Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-04-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

The East.
On Saturday man named Clark, in Cold
Spring, near Otis, Mass, by the most foolish
carelessness, with loaded gun shot and
killed his sister, aged % years, and wounded
OF her arm was necessary ......A boiler in the
trenton Rolling Mills, in Jersey City, ex-
Ploded on Saturday, destroying the black
smith shop and a portion Of the rear build
Ing. Five men were injured, and one
Hughes, boiler tender, is missing. Loss
$4,000.
THE Executive Committee of the Centen-
NAL Commission met in Philadelphia on
Wednesday, and elected Hon. Daniel Morrell
permanent Chairman. 1.-The excitement in
the New York Stock Exchange on Wednes-
day eclipsed thatsof any previous time since
Black Friday, .@sFoul hundred thousand
shares changed hands. . The stock fell from
20 to So.
MICHAEL HAYES was arrested in New York
on Tuesday, for murder committed in a
Roosevelt street bar-room row fifteen years
ago. Somebody in the District Attorneys
office took $4,000 and pigeon holed the in
dictment and the assassin fed......At Pitts
burgh, on Tuesday, a little son of John
Scott, aged about four years, struck his
brother, aged fourteen months, on the head
with poker, killing him......A fire at Port
Leyden, N. Y, onsMonday night, destroyed
Sylvester & Riggs block. Loss $4,000 /; in
surance $21,000...".. The New York World
says Jay Gould Melted a profit of $3,24O, 900
in the rise of Erie stock on Tuesday,.
Elias Magnin, of New York, has recover ed
$244,1l4 in suit against the Adams Ex-
press Company, for the value of box of
watches shipped to Memphis, Tenn, in
1868, and lost.
The West.
On Saturday night, in saloon at Spring
field, Iii, Edward Duffy shot and killed
Henry stoy and wounded Edwin Slater, the
saloon keeper. The murderer escaped.
The Protection Life Insurance Company, of
Chicago, has commenced libel suit against
the Masonic Advocate, of Indianapolis, Ind,
placing the damages at $10,000......A young
man about eighteen years old, named Lewis
Herted, committed suicide at Garfield o., on
Sunday by hanging himself to tree. Dis
appointment in love was the cause.
FRANCES sTYLER,Aa young lady from
Quincy, Mich, committed suicide at Detroit
on Sunday night by taking strychnine......
The machine shop of William Crippen, at
Manistee, Mich, was burned on Monday
night. Loss $4,000; insurance Sc ,OOO.....
Ellard Park, Teller of~the Bank of San
Jose, committed suicide at San Francisco on
Sunday, shooting himself through the head.
No cause known. .....Tobias Claywell, sa-
loon keeper at Winchester, ILL.,, was shot
and killed on Saturday by man whom he
had torcibly elected from the saloon.
THE Republican State Conventions of Ohio
and Iowa were held at Columbus and Des
Moines on Wednesday. Both conventions
adopted resolutions favoring the renomina-
ton of Grant, but differing in their choice
for Vice Presid ent-Ohio putting forward
ExGov.. DenDison, and Iowa preferring Jas.
F. Wilson......The Los Angeles anti-Chinese
rioters have all been convicted of man
slaughter......The lottery advertised in the
East for the benefit of charity hospital in
San Francisco is, says dispatch from that
city, a fraud. There is no such institution
there...... The Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of Northern
Indiana met at Muncie on Wednesday. A
new ieatureof the present Conference will
be the Introduction of one hundred and fifty
Lay Delegates......A Milwaukee on Wednes-
day afternoon, girl named Mary Rudinski,
eight years of age, was startled by passing
team, and sprang into the Phoenix mill,
where she fell and instantly expired. She
was frightened TO death.
WoLF's brewery, saloon, and two dwell
ing houses were destroyed by fire at SILVIA
ter, Mimi, on Monday night. Two men
the barkeeper in the saloon and laborer in
the brewery, whose names are not given
persisted in the flames. Two others barely
escaped. The loss is about $4,000; par
TALLY covered by insurance.
The South.
THE Baltimore Gazette has been sold to
VIM. H. Welsh, late proprietor of the Phila-
delphia Age, and Henry Taylor and VIM. H.
Carpenter, of Baltimore.....A dispatch from
Wilmington, N. c., gives rumor that the
Lowery gang have shot the captured Herald
correspondents. ....Slough, the wife murderer,
committed suicide in jail at Richmond, KY,
Monday, by hanging himself to the top bar
of the door OF, his cell, with a rope made
from towel and two Observation-Disclosures.
THE building and stock of the Washing
ton County Leather Manufacturing Com
pany, at Hagerstown, Md, was destroyed by
lire on Sunday morning. Loss $4,000; in
surance S30,OOO...... The Bourbon House and
Gnfee stores at Paris, KY, were burned on
MONDAY: Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
LIE Kentucky Legislature on Wednesday
passed resolution providing for the sale OF
the Portland Canal to the United states''''''
number,of South Carolina dele gates to the
fhlladelphla Convention are about to go to
Washln gton to demand the removal Of seve-
raj government officers, including the Collec-
tor and Postmaster of Charleston.
JOSEPH w. JOHNSON, brakeman on a
freight train on the Nashville and Chatta
nooga railroad, fell from the train on Tues
day, near Nashville, and was instantly
killed.
4e. Washington.
THE Supreme Court has denied a writ of
mandamus to compel the Secretary of the
Ireessqry to pay the Kentucky war claims.....
The House Special Committee to investigate
the charges of Irregularities in the Navy
Department met on Tuesday evening. Mr..
voorhees, declines serving on the committee
on account of business engagements. Mr.
Bartlett, counsel fer Dana, asked that Ad-
miral Porter be summoned. 1t was so or
dered. Adjourned......T The COMMITTEES ap-
pointed to examine the accounts of the
United States Treasury has reported that
the business of the Treasury has been well
conducted, and that the losses in the aggre-
gate are very insignificant as compared with
the transactions Of the off ce" The SEN
atey in executive session on Monday, con-
hrmed the nomination of Gov. Francis
Thomas. Of Maryland. Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru.
aHf Foreign.
The famous race for the Liverpool grand
national steeple-chase handicap, which was
ramon Friday over the Aintree course, near
Liverpool excited great interest, and was
won by the chestnut mare Cassetite, the
geldlngs Scarrington and Dispatch being