Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

THE French schooner Jenny, from Hull
with petroleum oil, lying off the Jersey flats
ready for sea, caught fire Saturday evening,
from an explosion of the cargo in her hold,
and was burned to the waters edge. The
crew was picked up by the revenue cutters.
1.-THE S150,000 in bonds stolen from man
IN sleeping-car at the depot at Harrisburg,
Pa, recently, has all been recovered. The
satchel containing the bonds was taken from
q boy in the street. The boy escaped. The
man from whom the bonds were stolen be-
longs to the firm of Geo. Opdyke Co., OF
New York. .Greenleaf White and Captain
David Call, both of Hollowell, were drowned
near Salley's Island, at the mouth OF the
river, on Saturday, by the capsizing, of
boat......A destructive fire occurred at
Worthboro, Mass, on Saturday evening,
which consumed two large blocks, entailing
a loss of over $40, OO0 Prof. John W. S.
Howe died at New York on Saturday......
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, niece Of Presi-
dent Monroe, died on Friday night, at her
residence at New Brunswick, N. j.. Mrs.
Jay Cooke died at Philadelphia on Friday
night. Gov. Cooke and family have left
Washington to attend the funeral. ..... Rev.
William Richards, formerly popular Bap-
fist clergyman in New York and late of
Hudson, died in Georgia, where he had gone
for his health, in his 74th year.
THERE is much excitement at Patterson,
N. j., against some unknown scoundrels
who broke into the family vault of J. H.
Durham, in the city cemetery, tore off the
silver plates from the collins, broke the
collins, and spilled the corpses and skeletons
upon the ground. The villains will doubt
less be lynched if discovered. The jury
IN the investigation of the recent riots at
New York returned the following verdict on
Monday: We find that those parties came
to their deaths on the 18th inst, by gun shot
wounds at the hands of parties to us I'M
known" The jury, having signed the YER
dict IN AZ cases, were then discharged. IA
serious break occurred in the Harlem rail
road tunnel in New York on the oath inst.
1t is said that the tunnel will have to be en-
tirely rebuilt......A All goods intended for ex-
hibtion at the Buffalo International Indus
trial Exhibition which shall be prepaid to
Buffalo, will be returned at the close of the
exhibition free of charge.
CHARLES DYKE, the engineer on Robert
Fulton's first steamer to Albany, died at
New York on the 25th inst, aged eighty-fve
years. Mr.. Dyke also engineered the first
steamer down the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers to New Orleans. ..... Joseph X. Tur-
ner, member of the bar from Titusville,
has been convicted of forging pension pa
pers, was sentenced by Judge McCandlcss
to pay a fine of $4,000, and to fourteen years
imprisonment in the Western Penitentiary.
......Much excitement prevails at Patterson,
N. j.. over the case of young colored wO-
man, Mary Brister, accused of having muir
dered several children. The accused is
daughter of Mrs. Wesley Weisner, by for
mer husband. Mrs. Weisner's children had
been placed in her charge while the pareEts
were employed at daily labor. Four chill
dren have died very mysteriously within
the past three years. The last of the four
died few days ago, and physicians are Of
the opinion that it was strang led..... The
workingmen of New York have resolved to
hold parade and Indignation mass meet
ing some time in September as q protest
against the non-enforcement of the eight
hour law......Henry Langstaff, another of
the New York rioters, died on Tuesday,
making the total number of victims thus far
52.....An unsuccessful attempt was made a
few nights ago to burn the Irish Protestant
church in Williamsburg.
IT is rumored that one of the most impor-
tant railway companies of New York city
has had its bonds seized by officers of the
Internal Revenue Department, for failing to
make returns.....C Captain John Melks, who
in 1857 crossed the Atlantic on an India rub
Der life raft, is having another raft made,
fifteen feet long and twelve wide, on which
he intends to go to Europe, accompanied
only by boy. He will be ready to start
about the middle of August, and will carry
with him sixty days provisions. He will
take the direct steamers track ...... The horse
disease is still making sad havoc among the
railroad horses of New York. A letter from
d.
prevails among the horses of the Paris Cab
Company. Two hundred died lately in a
few days. Honora Creation, for the past Is
years beggar in the streets of New York,
died of starvation on the Goth. She had
$4,000 deposited in a savings bank, which
she has willed to little girl who lived with
her......The internal revenue authorities on
Wednesday seized the wholesale whisky
house of Stephen Kinney & Co., of New
York, on a charge of having a large GUAM
tity of contraband liquor on hand.
The West.
HENRY SCHAFFER was caught in the act of
firing brick block at Hudson, Mimi, on
Friday night He confessed that he fired
the Journal office, recently burned at that
place.. Herbert F. Nourse, indicted for the
murder of VIM. Park and M. Leastwood,
last December, was tried by the District
Court at Cheyenne, on Saturday, and con-
victed... Henry Gorsage, of Wooster, o., a
youth of half a century, reached Ft Wayne,
on Saturday, in quest of his wife Deborah,
his Junior by ten years, who had, few days
since, left his board and bed with hired
hand" q lad of is, named Henry Lifts.
Gorsage found the party registered at the
American House as Mr.. and Mrs. Lifts. He
procured a warrant and had them arrested.
The young man was fined, his paramour
paying the same for him, and on the night
train the trio departed for their eastern
home, all parties apparently satisfied with
the turn things had taken..... The heaviest
fire of the season occurred on Market street,
near Fremont, San Francisco, among the
lumber planning mills, Saturday evening.
The flames, driven by the high winds, spread
with startling rapdity. The total loss is
over $3.50 O00......A special to the Cincinnati
Commercial and Gazette says q young Irish
man named James Mealey was SHOT and
killed, Saturday afternoon, near North
Lewisburg, Champaign county, O., by John
Murphy. An old trouble was at the foun-
dation of the affair......An eronaut named
Torres, connected with Grady's circus, in
descending with balloon in Massillon, O.,
on Saturday, fell into the canal basin and
was drowned. ....A Cheyenne dispatch says
that on the Sd inst. two Cherokee Indians
got into difficulty. Both fired simulta-
neously and killed each other on the spot.
THE wife of DR.. Peters, of Plainvlle, AL
Logan county, Mich, Mrs. Manning, living
near Pine Creek, in the same county, and
Amaziah Lane. of Pittsford, Hinsdale coun-
tv, committed suicide last week. The past
week of fair weather has increased the
prospects of all kinds of crops in Iowa......J.
Quinn, one of John Robinson's circus hands,
was found dead on the tent ground, at Des
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