Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-06-09

young man, SelZeQ tne ruIuan anu " DIS
also shot in the head, but not danger
ously. Miss Gargett escaped by leaping
from second-story window and taking
refuge in a neighbor's house. The muir
derer has been arrested, and is now in
Jail at Akron. He narrowly escaped
being lynched by the excited people of
Richfeld There is no hope of Robert
Gargett's recovery.
George Harberger, German, arrived
in New York by sailing vessel from
Bremen recently, and declares that he
was robbed of several thousand dollars
in gold, and an attempt made to murder
him the week before reaching port. He
accuses some of the officers of the ship.
The case will undergo investigation.
"A shooting affray occurred recently
in Erie, Pa, in which man named
Kennedy and his son received serious
wounds in the shoulders and breasts.
They attempted to shoot a policemen
who were called into a saloon to quell a
disturbance, but before the melee was
quieted, they received the treatment
above mentioned.
CaSunlt1eSs
Reports of terrific storms in New
York on Monday and Tuesday are re
ceived.
"A daughter of David Seabolt, OF
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was burned to death
on Saturday, by the explosion of ker-
osene can, while she was attempting to
kindle fire with oil.
The eastern span of the new rail
road drawbridge at Winona, Mimi,
gave way on Saturday, precipitating a
train loaded with stone into the river
Several persons were injured, but none
killed.
The town of Hamilton, Mo-, on the
Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, was
visited by destructive conflagration on
Sunday. An entire block on the east
side of Main street, containing six of its
largest and finest business buildings,
was entirely destroyed. Loss estimated
at nearly $4,000.
"A sad accident occurred on Satur-
day evening, at Pewee Valley, sixteen
miles from Louisville, KY, by the ex-
plosion Of a patent gas machine, Ply
which young lady named Miss Martin
was SO badly burned that she died, and
Mr.. Crawford, her uncle, SO dangerously
injured that he is not expected to re-
cover.
Tired of Life.
Lorenzo Rogers, clerk in the post
office at Galesburg, ILL.,, shot himself on
Saturday, and will probably die from
the effects of the wound. Cause-his
girl loved some other man better than
him.
John Bolin, of Brownsville, Neb.,
took dose of strychnine, because he
could not obtain "whom his heart loved
most" waiter in hotel. John is nc
more.
Miss Lizzie r. Wescott committed
suicide at the residence of her uncle
in Chicago, on Tuesday, under pecu
liar circumstances. She neglected
going to school the day before, and
went boat riding with a young man. Ii
was necessary for her to have note ex'
planning the cause of her absence when
she went to school the next day. The
yolng man wrote her note and signed
took and presented to the principal
She afterwards became SO ashamed OF
the deception that she confessed the
whole matter to her aunt, who mildly
admonished her. This gentle reproot
she felt deeply, and finally she declared
to her male friend that she would com
NIT suicide. He laughed at her, but
the corpse found in her bed the next
morning proved that she was in earnest
She had taken a dose of morphine
Her death creates the utmost sadness
among her school mates, by whom she
was much respected.
Miscellaneous.
Louisville has had sixteen cases oil
infanticide in three months-that is
! this number of cases has been detected
Peter Schwab has been held to bail
in the sum of $4,000, to appear before
the U. S. District Court, in answer to g
charge of stufing the ballot-box.
Joseph Lorritz, seaman of the Brit
ish steam tug Princess Louise, wrecked
in the Straits of Magellan, has arrived
at San Francisco. He reports all the
rest of the crew killed or made captives
by the Indians.
The public debt statement for May
will show a decrease of $3,0O0,000. Pen
sioners are now paid quarterly, instead
of semi-annually, as formerly, and the
payments on this account during May
have been about 100000.
The fall of rain at Cincinnati fol
the year ending 30th ult., has been
30 "a inches, over nine inches less
than the yearly average. The fall fol
six months beginning in July last was
Jess than one fourth the usual yearly
| quantity.
"A letter from Jacks Bow, Texas
| says that on the 18th ult., band of lO(
Indians attacked Henry Warmers train
twenty miles from there, killing seven
men belonging to the train and wound
ing one. Gen. Sherman, who was at
Fort Richardson at the time, ordered
four companies of cavalry in pursuit,
with instructions to drive the Indians
into Fort Sill, saying that if he found
they were Fort Sill Indians, he would
stop Indian trade in that quarter.