Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-03-22

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Island Ferry Company, for the death of her
by the Westfeld explosion Gee. In
the Harbor Masters investigation at New
York on Saturday one of the witnesses
stated that he would give $685. for the
privilege enjoyed by one Of the Harbor
M iasters, OF whom there are eleven in the
City.
AT a meeting of the Directors of the Erie
railway at New York, on Monday, Gen. Dix
was elected President, and Gen. Mcclellan
Vice President of the road. Eight new Di-
rectors were also chosen, thus completely
routing Gould aud the rest of the thieves. 4
......Carlo Vogt has been arrested in Phila-
delphia, charged with numbering Chevaiier
DUBOIS de Blanco, in Brussels, last October,
setting fire to his house, and stealing securi-
ties valued at 100000. A portion of the
stolen property was found on Vogt...... The
me residence of Mr.. D. J. Reekie, at Mon
treal, was burned on Saturday night. Loss
S3O,OOO.."..A farmers child, near Biddeford,
Me-, last week, died of cold and starvation
Whlie It's parents were away drunk, and a.
Vanished hound horribly mutilated the
corpse.
EMANUEL sHAFFNER, of Morrisburg, Pa,
who has been tried for the murder of his
hrSt and second wives and John Sherlock,
by poisoning, has been convicted of murder
IN the hrst degree.....The packing room of
the Meriden MalleabIe Iron Works, at Meri-
Qen, Conn, was burned on Monday evening.
Loss 500, OOO.....At Greenbush, N. Y, on
tuesday, Samuel Fargue shot his wife dead,
hred at his daughter without effect, and cut
his own throat with q Jagged, rusty Jack
knife, inficting a frightful wound. Evil
dence has been given before the New York
senate Committee that $5,000,000 full paid
stock OF the Beach pneumatic. tunnel, New
York, has been issued, mourning an indebt-
edness to that amount for no other consider
atlon than the purchase of it's charter and
patents, and no part used in the construction
Of the road.
The lumber yards of II. R. Deacons, Hun
sicker & Co. and Patterson & Co., at ,Phila-
delphIa, were damaged by fire on Tuesday
night to the amount of 100000; insurance
$b4,OOO......A complete change in the direc-
ton of the New York and Mahopac railroad
took place on Wednesday. The road comes
under the control of Vanderbilt. r. ~.
The West.
LEAVER Il MERVIN's saw-mill situated. at
Moline, Mich, was blown up on Monday.
Three men, named James Leaver, j. Staffer,
and Frederick Huff, were killed, and five
others injured, some of them quite seriously.
The water was allowed to get too low in the
boiler, 1.-THE livery establishment of W. H.
TORY, at Webster City, Iowa, was entirely
destroyed by fire on Saturday evening, con-
sisting Of large stock of buggies and
sleIghs, and twelve valuable horses. No in
surance..,...On Saturday night, Michael
Dunn, with son three years old in his
arms, attempted TO cross the st. Louis and
Vandalia railroad track to East st. Louis, in
front OF an approaching train, and was run
over and fatally, wounded The child es-
capped with the loss of the toes of the right
1oot....A young man named Joseph New
man, with two companions, went to Breeze
Lake, H., on Sunday last, to shoot ducks.
Newman discharged one barrel Of his gun
at duck, but the other barrel snapped. He
then blew into the barrel to see if it was
loaded, when it was discharged and blew the
top of his head off,
The Supreme Court of Kansas has set
aside the verdict in the Medlicott case, and
ordered new trial, mainly on the ground
that the lower court admitted as testimony
the dying statement of Ruth, the murdered
man. ....The West Hotel, at Mendon, Mich,
was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morn
ing. Loss 900 !; insured for $4,000. .... A
young man named Jno. Wallace was shot
and killed by Mr.. Harvey, in Saline, Kan
sas, ON Monday night. Wallace was on a
spree, and made a noise before Harvey's
door, whereupOn the latter shot him.. The
Secretary of War has ordered the removal
OF certain distractions in the Chippewa
river at Eau Claire, Wis.....G. W. Kirk,
c!llzen OF Clark county, Ind, committed sui
eide at Jetfersonville, on Monday, by throw
ing himself under q moving freight train. .....
Geo. w. tIShhacK. one of tho nrOpriators Of
the st. Louis Democrat, has commenced suit
against his partners for dissolution of the
urn and valuation of the property......
CArlstlan Frlbolin, German music teacher,
living at Mascontah, a short distance from
belleV4lle, ILL.,, charged with an attempt to
commit rape in October last, blew out
his brains on Saturday last, in consequence
OF an intmation from his bondsmen that
they were about to deliver him up to the
Sheriff .t .s re-" -. T. Ia
The Wisconsin State Republican Conven-
lion met at Madison on Wednesday. The
delegates to the National Convention were
instructed to cast their united vote for re-
nomination of Grant. Samuel G. Landry,
resident of Flint, Mich, employed as
brakeman on a coal train, was run over on
tuesday morning and fatally injured.....
David H. Taggart was run over by train of
N~Io d5 OGs LOUIS on w G0nGS0ay, ana IN
stantly kllled......W II. Rittenhouse, a con-
ductor of the Belleville and Southern Illi-
nols railroad, was run over and@ killed at
Belleville, ILL.,, on Wednesday. His head
was horribly crushed. n 80
The South. '>ees
EARLY on Thursday morning, three ne
groes broke into the house of an oldsman of
eighty years named James ,McNeill, near
Shelby City, KY, and brutally murdered
him, splitting his head open with an ak
and stabbing him in several places Two of
the three negroes have been arrested and
identified by the wife of the murdered man.
GEN. LoNGsTREET has resigned as Surveyor
OF the port of New Orleans.
A SUIT was entered in the United States
Circuit Court at Richmond on Monday, by
directions of the Attorney General of. the
United States, to foreclose a mortgage exc
cuted by the Richmond and Danville Rail
road Company during the late war, to the
confederate States, to secure l,000, 900,
which it is claimed has reverted to the
United States. 49,. Motifs Palace -four mills
at Columbus, Ca, were burned by an incen-
diary on Tuesday morning. Loss $75, 900;
no lnsurance......The letter carriers of Rich
mond have resigned in a body in consequence
OF the dismissal of their chief by the Post
master: "A bill repudiating one,third of
the public debt. represented by the bonds
known as West Virginia certificates, passed
the lower Virginia House on Monday WALL
new railroads IN Tennessee are to get $40 900
"a a mile subsidy, and must pay into the State
treasury one-half per cent. of the gross re-
ce,ptS wlthin.two years after receiving the
subsidy. '--'
The kentucky State Republican Conven-
ton met at Louisville on WednesdayE aho,t