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

THE Nail Manufacturing Convention at
Philadelphia has advanced rates to $4.75 per
keg for ten-penny n&ils.....The brigantine
Phoebe Ellen was capsized and dismasted off
the coast of Nova Scotia on the 9th inst.
The cook was lost. The others dashed them
selves to the wreck, which on Monday struck
a ledge. Captain Dill was drowned in the
surf while attempting to get ashore. Three
Of the crew when taken from the wreck were
frozen to death ...... The mate and two men
were rescued. Stokes was visited in prison
IN Thursday by his father. The interview
asted two hours and was very affectins......
An Albany letter states that Tweed has no.
titled his friends that he is not going to
claim his seat in the New York Senate......
The New York Yacht Club is making prepa-
rations for cruise to Russia next summer,
by invitation Of the Grand Duke.
THE Delaware and Lackawanna railway
has been indicted by the grand jury at Pater
son, N. T., for killing a fireman and engineer
by collision of trains. Also for obstructing
the highways by allowing trains to remain at
railway crossings Hunter, liquor
dealer, fatally shot Mary Brown, his mis-.
tress, at his store on Fulton street, Brooklyn.
Hunter was arrested. 1.-The grand jury has
found an indictment against Stokes for will
ful murder Alexander Delmar's paper,
tina City Of Brooklyn, brings to light an al
legged extraordinary financial transaction.
affecting the liverpool, London, and Globe
Insurance Company. 1t charges that through
financial manipulation the managers have
pledged S. 900 900 of assets in trust to secure
tO themselves 100000 per annum forever in
violate, and that the former immense stunts.
falsely advertised among the company'5 as
sets. The article creates sensation in East
ern insurance circles.
TAYLoR's oil refinery, at Wyoming, NY,
was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning.
Loss, $40 900; no insurance......Anu nsuccess-
full attempt was made on Friday mis- hit
to rob the Great Falls National
Bank at Boston....The amount of
defalcation in the Rhode Island National
Bank is about 1920 900. The amount recov-
cradle may perhaps reach 100000 IA
tenement house was partially burned in Bos-
ton on Sunday, and Mrs. Neelan, one of the
occupants, smothered to death. Nine others
were rendered insensible by smoke, but re-
covered. "A fire at New York on Sunday
morning destroyed two saw and planning
mills, a varnish factory, and an immense
are; Phyph Il Artfy, $4,000 PATTERSON &
Co, $4,000; VIM. F. Blodgett, $4,000; w.
Il. Sage 4 Co., $780, O0......The oil-cloth fac
tory of c. M. Bailey, at Winthrop, Mass,
burned on Sunday. Loss $4,000.
Postmaster SMITH N. JAMES, of Long
Island, set q trap on Wednesday night for
burglars, but forgetting the gun, went to
the Office for a package, and was shot, dying
the next morning ......Joseph L. Steele,
negro, has been arrested at jamaica L. l.,
for partially roasting his wife on red hot
stove. By the burning of dwelling at
Bradford, Ont, on Monday, five lives were
last,-a woman named Tenier, her two chill
dren, niece, and man who boarded in
- the house......Mrs- George Wood, wife of the
manager of the Museum, but better known
as Eliza Logan, once aafamous actress, died
suddenly in New York on Monday morning
of congestion of the heart.
A FIRE at Reading, Pa, on Monday, de-
molished nearly half square on Fifth
street. The loss is estimated at quarter of
a million, with partial insurance. The
crew of the Prussian bark Bertha have bee,,
arrested at New York for refusing to do dutv
unless they received spending money and
shore leave. They will await the requisition
of the Prussian Consul......A child of three
years and a new born infant, children of a
French Canadian named Belfort, were
burned to death early on Tuesday morning.
and their mother nearly smothered, by fire
in the. room they occupied in Somerville,
Mass. k- =
The Franklin statue was unveiled and
presented to the printers of New York on
Wednesday, in Printing House Square. The
statue was accepted by President Savage, of
the Typographical Society, who thanked
D.esGroot, in. behalf of the printers, for his
grit Rev. DR.. Prime, Professor Morse, and
", william Cullen Bryant also made addresses.
me I presentation address in behalf of De-
S To9o was was mi n AIDE BY Horace Greeley The
memorial to Congress REGARDING the ' oraaf
depression of the American shinpine intsrest
engaged in foreign commerce, asking the in
serposition of Congress for its relief and for