Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-03-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

- The East.
A. Z. STEWART has arranged for the con-
straction Of 100 houses at Jamaica Plains,
l.. l., this spring, at cost of $3.50, ......
The number of firms in New York engaged
under false names in swindling persons by
means OF lottery, counterfeit money, and
other schemes, is over five hundred. The
Post Office authorities have an alphabetical
list, and are showing increased activity in
s lighting the evil ...... The Iron City Brewery,
Aok Pittsburgh owned by Fraunheim &
Felsch, was seized by the revenue officers
on Thursday for making false returns and
other offepses against the government The
seizure embraces the entire stock, machinery
and other personal property found on the
premises, amounting to about $4,000.
THE official report of the new Directors of
the Erie railroad states that the earnings of
thecompany from November, 1871, to date,
were $21 100000, against $4,000, 900 the
year previous......A young man named W.
Sewers, and girl named Longuard, were
run"oyer, and the former instantly killed,
by atrainpon the Baltimore and Ohio rail
Sroad, on Friday night. They had been sit
ting on the track talking Another boat of
the Staten Island Ferry company was seized
at New York on Friday, for Judgment
against the company. The Sheriff will lay
the boats up, or collect the passenger fares,
unless the judgments are shortly paid......At
White Plains, New York, an attempt has
been made to poison family named Acker-
man, composed of eight persons, by impreg-
mating spring with arsenical poison.
NEAR Springfield, Mass, on Saturday,
trainWas thrown from the track by a broken
rail. The smoking car went down an en-
sbadkment fifteen feet, and twenty persons
IN it were more or less injured, but none ia
tally.
9WEIHAsf TREVERT accidentally shot his
wife at New York on Tuesday, killing her
instantly, and he became raving
maniac when he discovered what he had
done.....A New York immigrant swindler
was on Tuesday sentenced to five years i'm
prisonment.
MRS. f. SHAUsHANK died in a dentists
chair at New York on Wednesday, from
the administration of laughing gas...... The
Plattskill Falls Hotel, the New Mountain
House, near Saugerties, N. Y, burned OH
Tuesday. The building was owned by r. E.
POmerey. Loss $24, 900: insurance $4,000.
1.-THE house of farmer named Robert
BOwles, near Theresa, N. Y, was burned on
Monday night. The family were obliged to
Leave the shouseain their night clothes, and
several of them had their limbs badly
frozen. 6Bowles was. 80 badly burned while
attempting to save his children that he died
next day......A Fonda, N. Y, dispatch of
Wednesday evening says: The train which
left here this morning, on the Fonda, Johns
town and Gloversville railroad, with three
engines, is fast in q snow bank q mile long
and SIX to ten feet deep, near GlOversville."
.....All trains between st. Lawrence and
Prescott, Ont, were snow bound on Wednes-
ay......General Sickles states that he has
negotiated a loan of $2,OO0,OOO at five per
cent. for the new Erie Board on securities
rating as high as seventy. The new loan
can readily be paid off with the earnings in
very short time, and is only needed to
tide the company over the rugged places left
by five years of Jay Gould. ~s
7 81 81 The West.
PETER SMITH shot and killed Michael
Schaffer, his brothor-in-law, in drunken
quarrel at Gross Point, near Chicago, on
Wednesday. The murderer was arrested
1.-The Calumet feeder dam of the Illinois
aud Michigan canal is to be removed imme-
dmtely = Thousands of acres of land, now
overlooked will be reclaimed in consequence.
I'D. O. Cole, for several years secretary of
Gn0 tOiSNSldHu Mill OOmpd Is us
covered to be a defaulter in the sum of $685.
goo. Cole has fed, leaving his young wife
and two children behind...... Willie Bradley,
Is years old, was killed ct Shelbyville, Ind,
on Thursday, while trying to couple cars.
The Globe Insurance Company, of Chi
cago, announces its readiness to pay all it's
losses in full. 1t is the first Chicago COM
papy1teFesune business since the fire.
Mrs. ANNA G. RUTH was released on q writ
OF ha6eas corpus at Lawrence, Kansas, on
Friday. The prosecuting attorney an
nounced that since the decision of the SUI
prenle, Court against the admssibility of
Rdth's letter, written the evening of his
death, as evidence, her conviction under the
present developments of facts was impossi-
bic, and he did not desire to retain her in
custody any longer. She was therefore dis
charged .....M Michael WEIGH, farmer resid-
ing near Waukesha, Wis, was kicked by
mule on Friday and instantly killed. The
entire top of his.head was taken off. WEIGH
was.aeopt fof ftyeyearsof age, and leaves %
family.
THE Touring mill of Zesighouso & Bro, st.
Louis, Mo-, yas@burned early on Sunday
morning. Loss $60,000 insured for ,00O
-Four powder mills of the Austin Powder
Company, situated about five miles south of
Cleveland, blew up on Saturday afternoon
with a serfes1 OF heavy explosions, three
hundred kegs, or about four tons, of powder
being fired. Two mon, named Leonard and
Sherman, who were at work in one of tho
mills were blown to pieces, fragments of
their bodies being thrown hundreds of feet
away. Three other men, at work in the vi
cnity, were more more or less Injured. The
mills blown up were torn to atoms, the
ground for several acres being strewn with
fragments. Loss between $4,000 and
$4,000. The explosion was heard at Raven
ma, distance of forty miles.....Mrs. Kane,
aged 66 years, mother of Thomas Kane, of
Wenona, whose legs were crushed by the
cars in, IaSaue, Ill, and amputated on Fri
day evening, came to town to see her unfor-
tunate son on Saturday morning, and on
seeing him Immediately swooned and died.
In the matter of differences between the
proprietors ofthe Missouri Democrat, Judge
Madill on Monday appointed William Nc
kee, one of the firm, receiver, and ordered
q sale of the establishment......G George
Thompson, night yard master of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad, at Sc
dalis, Mo. was kiiled-en Monday morning
while switching train .....At Mackinac, on
the 18th inst, the mercury stood at twenty
degrees below zero. The ice in the harbor
is twenty-four inches thick, and no conjec-
ture can be formed as to when the straits
wiltopen! H. - '''+
Mrs, scRACF, who was brainod at st. Louis
on Monday with a poker by her maniac
husband, died ON Tuesday night......At
Lockland, o., on Sunday last, negro named
Barhyde beat his wife's brains out with an
axe in a 'ft Of jealousy Adam Hanna
shot and killed John E.Tindall on Monday,
near Cannon City, Col....... Quite swindle
has been perpetrated on farmers near Fort