Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-10-13

The East,

cerelessness of the boat hands in leaving the |
gangway rail OPEN. Tuesday afternoon,
Fifty eonvicts at Sing Sing prison took the
propeller Hugh Battan, and tried to escape, !
but were recaptured THE smallpox is
raging. in Brooklyn, N. w. The scull race
Tuesday afternoon, for $1,000, over the
Monongahela course, between Joseph Kaye
and P. L. 0uther, was won by Kaye.....At
New Brighton, Pa, on Tuesday, a fatal
shooting affray took place, in which a man
named Grant received load of shot IN his
side and abdomen, from the effects OF which
he died His murderer was JohE Heron,
who has been arrested. They quarreled
over game of cards.. 5. Mayor Hall !, of New
York has been notified to appear at the
Yorkville Police Court, on the charge of
official neglect, in permitting the commits
sion Of public frauds. The affidavit is
signed by Henry Copeland, formerly a clerk
in the Comptroller's Office, who charges that
the Mayor signed warrants for. Ingersoll, -
Miller, Garvey, and others, in the absence Of
vouchers, knowing them to be not attached
4, 10 the warrants. -
In the Brooklyn courts, twenty suits are
pending against the Staten Island Ferry
Company for damages received in the West
field explosion.....It is reported that Mayor
r. Hall, OF New York, has undertaken to sup
press Harper'S Weekly, as libelous and in
decent publication. .-
WARRANTS have been issued at Philadel-
phia for the arrest Of several parties CON
= cerned in, assaults on election canvassers at
the meeting on Monday evening, and carry
\ ng3of rpoll-books. Several police officers
are implicated in the outrage In one case
police officer forced a canvasser to give up
his books by pointing revolver at his head.
DIR. Chas. P. Wood, of Manchester, n.
H., convicted Of causing the death of Elvira
Woodward, by performing an operation for
abortion on her, has been sentenced to ten
years hard labor in the State prison ......
George ". barrow, overseer on Tifft's farm,
near Buffalo, n. Y, while riding home in
buggy, last Wednesday, was murdered by
$s0me, unknown person, who fred several
shots from a revolver, apparently through
the back curtain of the vehicle.
The West.
PRESIDENT GRANT was " reviewed " by 900
people at the fremont House, in Chicago,
on Monday ......A little girl was run over by
the cars and instantly killed, at the North
western Railway bridge, near Chicago, on
4the I'd Inst..... Late adviCes from the Indian
Territory report serious depredatiOns by the
KiOwa Indians i'll the vicinity of Fort Sill.
A number OF men were recently killed and
scalped within few miles of that fort. Two
herders were shot, few days ago, within
sight OF the fort and their bodies mutiated
beyond rocognitlOn......A boy named Whita-
ker was killed near Des Moines, Iowa, on
Monday, by a runaway team....An aged
and much respected farmer of Washington,
Ohio, hung himself in his barn on the I'd
inst......It has just been discovered that the
State of Indiana has been paid twice by the
Treasury Department for the boats which
Senator Morton obtained when he was Gov
ernOr for use in the war .... Prope ty to the
amount of $4,000 was destroyed by fire at
Helena, Mont, on Sunday.
DANIEL II. WELLS, Mayor of Salt Lake
City, was arrested Tuesday afternoon, upon
indictment of the grand jury for bigamy,
and released upon $4,000 BALL.. Gen James
Totten, who was Gen Lyons principal ar
tlllery officer at the battle of Wilson's Creek
and who served under several other Gem
erals during the war, died Tuesday at
Sedalla, Mo..,...The smallpox is very severe
IN Walla Walla, Oregon.....I Intense heat
continues throughout California. There
have been many cases of sunstroke in
Arlzona.,...A bed of mica has been discov-
cred near Oskaloosa, Iowa, at depth of 30
feet.
Q. s. PIFER, United States Indian Agent,
writes from Corodo, Sept. 80, stating that the
famous Apache chief, Cochise, and party,
come in on the 10Th ult., and went through
the ceremony of making peace...... Official
returns from Nebraska show rejection of
the new Constitution by Ga majority On
Tuesday afternoon, Henry Yates. a brother
Of Senator Yates, of Illinois, who resides at
Berlin, committed suicide by taking strvch-
nine After taking the poison he sat down
with his family as usual and fondled the
children, finally arose and told them what
ne had done, and soon after went into con-
vulsions.
The South.
The safe of the Southern Hotel at st.
Louis was robbed of $500 on S. turday =. J..
The following are the rates adopted by the
ticket agents convention at 81. Louis, be
tween New York and some of the principal
Southern and Western points: To Chicago,
Sz2 st. Louis, $27; Louisville, 1874; Cairo,
$30.75; Memphis, $685. New Orleans, $50 ::
Cincinnati, $50; Cleveland, $14 Column bus,
$3.50 Denver, ISL; Fort Scott, Sal ......
Colonel Nelson, who killed General Clanton,
recently, gave himself up at Knoxville on
September 80, and entered into bonds in the
sum of $4,000 to answer the charge ...... The
annual municipal election took place Satur-
day, at Nashville. X. j. Morris was re-
elected Mayor, by a decisive majority. .....
Attorney General Farron, of Georgia, has
been acquitted of charges of swindling and
ChetIlAS Drought against nlm......One OF the
cables OF the old suspension bridge across
Wheeling creek, at Wheeling, w. Va, broke
on Sunday, with nine persons on it, three
of whom were killed and three seriously in
iured. The bridge has long been considered
an unsafe structUre...... fellow fever has de-
populated Cedar Keys, Fla.
Ar Ostrander's Landing, KY, on Friday
afternoon, two men while engaged in des-
rerate tight i'll a small skif' upset the boat
and were drowned.....A portion Of the new
railroad bridge over the Verdigris river.
Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, fell on
Tuesday. killing three men and iniuring
sixteen others, some eight or ten fatally,
Both branches OF the Tennessee Legislature
met and organized on October 9. John c..
Vaughan was elected Speaker of the Senate
and James D. Richardson Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
Ar Louisville, Ky, on Wednesday, Paul
Nolero, aged 10 years, was scalded to death
by the overturning Of boiling cauldron..
telegram from Raleigh, n. C. saws over
SEQ ku-Klux indictments are pending. and
that So of the Khan have been convicted and
sentenced.
Washington.
SECRETARY FISH has at last made known
TO his official associates here his decision to
withdraw from the Cabinet soon after the
November elections. The President is still
urging him to retain his portfolio ... The
Census Office has compiled returns of the
agricultural resources of Ohio. The follow
ing are some of the principal figures: I'M
proved land, 1850, 900 acres-an increase
OF 100000 since 1860 Wood end, 800 900