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

Claain, died in Boston, on the 23d, aged
79 years.
Surveys have been made at Pough-
keepsie with a'yiew to erecting bridge
across the Hudson.
Another railroad accident occurred
near Williamsport, Pa, in which one
man was killed and seventeen more or
less injured.
An work on the Hudson River
State Hospital has ceased, owing to a
lack of funds, and nearly 200 men are
thrown out of employment. The build
ing, too, is not half finished.
An important reduction in freights
from New York to Cincinnati is an
nounced to take effect on the 10Th. NO.
/ is fixed at $l.38; No. 2 at Sl.lo and
No. 3 at 93c. No. and "speciaE' are
unaltered.
"A vessel which arrived at the east
end of Cuba island reports having seen,
on the I'd inst, off the Haytien coast, a
war steamer with three masts, painted
black, bark rugged, and of about 1000
tons, steaming slowly. This craft is
supposed to have been the Tennessee.
-On the.I7th, Jennie Droz, young
German girl, shot and instantly killed
Mai. Fisk, proprietor of the Cliff House,
at Rock River, near Cleveland. The
girl is now imprisoned in the county
Jail. She. states that while working at
the Cliff House, over year ago, Fisk
used every sartifce for eight months,
and finally seduced her under promise
to take her to house and live with
her. The intimacy being afterward dis
covered, she was obliged to leave the
Cliff House, Fisk. refusing her aid, and
she was incapacitated to work by dis
ease caught from Fisk. She drove to
Rock River, made another demand for
aid, and on its refusal, shot him.
I @ Z The West. ~
Henry L. Clusfnan, the keeper of a
feed store at. Cincinnati, shot himself
through the head recently. The sup
posed cause is dullness of business.
The Davenport City Horse Railway
Company and the Rock Island and Mo
line Horse Railroad Company are en-
deavoring4 to secure the right of way
over the island and the Government
bridge between Rock Island and Daven-
port.
"A fire broke out, on the 10Th, at
South Clinton, Iowa, about o'clock, in
q frame. building, burning two small
children to death, aged four and six
years Their mother had left the house,
locking, theschildren in. The mother is
said to besinsahe.
-AsQriincy telegram says the Grand
Juryl during its present. session, pre-
scented seven bills of Indictment against
Stephen M Ballou, the alleged muir
derer of.,games Golden-three for lar
ceny, one for forgery, and three for get
ting money by means of confidence
game. His examination for murder is
vet unfinished, s- ~'
"A San Francisco dispatch says: The
rece1it storm wasSvery severe along the
coast, and several cOasters were wrecked,
and many damaged. Horatio Butler,
the. second officer of the schooner VIM.
Ireland, Was washed overheard off Punta
Reyes, and drowned. Much anxiety is
felt for the safety of the steamer Idaho,
four days overdueafrom the mouth of
the Columbia. The steamers Orizaba
and VIM. @Faber, from San Diego, are
also somewhat. overdue. The lines to
Oregon and Southern California are
down.
~. The South.
Ellis L. Jenkins, Deputy United
States Marshal of the Eastern District
Of Missouri; and,Deputy Collector of the
Second Revenue District, was shot and
killed on&the night of the 18th, while
standing in the sitting-room of a hotel
at New Madrid.
Foreign.
Nothing positive'is known as to the
conditions of peace. A financial jour
nal says it IS materially impossible for
France to pay an indemnity Of 800,000,-
600 francs, or even half that amount.
Theirs and Favre are at Versailles.
"A letter from Neisse, in Prussian
Silesia, states that the French prisoners
have been compelled, during the cold
weatherEto Sleep in the country under
small canvas tents, and that the suffer
ings caused thereby have been intense.
1t appears from the writer's statement
that over, 500 of the unfortunate men
were recently frozen to death in a single
night
-Informations has been received from
Versailles that it is determined that q
portion of the German army shall march
through Paris on their return home.
Theirs continues to- vigorously oppose
this, warming the Germans of the re-
sponsibility they will incur. A placard
was posted on Monday, in the students
quarter, appealing to the inhabitants to
make q last struggle, should the Prus-
slams enter the city. s<*
A correspondent of the London
Times telegraphs from Versailles: " The
Moaiteur says a prolongation of the ar
mistice would injure the position of the
Germansa Germany is resolved to con-
iinue the war if compensation for the
past and guarantees for the future are
not given! Germany must insist on
guarantees, and especially those procu-
rable by the occupation Of Paris
-Grevy, who has been chosen Presi-
dent of the French Assembly, is liberal
Monarchist. There is nothing in this
election to indicate on what particular
prince or house the hopes of the Mon
archists rest. For the present, it seems
most likely that the Provisional Govern
ment, with Theirs at its head, will be in.
trusted with the fate of France until the
Withdrawal; of the Germans. Thus far
the action of the Assembly indicates
that peace will be made at once, and
that then France will be forced to ask
some one to rule oyer her. after the man
ner of Spain. sSE&SEs 49,
- The RAILROADS OF GREAT BRITAIN
The returns Of the English Board OF
Trade for 1869, show that the aggregate
railway capital of that wear increased