Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-07-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ME Easf.

The East.
SAD railroad accident occurred near
Newark, N. j., on Saturday morning, which
was the result of misplaced switch. Two
passenger trains colided, and both were
thrown from the track and down an en-
bankment. The cars soon took fire in few
moments after the calamity occurred, and a
scene of the widest terror and confusion en-
sued. Five persons, all employees of the
road, were killed, and thirty wounded......A
cotton warehouse was burned in New York
on the 8th inst. Loss 500, OOO......A police
officer was shot dead in Chelsea, Mass, last
Friday night, by some unknown person..
The examination of Mrs. Sherman, at Derby,
Conn, charged with poisoning eleven per
sons, points strongly to her as guilty of the
charge. Poison has been found in the
stomachs of three of the victims already. 1t
is believed that the counsel for Mrs. Sher-
man will put in plea of insanity. .....A tor
rible tornado passed over Syracuse, N. Y,
and vicinity on Sunday. One man was
killed by lightning, and an immense
amount of damage done by the storm.
IT is stated that Peter Cooper has recently
been seriously i'll, and that he has gone from
New York into the country to remain until
autumn There is to be a large meeting on
IL
and Western merchants, Congressman and
railroad men, to secure the formation of the
proposed railroad line from Portland to Chi
cago......The appeal to the Governor of New
York for a Communication of the sentence of
the murderer Foster has been postponed
pending the result of the argument to be
mad before the general term in October, on
the exceptions taken by the prisoners coun-
sci during the progress of the trial. ..... Col.
IL e ~ n
in Waltham, Mass, on Monday, the 10th
inst, of quick consumption. He arrived
from New Orleans recently, where he had
been for the past seven years in the Custom
House.
The sehool-ship Mercury, which has just
left New York on q cruise to the Bermuda
islands, had q crew of 27O boys between 10
and II years of age, who are to receive les
sons in practical navigation....A man
named Patrick Barry, aged so years, butch
cred his wife at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th
inst. He struck her with an axe while she
was asleep, cutting the upper portion of her
head completely off......City Solicitor Nor
rell, of / Philadelphia, under instructions
from the Councils, is about to enter suits
against the clerks in the taX-receiver's office
who are behindhand in their accounts. The
deficits are said to amount to over 800 900
Much of this is owing by the clerks under
the former administrations of the collectors
office.
The West.
Two THOUSAND dollars worth of silks were
stolen from the store of A. G. Downs & Co.,
on State street, Chicago, on Friday night.
......John Reed, who murdered Miss McCor-
mick near Shabbona, ILL.,, on the Sd inst,
ant nd bo
inst......On the Goth ultimo, two little daugh-
tiers of DR.. William A. Downey, of Patoka,
Wis, were sent to kindle a fire in the
kitchen stove. After the fire had been
started, the girls desiring to hurry it up,
poured on coal oil from q can, as they had
seen the hired girl do. The fluid exploded,
throwing the flames and oil over the girls,
burning them so badly that both girls died
IN a few hours. Their ages were nine and
eleven years......On sunday afternoon, q
furious storm of wind, accompanied by
heavy rain, uprooted forest and shade trees
in Dayton, Ohio, and vicinity, and demol-
ished the German Lutheran Church in Day.
ton, killing four persons and wounding
twenty others. 1t also thoroughly destroyed
Washington street bridge over the Miami,
killing two boys and dangerously wounding
another. 1t unroofed the Southern Ohio Luz
matte Asylum, severely wounding two con-
valescent female patients, unroofed St.
Mary's Catholic Church and school-house,
and one United Brethren Church, demol-
lshed the Little Miami railroad depot, and
unroofed or otherwise damaged about fifty
other houses. The loss is over $4,000.
THERE were three suicides in Chicago on
Sunday, the 9th inst.....A carpenter fell
from the spre of church in Indianapolis,
seventy-ive feet, on Saturday. His friends
were surprised to see him at work, all right,
on Monday IA house in Geneseo, ILL.,, was
struck by ligh thing early on Monday morn
ing and completely shattered to pieces. The
family escaped uniniured, although the bed
IN which the children was set on fire......A
Sunday school picnic at Berlin, Ont, taking
refuge from the rain in a tannery, the floor
gave way, precipitating about 100 scholars
in the watts beneath. The scene is repre-
scented as fearful. Fortunately, all were
rescued with the exception of one little boy,
who was drowned.....A young lady named
Clara Bertram was killed at Milwaukee,
Wis, on Saturday evening in attempting to
jump from the buggy while her horse was
running away......A child of Mr.. Hapnen, of
Des Moines, Iowa, aged about four years,
swallowed screw with which it had been
playing, on Monday last, and died in few
mlnutes......Five persons escaped from the
Dayton, Ohio, Jail on Monday. Only one
has been arrested Two of the prisoners,
including "homas Mcclellan, refused to avail
til 'mselves of the opportunity to depart.
LIGHTNING struck the gas pipes in a church
at Iowa City recently, and exploded the
street mains all over the city......A man
named Stephen Tobin, an Irishman, who
was sent to the insane asylum at Madison
Wis, recently, jumped from the fourth story
window of the institution and broke one
arm and both 1aCS On Tuncdav Tho Hor,
missioner of Indian Affairs, on the 18th, re
ceived telegram from the Indian agent at
Fort Laramie stating that he had just issued
rations to Red Clouds tribe of Sioux Indians
on the north side of the North Platte river
and they seemed to be satisfied, and that if
no mistakes are made there will be perma-
nent peace with them.
A MAN named McWillams was recently
arrested in Cleveland for numbering his
wife, who was found dead in her house.
This man was arrested short time since on
a charge of numbering a woman he had
been cohabiting with, but got off on some
technical quibble,.....H. B. Castle, a promi-
nent citizen of Cleveland, drowned himself
in the river on the 18th inst. A Waterman
who saw him jump in, threw rope to him
but Castle would not catch it, and padded
himself further out into the stream w Mrs
William Bacon, aged 70, an old resident OF
Indianapolis, was riding along the track OF
the Peru railroad, about five miles from that
city, recently, when her horse became
thrown from the buggy, from the effects of
which she died in a few hours.
The South
c. G. Bowen received his pardon from the
President on Saturday, the Sth inst. He