Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-25

The East.

republican party...-.A notice has been
served upon the captain of the Emmett
Guard, an Irish military organization in
Jersey City, that the permission accorded
them of using the city armory by the Com
mon Council last year, has been revoked by
a committee of the present Common Coun-
Gill;. Great quantities of Bartlett pears are
now sold on the streets of New York. A
produce merchant arrived few days ago
from San Francisco with 800 baskets, which
he quickly disposed off,. Joseph Messner
was executed at Rochester, n. Y, on FRIDAY,
Aug. IL, as 1928 p. m. He fully confessed
having murdered his wife in April, 1868
Three infants, said to have been farmed out
to an old woman named Julia Callahan, in
East Cambridge, Mass, died recently. The
woman is under arrest on suspicion of kill
ing them with opium.....At the races in
Buffalo, on Friday, August 18th, the mare
Gold smith Maid made the three fastest con-
secutive heats on record. They were as fol-
lows: 2:193, 2:194, 2:19. 1t is a remarkable
fact that at the races which took place at the
Buffalo driving park the week ending August
18th, 2:27 was the slowest winning time
made.
MAYOR HALL, of New York, saved the life
ofa little child on Saturday, at South bay,
by leaping into the water and rescuing it as
it was sinking for third time. Depth of
the water, three feet....A. G. Smith, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, committed suicide on Sat-
urday, because he bet on the wrong horse at
the Buffalo races last week.....A man I'M
known to the New York police was found
murdered at the corner of Eighth avenue
and Thirtieth streets, on Saturday night.
W. S. Olmstead, Vice President and Treas
urer of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company, died at Hartford on the 18th
inst, aged 68......Mrs. Catherine Toucey,
widow of the late Hon. Isaac Toucey, for
merly Secretary of the Navy, died suddenly
on Sunday, aged SO years. She was taken
i'll at church, and died in her carriage on
the way home.
Two BALES of new cotton, of this years
crop, were sold by auction at New York on
Monday. The first bale, from Alabama, sold
for 25 cents, and the second, from Georgia
for "a cen ts......An explosion occurred in a
liquor store at Jersey City, on Monday night,
which was followed by a fire, in which the
lives of three persons were lost......A fire.
damp explosion occurred on Monday morn
ing in the Eagle shaft, at Pittston, Pa, by
which Benjamin Davis was instantly killed
and twenty workmen imprisoned behind the
debris, with no means to escape until cleared
away. At five o'clock the same day the
bodies of five of the victims had been recov-
cred, and twelve more were known to be
below. The steamer Chautauqua exploded
her boiler on Monday afternoon at Whitney
Landing, near Maysville, N. Y. Five per-
sons were killed and fourteen injured, some
OF whom will die.
SINCE the outbreak of the horse plague, at
Brooklyn, $50 horses belonging to the City
Railroad Company have been attacked, and
20 of them have died. There are at present
0VUIth hoT 11oIo Iu he nIr orIr Dat
Board have resolved to place officers on the
street cars in citizens dress for the protec-
ton of passengers. man named Hither-
ton was stabbed and instantly killed by one
Mcdonald, at Pittsburgh, Pa, on Monday.
More whisky ...... Dispatches from all parts
of the country announce that the Scott CEN
tenary was celebrated on the 18th in all of
the principal cities in the Union.
BARON DE CAMIN, who claims to be an ex-
Catholic priest, and a member of the inqui-
sition in France, attempted to speak at Og-
densburg, N. Y, on Wednesday night, in
denunciation of Papacy, but was mobbed by
the Catholics and forced to seek the protec-
ton of the police...... Henry Bergh has been
appointed Assistant Sanitary Inspector
without salary, with special power to visit
and examine all horse and COW stables with
in the city limits .....Six hundred thousand
baskets and crates of Delaware peaches were
sold in the New York market during the
week ending Aug. r. The crop this year is
enormous, and the fruit never better in size
and flavor. The crop on Long Island is the
most plentiful ever known. The fruit is
rotting on the farmers hands. .... Members
of the Health Department in New York city
think there is little probability of a cholera
visitation to this country this year. One
physician sPys he no longer considers the
cholera a matter of American interest, as it
has been lurking about Europe for years,
while we have escaped.
The West.
A VERY severe thunder storm passed over
Milwaukee, Wis, and vicinity, on the night
of the 10th inst. Within radius of five
miles three large barns, filled with newly
harvested grain, were struck by lightning
and entirely consumed by fire. The loss to
the owners is very heavy, as there was little
or no insurance on any of the barns. A
Catholic Church in the same neighborhood
was also struck by lightning, but not ma
terially damaged.....Tw Two little daughters
of Geo. D. Clark, of Seneca, Crawford coun-
ty, Wis, were burned to death recently.
They were three and five years old. Cause,
kindling fire with kerosene oil...... Miss
Anna Jacobson, of Wauau, Wis, was re-
Gently found dead in the yard of D. B. Coyle,
of that place, and there are suspicious of
foul play in the case...". Bryant G. Evans, a
colored expressman, died of sunstroke at
Evansville, Ind, on Friday DIR. Potts, a
well known physician of Pana, ILL.,, shot
himsell through the head about IL O'Clock
Friday night, and almost instantly expired.
A MAN named Geo. M. Bandcina, and his
sister, Mrs. Newton, were shot and instant
ly killed by German, near Denver city,
Col, on Friday night. Late dispatches
from St. Paul, Mimi, state that the harvest
is nearly completed, and the grain generally
saved in good condition. The crop is gene
rally good in quality, and will be nearly, if
not quite an average, in quality ..... Five
persons were suffocated by fire damp in at
tempting to reopen an old coal shaft near
Eddyville, Iowa, on Friday, the 18th inst.
IAN expressman named Phelps was shot
and instantly killed at Omaha, on Sunday,
by his brother-in-law Husman, a
German, living in Cincinnati, shot Margaret
Maloney, girl of II, on Sunday, and killed
her......A daughter of Henry Rieman, of Ok
ford, O., was killed by lightning on Friday
morning while standing in her fathers door.
.....Jas Sinclair, an old resident of Chicago,
ILL.,, died in that city, on Saturday. VIM.
l.. Houston, very respectable young man,
suicided at Quincy, ILL.,, on Sunday.
ST. GILMAN, drover from Kentucky,
was drowned at Toledo, recently. ..... The
schooner R. B. Campbell found the scow
Scottish Chief, loaded with lumber, wrecked
between Kalamazoo and St. Joseph, on the
eastern shore of Lake Michigan, on Satur-
day afternoon, and towed her to Kenosha,
Wis. The crew were all gone, and are sup
posed to have been lost.... George Shuler,
son of Harvey Shuler, Esq, grain msr-
chant of Ottawa, Ill. aged Z wears fell from