Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-06-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

the close of the present season.-The Su-
preme Court of Rhode Island returned a
verdict for the plaintiffs recently, for the
sum of SAC, 660.36, in the case of A. G. Far
we'll Co. against Jay Gould. The office of
the Buffalo Cypress was burned on the 18th
inst, and all of their type, presses, and other
material destroyed.-The loss of q fishing
schooner, with forty persons, on the coast of
Newfoundland, was reported last week.
Later accounts of this terrible disaster an
neunce that two women, named Mary Nc
Grath and Mrs. Litburn, left st. Johns as
passengers aboard the Inflated schooner.
All but two of those who are missing or
drowned leave wives and families behind,
who were dependent on them for means to
live through the long and profitless winter of
Newfoundland. The name of the schooner
was Little Belle.-An extensive expedition
OF Engllshmen and Americans is preparing
to leave New York for grand hunt in the
Rocky Mountains. They have chartered an
entire train of cars for their exclusive use.
A New York paper says Woodruff &
Clafiin, the women brokers, have instituted
libel suit against Henry Ward Beecher and
the publishers Of the Christian Union laying
damages at $3.50, 900. The ground of action
is the publication in the Christian Union. of
which Beecher is the editor of Mrs Harriet
Beecher Stoves new novel, Ny Wife and
l. IN which appear two female characters,
which, it is alleged, are intended to represent
Mrs. Woodruff and Mrs Clafin.-Furguson
murderer, was hung in the jail yard at
Ithaca, n Y, on the 10th inst.-The disease
among the horses on the New York
street railroad lines continues to pre-
vail. Many additional cases were reported
on the 10th inst, and Notwithstanding the
most prompt and efficient treatment, at least
seventy deaths occurred. Men in charge of
the stables have changed the feed Of the
animals, and hope by skillful doctoring to
put an end to the disease. There is diver
sIty OF opinion among the leading veterinary
surgeons as to the character of the disease.
some contend that it is contagious, others
claim that it is merely the result of iniud-
ciOus feeding.
The epidemic which broke out in New
York among the horses some three weeks
since is rapidly abating, and it is believed
by the veterinary surgeons who have been
lighting it since the beginning, that it will
soon almost totally disappear. the cases
pending in the Superior Court in Buffalo
over No. II, for penalties against the New
York Central and Hudson River Railway
Tor excess OF charges, were affirmed on the
10th, with costs, Judges Verplanck and
Humphrey presiding. These, with the cases
heretofore carried to the Court of Appeals,
involve penalties amounting to over half a
million dollars.-A number of National
Bank Presidents from Boston, Philadelphia,
and New York, met on the goth, at the
American Exchange National Bank, N. Y,
to protest against the collection of the tax
on bank dividends for the five months end
ing June |, 1871, the banks claiming that
there are no laws obliging them to make
such payment. A committee was appointed
TO proceed to Washington to lay the cues
ton before the authorities there.
CONSIDERABLE of breeze has been stirred
up in the Revenue Department by the COM
plicity of Clifford Thompson in certain New
York stock iobbing operations. Thompson
. has resigned, and it is rumored that Pleas
anton will resign.-There was wild scene
III wall street, New York, ION Wednesday
caused by corner in stocks and the failure
OF large number of brokers.-The follow
ing is from the New York papers of June
list: Monday morning, about 10 o'clock
the driver of canal-boat. while crossing
the seven mile level between New Village
and Broadway, IN Morris county, New Jer-
sey, heard an unusual rumbling noise like
that of muflled thunder, and noticed that
the waters of the canal were disappearinp
rapidly In short space of time his boat
was left high and dry on the empty bed Of
the canal. The water in the canal for the
distance OF mile and half had dsap-
peared IN cavity forty or fifty feet in
width. No outlet for the water has been
discovered: 1t will probably cost the coal
company $4,000 to defray the expenses Of
this interruption to their business.
The West.
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY occurred in Chicago
on Sunday afternoon, by which three per
sons will lose their lives A policeman
named Mahr was conveying pickpocket to
the station house, having caught him in the
act of picking lady's pocket When near
the police station the prisoner became bois-
ferrous, and upon the officers summoning q
man named Hoffman to his assistance. the
rowdy drew revolver and shot Hoffman
twice, and turning upon the policeman fired
ut him, the ball inilictng an ugly wound in
the stomach The officer at once returned
the fire and brought the thief to the side
walk instantly. Hoffman will recover, but
tnere is little hope for the recovery of the
officer. Wilson is one Of the worst rourhs
Chicago can produce, and it is hoped for the
good OF the community that he will not sur
vlve.-A Kiowa chief, one of the three chiefs
who were captured near Fort Sill, Indian
Territory, during the recent visit of Gen.
Sherman at that post, was killed while being
sent to Texas. He slipped one of his hand
cults OIL, seized knife, and stabbed the SER
geant of the guard. A soldier immediately
fired on Satark, killing him. The shot also
killed the driver of wagon.
WILSON, the thief who shot a policeman
and citizen in Chicago on Sunday the 18th
inst, died on Monday morning in his cell
and thus the city is rid of one of the worst
villains that ever went unhung. The 10
liceman'will probablydi violent tornado
passed over Eldorado, Kansas, and that vi
entity, on the 10th inst, blowing down
houses, barns, fences and outbuildings, and
killing and injuring several persons in its
way.
A TERRIBLE storm of wird and rain pre-
vailed in the locality of Scranton, Iowa, on
Sunday. The residence of Samuel II ,nting-
ton was blown to atoms, and Mr.. Hunting
ton instantly killed, and his wife and daugh-
ter fatally injured. Several other houses
were blown down, and scarcely house es-
capped iniury.-Ottawa, ILL.,, was visited by a
hurricane on the morning of the goth inst.
Several buildings were demolished and a
large number were unroofed and had the
windows broken, and were otherwise dam
aged. The same morning gale passed over
Springfield, ILL.,, doing consi cradle damage
to houses, fences and crops in THAT Vicinity.
Bloomington and La Sale were also visited
by terrific storms on the morning of the goth
lnst.-John Lohr, a well-known citizen of
st. Paul, Mimi, died suddenly at that place,
on the goth inst.-Frederick Kessler, a
member OF the Milwaukee police force since
Its organization, died on the cars near
San Francisco. He had just started for
home.
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