Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-11-24

The East.

of year is unprecedented in Eastern Maine.
The boys are skating upon the.ponds in the
Vicinity of Belfast. The Trvolean Hotel
and the Railroad House, two of the largest
hotels on Coney Island, near New York,
were destroyed by fire on Tuesday night.
Loss abOutyS50 ,00G..... N orthrop- A. Kemp,
Postmaster at Duzerne, Penn, was lately
sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the
penitentiary, for opening letters and for
Forging pension vouchers. T. Won Kenney,
4or attempting to pass counterfeit money,
went five years to the same institution.
4 SrARKs from locomotive, on Thursday,
started a fire in Westchester county, New
York, burning six acres Of woodland.
AN entire square of buildings was burned
at Brookville, Pa, on the 5th inst, involy-
ing a loss of $4,000.
s~ELLTEf E. DANIELS, the defaulting cashier
Qfthe Webster National Bank, of Boston,
has been sentenced to FIVE years imprison-
metit......It- is officially announced that the
German steamer Franklin, in quarantine at
New York, has 40 cases of cholera on board
There were Is deaths on the voyage. Nearly
everybody aboard was more or less affected,
in most cases seriously. Further deaths are
probable. A rigid quarantine is enforced.
Every effort is made to alleviate the suffer
lngs, but care is taken to prevent the spread
spf the ceRtagion .....On Sunday, at New
SYorB a cripple named Mary Sullivan was
Burned to death in fire which broke out in
70 tenement house in Cherry street,. The
Ranadian schooner Juliette sunk off Madi-
son, Don Friday night. All on board were
lost except the cook, VIM. H. Thayer.
FouR,hundred Chinese have been engaged
in bn in
Somerville, N. J....,An unknown man was
found dead at the New Haven depot, New
York, on Tuesday morning, with $4,000 in
his pockets.... Dockerell a poor woman,
was recently found dead in a shanty at New
fBrqnswich, N. j., with her head nearly eaten
off by rats.
D The West.
On the morning of the 9th, the Bank of
Geneva, at Geneva Lake, Wis, was entered
by burglars and robbed of about twenty
thousand dollars. 1t is supposed that two
men were engaged in the robbery, but they
escaped. The government proposes to pur-
chase the entire block upon which the post
office at Chicago was located, and erect a
building large enough for all the govern
nfent offices. The cost, including the ground,
wi4Sbes from 100000 to $5,OO0,OOO.
AS THE passenger train on the North Mis-
souri, railroad, which left st. Louis Saturday
morning, having two cars attached contain
ing ninety-fve recruits from New Albany,
was approaching Wellsville, rail broke, and
the two rear cars, containing the recruits,
flew the track, and rolled down the embank-
ment, turning two or three times. At the
latest accounts sixteen soldiers had been
killed outright or died of their wounds.
Edward Colyin, brakeman, was also killed
JOHN r. MURRAY, a farmer at Pleasant
Hill, Miami county, o., was murdered on
Saturday night, by John Cecil. Cause
Whisky. .,,.B. r. Morris, an old resident of
Ksnesha, Wis, on Tuesday afternoon shot
sissAsffesin the side, killing her Instantly.
He then placed the muzzle of the gun in his
mouth and blew off the left side of his head.
No cause is assigned for the terrible deed.
THE Illinois Legislature opened its session
atSpfingfeld on Wednesday. The necessi-
ieEof Chicago was the principal subject of
discussion. The Diamond mills at Peoria,
ILL.,, owned by Field, Maynard & Co., were
burned at 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $21 ,OOO.. 1.-The
Northwestern Women's Suffrage Association
commenced its second annual meeting at
indianapolis on Wednesday afternoon.
Many prominent advocates of the cause are
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