Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-07-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

he y uAhOA VIII SecC ID again up III ehO
New York courts..... The Senate of New
York, sitting as court of Impeachment, is
engaged in trying Judge McCunn.... Gov.
Hoffman, of New York, vetoed 50 bills dur
ing the past session of the Legislature...
John W. Avery is to be hung at Hacken-
sack, N. Y, for the murder of jacob W.
Erb......on June 10, over the Mystic Iark
race-course, Boston, the celebrated trottlng
mare, Goldsmith Maid, made the fastest
time record over mile track-2:l64.
MAYOR CASTOR, of Boston, has vetoed the
order passed by the City Council for opening
the public library on Sundays. 1.-The
,Japanese Government are having five-twenty
bonds and greenback currency engraved by
the New York Bank Note Company,
under the direction of Henry Clews 4 Co.
Monthly shipments are now going forward
to Japan. About $4,000, 900 have already
been nt......H may be authoritatively
stated, says a New York telegram, that there
is absolutely no foundation for the report
that Miss Nellie Grant has become engaged
to Scottish Lord.
PAUL E. LOWE, son of ex-Gov. Lowe, of
Maryland, has been bailed in $4,000, at
New York, to answer for shooting VIM. De-
vine..... The New York Express says grand
national reunion of the Greeley editors is to
be held at Baltimore on June 9..... Robert
Kirkwood, a prominent citizen of Pitts
burgh, was shot dead on his own porch,
while surrounded by his family, on June 81,
by man Ramed Flanders, because he re-
fused to fulfill marriage engagement with
the assassin's sister,.....I In Philadelphia, last
week, a young man named George WEIGH
shot and instantly killed his mother, while
sitting at the supper table. He is supposed
to be insane.,...The Saltwater wooden mills,
near Providence, r. l., were burned June
%. Loss, $3.50, 900 .....Paris letters report
that Bismarck's ultimatum was neces-
earily accepted by France, and, in accord
ance Herewith ), the French army is to
be cut down 10 5000 men, and the
National Guard bound over to keep the
peace.
LIZZIE GARRABRANDT's death sentence has
been cemmuted to imprisonment for life by
the Now Jersey Court of Pardons......Tw
persons were killed and several injured by
the explosion of a steam lighter at New
London, CT, Jtine 24...... Rev. E. L. w. Jones,
O wealthy Pittsburgh clergyman, goes to
the :Workhouse for three years for swind-
ling widow lady. Three boys, aged 8,
IL and 13.years, respectively, were drowned
at Albany, N. Y, June %, while bathing in
the Hudson......A clever sharper named
Price has been swindling Jersey farmers
by selling them lots in Communipaw that
did not belong to him. He realized $4,000.
STEPHEN CAMBERLING, one of New York's
oldest lawyers, died in that city June 25,
aged 1.-The usury law, which has stood
upon New Hampshire's statutes 200 years,
has just been repealed, and the rate of in
terest fixed at per cent?. Chauncey
Johnson, of New.-Yo city, said to be the
champion sneak thief of the country, has
just received "a tensyears' sentence in Sing
Sing.
The West. g,.s. /, ~
NEAR Des Moines, Iowa, on June 20, a
struck while blowing in the feld..... Near
Golden City, Col, last week, Mrs. Graham
and her child were drowned in Cedar creek,
by the upsetting of a,buggy......A Manistee,
Mich, whisky mob of some $50 persons last
week made an attack on the house of DR..
Ruggles, an ardent Temperance refor mer,
and, but for the protection afforded by a
strong squad ofpolice, would probably have
dealt roughly with him......Some Buffa-
lonians found a set of burglars tools some
where in the vicinity of the custom house,
on June 20, and. think they have frustrated
a scheme to rob the Government depository.
BY the explosion of a boiler within the
walls of the Ohio Penitentiary, at Column
bus, on June 81, about fifty convicts were
more or less injured-some half dozen, it
is feared, fatally Henry Ryan, aged 49,,
was drowned in the river at Dubuque, Iowa,
on June 20; while bathing 49,. j ames Keagle,
an old man of so years, hung himself in
Sangamon county, ILL.,, last week.. The
schooner Jam aica, bound from Milwaukee
to Oswego, capsized and sunk in Lake
Huron, on June 20. The crew, with the ex-
ception of the c ook, a woman, were saved.
......At Big la, aids ;, Mich, on June 20, VIM.
McGregor was caught in the machinery of
mill and torn to pieces......N. B. Latta,
notorious counterfeiter, has been convicted
at Madisony' Wis. ~, a. San Francesca dis
patch Of June 81 says: DR.. z. Rogers, re-
Gently of Chicago, appeared last night at
the WoInan's Suffrage Convention, half his
face shaved, the other half haqng beard
and whiskers. 3 He announced that he did
it in recognition of man being half woman
and half man. He was arrested, and sent
to tho insane ayslum.", :, -. An explosion oc
Cured daripesthe progress of a, ireyinr O.
liquor store in sChicago, ons une 2 killing
two patrolmen, and seriously iDjuring two
step-son of Hon. George II. Williams, At
torney General Of the United States-has
been arrested at Chicago for S., 900 dia-
mond robbery committed in Baltimore,
some time ago.....M Mrs. Gardner, bride of
six weeks, committed suicide at Milwaukee,
by taking strychnine, on June 81.
PERRY kBgog, Syoupg farmer living near
Bloomington, His committed suicide last
week, by shooting himself through the
body.....A corners in wheat, which a
Chicago man named Harding had been run
ming, collapsed last week. Harding mourns
the loss 81 about $200,0O0.
THREE persons-two physicians and a
patient-were poisoned last week, in. Wheat
land, Mo-, by the blunder Of. a druggist.@ =; 3.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has Just de-
cided that, Insanity is not a sufficient cause
for divorce, -, Mary McConkey, aged II,
was killed at Oshkosh, Wis, by being struck
with piece Of the clipper of shingle fac
tory".".At Pleasant HILL. Ill, last week,
James Ray killed Pat .McGuin, by shifting
him with "a beer; glass, 49,. The wholesale dry
goods store OF Joll 4 Frank, in Milwaukee,
was struck by lightning on the night of June
"a, and entirely consumed by fire. Loss,
1926, 900; insured for $4,000.
A MRS looms advertised herself to deliver
lecture against female suffrage, in Platt's
Hall, SAM francisco, onEJune25. When she
mounted the rostrum she was interrupted,
Kissed and ieered by the leading female
suffragists. Hon, David Meeker demanded
that the disgraceful conduct cease, or that
the women be compelled to leave the hall,
for which Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens, editress
of the Pioneer, the sufragist organ, drew a
pistol on him in the hall, demanding an
apology fremzhinas but was compelled to put
it in her pocket by thesbystanderss.. Mil
waukee' was visited by,a terrific thunder-,
The N crht o. WI ich fa irly.