Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The East.


ANOTHER death occurred in New York on
the 18th inst, of one of the victims of the
recent steamboat disaster. John Rourke,
wounded in the Catholic riot also died on
the 4th.....A man named Thompson ghot
and instantly killed another named Burns,
at Horse Heads, N. Y, Friday night, mis-
taking him for para our OF his wlte's, Tor
whom he was watching. All the parties are
colored ... Mr.. John Delton, who was thrown
from the platform of Second avenue car by
quarreling ruffians on Sunday night, and
who sustained serious injuries, died on Fri
day.....The steamer Providence, on her way
tc New York on Thursday, from Newport,
during dense fog ran into three schooners
in succession. In two instances the damage
was not great. In the third, the schooner
W. A. Cobb, of Bucksport, as well as the
Providence, was seriously injured. There
was much excitement among the passen-
gers on account of this succession of mis-
haps. -. The N. Y. Evening Mail says Chas.
Francis Adams declines the position of
United States arbitrator to Geneva, and that
Senator Frelinghuysen and other prominent
New Jersey politicians are urging William
Walter Phelps. of that State, for the place.
Two more bodies of victims of the West
field horror were found in the East river on
Sunday. Travel to Staten Island has been
materially affected by the influence of the
recent disaster to the Westfield The cele-
brated trottng mare Purity, while exercis-
ing on the driving park at Buffalo, on Satur-
day, dropped dead from heart disease She
was entered for the 2:24 and 2:30 races,
$4,000 purse. At the time of the accident
she had trotted over the track at 2:25, and
was on the second round on 2:20 gait.
Goldsmith Maid made 2:191 Saturday, exer-
cising $50. Broderick, one of the worst of New
York ruffians, and the captain of gang of
river thieves, was taken before Justice Ho-
gan on Saturday, on charge of felonious
assault, and held in default of $40 900 bail.
It is expected that he will get rs years in the
State prison, and he deserves it.
THE threatened approach of cholera in
New York is being met by every precau-
tionary measure on the part of the health
authorities in the city and at quarantine.
The work eft cleaning the streets with lime
and other disinfectants has commenced.
The quarantine officers state that up to the
present time no cholera has been detected on
the vessels entering the port......The author
tiles of New York, Brooklyn, Staten Island,
and New Jersey are to have an official in
spection made of the boilers on all the steam
ferry-boats forthwith. Gov. Hoffman
positively refuses to commute the sentence
of Joseph Messner, who is under sentence
20 be hanged on Friday, at Rochester, N. Y.
,.....Edwin W. Corning, son of Erastus Corn
ing, died suddenly on Monday, at St. Cath
crimes, G. w.. Early Sunday forenoon, a
German girl, aged Is years, in a somnambu-
iistie fit, waking, fell from the attic of her
residence, in East Broadway, N. Y, and
striking the pavement, killed herself.
THE dry goods business in New York is be-
ginning to show activity. Large buyers
were reported in the city on the 8th, making
their selections for fall business. Seven
horses were killed by lightning in a Brook
lyn stable, on the 8th inst ...... The Health O =
ficer has placed an additional force of In
spectors at the wharves in South Brooklyn,
in view of the fact that yellow fever has ap-
pearGd at Instructions have
been given to the Boston Police to prosecute
all proprietors of public places where thieves
and drunken men are harbored and furnished
liquor. The first installment, SO cases, I'M
der the nuisance act was brought before the
court on the Sth inst,.... Rev. Father Cady,
one of the priests attached to st. Pauls Ca
thedral, of Pittsburgh, Pa, was buried on
Tuesday, from Mercy Hospital. John W.
Proud, miner, was crushed near Pittsburg,
Pa, on Tuesday, into jelly by falling mass
of slate in the coal pit where he was work
ing. Fannie Elsie, aged IA years, was shot
door by the accidental discharge of pistol
in the hands of a boy named Michael Quinn.
THE New York city accounts are in TIE
hands of the printer, and will be issued next
week. They will make book of upward of
5000 pages, and contain the names of all
persons employed in the various courts and
municipal Departments, with full explana-
tions defending the action of the Mayor and
Comptroller with reference to signing war
rants for the disbursement of money ..,...Jno.
II. Horn, second officer of the steamer Sher-
man, died on Wednesday at the quarantine
hospital in New York, of yellow fever.....
Three hundred and thirty-three car loads
and 1880 crates of peaches arrived in New
York on the 9th inst...... The Tooth victim of
the Westfield explosion-John Watson, a ma
tive of England, aged 80 years-died at
Bellevue hospital on the 9th inst..... Several
deaths from sunstrOke occurred in New
York,.on the 9th inst...... During thunder
storm on Friday afternoon, lightning struck
the railroad track just outside of the east end
of Hoosac tunnel, and, entering the tunnel
on the rails, exploded charge of nitro gly-
cerlne. Two men were instantly killed, and
another so severely in ured that he died
shortly after. charge was similarly ex-
ploded in the west end of the tunnel
during the same storm, but without dam
age.
The West.
CATHERINE HANSON, a girl 10 years of age,
who was only short time ago respectable
and virtuous, died at the County Hospital l.,
in Chicago, on the 4th inst. She was Sc
duced by young man named Emmons, and
taken to den of infamy and left where she
fell i'll, and was subsequently, taken into the
hospital: Reports from Montana give &C
counts of serious Indian raids in Gallatin
Valley. number of whites have recently
been killed and much stock run off. The
Sioux Indians are committing the depreda-
tlons......A negro, caught in the act of out
raging girl in Burlington, Iowa, on the I'd
inst, in her own house, shot her father
dead, and then made his escape......A young
man named Leonard G. Knapp, was drowned
while bathing in the canal at Goshen, Ind,
on the 4th inst......The United States reve-
nue. cutter Andrew Johnson, which has been
up at the Beaver Islands, lately, to protect
the U. S Marshal in the discharge of his du-
ties, returned, on the 4th inst, with four
prisoners, consisting of deputy sheriff, JUS
tlce of the peace, supervisor, and a citizen,
who were delivered to the civil authorities
at Grand Haven, Mich.
A FoRrY-BARREL oil we'll has oeen put in
successful operation at Terre Haute, Ind.
The depth bored is 1856 feet and the oil is
the best quality of lubricating oil The
widow of Harrison, the keeper of the
Whitehouse Hotel, at Ogden, Utah, who died
very suddenly recently, has been arrested
on suspicion of poisoning her husband 49,.
Reports from Utah say that many Mormon
women have recently deserted their hus-
bands, and left for parts unknown with
other men....The female suffragists of San
francisco and Stockton are arranging to