Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-11-03

The East.


DONATIONS of money and supplies are still
literally offered in New York for the relief
of the people of Chicago. The total of these
collections of the city is 81 ,2s0, O00......The
safe of the Railway Hotel and the susque-
hanna. N. Y, depot was robbed of $50, 700 on
SUNDAY night. The funds was the money
of the Erie railway, deposited in the safe by
the Paymaster The American yacht
Columbia was again victorious over AS
burv's yacht LivonIa in the race over Long
island Sound ENTHUSIASTICALLY The NTH ana
deciding game for the base ball champion
ship series, between the Boston ana M u'u mLo
was PLAYED in Boston on TUESDAY. Inc
contest was so close that eleven innings mad
Is be PLAYED. The Bostons were the winners
nv a score of five to feur.....Qulte a severe
shock of earthquake was felt IN several
localities in Maine, on Thursday. At Au-
onsta, the vibration lasted ten or twelve
seconds.
The Jury in the case of Bolts; on trial for
the murder of Halsted, at Trenton, N. j.,
rendered verdict of guilty of murder IN the
first degree. Private advices have been
received from Captain Hall, of the Arctic
exploring expedition, which report HIM,
under date of September s., as sailing north
ward from Upernavik, on the Russian coast.
All were well Snow has fallen at lver-
look, Ulster county, N. Y, to the depth OF
two inches W. J. Sullivan, contractors
clerk on the New Jersey Midland railway,
has disappeared with $4,000.
A SUIT was instituted Friday, on behalf Of
Miss Mansfeld,' for the recovery of $4,000
said to have been loaned to James Fisk, Jr.,
10 haI o6
that the Greeley Republicans of New York
city will give their active support to the
nominees Of the Reform Democracy.
THE Hon. Richard O'Gorman, Corporation
Counsel of New York city, commenced suits
on Saturday in the Supreme Court against
Ingersoll, Garvey, Smith and others to re-
cover the money of which they have de-
frauded the city by exorbitant bills for work
done on the new court house and articles
furnished for the building. All the parties
were served with notices of the SUITS.
Tweed, in accepting his denomination for
State Senator, remarked that his stout heart
and able hands would carry him safely
through. The boundless resources of his
cheek were not mentioned.
The Hon. Richard O'Gor2.an, Corporation
Counsel of New York city, commenced suits
on Saturday in the Supreme Court against
Ingersoll, Garvey, Smith, and others, to re-
cover the money of which they have de-
fra1ded the city by exorbitant bills for
work done on the new Court House and
articles furnished for the building. All the
parties were served with notices of the suits
Tweed, in accepting his denomination
for State Senator, remarked that his stout
heart and able hands would carry him safely
through. The boundless resources of his
cheek were not mentioned.
The West.
THE fine passenger steamer r. G. Coburn.
of Eber Wards Lake Superior Line, foun-
dered in Saginaw Bay last Sunday. Seven
of the crew and three passengers are known
to have been saved. Two boats, with Off
GERS aud the balance of the crew, are miss
ing. The Coburn was on voyage from Du-
luths to Buffalo, with $4,000 bushels of wheat
and 5000 barrels of -four. She was valued
at $50 900. Insured for $50 ,000...... Aaron
Johnson, q Mormon bishop, was arrested at
Springfield, Utah, on Wednesday, on an in
dictment for murder, and taken to Provo.
$50. Gold-bearing quartz has been brought
into Salt Lake from Bingham canon, aver
aging over ST. 900 per ton....... Intense ex-
element prevails at Winnipeg on account
of the recent gold discovery at Lake
Shaberdawin. Specimens of the dust, mug
gets and quartz have been brought to Win
nipeg, and hundreds are rushing to the new
gold fields. Lake Shaberdawin is but a
short distance from Silver Islet.
AT the fire at Little Sturgeon, Wis, fifty
people rushed into a potato field to save
themselves, and forty five were burned.
CoLgThos w. Grosvenor, of Chicago, was
shot and instantly killed by citizen patrol
of that city on Friday night. Mr.. W. E.
Longworthy, master builder of Chicago
committed suicide last saturday night
Cause, losses by the fire.. In the Michigan
fires, settlement of Germans, near Chesa-
ming, was almost annihilated. Twenty out
of the twenty-six houses were destroyed
and the farms nearly ruined....... Muscatine
Iowa, was visited by a fire on the 10th,
which destroyed $4,000 worth of property.
The greater portion of the business and
residence part of the town of Cameron, Mo-,
was destroyed by fire on Thursday night
All the prominent buildings were burned
The losses aggregate about $132,000... The
dam on the Illinois river, at Henry, though
still incomplete, has already raised the
water at La Sale three feet, thus demon
strating the practicability of the enterprise
= ......Gov. Fairchild, of Wisconsin, has tele-
graphed to the Secretary of War to issue
one hundred wagons and harness and one
thousand uniforms for destitute people, and
hassreceived favorable reply. Loud COM
plant is made by the citizens of Arizona
and California of the conduct of Vincent
Collyer, in his recent tour as Indian Peace
Commissioner. They declare that no value
should be attached to his reports.
FEARFUL fires are raging west and south
of Ottawa, Ill, in the country, and several
valuable fields of corn and many acres of
wood land have been des troyed. It is posi-
BILE that even the city may be involved in
the general destruction.
The South.
JAMES HAYES, Chicago refugee, was
Killed Thursday evening, in stone yard at
Memphis, where he was working, by falling
on a fly wheel. "A wagon load of Union
torpedoes exploded at New Orleans lately,
killing the driver instantly.
Gov! WARMorH, of Louisiana, has issued
an official letter to the parishes on the Mis-
sissippi river, directing that the work OF
protecting the levees shall be done by the
planters of those parishes, under the super
vision of the Chief Engineer of the State
and that they shall be reimbursed by the
Legislature......Two negroes were lynched
at Shelpyville, Tenn, recently. They were
under arrest for outraging two ladies, and
were taken from the jail and hanged by the
mob....nA disastrous storm occurred at
Galveston, Texas, recently, sinking several
steamers and damaging the railroads con-
siderably.v
Ar Union City, Tenn, on Saturday night
while the passengers of a train on the Mo-
bile and Ohio railroad were at supper, three
men jumped on the engine and ran the
train back two miles, while two others en-
tered the express car, robbed the express
safe of about $4,000 and escaped.