Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-05-10

ing, German ear conductor, named Kent,
made desperate attempt to shoot another
conductor named Kock, after the latter fell,
feigning death. though unhurt. Kent then
shot himself, infictins mortal WOUNDS.
Family troubles were the cause...... M y.
Clark, Attorney General for New lamp
shire, died at his residence in Manchester,
on Thursday night of congestion OF the
lungs, aged g.
SHOCKING affair occurred in the town OF
New Scotland, N. Y, this morning. fam
lily consisting of Mr.. Volmer, his wife and
five children, volmer's mother, and his wife's
step-father, occupied a two-story building,
which took fire. Volmer his wife and one
child, who occupied the first floor, escaped,
but all the others persisted in the fames.....
Samuel Windler, the brother of Mrs. Hyde,
who was jointly indicted with her for the
murder of Watson, as accessory before the
act, was brought to Brooklyn, N. Y, on Fri
day, and committed to Jail. He will prob
ably be tried with his sister in June..... The
trial of Lydia Sherman, the husband muir
derer, was concluded in New Haven, Conn.,,
on Friday. After an absence of fifty min
utes, the jury declared Mrs. Sherman guilty
of murder in the second degree.
ON Saturday evening a fire occurred in
the building Nos. "a and 26 Wooster street,
New York. Two tailors named John and
James McCherry were burned to death. Sew
eral persons had narrow escapes. VIM.
Fordham leaped from the rear window into
the yard beneath. Fortunately he alighted
on the roof of the shed, and miraculously
escaped unhurt, although he had fallen a
distance of fifty feet. Loss about $40 ,000......
A man named John Hallonan was shot by
the Mayors Marshal, James L. Burns, in
gambling saloon in the Bowery, New York,
on Sunday morning. Burns was arrested.
...... Edward s. Stokes, the murderer of
James Fisk, Jr., has prepared letter for
F 4blication denying that he was in league
with Miss Mansfield to extort money from
Fisk.
The sauhegsn Mills, in Milford, N. H.,
were totally destroyed by fire on Sunday
night, with the dryhouse connected there
with. Loss 100000; insurance SIS, 900.
1.-THE fires on the mountains near King
ston, N. Y, continue. Fires are also raging
& along the Rondout and Oswego railroad,
and a considerable amount Of cordwood and
railroad ties have been consumed. Every
thing is very dry, and the fire spreads with
great rapidity......A fire at Warren, Pa,
on Monday afternoon, destroyed the Union
sehool-house and the Germania Hotel. The
school-house had $4,000 insurance, and
the Germania Hotel $4,000.
A FIRE destroyed an oilcloth factory at
Columbusville, Long Island, New York, on
Tuesday, with loss of 900. One fire.
man was run over bya machine and killed.
......A fire Tuesday morning destroyed the
car-house of the Worcester and Nashua rail-
road, at Nashua, N. H., with it's contents.
A train of cars was also destroyed, and the
rolling mill of the Nashua Iron and Steel
Company. The loss to the latter is $50, 900
insured for 900. The railroad loss is not
ascertained.....A very destructive fire broke
out in the village of Penn Yam, New York,
on Tuesday. Fifty houses burned. Steam
were ordered from Elmira and Canaan
daigua to suppress the flames. The fire
originated in furnace. The losses are very
heavy.
A DARING attempt was made Wednesday
morning by gang of burglars to blow open
the safe of the Erie freight house, at Buff
falo, n. Y, in which several thousand dol
lars in currency were deposited. The bur-
glars entered the building and gagged the
private Waterman. They were in the act of
blowing open the safe when disturbed by
the police, but made good their escape.....
The large wooden mill of William G. Case,
at Columbus, Pa, was entirely destroyed
by fire Wednesday night Loss, $4,000 !;
insurance, $4,000.
The West.
JOHN COOPER, the mulatto who murdered
James H. Swing, colored tinsmith, last
November, was hung in Cleveland, O., on
Thursday at IL o'clock. On the scaffold
Cooper made few remarks, saying that he
was sorry for what he had done, and was
prepared to die......Jas. E. Castro, notori-
GUS horse thief and stage robber, was hanged
by vigilantes at San Benito, CAL, on Thurs
day......James Rice, of Allegheny City, was
shot and killed in Evansville, Ind. on
Thursday morning by Frank Wright, keeper
of the Marine hospital.
CHARLES KURT was drowned from the fish
ing-boa Rowena, while lifting nets twelve
miles off Milwaukee, Wis, Friday forenoon.
Deceased was Is years of age, and leaves q
wife and two chlluren.
AT IL O'Clock on Saturday night, a de-
structive fire broke out on Superior street,
Cleveland, O., in the block occupied by VIM.
Kidd, jeweler, whose loss is heavy. Much
damage was done by water to the adjoining
stores. Cobb, Andrews & Co., booksellers,
lose heavily. Loss about $40, 0OO...... Richard
Tuch, superintendent of the Ferguson
Mine, in Mariposa, CAL, and VIM. Oliver
were drowned in the MERGED river Satur-
day.
The extensive Touring mill of Fletcher
& Judy, at Coatsville, ILL.,, was destroyed by
fire on April 25th. Loss on building and
CoAOonCs P1o,VVVj PdTlldlly luSureU.....A
dispatch from Minneapolis, Mimi, April
10th, states that advices from Oakdale, on
the Northern Pacific railroad, on Saturday
evening last, announced the wholesale muir
der of a family of a man named Cook,
brother to Franklin Cook, of Minneapolis
The house was burned to the ground and the
bones found in the ruins. Tho outrage il
supposed to have been committed by Indi-
ans......The body of a young Dane named
Augustus Gibson was found in the river at
Racine, Wis, on Sunday. Gibson has been
missing since the 18th of April, and is sup
posed to have been murdered.
DURING a severe thunder storm at Ackley
aY Iowa, on Sunday night, lightning struck the
s. house of Patrick Cassidy, about four miles
northwest of The town. The current passed
l0sdown the stove-ppe and instantly killed
To Cassidy aud Peter Burns, who were sleeping
sss near the slovenian East Saginaw, Mich
i dispatch says Camp, Brooks & Co.'s saw
mill was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning
n4 The loss is estimated at $35, 900, with an in
5, ,rsurance of S15, $780,. A man named Alex
ander Woodward, while engaged in remov-
ing some old buildings to make way for new
ones, in Dubuque, Iowa, was killed almost
Instantly by q falling wall
3. Ar Indianapolis, Ind, the jury in the
case of Harvey, indicted for the murder of
his wife, in March, 1868, who has since been
at large, but was arrested in Ohio short
time ago, returned a verdict Wednesday of
Il convection, and sentence of ten years in
" the state penitentiary,... Stanley, the muir
f.@ derer OF Patterson, who was under sentence
I'll to be hung April II, was lodged in the State
.Iprison at Fort Madison, Iowa, for life, by
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