Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-12


| to the Marshal and confined in one OF hi
| own houses Gov. Washburne and tn
| other newly elected State officers were inau
gurated at Madison on Tuesday.....G ID
Alexis arrived at Chicago on Saturday, AM
after an inspection of the inevitable stool
yards, tunnels, telescope, etc., left for Mil
waukee on Tuesday. The future programme
includes a visit to St. Louis, Kansas City
Leavenworth AMI Omaha, and buffalo hun
on the plains..... Rev. s. M. Goodfellow
pastor of the Methodist Church at Dunton
ILL.,, was killed and his wife severely injured
on Thursday evening, by being thrown from
bridge at Elk Grove, falling a distance o
sixteen feet and striking on the ice.
Mrs. LAURA FAIR, the murderess, died IL
prison at San Francisco on the 30th ult Tht
event created considerable excitement, anc
rnmors were current that her death was in
duced by barbarous treatment during bel
incarceration ......A passenger on the NORTH
Missouri railroad jumped from a car or
Monday, near st. Charles, fell beneath the
wheels, and was instantly killed, his head
being completely severed. Cash and notes
amounting to $11, 900 are said to have beer
found on the person of the deceased, but his
name could not be ascertained......W W. Q
Smith, an old and prominent citizen OF lndi-
annapolis, committed suicide on Wednesday
on account of business difficulties. He
hung himself with BEDFORD, and to make
sure the Job, he soaked the cord before
using it. He leaves a wife and one child
His property had been locked up by lawsuits
so that he could derive no income from it.
The South.
FURTHER advices from Sedalia, Mo-, con-
firm the previous accounts of the killing Of
negroes in Saline county. 1t is said that
great excitement exists there; that the
negroes are panic stricken, and that efforts
are being made to suppress facts in the case
. The inquest on the body of Mrs. Lorner
killed with hatchet by her daughter-in-
law, Mrs Wisert, in Louisville, last Satur-
day, revealed the probability that the mur-
deress is deranged on the subject of crime
from reading cheap novels and fashy litera-
papers were found in her rooms, and it was
proved that she had been in the habit OF
poring over them necessarily.
On Friday night man named Browning
accompanied by others, went to the house of
Geo. Duncan, a colored man, in Bracken
county, Kentucky, it is said, to whip the
latter or eject him from his house. Duncan
showed fight, and on the door being broken
down by his assailants, fred into the crowd
killing Browning. Duncan was captured
and taken to Brockville Jail, and on Sunday
night mob of disguised and armed men
took him from the Jail and hung him.. An
old man named David Grove was mortally
wounded by his son-in-law, Joseph Musso
on Saturday evening, at Memphis, Tenn
Musso also shot his wife and mother-in-law
though not seriously. The shooting was
caused by domestic infelicity. 1.-THE boiler
in the steam mill of Harrington Brothers, al
Baltimore, exploded on Saturday morning
One Of the Harrington brothers was killed
and several persons were severely injured
The building is complete wreck......In the
United States Court at Columbus, S. c., on
Saturday, five Ku-Klux prisoners pleaded
guilty, and were sentenced to eighteen
months imprisonment and $100 fne... Geo
P. Caron, Parish Judge of st. Johns parish
Louisiana, committed suicide on Friday, al
Magnolia, Miss, in fit of temporary in
sanity. He was native of Illinois
A SPECIAL from San Antonio, Texas, says
Col. Sawyer and Capt. Travis, just from the
frontier, report that ten men were killed by
Indians at Salt Creek on the 9th inst.....
On the goth inst. three citizens of San An
tonic, named Their, Wagner, and Borchus
were murdered near Hillsboro. They were
drovers returning home from Kansas with
the proceeds Of their sales......A fire at New
Orleans on Sunday night destroyed sixty
buildings. Loss estimated at 100000; in
surance, $300,OOn.
A LITTLE girl of years, daughter of Will
liam David Cromwell, of Ohio county, KY.
was instantly killed by lightning in her
fathers house on Sunday. The electricity
came down the chimney. The flash struck
the left side of the head, burning off the
hair, and peeling the skin in crisps from
many places on the face, neck, chest and
lower limbs, leaving the flesh Of BLUSH
feet was killed by the same flash. The
mother and two other children were knocked
senseless by the shock. The mantel over the
fire was torn in splinters, but the
chimney was uninjured. the United
States Court at Columbia, S. c., on Wednes-
day, ten more prisoners from Spartansburg
pleaded guilty, and told the story of their
crimes in open court......A fire in Somerset
Pulaski county, KY, last Sunday, burned
twelve of the best houses in the village, in
Guiding the Court House. Loss $4,000.
Washington.
The Chronicle announces that Mr.. Aker-
mans successors will not be less Jealous
than Akerman in prosecuting the Ku-Klux
and that there will be no abatement of ener-
gy on the part of the Government in the
matter ...... Copies of General Walkers re-
port on the ninth census, intended to pre-
face the first or population volume of statis-
tics, have been mailed to many of the promi-
nent newspapers of the country. AS the re-
ports of the census will be published in
three large octave volumes, the Superinten-
dent recommends that a compendium of the
census in octave form be authorized fol
popular distribution.
TREASURER SPINNER says he has no infor
nation of counterfeits of the ifty-dollar new
issue, as reported. ......N. R. Hawley, of Hi
nois, has been appointed special agent of the
Post Office Department.....The Treasury
Department has decided to hereafter allow
| the use by steam vessels of all cork life
preservers adjustable to the body of person
| by whomsoever manufactured, when sucl
preservers are so constructed as to meet tn
requirements of the rules adopted by tn
Board of Supervising Inspectors On Fri
day afternoon, Officer Doyle attempted t.
arrest a Mrs. Shea in her house. She re
sisted and shot Doyle with a pistol, the bal
| taking effect in the mouth, from whicl
wound he shortly after died.
THE residence of the Russian Ministe
was entered by burglars On Tuesday nigh
and robbed of a considerable amount of sill
verware......The Commissioner of Patent
| has extended the patent of Henry Fisher, Q
Canton, O., for moving machines. Th
Treasury Department has issued circula
allowing towing boats and steamboats,, use
exclusively in transporting freight upon tn
| Mississippi and its tributaries, to carry