky.
THE propeller Nebraska, the largest and
finest freight boat on the Western lakes, was
burned at the Galena elevator docks in Chi
cago, early ON Thursday morning. Loss,