Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-07-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

The number of emigrants who arrived at
Castle Garden, New York, for the week end
ing July Is, was 4,236, making total of
120,447 landed this year. The total number
for the corresponding period last year was
1873, 19S..... Dispatches from New York state
that it is now believed that Foster will
cape capital punishment. kilograms from
New York, dated July 18th, say that, never,
during the last twenty years, has New York
been more free from disorder of all kinds
than during the last two days. The terri
BILE blast Wednesday has taught the mob
lesson that does not seem likely to be soon
forgotten AT celebration at Loon lake,
i'm the town of Wayland, New York, on the
14th inst, cannon was discharged prema-
turely, instantly killing Mr.. Renders, fatal
ly wounding T. Parkwell, promi-
nent lawyer in that place, and slightly
iniuring several ladies......During the
burning of a building on Sixth ave-
nue., N. Y, on Saturday afternoon, barrel
of benzine exploded, severely burning thir-
teen men, several of whom will not sur
vive.......Page and Wyatt, members of the
9th regiment, who were killed at the New
York riot on the 18th inst, were buried
with military honors on the 18th inst......A
young named Edward Jaffrey, committed
suicide in New York on the 18th inst He
was member of the 9th regiment and a de-
voted Catholic, and would not turn out with
the regiment on the day of the riot. The
conflict in his mind between his duty to his
regiment and to his religion caused the rash
act. .s5 s.s.t
A FEARFUL tornado, accompani ed by
thunder, ligh timing, and heavy rain, struck
Vineland, N. j., on the 18th inst. The loss
of property of all kinds is very severe.
Roofs of houses, trees and fences were de-
g4r
destruction of the Episcopal church, two
railway depots, and two dwelling houses.
Clinton Gilbert, Gen. Jordan's assistant as
SCISSOR, who was shot by some unknown man
during the Fifth Ward whisky riot, in
Brooklyn, on Friday morning, died in the
hospital of the navy yard, on Sunday, after
two days terrible agony. Cornelius V. S.
Roosevelt, one of the best known old mer-
chants in New York city, died at his sum
mer residence in Oyster Bay, L. l., on Mon
day, after an illness of but two days.. Miss
Ada McEvOy, of Lowell, and Miss Ann
Cummings, of Portsmouth, N. H., were
drowned on the 18th, in Charles river by
the capsizing of boat.....On Monday after
noon, three boys, Cornelius Ryan, John Gal
vim and Samuel Gloss, were drowned while
bathing IN brickyard pond, near Phila-
delphia......A tornado passed over New
York city on Sunday afternoon, which done
great damage to the shipping in the har
Dor.
THOMAS MCCLARRY died on the 18th inst.
from a wound received on the 18th inst, at
the New York riot There are Is wounded
still at the Bellevue and Mount Sinia hospi-
tails, five of whom cannot recover. The
Brooklyn Board of Health on the 18th au-
thorzed the Health Officer to isolate at their
own residences persons afflicted with small
pOX, II possible, instead of transferring them
to le hospital. The Health Officer was also
empowered to place a sign announcing
smallpox on any building where small
pox patient is known to reside.
The jury in the Buckhout trial, at White
Plains, N. Y, after remaining out all night,
rendered a verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree, with q recommendation to
mercy. After some time spent in delibera-
ton, the court sentenced the prisoner to be
hanged on Friday, the 1st day of September
next.....Two of the family of Mrs. Black,
the ones who were dosed with arsenic by the
wholesale poisoner, Mrs. Martha Grinder,
hung at Pittsburgh, Pa, some years ago, are
dead from smallpox. The victims never
recovered from the deadly stuff the female
fend administered to them in some dainties
she invited them to her own house to par
take of......A train on the N. Y. Central road
ran off the track, recently, while going at
the rate OF mile a minute. Strange to say,
no one was injured. The committee of the
Kings County Medical Society report ,345
cases o, smallpox in Brooklyn for the year
ending July l. The fatal cases for the past
month averaged eight per day. The physi-
clans viii probably make a united effort for
general vaccination. 1.-The horse plague
is affecting the stables of the Brooklyn City
and Coney Island railroad Companies .
The deaths in New York during the past
week were 857, and in Brooklyn 346 both
showing heavy increase......T The German
American Association, of New York, adopted
resolutions at recent meeting condemning
the appropriation of money for sectarian
schools, and advising the Germans not to
vote for any State Senator or member of the
sembly who Hoes not advocate the repeal
OF the statute, and giving to the Mayor the
appointment of school officers. IA meeting
OF iron manufacturers was held in New
York on the 10th, the main object of which
was to complete arrangements for the con-
vention in Philadelphia, on tie 9th of Sep
tember, to organize a national bar iron assoc
clatlon. The delegates represented $50, 000,-
600 capital.
The West.
Gov. PAuMEB has ordered that all of tn ose
known to be connected with the hanging of
Martin Mera, at Gilman, ILL.,, on July 5th
be arrested and tried according to the laws
of the State. The execution of the laws is
al very proper, but it is doubtful"if a Jury
can be found tosconvict any one connected
with the aftair......A special to the Cincin-
natl Gazette says the most destructive storm
ever seen in Huron county, visited that To-
cality on Sunday. 1t made its first appear
ance in the Dutch settlement, three miles
southwest of Norwalk, Frustrated fruit and
shade trees, and damaged barns and out
houses. ,..-Frank Roe, a. farmer, while load
ing hay three miles east of Newark, Ohio,
Friday, was killed by lightning, which
came from almost cloudless sky The fork
held in his hand was shivered to atoms, and
man on the wagon was knocked to the
ground and we'll nigh killed. bow
named Tsehirgi, aged Is years, was killed at
Dubuque, Iowa, recently, by foul air, while
descending into cistern for the purpose of
cleaning it out Two men who ventured
down to rescue him were pulled out nearly
dead before the cause of the difficulty was
discovered. The cistern was but ten feets
deep, and was in brewery John Bohm's
little daughter, aged three years, was bitten
by rattlesnake, on Friday evening, near
Denver. The snake inflicted an ugly wound
near the girls left hip. Her life was saved
by her father vigorously sucking the wound
......A special dispatch from Denver has the
following: Elijah Williams, colored, was
shot and instantly killed, recently, by Jim
Heel, colored in negro billiard and gam
bling saloepon Blake street.
A ooLdtsED man, named Hammond, in
Darke county, Ohio, on Saturday, pursued
Miss Clay5-who was passing to neighbors,
and ravished her. He was arrested and
lodged in jail. Since then it has been dis
covered that he had made improper ad-
vances to two girls near Union CITY, Is and