Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-05-26
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
The East.

inJurlng some twenty adults.
Henry Drayton, the famous English
baritone singer was stricken with paral-
ysis, as he was about to take the train at
Rochester, n. Y, on the 18th, for SYRIA
cuse. His lower limbs are paralyzed.
-Tammany politicians report that
the aggregate valuation of real and per-
sonal property in New York city will be,
in round numbers, 81, 080,000,000, 2 per
cent. of which would give so, 100000 to
be raised by tax.
Mr. Henry Aston (the youngest son
of William B. Astor), man about 40
ears of age, recently married Miss
Dynehart, whose parents reside near
Rinebeck. Her father is in humble cir
cumstances, working small farm near
Rinebeck on shares.
Mr.. Bergh reports that since the
rganization-in New York in 1866-of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Animals, it had obtained 1,168
convictions against persons for various
acts of cruelty to animals. During the
past twelve months the society has
prosecuted 312 cases.
Considerable excitement has been
created in Pittsburgh by the arrest of
County Commissioners Nicely and Nc
Gee, charged with bribery and extor-
ton. The Commissioners are alleged to
have been receiving brides from appli-
cants for license to sell liquor for the
past two years.
Joshua F. Bailey, the default
ing New York Collector, has settled
in Montevideo, South America, where
he has been joined by his wife. The
amount of Bailey's defalcation is now
said to be over 100000, and not $780,
coo, as previously stated. Bailey's
friends claim he used the money he
withheld from the Government in pay
ing informers to work up the whisky
cases.
"A brutal murder was committed
near Emerson, Monongahela county,
Pa, on the 10Th. Richard w. Coney
nret two men, Simpson and Wetherell,
near there. He dropped in their rear,
and discharged the contents Of one bar
rel of a shotgun It Wetherell, killing
him, and then shot at Simpson, the
charge carrying away the latter's chin.
Simpson fell, but Immediately rose and
fled to Emerson, Coney pursuing him
some distance. Robbery is supposed to
have been the motive for the deed. The
murderer is at large.
1t is stated authoritatively that the
beautiful suicide" of the Stevens House,
New York, was a Southern belle, reared
in refinement, who, eleven years ago,
married q prominent lawyer. He became
rebel colonel at the breaking out of
the war, and was taken prisoner.
Charged with cowardice by his brother
officers, he would not return South. AT
ter being paroled his wife joined him
here. He became very dissipated-
lected, and even beat her. At last,
driven to desperation, she committed
suicide. She had often before attempted
it. Her name is not Harrington, but
one of the best known names in the
South
The riots in the Pennsylvania coal
region have been renewed. A dispatch
dated Scranton, Penn, May II, says
At o'clock this evening, as the labor
ers and miners working at Briggs shaft
were returning to their homes, escorted
by small squad of soldiers, they were
assaulted by q mob Of about two hun
dred Welsh miners, who threw stones
and other missiles at them, upon which
a soldier leveled his gun at one of the
assailants and fired, killing Benjamin
Davis and David Jones, Welshmen.
Only one shot was fired, that which
Iy1Ilnd thn fyua ~ al 10 Aho
question of wages between operators
and miners, Judge Elwell rendered a
decision, making the basis 1915, sliding
down to 1926, and 10 per cent off for
contract work.
The West.
The confagration at Monmouth,
ILL.,, last week, extended over an acre
and half, and destroyed the business
places of forty-four firms.
A company with S. 100000, to con-
struct eight canals to irrigate the entire
valley of San Joaquin and tributary
valleys, in California, has been incor-
porated.
One Alaons Wagner, of Leaven-
worth, Kan, called on Americas Patter
son, on the 18th inst, to collect some
rent due him, when an alteration &C.
Patterson with butcher knife. Wag-
ner has since died.
At a balloon ascension in Council
Bluffs, Iowa, on the 10th, previous to the
opening of Lakes circus, a man who
went up in the balloon was seriously,
and it is feared, fatally injured by jump
ing out when fifty feet in the air, break
ing his arm and leg and injuring him
internally.
Three horse thieves were arrested
at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the 18th.
During their trial on the following day,
and in the confusion of the courtroom,
they deliberately walked out, went to a
hotel, paid their bills, stole two horses
at the rear of the hotel, and made their
escape. They are still at large.
The bod of an unknown person
was found in the river opposite Keokuk,
Iowa, on the 10th. Nothing was found
on his person to establish his identity,
except package of admission tickets
to. the Chicago Comedy Combination,
from which it is inferred that he be.
longed to that organization.
The Adams Express Office at the
depot in Columbus, O., was entered by
burglars on the morning of the 18th,
between , and o'clock. Two men
who slept in the office were drugged,
and two safes were opened. Between
forty and fifty thousand dollars in cur
rent funds were taken therefrom.
There is no clue to the thieves.
-Advices from La Mesilla. Arizona,
confirm the reported massacre of In
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