Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-26

sucb legislation as will enable American
builders of iron ships to compete with toose
Of Great Britain.
The West.
-a.ss r,sr Pacific House at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
was nartially destroyed by fire on Thursday
night Loss, $25, 900; covered by Insurance.
A well-executed counterfeit 500 bill on
the Ohio National Bank of Cincinnati, is cir
cnlatinp in Cincnnati......Th Three highway
robbers, named Peter stof, Olifson Tolifson,
and Andrew johnson, escaped from the JET
ferson county (Wis.) jail on Wednesday by
saving through til roof......The Lower
House of the Illinois Legislature on Thurs
day passed stringent temperance bill by
vote of 100 to 43. The bill provides that no
person shall be granted licerse to sell IN
toxicating liquors without first giving bonds
in the sum of $4,000 to pay all damages re-
sultirg from such sale; that no liquor
shall be sold to minors or persons in the
habit of getting intoxicated; and that wife
or child injured in person or property, or
means of support, by the intoxlcatlon OF
husband or father, can recover damages from
the person furnishing the hquor...... both
branches of the Colorado Legislature have
passed, by an almost unanimous vote, JOINT
memorial to Congress asking an enabling
act for State organization. Alexis was at
Omaha on 'Frdiay.....A camp has been es-
tablished near the Republican river as
base of operations for the Grand Dukes
hunt Buffalo and other game are reported
plentiful in the vicinity. 1t is expected
that nearly 81 900 Indians will be collected.
THE Nebraska Legislature has passed
| bill recalling the Constitutional Convention.
This Convention framed one Constitution
| and adjourned sine die. The Constitution
was rejected by the people, and it is not be-
| lied that they can legally reconvene The
| old Shippingsport bridge, over the Illinois
river, south of LaSalle, has been torn down
| Geo. Schiller, jeweer of Detroit, com
mitted suicide on Friday by shooting him
self in the head during fit of arrangement
! Whittemore Chadbourne, prominent
citizen of Hudson, Ill, was lately run over
and killed at that place by runaway team
| Mr. Glover, the United States District
Attorney, has been instructed to take the
necessary proceedings for the condemnation
of the square on which the old Chicago post
Office stood, and offers for the sale of which
were recently received by the committee ap-
pointed by Secretary Boutwell,, and reported
| as being altogether too exorbitant. This &C
ton may be taken as settling the question of
the future location of the Government build
| ings in that city. They will remain on the
| old square.
Mrs. Martens, wife of the man who died
a few days ago at Cleveland, from trichina
spiralis, also died from the same disease. A
| how aged six, is in critical condition. The
girl aged four, it is believed, will recover.....
Terre Haute, Ind, has voted to raise $50 200
| by taxation, to aid the construction OF the
| Terre HGute and Southwestern railroads..
The extensive paper mills at Ypsnantl
Mich, belonging to Cornwell IL Co., burned
on Saturday evening. No insurance.."..Gov.
Palmer, of Illinois, has signed the temper
ance bill lately passed by the Legislature OF
that State. 1t goes into operation on July J.
......A bill has passed both houses of the
Montana Legislature for the removal of the
capital to Deer Lodge......The new iron
draw of the bridge across the Mississippi, al
| Winona, was successfully swung on Saturday
afternoon. 1t is said to be one of the longest
draws in the world, being 365 feet in length
A MOB of between two and three thousand
men broke up a meeting of the Common
Council of Chicago on Monday evening
taking possession of the rooms, breaking
open desks, destroying documents, etc.
while those outside amused themselves by
throwing brickb bats through the windows
Several persons were injured, but none
fatally 1t is a way they had of protesting
against the extension of the fire limits.......
John Beaver, who separated from his wife 6
year ago, and has since threatened her life
several times, executed the fendish decd a.
st. Cloud, Mimi, on Saturday night. HI
f went to her house, drove the children out
seized his wife by the hair, dragged her int
- a. back room, and literally cut her head t.
pieces with q Ratchet. When arrested h
> made no resistance said he had GENE ther'
, to kill her, and had done it......A fire a
> Manchester, Iowa, on Sunday night, dam
aged the store and st >ck of Chas Burnside
to the extent of $1,000 or $4,000. Fully in
: sured ..... AT Piqua, o., on Monday morning
Fred. Everett was caught between the cars
: when coupling, and injured fatally, dying
} about IL o'clock......A young son Of Mr.
Stillman, near Heyworth, Ill. while unload
ing wood on Saturday, was accidentally
, struck on the head with large pole, from
the effects of which he died in a few
minutes.
On Monday, Jas. c. Reynolds, farme
!. who resided few miles from Jacksonville
7 HI, was accidentally killed while out hunt
ing alone. In crossing ravine which haC
steep entertainments, it is supposed he threw
his gun to the top of the embankment aheat
j.. of him and the fall discharged it just as tn
J muzzie pointed at his breast. The heavy
load of buckshot penetrated to his vitals
killing him instantly ..... The round house o
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern rail
: road at To edo was-destroyed by fire on Mon
!, day morning, together with six locomotives
Loss, $500, O00... The Japanese Embassy has
arrived at San Francisco. A JAPANESE
, Princess, said to be exquisitely beautiful, ac-
Companied the party. She goes to- Vases
u College. "a
GEORGE BECHTEL, living eight miles nortf
of Bourbon, Ind, was instantly killed OF
Tuesday, Ibis head being crushed between
two saw logs he was helping to load on
: wagon.....As a western bound train on tn
= Vandala road was approaching Highland
+ Station, between Brazil and Terre Haute, oil
Wednesday, a girl about Is years old, Twin!
E near Highland, rushed toward the track am
purposely threw herself in front of the en-
: CINE and was torn in pieces. Her name
and the cause of the strange suicide, are no
: known The Coroner's Jury at Marysville
, Ind, on the body of Levi Vardel, who wa
} killed by an Ohloan Mississippi train, re
turned a verdict of manslau Inter- agains
? the engineer, Isaac Ackley, the testimon.
, resting on the point whether the whistl
sounded in time to give reasonable warnin!
8 to the deceased...... Rev. DR.. John Bergen, o
, Spring feld, ILL.,, who was stricken down will
a paralytic stroke on Monday last, died oil
Wednesday morning. He was one of tn
oldest preachers in Central Illinois. havinI
resided in Springfield forty-eight years. H,
was born in New Jersey in 1890, being 8
years old when he died.....John Rau,
: hswitchman of the Northwestern railway, wa
, run over by locomotive aud instantly
killed at Chicago on Wednesday.