Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-02-09

The East.

THE~staten Island Ferry Company are
going to bring before the Court of Appeals
the claim of $4,000, recovered against them
by one of the victims of the explosion of the
Westfeld, still contending that no liza ility
, accrued against them for ferriage on the
sSabbath......T Tweed still remains in New
York city, despite the summons of the
Legislative Committee on Elections to ap-
pear in reference to the contest of his Sena-
torial seat by O'Donovan Rosa. -. Mrs.
Henry Ward Beecher, Whitelaw Reid, VIM.
G. Bryant, Bayard Taylor, Bret Harte, and
others, have gone to Havana, on the steamer
Moro Castle. by invitation of the Atlantic
Mail Company.
GEORGE Boris, the murderer of Pet
Halsted, was hung at Newark, N. j., on
Friday ......All the property of the New York
Printing Company is now sold, aggregating
100000. This, with the sums due the COM
pany, will be sufficient to satisfy the Ocean
Banks judgment of $109 ,O00...... George W.
Watson, Williamsburg hair-dresser, was
shot dead at his own establishment in New
York on Thursday by Mrs. Fanny Hyde
aged Is, who says he has been in the habit
of insulting and accusing her of unfaithful-
ness to her husband.
BRICK PoMERoY has been sued for $4,000
damages for breach of promise of marriage
by Sadie Wilkinson, of New Haven, Conn.
she charging that he promised to marry hel
in 1856.
AN infant son of Henry T. Clarke, o.
Troy, N. Y, was killed on Sunday by his
brother, aged three years, who threw piece
of slate at him. The child killed was nine
months old......A fire occurred in Belleville
Ont, early on Sunday morning, at the Boys
Home. The building was totally destroyed
and one boy was burned to death. Tht
night was intensely cold, and the inmates
barely escaped in their night clothes. Loss
4 $1,000. David Barry was killed by a loco
motive at crossing at Kingston, neal
Scranton, on Saturday afternoon......J osepl
B. Lyman, agricultural editor of the New
York Tribune, died on Sunday.
A SERIOUS accident occurred to the Fri
mail east, on the Philadelphia and Fri
railroad, about two miles eastof Lockhaven
at half-past 10 O'Clock on Tuesday night
caused by broken rail. The engine AM
tender passed over in safety. The rest O
the train went over an embankment, ant
took fire instantly. The baggage car, tw,
passenger cars, and sleeping car wer
burned. Two of the passengers, Jane
Lysaught, of Williamsport, Pa, and Charles
PATTERSON, of Troy, Pa, became entanglet
in the wreck and were severely burned. ....
A fire at Scranton, Pa, on Monday night
destroyed $4,000 worth of property. In
surance, $2O,OOO......A fire at Goshen, N. Y.
on Saturday night, burned fifty head o
choice cattle and six blooded horses, til,
property of Abraham Rierson.
A HALIFAX dispatch says the fate of tn
Tariff bill now before the United State
Congress, proposing reduction of the dut.
on coal to fifty cents per ton, causes grea
anxiety among dealers there......Anothe
suit has been commenced against ex-Collecto
Murphy, of New York, to recover thu
amount Of political assessment paid by al
of1iceholder in the Custom House......A war
rant has been issued for the arrest of tn,
husband of Fanny Hyde, as an accessory t.
the murder of Watson.....The Commission
of Appeals, in the case of Rawson agains
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, hal
decided that the limitation of liability t,
500 for loss of luggage is not a contract
and awarded the plaintiff $4,000 damages TO-
her luggage lost by the defendants.