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

Daniel L, Miller, formerly President
Fof the Erie Railway Company, died at
Riverton, n. j., on the 10Th.
"A movement is reported to be on
foot for the building of new railroad
from New York to Chicago. 9''@ 10 +.@
"A telegraph line, under the super
vision and worked especially by ladies,
has been established in New York city.
AWilliani A. Moore, theatrical man
Wallack's theater, died at New York on
Tuesday.
The elevated railway in New York
was sold by the Sheriff on Saturday tor
$214.4O5.93, the amount of judgment
against the company. o. s....
Patrick Foley was, on the Goth, sem
fenced, in a New York court, to seven
teen years in the States Prison, for try
ing to break into house, the Judge
probably believing that prevention
Swas better than cure. k
Francis Southern, Constable of
Camden, N. j., who led an attack upon
negro voters, at the polls there, last No
vember, was sentenced at. Trenton, on
Inc GOGQ, 10 IiOllGlS lDTlSOIlulouG,
and to pay a fine of $500. s,a @TlE
Fink, notorious 2 gambler, Of
New York, for many years proprietor of
"a famous Ann street den, recently
CLOSED by the police, has just died.
He was under bonds for trial, and
aged 70.
Daniel Symonds, lately manager of
the Olympic Theater, New York, and
well known in the dramatic profession,
died Saturday at Joe Jefferson's resi-
dence, at Hohokus, N. j. r. 8&s-EsrTk
ess An explosion of nitro glycerine oc-
Cured at the Hoosac tunnel on the 22d
inst, killing four men-F. S. Mason,
superintendent, William Dummy, Thomas
Ryecroft and Robert Roberts. William
F. Churchill escaped with broken leg
Gen. Doughty, the original protector
OF the Camden and Amboy Railroad,
-. and its largest shareholder, has died at
Absecom. He was a Captain in the
army during the war of 1872; after
ward Brigadier General in the militia,
and worth 100000 or $5,000O00. =
"A dispatch from Boston, dated the
22d inst, says Four fshin schooners
belonging to Gloucester were probably
lost with all hands in the gale of the I'd
inst. Two fishing vessels from the same
place were lost in February, which,
added to the presumed disasters in
April, gives total of six vessels and SO
lives lost during the present session.
w m, The West.
Es-Charles Green, Sheriff of Pacific
county, W. T., was murdered for his
money, while out collecting, Saturday.
E-Col VIM. Johnson, of Rockford,
Ill, died very suddenly on Saturday
night, of asthma, at the American
House in st. Paul.
William Reynolds, of Indiana, an
1employe of Captain Anderson of st.
Paul, was accidentally shot through the
heart by a comrade at Fort Buford on
April 2.
H Vignon, prominent sheep
ralser OF Les Angeles county, w. r.,
was shot dead by one Of his shearers in
an alteration, Saturday. The shearer
escaped, on horseback, to the noun
Atains. A5foH T.F" a."- --.t
Mrs. A. Culver, of White Hill, H.,
stood before a mirror in her room on
Saturday,, and cut her throat with a
. razor. She died in less than minute.
Temporary insanity, resulting from pro
tracted sickness, was the cause of the
q aoFq S 87u3ea a4- .-
"A man died at the Meinzer House,
in Centralia, ILL.,, from the effects of
morphine taken for the purpose of sui
eide. His name appears on the hotel
register as Thomas Welch, although he
afterward wrote a letter to the landlord
in which he said his real name was
Horace or Harris Henry-that he had
deliberately done the deed and had
come to Centralia for that purpose
that his wife and one child had died,
and his greatest desire seemed to be
that his friends should not learn of his
whereabouts and death.
s''wa7h The jury in the case of Laura D.
Fair for the murder of A. B. Crittenden
o" at San Francisco, remained out forty
minutes and returned a verdict of muir
Rse der In the first degree. The prisoner
appeared somewhat paler than usual
when taken from the courtroom; other
wisesh seemed 'unmoved. 1t may not
be improper to say now, that this YER
a, dict, until within the last week, has
>. not generally been believed possible,
81 nearly everybody expecting the trial to
prove 9 perfect. farce, ending with the
acquttal OF the prisoner, or a disagree
ment of the jury. Nine-tenths of the
community regard the verdict as a Just
Flndlcatlon of the law, and as q rebuke
to thesdoetrines put forth by the de
5enseln the case u - 81
The South.
"A fireyat Sedalia,s Mo-, on the 22d
inst, destroyed $4,000 worth of proper
ty.
The town of Pennington, West Va,
was nearly all destroyed by fire on Sat
urday morning. s. @A 80
A fire occurred in ST. Louis, Mo-, on
Sunday evening destroying two tobacco
factories and other property to the
amount of 100000.
''' In the Louisville public schools, af-
ter this week, there will be but one
session a day through the summer
smqntthsS. 5EFs a&
IS. E. Cary, General Ticket Agent of
the New Orleans, jackson and Great
Northern Railroad, telegraphs contra
dieting the unfavorable reports in regard
totheyroad, and says they are running
on irregular time and making all connec-
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