Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-12-15
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East,

A HURRICANE visited the northern side of
the island off Cape Breton on the night of the
26th 'ult, doing immense damage to houses
barns, trees, and shipping. The gale began
at o'clock, and lasted until ) o'clock the
next morning. The tide was four feet higher
than ever known before. The public wharf
at Port Hood was swept away, and in the vii
lage several houses were blown down.
number Of vessels anchored at Port MulgraVe
dragged their anchors and passed out of the
strait to sea. The Bermudean brig Jabez,
from Charlottetown, was wrecked on Fox
Island, and only one man saved. Ten schoo-
ners were wrecked in the Strait OF Canso. 1t
is feared that there has been considerable
loss of life by the gale...... Water has been
introduced into Providence, R. l., from the
Pawtuxet River. The Greystone Mill, in
North Providence, was burned Friday morn
ing. The ice is about three inches thick in
the Welland Canal. Eight of the Northern
Transportation propellers and other vessels
are in the canal. A tug is trying to break
the ice, but the prospects are doubtful.
A COMMON kitchen boiler, in dwelling in
Paterson, N. j., exploded on Thursday night,
demolishing the kitchen and basement and
partially blowing out the walls on one side of
the house. No lives were lost..... Owing to
the prevalence of the smallpox in Easton,
Pa, the students of Lafayette College gave
themselves vacation of three months quite
regardless of the protests of the faculty 49,.
Five hundred more vessels passed through
the Welland Canal this season than during
any previous one.....At New York on Satur-
day, Henry Beckett, in quarrel with Baker,
conductor, was flung from street car, and
had his leg broken by another car coming in
ODDOsItn direction Rath oOn6uotorc yyara
arrested.
A FIRE in Brooklyn, N. Y, on Wednesday
morning, rendered II families homeless and
caused damage Of about $4,000.
The West.
MAN named Emery was killed by Blythe
X. Beatrice at Nebraska City, on Thursday,
by a blow from a billiard cue.....The Los
Angeles grand jury has found thirty-fvein-
dlctments for the Chinese massacre and
severely censured the municipal authorities
80. In clearing up the residence of the late
Resin Hammond, a wealthy citizen of
Charlestown, Ind, recently, an old trunk
was resurrected containing containing coin,
treasury notes, ETC., to the amount of 500 900.
MAJOR UPHAM, commanding at Fort Scott,
Kansas, has received orders from the War
Department to remove all white settlers
from the Usage reservation. There are
about 500 families, embracing $500 people,
on these lands...... Gov. Campbell ,of Wyo-
n ing, has vetoed the bill passed by the Ter
ritorial Legislature, repeating the Woman
Suffrage acton Tuesday, Daniel Ballard,
farmer, residing near Monroeville, Ind,
was shot and almost instantly killed, by q
posse of three men, one named John Kline,
and it is believed the other two were brothers
named Brinkner. The former was arrested.
The building of the London Wooden Com
pany, at Cincinnati, was totally destroyed
by fire on Wednesday. Loss, $4,000 in
surance $4,000.
The South.
DORsEY's celebrated stallion, " Gold Dust"
died on Monday, in Louisville. The horse
was one of the most famous in the country
being the sire of many celebrated horses. A
few days ago the owner was offered $4,000
for him.....In the Second District Court, in
New Orleans, Judge T. Wharton Collins de-
cIded the case of Joseph Tuentse ct al. u.s.
Myra Clark Gaines. The opinion, which is
lengthy, declares that Mrs. Gaines is not the
legitimate child of Daniel Clark nor his uni
Versal legatee ;-orders that the will of 1918,
purperting to be the will Of Daniel Clark,
proba cd in 1885, be revoked and declared
invalid; and that the probate thereof be an
nulled. Mrs. Games relied mainly upon
this will in her claims.
Col. JOHN D. AsBMoRE, a former member
of Congress from the Abbeville district of
South Carolina, blew out his brains with a
pistol, at a hotel in Sardis, Miss, on Wednes-
day morning, He had been planting here
since the war. Pecuniary troubles were the
cause......The spotted fever has appeared at
Nashville and other points in the South.
Washington.
TIE disbursements from the Treasury De
partment, during the month of November,
on account of the war, navy, and interior
departments and civil and miscellaneous &C
count, exclusive of that paid on the public
debt, were SIS, 1858, $780,. The claimants un-
der the Loyal Southern Claims Commission
express a good deal of 'uneasiness for fear
that Congress will fail to make an appropria-
ton of $4,000 900 or $40 900 900 to liuuidate
such claims as have been audited and proven
......Only about twenty claims have as yet
been presented to the United States and
British Commission. There has been so
much said as to the orders which the Adj
ministration have given on the Spanish
question that the organ Of the same had the
following in its issue of Saturday: "The
Administration will not tolerate any inter
ference with the guarded vessels. ANY at
tempt on the part of Spanish naval officers
to seize the Hornet, Florida, or Virginia,
will be construed as an insult to the United
States, and just cause for our Government
vindicating its national homer
WALLS Opera House, at Washington, was
burned on Wednesday morning The loss
is $4,000; insured......A defective fue in
the consular-room of the State Department
ing, caused fire to obtain some Roadway in
the flooring, but was extinguished without
serious damage. &c.
> Foreign.
Miss Lolita K, TURNER, daughter of the
ate Admiral Turner, of the United States
navy, who sued Don CALEDONIA Ais, of Sonora,
Mexico, for 100000 damages for seduction
and breach of promise, has obtained a YER
dict OF S7,5O0.~:..Oa Capt. Shaw, of the London
FIRE Brigade, has been granted leave of alb
sence for six weeks, to enable him to visit
Chicago to investigate the causes Of the fire
in that city. 80
GREAT FIRE occurred on Tuesday, in the
Hotel Rue de Livre, which contained many
of the most. elegant shops in Paris. Owing
to the exertions of the firemen the flames
were extinguished before any injury had
been done to the palace itself. The loss to
store keepers is immense......H Honolulu adj
vices report that the eight whalers, in
Guiding all which escaped destruction in
the Arctic Ocean, have reftted and sailed.
A LONDON dispatch says: " President