Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-08-02
NEWS OF THE THE HE WEEK u i
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oulCluc, ouly 10, Ny
himself......T effects of the defunct New
8 YorkStandard were sold at auction in New
York, July 10, and brought $1,000 1.-The
Western Union Telegraph Company purpose
erecting building on Broadway and Dey
streets, New York, to cost 81 500 ,OOO...... Two
trains. eolIided on the Central road, near
Pittsford, N Y, on the 10th Of July, by
which three persons were killed, three NOR
italy wounded, and several seriously injured.
Among the killed was Mr.. E. B. Smith, a
we'll known bookseller of Detroit, and one
of the leading business men of that city......
Ex-Congressman Thatcher, the Oldest grad
e llate of Harvard, and the Oldest Mason of
the United States,died at Bangor, Me-, July
10, aged 96.....The large paper, mill of ]. B.
Sheffield, at Saugerties, N y. was destroyed
by fire July 49,, e Loss, $500, 900 insurance,
$l05, o00.".n.At a meeting of the directors of
the Atlantic and Pacific RAILROAD, in New
York, July 10, lease was effected of the
saNissouri P acific and its branches, giving to
the. y mer company some 500 additional
miles of road. f~@'4~ 14.t'
THREE young ladies were drowned. while
bathing in a pond at Millbury, Mass, on
July 20.a.. Excavations on Vanderbilts great
New York underground railroad will begin
in September, and its completion is prom
lseds within two years Two Sing Sing
IN ~Yo convicts attempted to escape from
prison lastweek by slowing themselves away
s., in garbage barrels. They forced themselves
through the filth, and covered themselves
up, leaving a small aperture to breath
through. When the driver stopped at the
dumping grounds to unload, one of the
prisoners leaped out of his barrel, pushed
the terrified driver off his seat, and whipped
tho horses into run. The convict was too
much excited to notice which way he had
headed, and before he was aware of it he
was almost in the prison yard again. The
thnr riof min IN a1,I hot
of the culprts were seized and marched back
g to their cellsina sad plight. Ava.
s. THERE was a slight frost in some parts of
New York on the nighteof July 2.....An
effort is to be made to liberate Stokes on
y bail....Josephne Mansfield, the artful siren
who Infatuated Jim Fisk, ard ultimately
compassed the death of that cratic gentle
man, went to Saratoga the other day to
testify in the Barnard Impeachment case.
z She was treated as an outcast, being refused
2 admissionsto the hotels, and when she took
her seat in the courtroom a number of
ladies who had assembled to witness the
judicial proceedings Immediately left.
The last remnant of the eight-hour move
nent in New York has succumbed to dire
necessity, and the workipgmen, with very
few exceptions, are now employed under the
old ten-hour rule. It has been a costly
strike to both employer and employee.
The notorious ex-Alderman Billy McMul-
len, of Philadelphia, for long time Presi-
dent of the celebrated Moyamensing Hose
Company, and ward politician of the low
order, was shot the other day by an ex-
convict named Maria, and dangerously
wounded. "..The health authorities of New
York are making vigorous preparations for
strict quarantine, in anticipation of the
arrivalof the cholera. = - ~ &.
In the association college regatta at
Springfield, Mass, July "a, Amherst unex-
= pectedlya took the honors, Harvard
being second. Harvard led until the
- ~ last half mile, when Amherst made
a magnificent squirt and crossed the line
lone and o half boat-lengths ahead. Harvard
was second, Amherst Agricultural third,
Bowdoin fourth, Williams fifth, and Yale
sixth. The results were wholly unexpected,
the favortes being beaten in both races.
90, Amherst followed Middletown, closely in
the freshman race. Mrs. Jane Lance, OF
Pittsburgh, while suffering from an attack
az Of typhoid fever jumped in the river last
week. She was rescued but died soon after
THE trial of Judge Barnard by the New
York State Senate, sitting as a court OF i'm
parchment t. at Saratoga, is dragging along
slowly. The testimony is very strong
against the accused, and he will probably
be convicted...... The extensive buildings OF
the Erie railroad in Jersey City were de-
stroyed .bysire Oh the night Of July "a. The
loss VIII reach $500 900 INSURANCE, 100000
All the books and papers pertaining to the
shops were consumed. " Us 81
ga~x eAuH@a The West - @s@Es
49, aGob.sJ. F. WooD, Assistant Postmaster al
Indianapolis, is defaulter to the extent Of
a'S$4, $780,. AN exciting trot took place over
the Cleveland course on July 10, between
81 Goldsmith Maid, American Girl and Lucy
Ehe Maid wonsin three stright heats. Time
219, 1lS, 219. ~''@ -f '~@
WILLIAsrSwEENEy, proprietor of the Metro
politan Hotel, Jacksonville, killed a. guest
E1ast week, by blow with his fist, because
he refused to pay for his breakfast......A re.
port comes by way Of San Francisco that
all the white settlers at the forks of the
river Skeena, in British Columbia, have
been massacred by Indians...,..A terrific
storm passed over Keokuk, Iowa, and its
Z neighborhood5 on the night of the 22d O.
July, doing damage that can scarcely bt
estimated. Families were driven from then
homes by the flood, horses were drowned il
their stables, aud q complete wreck made
Of almost everything located on the low
lands.
The two Chippewa Indians who murdered
Mis- Macarthur We're forcibly taken from
the Bfainerd j Mi inn, jail, ON the night o
July %, and hung to tree in the street
The executions was Witnessed by the entir'
population Of the town, who fully approved
of the summary proceeding y..aTwo boys
aged 10 and Is, were drowned at Davenport
* Iowa, July %, while bathing In the river
making seven persons who have met theil
death there in that manner this season..
sBy the fall of a hoisting machine in Mac.
neale 4 Urban's safe factory, at Cincinnati
July "A, - ulius Urban, brother of one of thu
r proprietors, was instantly killed, and tire,
. others were injured......M M. Paulus, of tn,
=: FIench Band, was robbed of 81 900 by som.
sr,.adroit thief who entered his room, at Gin
sa'cinnati. M ISIS Goodall, who is travelling with
80. the baud, was relieved of $500 in similar
manner 1.-THE women of Carthage, Ind.
-. have abolished all liquor saloons in thai
town, and the thirsty Carthaginians will
hereafter be com PEELED to resort to the rri
swa waite bottle, Some sixty indignant matrons
visited the various dram-shops and besoug III
their owners to abandon their vile business
and, failing in their mission, they formed
in solid phalanx, on the evening of July %
marched to the misery mills, one after the
other, smashing the furniture and leaving
= havoc behind them in every case.
The South. e e 0g
-. WILLIAM .LowREY, one of the notorious
Robinson county IN. C) outlaws, was killed
g.'.Iast week by q brother of Col. Wishart, who
was murdered by the gang some months
since,,... The completion of the industrial
- Exposition building at Louisville vas cele-
ON iN,1,Na