Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-05-12
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.



on the night of the Sd inst.
II. D. Rogers was found dead on his
wife's grave at Lowell, Mass, on the I'd
inst. He had taken laudanum.
"A man named Mason, was arrested
in New Haven, Ct, for repeated at
tempts at incest with his two daugh-
tiers.
The original Wyckoff, Patriarch of
Coney Island, the progenitor of num-
erous family of Wyckoffs, died recently,
aged 100.
The German gunboat Meteor, that
defeated the French vessel La Beuvet,
near Havana, is now in the New York
harbor.
Hon. VIM. Mclean, prominent
ship owner and wealthy citizen of Maine,
died on the 2Sth inst, at Rockland,
Maine, aged 68.
The machine shop and tub works
of Seybert, McManus & Co., at Reading,
Pa, were destroyed by fire on the Sd
inst. Loss 100000.
Il Avery d. Putnam, who was struck
on the head with car hook, on a
New York street car, by man named
Foster, is dead. Foster is under ar.
rest. Gi -# 49,
The cattle plague has broken out
among large droves of cattle in West
chester county, Ny. The disease in
variably terminates fatally. Conside-
rable alarm exists.
Hon. Thomas J. Boynton, whom
President Lincoln appointed United
States District Attorney for Florida at
the age of %, died on the Sd inst, at
Bellevue Hospital, New York.
Col Joseph w. Scott, the oldest
members of the New Jersey bar, and
formerly Grand Master of the Masons of
that State, died at New Brunswick, on
the goth inst, aged SO years.
80 Mr.. and Mrs Richings Bernard
have been declared bankrupt upon their
own petition Their total liabilities are
$4,000, including nearly $4,000 due to
the estate of the late Peter Richings, of
Philadelphia, of which Mrs. Barnard is
.executriX.
Hon. Sharon Tyndale, once Secre-
tary of State of Illinois, was brutally
3 murdered near his residence at Spring
field, ILL.,, on Saturday morning, about
one o'clock. He was on his way from
his house to the depot, at which place
he was to have taken the train for St.
Louis.
A public sentiment of indignation
was aroused at the atrocious murder of
Avery Putnam, in a New York street
car, the other day, and so great was the
popular interest in the affair that, at
Mr.. Avery's funeral, on Cottage place,
an immense concourse of citizens was
In attendance, and, as the procession
moved to Swan Point Cemetery, hun
dreds joined the cortege, and many of
the stores on the route of the funeral
train were closed.
2 Charles Purdue, sailor, formerly
of Orange, n. j., was tried in the United
States Court before Judge Woodruff,
found guilty of firing the ship Robert
Edwards on the high seas, and sentenced
to be hanged May II. Every effort has
been put forth by the counsel to secure
a communication of the sentence, and a
letter has been received from President
Grant announcing that after a careful
review of the case ne had determined
to order that Purdue be imprisoned in
in the Albany Penitentiary for twelve
q years.
The West.
"A man named Louis Ulrich. of Mil
waukee, Wis, was poisoned on Saturday
morning. His wife and man named
Shredder are under arrest for admins
tering the poison.
"A man named Charles Mckenzie
was brutally beaten near Milwaukee,
Wis.,, on Saturday, and left for dead by
the side of a railroad track He was
found in an insensible condition, and
expired on Sunday at 3 p. m.
A few days since, several children
belonging to the family of John Owen,
residing at Maple Creek, Waupaca
county, Wis, were poisoned by eating
wild parsneps. One of them died in four
hours, and the others are seriously ill.
An Englishman. named Peter Bates
e. eloped from st. Paul, Mimi, with a
7seamstress named Sarah Goodman leav-
ing wife in destitute circumstances.
The destination of the runaways was
given as Boston, but it is supposed they
are off for California.
Mrs. A. Culver, of White Hill, ILL.,,
stood before a mirror in her room on
Saturday, and cut her throat with a
razor. She died in less than a minute.
. Temporary insanity, resulting from pro-
tracted sickness, was the cause Of the
: act.
Valentine Hentz, German, thirty
years of age, hung himself with hand
kerchief, in the Third Street Station
House, at Cincinnati, on the I'd inst
The deceased was from st. Louis. He
was arrested for creating a disturbance
at a hotel.
) An Irishman named Eugene Hef
ferman was shot and killed at New AL
bany, Ind, recently, by boy named
White, about eighteen years of age
Hefferman had gone to Whites house
and insulted his mother, and when
White interfered, attacked him with
brass knuckles. White gave himself
/ up.
Paul Tyler, negro, committed
rape, Sunday night, on Mrs. Edwards,
IN Franklin county, Tenn, and was
) caught during the night, identified, and
hanged.
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