Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-08-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The East.

suit against the New York Times he forth
with went for the Bangor Wing to the tune
Of $4,000. The chiefs of both journals have
been held in bonds to appear and answer.
1.-THE city of Titusvlle, Pa, has been
lighted with gas from the Newton oil well,
located five miles from the town......J. M.
Majorga, General Agent of the Cubans in
New York, las advised the Governor of the
Republic of Cuba to remove Gen. Ryan.
john GAFFNEY has been sentenced to be
hung, at Buffalo, for the murder of Patrick
Fahey Charles NARROW was hung at
Millville, N. Y, on the I'd inst, for the
murder OF VIM. Bachman, in August, 1872.
.... Eight stores were burned in Elmira,
~ on the I'd inst. Loss, $4,000.
A GANG of river pirates recently forced an
entrance to the Hamburg dock, at Hoboken,
n. Y, and stole 100000 worth of watches.
1.-The Cuban privateer Pioneer, lying in
the harbor of Newport, has been seized by
the Government. Her commander, after
protesting against the seizure, with true
Spanish bravado, fired off one of the pri-
vateer's guns, nailed the Cuban flag to the
mast, threw his sword overheard, and, with
his crew, left the vessel in high dudgeon.....
Gerritt Smith is using his personal influence
toward the release of some of the Ku Klux
confined in the Albany IN W penitentary.
who are evidently victims of circumstances,
...... Horace Greeley is ruralizing on his ma
tive heath, in New Hampshire.
s. L. M. BARLOW has been elected Grand
Sachem of the Tammany Society ..... Gen.
Grant and Phil. Sheridan have been indulg-
ing in a little piscatorial sport on the st.
Lawrence. The pair are reported as having
whipped out a canoe load of bass and pick
eral In one day.....2000 boxes of diamonds,
rubies and sapphires from the Arizona dia-
mond fields have been on exhibition in New
York. s. L. M. Barlow, one of the trustees
OF the recently formed Diamond Mining
Company, states that they have pre-empted
5000 acres, and have so men at work. He
states, also, that the discovery was made Is
months ago, and that as far back as year
ago, 100000 worth of Arizona diamonds
were received in New York. .... Forty thou
eand dollars worth of smuggled silks were
se SCI IN New York the other day......A new
oil well took fire at Titusville, Pa, recently
and fatally burned four men,. Simeon
Leland, one of the we'll known Leland
brothers, hotel proprietors, died at New
Rochelle, N. Y, last week.
THE Continental Sugar Refinery, in South
Boston, has been destroyed by fire. The
loss is $500, 000...... The Grand Jury has pre-
sented an Indictment against L. j. Jen-
nings, of the New York Times, for libel on
Gen. patrick. Gen. Diven has resigned
the Brie Vice-Presidency.
The West.
HE contract for concrete stone to be used
IN the foundation of the new Custom House
IN Chicago has been awarded to the Lemont
(lH.l Stone Company, at $2.65 per cubic
yard......There Is quite an excitement in
san Francisco over the diamond discoveries
IN Arizona, and many are preparing for a
rush to the diggings 49,. A little child of Dr.
heuchier, of Springfield, ILL.,, wandered into
the doctors office, and drank some poison
GUS drug, from the effects of which the lit
Tie fellow died...... Lieut.. Wheeler's great
scientific expedition has left Salt Lake,
Utah, for Northern Arizona and Eastern
Nevada. The party comprises $50 mon
ana extensive outfit, mules, wagons, sup
plies, etc.
HE motion tor a new trial in the case of
Mrs. Glenn, the Indianapolis murderess, has
been overruled, and she is again sentenced
to the Penitentiary for life. The Southern
Railroad Company has negotiated $I5O, 900
worth OF seven per cent. bonds of the CITY
OF Cincinnati, at q per cent, being the
first installment of $4,000 900 which the
city has voted to the proiect......The boiler
IN stone quarry at Aurora, ILL.,, exploded
last week, blowing the proprietor. Blasev
Berthold, $50 feet, literally tearing him to
pieces. ....Dr. Andrews, of INDIANAPOLIS, has
been elected President of the Indiana Uni
verslty, at Greencastle, in place of Bishop
Bowman.
ADvIcEs from the Cheyenne Indian Agency.
IN Dakota, represent that there is a general
disposition among the redskins of that tribe
to make trouble, and that general outbreak
Is lmminent......T German Catholics of
cincinnati, in meeting assem- bled, have ex-
pressed their indignation at the expulsion of
the Jesuits from Germany.Thee exact To-
caIity of the diamond fields recently discov
cred somewhere out West is puzzing the un-
initiated. 1t is said by some they are near
the northern line of New Mexico and
Arizona. Parties in San Francisco have
been teiegraphing to Denver, COL, asking
for information, but the Denverites seem to
be as much in Che derk as the 'Friscans.
A POLICE officer named O'Mara was won
tonly murdered in Chicago, on the 5th inst.
by notorious rough named Rafferty,. The
murderer is under avrest.,. Miss McLaugb-
q
last fire on the 9Th inst. She used kero-
sene......The assessed valuation of the real
ana personal property of the State of Iowa
tor 1871 is S348,774 ,53I-an increase in one
year oil $IS,l $50 ,53l.......A grain elevator. con-
tanning 10000 bushels of corn and $4,000
bushels OF wheat, was burned in Chicago on
the 9th inst. Total loss about $12O, 900.
CHIcAeo's mortality roll for the month of
July foots up total of 1,372, of whom over
hall were children under one year ,)f age.
The deaths in June numbered SIS. The
Wile OF Mr.. John Mathewson, a respectable
FARMER OF Fulton county, Ill, was foullv
murdered by some unknown person lost
week, while the family were engaged in
harvest work some distance from the bonse
.'''..One of the most terrible hail-storms
ever known recently passed over Lyon
county, Iowa, causing immense DAMAGE
Hail stones tt n to fourteen inches in circum
terence poured down for thirty minutes
Kidding wlndow-glass, and, in MANY in
stances, passing completely through the
shlngled roots of houses.
CLINTON r. WINsLow, son of Admiral
Winslow, of the Navy, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head. at
San Francisco, on the 9TH of August. The
saw mill ofJohn McGraw, of Portsmouth
Mich, the largest and most complete in the
country, was totally destroyed by fire on
the the. 9TH Of August, together with 4 900 900
,ees OF lumber. Loss, $3OO,0OO; insured for
$40 ,0O0..,...W VIM. Hewitt, one of Cleyelana,s
we ., and best citizens, died last week.
ct Brights disease of the kidneys.
The South.
ANNlE GIBSON, of Nashville, comm;ttsd
suicide, the other day, by hanging herself
Tucker Ballard, Marshal of Crab orcbo~a
KY, shot Martin Delaney dead Last
while attempting to arrest him. ' "eoA'
The troubles in Pope county Al. ~,