Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-03-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

1t is reported that Gen. Fremont
has realized $250,000 in mining opera
tions, recently.
The First National Bank of Bangor,
Me-, has subscribed for $4,000 of the
new Government loan.
Two more persons, a servant, Annie
Kyder, and Timothy Ahren, laborer,
by swallowing carbolic acid by mistake
for brandy.
Samuel Young, editor of the Sara
toga Sentinel, who was so brutally beaten
without the least provocation by Hank
Husher, a Canadian Frenchman, has
died of his injuries. The murderer is in
prison.
The steamship Europa, from Glas-
| gov, lost overheard in gale, on the
4th inst, Capt. Mcdonald, First Officer
Davis, and Third Officer Waller. Owing
| to the fearful sea no boat could be
launched to attempt a rescue.
Charles H. Pardoc, lately convicted,
in the United States Circuit Court at
New York, of burning the ship Robert
Edwards at sea, has been sentenced to
be hanged on the 18th of May next.
His associates, who pleaded guilty, were
sentenced to ten years in the Albany
Penitentiary.
The details are given of an alleged
swindle of number of patent medicine
dealers in New York and in New Eng
land by an advertising agent, who was
10 fou oIUnrti in tho C11ha n
press. Stevens and Howe are reported
to have lost $4,000, Helmbold 100000,
and others in proportion. The agent
claims to have done all he promised.
The jury in the Filkins case, at AL
bany, N. Y, on the 18th, rendered a
verdict of robbery in the first degree.
The Court Immediately sentenced the
prisoner to twenty years Imprisonment
in the Clinton prison, being the full ex-
tent of the law. The prisoners counsel
will prepare bill Of exceptions and ap-
ply for writ of error, and carry the
matter before the general term of the
Supreme Court for review.
The West.
james P. Watkins, living about ten
miles from Jefferson, in Green county,
Iowa, on Monday night beat and kicked
his wife so that she died.
E. M. Spencer, for eighteen years
connected with the Cincinnati Times,
died suddenly, on the 10th, of disease
of the bowels, aged 4S years.
"A man who buried bag of gold
dust in the ground, near Denver, Col,
in l862-there being no banks there
then-and left for Idaho, returned in
search of it recently, and found it in q
perfect state. 1t is valued at 81 200.
"A terrible tragedy occurred at Car
roll, Iowa, on the 18th. Mr.. B. II.
Terry, lumber merchant, shot and
killed his wife, set his house on fire, and
then shot and killed himself instantly
He married his young wife at the East
last October, but was much given to
drink.
The poli.e of Milwaukee, on We'd
nesday night, found a living infant in a
privy vault. A man and woman were
seen coming from that direction in a
rather excited manner few moments
previous. The child lived but few
minutes after it's rescue.
The South.
Seven persons were killed in the
| terrific hurricane which occurred at
East st. Louis on the Sth inst.
Another shooting affray occurred at
Louisville, on the 9th, by which one
Parker lost his life. Cause-woman.
Six negro convicts in the penitentiary
at Jefferson City, Mo-, attempted to es-
cape, on Tuesday, while at work in
stone quarry outside the walls The
ringleader was shot and killed by the
guards, and all the others were cap
tured.
Some commotion has been pro-
duced among liquor dealers by private
advices from New Orleans that Indiana
whisky was being sold in that city at IS
cents per gallon, which is about 7 l-2
cents below the Government charges,
insurance, freight, ETC., without taking
into account the cost of production.
Foreign.
The French General Changarnier is
seriously i'll.
Baron Baude, Gen. Caille, and NM.
De Moulard and De Clerq, have been
appointed plenipotentiaries of France
to negotiate the final treaty of peace
with Prussia.
The National Guards are strongly
entrenched, with thirty-one guns, on
the heights of Montmartre, awaiting the
signal of their leaders to proclaim open
revolution.
The French navy has been greatly
reduced, and the dock-yards at Lorient
and Rochefort have been rented by pri-
vate companies. The foreign squadrons
have been recalled.
1t is announced that the Seventh
and Twelfth Prussian Corps and Wur-
temburgers will form the army of occu-
patton of that portion of France to be
held by the Germans until the condi-
tions of the treaty of peace are fulfilled.
-Advices from Vienna announce the
death, in that city, at the age of twenty
four years, of Princess Leopoldina,
Duchess of SAKE, and second daughter
of Don Pedro the Second, Emperor oil
Brazil.
Prince Metternich has presented his
credentials to Thiers as Ambassador
from Austria to the government of
France. The Portuguese Minister waited
upon the chief executive and presented
his credentials. The governments of
Denmark and Sweden have also recog-
nized the French Republic.
Count Bismarck has informed Thiers
that he is embarrassed in organizing,
politically and commercially, the ceded
provinces, owing to the determined resis-
tance of the inhabitants and representa-
tions that German commerce will be
damaged by competition with Mulhouse
manufacturers, and that he would aban-