Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-12-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

The New York Mail says it is quite likely
chat Gen. Schenckwill terminate his mission
to England, and accept position in the
law-of1ce of the Northern Pacific Railroad
which is understood to have been kept open
Tor him for some time.
A PORTION of Olive street, in Scranton
Penn, sunk several inches on Friday morn
ing, in consequence of the cave-in of the
Pine Brook shaft. Considerable excitement
existed, as many houses were twisted out OF
shape, their foundations having cracked
OPEN. The Colonial Annexation Society,
composedof British colonists residing in the
United States, recently met at New York,
and passed resolutions in favor of Annexing,
and decided to communicate with the colo
nists of Chicago, Buffalo, and st. Louis, and
create cooperative organization, .-....-
Lock No. 2 at the Lockport, Miami and
Erie canal gave way on Saturday, both
walls falling ii. A month will be required
to complete the reconstruction. Hon.
Loyal c.. Kellogg, Judge of the Supreme
Court of Vermont, died on Sunday morning,
at the age of SIS years 49,. st. Mary's Catholic
Church, at Portsmouth, N. H, was COM
pletely, burned Monday night, and the resi-
dence of the priest was nearly consumed.
The loss is about $4,000.
CHRISTOPHER BARRY, John Reilly, VIM. j.
O'Connor,and James Reilly, Inspectors of
Election at New York, have been held in
$4,000 each, for trial, on the charge of stuffing
bah ot-boxes. AT Hunters Point L. T., on
Tuesday, forty Catholic children were ex-
PEELED from the public school by direction of
the commissioners, because they objected to
readlng the BIble......lt is stated that deficit
OF between 5000, 900 and 100000 has been
discovered in the accounts of the Bowling
Green Savings Bank, New York, but that It
will be made good by the bank officials.
1t is reported that the celebrated trotter, Mo
hawk, Jr., was, on Monday, sold to John W.
Confey, sof New York, for $4,000. This
horse recently made the time of 2:23 on the
Cincinnati track.
The West.
A COLLISION occurred on Friday morning
on the indianapolis and Bloomington and
Western Railroad, at Downs station, about
eight miles east of Bloomington, between
the eastward and westward bound passen-
ger trains. Both engines were badly dam
aged. One fireman had his thigh badly
smashed, but was the only person seriously
hurt.
AT, Helena, Montana, the thermometer
has been down to 80 degrees below zero.
Many hunters, drovers, and others had
persisted from the intense cold..... Nathaniel
Preston, an old resident and for many wears
prominent citizen of Terre Haute, Ind,
formerly cashier of the old State Bank of In
diana at that place, fell dead on Tuesday af-
ternoon, while walking short distance
from his residence ..0n Saturday night
four prisoners escaped from the Tailor at
Franklin, Ind, as he was taking in
their supper. One, charged with MUIR
der, was speedily recaptured. The
other three have not since been heard from
....A farmer named Dennison Miller, 7
miles from Detroit, was murdered in his
house oin,sFriday, night by a burglar. He
was stabbed with knife, and died imme-
diatelyg The murderer escaped. little
son of James G. Speer, of Peoria, ILL.,, on
Saturday broke through the ice in the lake,
and was drowned.
REPORTS from the Northern Pacific rail
road say the thermometer is down to 90 and
SO degreess below zero, with heavy winds.
Trains are stopped by drifting snow, and
telegraph wires are broken in several places
by the severe cold......The Bedford, Ind.
graded school building burned down Friday
morning at o'clock. Loss, $27 900. The
ance.
ITisFeported that the schooner VIM. Sand
erson had gone down, with all hands, on
Lake3Ontario. No particulars 49,. Elder Or
son Pratt spoke on Sunday in the Tabernacle
at SaltSIake City with great earnestness in
favor of polygamy. He said polygamy was
one of the chief tenets of the Mormon reli-
gion. IF that was taken away the religion
would be destroyed. The proposal to give ut
polygamy for the sake of q State organization
or for any other purpose, would never receive
the consent of the Mormon people. In fact
TIE Mormons would not surrender polygamy
or any part of the religion for any govern
ment. These remarks were received with
loud cheers all over the house, and cries OF
" That's ;" " We WON'T" ......A dispatch
from Little Cottonwood, Utah, says: ''The
snow, on a level, is six feet deep. Residents
of Alta City have to dig themselves out OF
their dwellings. Many of the houses are
buried in snow. The storm continues" ......
The Chicago Times, of the 2Sth ult, saws
"The spectacle of hundreds of busy carpen-
tiers and masons facing the pelting snow-storm
all day yesterday, and Iaboring as cheerily
rs though it was the balmiest of summer
weather, was proof that even bleak winters
Jerrors cannot stay our work of reconstruc-
ton"
The South.
The steamer Andy johnson, struck q snag
and sunk seven miles above Hannibal, Mo-,
on Friday. The passengers and crew were
taken off by passing steamer.
A DISPATCH to the Internal Revenue Blu
reau at Washington states that F. Meier
late Assistant Assessor in Texas, suicided
from a fear that he would be arrested fol
f SOlss . and and em0eznfng Government
<g g. Washington.
THE secretary2of the Treasury has issued
a notice; calling in between two and three
millions of the three per cents held by the
banks.f - e3@pg "a So