Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-09-15

The East.


THERE was an lln1nense reform meeting in
New York, on Moniay evening, of members
of both political parties, and popular de-
mand for honesty in the municipal admin
istration......TheF Forest City Base Ball Club,
of Cleveland, defeated the Haymakers at
Troy, N. Y, on the 4th inst.....It is said
that the Police Justices of New York city
receive larger salary than the Chief JUS
tice of the United States...... The first bale OF
California hops was received in New York
ON Monday, and sold at rs cents per De-.
The watering places begin to lose their bril-
liancy, and with the close of the present
month will come the close of the fashionable
season at these places. flames Legg
Co.'s wooden mill at Mapleville, r. l., was
destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. Loss
over 100000.
TITS said that mammoth steamer for the
Hudson river is to be completed early next
summer, to be run between Albany and New
York, to compete with the palace cars of the
Hudson River railroad. 1t is intended that
the new steamboat shall be 500 feet long.
The steamer is to be capable of making rs
miles per hour, and to average nearly that
speed daily. 1t is proposed that this steam
boat shall run to New York and return to
Albany in twelve hours, leaving Albany in
the morning and returning by 10 o'clock in
the evening. The steamer will be run ex-
clusively for passengers. She will have all
the appointments and accomm odations of O
frst-class hotel. She will be built with a
very light draft of water, and with view to
the greatest speed. young girl named
Mary Russell, of Ridge street, New York,
died recently, from the effects of an opera
ton performed on her by female abortion
ist, who was arrested.
MADAME PAULINE HINDLEY, the bareback
equestrienne of Barnum's travelling show,
was thrown from her carriage while enter
ing Rome, N. Y, on Saturday morning,
striking her head on a curbstone, sus-
tanned in juries from which she died in the
afternoon......The main building of the Globe
wooden mills in Utica, New York, was de-
stroyed by fire on Wednesday evening.
Three hundred and thirty hands were
thrown out of employment by the disaster.
Loss, S250,O00... The Connecticut tobacco
crop is said to be enormous..... dispatch
from Wilkesbarre, Pa, states that the large
mines of the Wilkesbarre Coal and Iron
COMPANY, known as the Halenoec mine
caved in on Saturday morning, and created
great CONSERVATION in that place. The
mine was abandoned Saturday, as it had
been considered unsafe for months. An
area OF five or six acres of ground sunk 200
feet when the mine collapsed. Thousands
of people have visited the scene since the
caVing. The mine was nearly worked out
The greatest loss will be to the mi ners, who
are thrown out of employment by the occur
renee. ...t..
|HE Chicago Base Ball Club was defeated
by the Eckfords, of Brooklyn, at New York
on the TIN inst......On Thursday, David
Dorian, young man, while trying to pro-
tect from insult young girl attending g
refreshment counter at Jones' Wood IN. Y
picnic grounds, was stabbed in the breast
by party of ruffians, and died in few mo-
ments.
The West.
AN old and much respected farmer of
Somers, Kenosha county, Wis, was shot by
q German boy named Neiderprim, on Sun
day. There are no hopes of Mr.. Smiths re-
covery......A man named Miles Madison was
murdered near Colchester, ILL.,, by one Chas.
futile, on Sunday night. The body OF
JAS. r. Nowman, who was drowned near
Yankton, d. T., recently, has been found
and the fact of foul play has been revealed
beyond a Doubt. Rev. Charles M. Fox
LII. D., rector of the Church of Epiphany
died at his residence, in Chicago, on Monday
afternoon......D. Voght, a prominent Ger.
man editor of Des Moines, Iowa, fell dead in
the street on Monday......A land slide al
Cleveland, Ohio, has stopped navigation il
the canal for two or three weeks.
Hon. G. G. WAsHBURN, the Republican can
didate for Governor of Wisconsin, and Hon
j. R. Doolittle, Democratic candidate for tn,
same office, are to commence a joint canvass
Of that State soon, which will be the mos
interesting one ever made in the West, boil
being among the most prominent politician
In the country......The mortality of the city
of Chicago for the week ending Sept. 2 wa
l76. There were 500 deaths in the CITY dur
ing the month of August. 900 The Red Stock
ings, of Boston, defeated the Chicago Bas,
Ball Club, at Boston, on the 9Th inst. to 3
IA severe storm passed over Fremont
Neb., on the 5th inst, destroying the rail
way engine house at that place, and demol
ishing several other buildings, and doint
much damage in that vicinity Adam
Reuther, young German farmer, of Spring
field, Dane county, Wis, was hunting re
Gently, when his gun was accidentally dis
charged, the contents entering his side
causing instant death. .....A man named Do
Mann was stabbed by q man named Baker
at Rudersburg, Mont, on Thursday last
The man died on Saturday, and Baker was
taken from the Sheriff by a crowd of citi
zens and hung. He died firm and with cool
ness.
Iris rumored that the Chicago Republican
will soon appear as a Democratic paper, will
Cal. Daniel Cameron as principal party il
the new enterprise. The trotting mar,
" Goldsmith Maid" in the races at Milwau
kee, Wis, on the 9th inst, made the unpre
cedented time of 2:17, thus beating Dexter
fastest time one quarter of a second. Al
old man named Jesse Zimmerman, stabbed
and killed his wife at Rockford, ILL.,, OF
Thursday last......A gambler named Georg,
Hardy shot and killed another gambler
named Chas. Graham, at Sal ma, Kan, OF
Sunday night......E E. E. Marsh, living at En-
dora, Douglass county, Kan, cut the throa
of wife and child Wednesday night, the1
shot himself All died......J. Milton Smith
known throughout the West as the origina
tor of horse shows and equestrian fairs, dice
at Geneva, ILL.,, on Wednesday.
A WIDOW woman named Finley murdered
her three children on Thursday, about 81,
miles north of Wabash, Ind. She is be
lieved to be insane......T The Cold Spring rae,
track at Milwaukee, Wis, on which Gold
shlIh Mdlu performed ner Wonder1ul tr0t
ting, has been measured twice since tn,
race, and found to be 60 feet over mile il
length. The Republican majority in Cali
fornia at the recent election is claimed to b.
6,000......A boiler in Touring mill at New
Haven, Ind, exploded on the 7th inst, in
stantly killing Chas. and Louis Lepper
proprietors of the mill. and Albert Carr
engineer. 4
The South.
THERE were three suicides in st. Louis OF
Sunday ...... Reports of the cotton crop il
Tennessee are very unfavorable. The fol