Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The East.

The East.
NINETY Thousand baskets of peaches ar
rived in New York from Delaware on the
28th inst......A story is out that 10000 in
fected buffalo robes are on their way to New
York, from Buenos Ayres and Montevldeo,
where the smallpox has been raging:
Chas. Miller, a young German, was 1ouho
dead on the 2Sth inst, near Dixmount sta
ton, having been struck by lightning during
the storm on that day. special dispatch
to the Evening Register says frightful accl-
dent occurred on Thursday afternoon at
Cement Hill, near Rondout, N. Y. A small
house occupied by Mr.. Fitzgerald, who was
employed in the cement works, took ire
while he was absent, and was totally de-
stroyed, consuming his wife IN the flames:
Nothing of the body was left but charred
bones. The schooner reported by the
schooner Burdett Hart as off Burnegat on
the 25th, capszed, was the schooner Isaac
Hiuckley, Capt. John Randolph, from James
River, Va, with q cargo of pine wood for
this port. The schooner Roxana Johnson,
from this port, was in company with her
on Monday, the oath inst. AS no word has
been received from her since, it is supposed
that her captain and crew were lost.
THE alleged Tammany frauds are creating
great excitement in political circles in New
York at present.. The steamer Ferit, sail
ing on Sunday, took $3.50, 900 to pay Presi-
dent Baez, of San Domingo, the second mole
ty of the lease of Samaua. 1t also took arms
for the Dominican Government......On One hun
bred bales of Japanese silks, received over
land from California, were shipped on Satur-
day, AZ days from Japan. ....Alexander
Lovelot, French Canadian residing with
his family on Navy Island, and Edward
Bogardus, of Chippewa, in attempting to
cross to Navy Island, on Wednesday night,
were carried over Niagara Falls. On Friday
the remnants of their boat were found below
the falls. Lovelot leaves a wife and three
children. go. Andrew and Crawford Barnes,
brothers, of Morton, r. l., were drowned off
Bullock's Point on Saturday afternoon, by
the capsizing of their boat. Their families
were in company IN shore, in full view of
the accident
CATHARINE RIDER, of South Brooklyn, was
lin Temperanceville, Pa, a revolving
and horribly unnatural case has been
brought to light. Miss Parker, young
woman, figures as prosecutor, and her own
father in the role of defendant. The wife of
the accused died some ten years ago, and
since her death it is alleged that the prose-
cutrix has become the mother of two chill
dren, and is soon to become the mother of a
third, as the result of her fathers and her
own horrible crime.
DR.. GEO. HOWE and wife, Mrs. Chas. ".
Tilton, and Miss Walcott, all of Boston,
while taking pleasure drive recently, in
Charlestown, N. H., where they boarded,
were run into by an express train on the
Vermont Central Railroad, and the three
aH nEta lu iii
the pugilist, was shot and slightly wounded
in q saloon fight in New York, on the End
inst. .Thos. j. Grass, Chief of Police of
Providence, r. l., died in that city on the
End inst....... w. III. Thwaite, well known
artist in water colors, died at Elizabethtown,
N. j., on Sunday. Several regiments of
the New York National Guards are court
martialing their members who failed to
parade with their commands on the 18th of
July. The Grand Encampment of Massa-
chusetts were in session in Boston on the
I'd inst.
The West.
THE Mutual Base Ball Club, of New York,
was defeated in game by the White Stock
ings, of Chicago, at Chicago, on Friday after
noon, July %. The score was II to 6. Chi
cago rejoiceth. .....A destructive fire took
place in Kansas City on the 9th inst. A
whole block was destroyed.... McMahen's
Elevator al Jacksonville, Wis, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th inst......A seri-
Gus accident occurred at Rock Falls, ILL.,, on
the 28th, resulting in the instant death of
three children, two sons of Mr.. Athorpe, a
Congregational minister visiting there, and
Mr.. Airy, resident of the place. The ac-
cident was caused by the caving in of
sandbank, under which the children were
playing 1.-The fruit crop in the vicinity of
Cincinnati 10 coming out beyond expecta-
ton. Peaches are more abundant than last
year. They are above the average in guam
tity, and the fruit is of better Equality.
Apples have not been of so good quality for
ten years, and the yield is fair. There has
not been such crop of plums within de-
cade. The entire season is three weeks ear
lier than common.
ANOTHER severe storm occurred at Omaha
and vicinity on Friday night Much dam
age was done on roads and crops......G Geo. La
faver, a resident of Chicago, and agent for
Mcbride & Co.'s. tobacco house, of Monroe,
Mich, died suddenly at the fremont House,
in Quincy, Ill, on Sunday. Thomas Wal
lace was shot and killed on Saturday, at
Blaine Falls, o., on the Big Fork of the Big
Sandy, by his partner, named Delar, with
whom he had dispute about some machin
ery......At an early hour Saturday evening,
Alice, a four-year- daughter of B. F.
Cook, residing at Clybourne and Fifth
street, Milwaukee, Wis, fell into the vault of
privy and was suffocated. The trial of
John II. Hunter, of Akron, Ohio, for the
murder of Mrs. Gargett at Richfield, in
June, terminated Saturday. The jury
brought in verdict of murder in the first
degree. He was sentenced to be hanged on
Nov. 81.
Miss LIZZIE SMITH, of London, Shelby
county, Ind, was beaten nearly to death on
Sunday last, by Henry Ellington, who she
refused to marry. She will probably die of
her injuries. $50. The first car load of new
spring wheat arrived in Milwaukee on the
3lst ult......A young lady operative in the
Elgin watch factory, named Mary Tyrrell,
was on Monday caught in shaft in that
establishment, by ringlet of her hair, and
had her scalp literally torn from her head.
The unfortunate sufferer will not recover.
......A hail-storm on Sunday afternoon did
great damage to the tobacco crop in the
vicinity of GAINESVILLE, Wis.
The Supreme Court of Wyoming has de-
cided that women have the right to sit as
Jurors under the provisions of the existing
Territorial laws, Judge Fisher dissenting.
Chief Justice Howe rendered the opinion
that under the Fourteenth amendment,
women throughout the United States have
the same rights as men in respect to suffrage
and office holding.....The Mutual Base Ball
Club, of New York, was defeated a second
time by the White Stockings, in Chicago, on
the 1st of August. Score-l5 to 4. 1t is ru-
mored that the Mutuals are about to engage
the Actives of Clinton, Iowa, to travel with
them and do their "heavy" playing Hon.
0. c. Gray, a prominent citizen Of Ottawa,
ILL.,, died at his residence in that city on the
LIST inst.. Mrs. N. J. SAVERS, of Carson,
New, arrived at Stockton, Cal, recently,
and found her husband at a hotel stopping
with another woman. She went to their
room and shot the woman three times with