Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-06-09
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
Foreign,


The London Daily News' special
says Rochefort has certainly been con-
demned.
Gen. Leroy, one of the commanders
of the Versailles troops, was killed in
action on Saturday.
The following leading insurgents
have been shot: Wells, Amoreux,
Brunei, Regault, Dombrowski, Bous-
quet.
A volcanic eruption and an earth
quake have shaken the island of Rua.
The country was terribly devastated and
400 lives were lost.
1t is said Gen. Cluseret has been
executed. The court-martial has Or
dered the use of mitrailleuse in the case
of wholesale executions.
Victor Hugo, having been driven
out of Belgium, is going to London.
His house at Brussels, has to be guarded
by the police, to prevent violence by the
people.
The slaughter Saturday night was
awful. Altogether the suppression of the
Commune has cost over 10000 lives and
the destruction of third of Paris.
1t is stated on good authority that
among the unfortunate persons held as
hostages in the prison of La Roquet,
who were murdered, were ten nuns.
"A Versailles correspondent tele-
graphs that M. Delescluze, the Delegate
Minister of War under the defunct
Commune, was shot by his guards and
instantly kille on Saturday night, in
attempting to escape.
The following telegram was re
ceived by Secretary Fish Sunday after
noon from Minister Washburne:
" VERsAILLEs.-The Archbishop and SO
priests were shot on Tuesday night. The in
surrection has been suppressed. The nsur-
gent losses are enormous, and those of the
government comparatively small.
WAsHBURNE."
Gen. Vinoy has been appointed
Governor of Paris by Theirs. 1t is pro-
posed, as a temporary measure, to di-
vide the capital into 20 military
districts, each to be strongly garrisoned
This arrangement will be maitained
until order shall be completely restored,
and the passions aroused by the insur-
Owing to the admirable plan adopt
ed by Mcmahon for storming the barri-
cades held by the insurgents, the Yer
sailles troops did not suffer heavily dur
ing the seven days fighting in the
streets. The loss to the army altogether
is 1896, while, according to most relia-
BILE estimates, the losses of the insur-
gents are over fifteen times as great.
The Echo du Parliament reports that
the Germans have seized letters from
leading members of the Paris Com
mune, disclosing conspiracy against
the Government of Belgium. A plot
had been formed with the insurgents
escaping from Paris to proceed to Brus-
sells, where a radical movement was to
be continued. An instruction was to
be melted, the buildings to be set on
fire, and the Paris horror repeated.
Paris advices say that executions
continue. Persons, as soon as they are
discovered in their hiding places, are
arrested and shot. Numerous arrests
of men and women continue to be
made. There have been renewed at
tempts at assassination and arson.
Many of those executed on Tuesday
and Wednesday seemed perfectly crazy.
The horrible effiuvia from the bodies of
the dead fills certain quarters of the
city.
Specials dated May 81 report the
slaughter of insurgents still going on.
Many Of McMahon's soldiers hunt them
down, and shoot them wherever found.
The rage of the soldiery cannot be sup
pressed, and the streets of Paris still
run with blood. Awful massacres con-
tinue at the barbados in the Rue
ROchuart. In one ditch, wounded peo-
pie were found buried alive. They
groaned and shrieked dreadfully all
night.
1t is clear that the insurgents in
tended to destroy the whole of Paris.
Even women were discovered throwing
petroleum upon the houses, and the
members of the National Guards,
dressed as pompiers, and who threw
petroleum on the fires, instead of water,
were shot in the Place Royale. There
is no limit to the readiness that exists
to kill the members of the Commune
and the leaders of the Guards, who are
taken and shot instantly.
The gas works at Aubervillers have
exploded. Many other explosions have
taken place. The dead bodies of the
insurgents are seen everywhere. Any
hidden Communists, when found, are
brought out and shot Immediately, and
no pity is shown. Raval Rigault, chief
of the Communist police, and Corbet,
superintendent of the destruction of
the Vendome column, were captured
and shot.
-Chas. Eacker was hung in Fonda,
n. Y, on the Goth inst, for the murder
of Thos. E. Burdick.
Ben. Sawyer, colored, convicted of
the murder of his wife, was hung at
Evansville, Ind, on the Goth of May.
Two policemen were shot by a
gang of roughs, in Chicago, on Saturday
night. One of them, it is feared will
not recover.
ga prize fight between Donovan
and Conway took place twelve miles
north of Scranton, Pa, on the 3lst ult.
Fifteen rounds were fought in twenty