Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-18


CITY on the 9Th inst... Bush fires are still |
raging on the line of the Northern railway, |
in Canada. A large amount OF property be- |
ing destroyed 80. The third trial of VIM. H.
Vanderpool, for the murder of Herbert Field,
at Manistee, Mich. two years ago, was com
menced at Tasting on August 9Th ......Silas F.
DYER, editor and publisher of the Chenoa
Gll.) Times, died at his residence in that city
on August s, of hemorrhage of the lungs.
The French people of Ottawa, ILL.,, propose to
celebrate the first ar versary of the decla- |
ration of the independence of France on the
Attn of September next, that being their 4th
of July. American citizens will join in the
procession. French people near and far are
invited to participate in the celebration......
Mrs. Campbell has confessed to have MUIR
dered her husband at London, Ont, on the
18th of July, duplicating Doyle as an Access
sorry.
AT SALT LAKE, on August 9, in the Third
District Court, Mormon polygamst was
held to bail in the sum of S., 900 charged by
his first wife with adultery......Osc M.
Green, brakeman on the Chicago, Burling
ton and Quincy railroad, was instantly
killed by falling from a train, near Buda,
ILL.,, on August 8.....A dispatch from st.
Paul, dated August 9, says: "The exces-
sively heavy rains of the past few days have
materially damaged the prospects of the
harvest Every day since Saturday last vio-
lent storms have visited this portion of the
State, accompanied by high winds, which
deluged the ground with water, rendering
it impracticable to use reaping machines,
and saturating cut grain in shocks and
stacks. Accounts from harvesters, in conse-
quence, are very gloomy ......A young man
named Kemp, of Honstadt, Ind, on the
night of July 3lst, beat out the brains of one
Bildubecker. Kemp has been arrested and
has confessed the crime.
The South.
Mrs. PFEIFFER, a respectable married
lady, while gathering blackberres neal
Frankfort, KY, on Tuesday, accompanied
by her daughter, aged IA, was attacked and
brutally outraged by negro. The fend
has been arrested, and it is with difficulty
that the authorities can prevent his being
lynched by the citizens.....A woman named
Susan Kelly, employed as a servant in the
house of Rev. G. o. Guild, Baltimore, who is
at present in Europe, has been arrested on
| charge of strangling her new born child.
| The body was found in stove by some
neighbors who were intrusted with the
supervision of the premises in the absence of
Guild. The woman confessed her crme......
The receipts at the New Orleans Custom
| sum which has been but once before equaled
| in single day.
| THE first bale of the new crop Louisiana
cotton was received on Friday, the 4th. 1t
was raised by Charles A. Pierson, near the
mouth of Cane river, Natchitoches parish.
The cotton crop along the Red river looks
better than was expected after the spring
| rains. 1t is believed that fair crop will be
| mo do in riu oh T,on
| and Missouri River road has been completed
| from Louisiana westward to Mexico, 81
| miles, where it connects with the North Mis-
souri, railroad.
SERIOUS riots are reported to have taken
place at Lexington, Frankfort, and Paris,
KY, at the polls on Monday. Two white
men were killed and several negroes
wounded The Democrats are reported to
have carried the State by $4,000 majority.
...... Capt. John B. Weaver, for Is years past
prominently connected with STEAMBOATS, in
St. Louis, and one of the lessees of the Lin
dell House when it burned, died on Monday,
aged THE boiler in the Union Touring
mill, at st. Louis, exploded at about 2
o'clock on Monday morning, instantly kill
ing the engineer and fireman and blowing
out the cast end of the mill ,.....A negro boy
named Johnson was murdered at Memphis,
on the 9TH inst, by an ex-policeman named
Reeves. Cause-a rival in the affections of
a debauched woman.
A NEGRO named Mcdowell, while beating
his sister, living near the Mississippi and
Tennessee Railroad Depot, at Memphis, was
stabbed and instantly killed by her hus-
band, Horace Whitley, who surrendered and
was locked up..... A Louisville dispatch says
German lady of that city gave birth to
| three daughters. The mother is not wo-
man sufragist.." About s o'clock on the
morning of August body of armed men,
| about $50 in number, went to the Frankfort,
| KY, jail, demanded the key from the jailor,
and opened the Jail door, taking out the
negro that committed the rape upon the per-
son of Mrs. Pfeiffer some few days ago, also
a negro by the name of Washington, who, it
is said, was the first man that fired pistol
in the riot of the 18th inst, and hung them
both about half a mile from the Jail,
THE first bale of cotton raised in Georgia
this year, was received at Savannah on Au-
gust 9. 1t was grown in Decatur county,
and was sold at auction for 324 cents per
pound. 1t classed as strict middling. ...A
man who from paper found on his body
declaring a conspiracy had been formed to
kill him, is supposed to have been insane,
jumped into the old reservoir, in st. Louis,
on Wednesday and was drowned.
Washington.
The Commissioner of Patents, on the 5th
inst, decided that no party is entitled, as of
right, to cover in single patent more than
one article of manufacture, unless the seve-
raj improvements presented are necessarily
related to, or connected with, each other. In
other words, as many applications must be
filed as there are distinct features in the in
vention.....A record of steamboat boiler ex-
blossoms, kept in the office of the Board of
Supervising Inspectors Of the Treasury De-
partment, SHOWS there were more lives lost
by the Westfeld disaster at New York, than
by all the steamboat explosions in either of
the two past years. In 1869 there were 81
lives lost by explosions on steamers of all
characters, including river, lake, and
ocean craft; and in 1870 the number was
but 81, of which % were passengers and 81
crew.
CHIEF DETECTIVE WooD is out with COM
munication charging Secretary Boutwell,
with maladlninistration in his Office. 1t
looks very much as though this was another
Creature" in the Boutwell, Pleasant ton I'M
p!easantness. THE Secretary of the Treas
ury has decided that boats conveying foreign
merchandise between New Orleans and St.
Louis under the regulations of May 9, 1871,
are not governed, as respects clearance and
manifests, by the act of Feb. Is, 1898, nor
the act of March 2, 1871.
THE President, on the Sth inst, suspended
Commissioner Pleasonton from office, and
appointed j. W. Douglass, as Commissioner
of Internal Revenue until the next session
of Congress The report recently circula-
ted that Charles Francis Adams has declined
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