Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-06-14
NEWS OF THE1WEEK.
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THE Democrats of Pennsylvania have
nominated Hon G. 4. Buck alew for Gov
ernor w Strikes among the workngmen eli
New York still continue, with no prospect
of q speedy settlement of the trCubles......
Brick. Pomeroy has mandamused each mem
her of the New York Board of Auditors, to
compel the payment of his bill for city adj
yertising. The claim amounts to between
$40 OOO and $50 ,000...... While some work
men were roaming an oil well near Oh City,
Pa, last week, there was sudden How
of oil and gas, and an explosion occurred
in3the derrick, blowing the men outside to a
considerable distance, and setting them on
fire. Two of them were killed, and two
seriously burned.
SEVERAL employees on the Delaware and
Lackawanna railroad have been arrested
or embezzling the company of large sums
Of money during tho past two years......The
great strike of the Now York workingmen
continues, with every prospect of success.
Late advices from New York state Shat
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, the founder
and proprietor of the Herald, is hopelessly
i'll. His death may be expected at any
moment...... The first jury impanelled UNI
der the New York State law providing that
the reading of a newspaper shall not be
capital otfense in Juror, has been drawn
at Pulaski, in that State.
THE strikes in the Eastern cities for eight
hours labor and ten hours pay have been
practically successful. Tho effect upon the
employees will be less serious than was at
first expected, since but few contracts have
yet been made without reference to the pos
sible advance in wages.....The New York
Court House Commissioners on Saturday
discharged all the workmon employed on
the new courthouse building. The men had
not received any wages fer the past nine
months. 49,. The Daily Register has been Sc
lected as the official paper of New York city,
at SO 500 year. The successful bidder was
never heard of before...... DIR. William Pitch
or died at Hudson, N. Y, on the LIST inst,
from poison introduced into his system while
attending an erysipelas patent.
GEO. LAvRRY, convicted of murder in the
second degree for killing officer Lambrecht,
has been sentenced, at New York, to the
State prison for life...... VIM. II. Wadleigh,
discount clerk in the Merchants National
Bank, Boston, ia a defaulter to the amount
of $50, 000s.... Fred. Douglass residence at
Rochester, N. Y, was burned on Sunday,
June 2. .ssHa
AT Rochester, N. Y. !, on June 5, floor of
brewery gave way, with q large quantity
of. grain, and an immense mash-tub filled
with boiling LIQUOR Five mon were fatally
injured, two ef4hem being sscalded to death.
ION Monday night, june 3, Mrs. Jane
Farley, in fbsof Jealous despondency, cut
her throat at friends house, in New York,
dying in a. few moments.-.,.T The German
Brewers Association met at New York, on
Wednesday, June 5. Brewers were present
from every State in the U1ion. They repre-
sent a capital of $500 200, OOO...... Herr Franz
Abt, the. gEeat German composer, is on d
tour outN est. w hereshe is being feted;like
PRINCE s+A ! I ~ 4 - q
ELEVEN thousand dollars in United States
bonds was burned inthe house of Frederick
Douglass, at Rochester, on June o.. The
workingmen of Boston are about to inaugu-
rate a movement looking to the establish
ment of the eght-hofr system. THE Phila.
delpha mechanics are also beginning to agi-
tate the matter...Arlred Eugene LaGrave, o
BrOome street New York; merchant, has
left for parts unknown, leaving unpaid debts
amounting to $500 900. A. T. Stewart, H.
B. Claflin 4 Co., and other largo dealers, are
sufferers......A Bridgeport Comm dispatch
states that Capt. Colvocoresses, of the United
States Naval Retiring Board, who was MUIR
dcred on the night of June 3, was robbed of
his watehgandT about $1O, GOO. Capt. Colvo- .
coreeses had Insurance. on hislife amounting
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