Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-04-19
NEWS OF THE. WEEK,
The East.

bhooeS1stand show majority of / JIG for
Padelford, Republican candidate for Cover
nor, and lao majority for Cutler, Democratic,
Tor Lieutenant Governor. Some scattering
votes, not returned, may possibly throw the
election of Lieutenant Governor into the
Republican Legislature. The remainder of
the Republican State ticket has about 2,1O0
majority. Stewart Barnes, watchman at
the Knickerbocker Company's ice stables,
IN Philadelphia, was burned to death on
Thursday. He went into his burning dwell
ing to save his boots, and was burned.
AscRANroN, Pa, dispatch states that Ed
ward Sullivan was fatally and three others
seriously burned by an explosion of fire
damp in the Pine Brook coal mine on Fri
day..... Some 800 French immigrants from
Alsaee and Lorraine have arrived within a
Week, all destined West, and all in apparently
good circumstances Daniel D. Hunt,
lumber merchant, committed suicide by
hanging, in Newark, N. j., on Sunday.
{ ANOTHER explosion of fre-da1np occurred
on Monday morning in Pine Brook, Pa,
shaft, killing laborer named Campbell
and seriously injuring Patrick O'Hara and
James Stone...... Daniel D. Hunt, promi-
nent Free Mason Of Newark, N. j., hanged
himself on Sunday, owing to financial en-
DarIaBSmo0G.
DIR. Woodruff, one Of the husbands of
Victoria c. Woodruff, died in New York on
Sunday night, from the effects of morphine
and whisky. "A break has occurred in the
Delaware and Hudson canal, two and one
half miles above lock No. 81, ON the Never
sink. The break is fifty feet long and six
teen feet below the canal level. 1t is esti-
mated that it will take at least ten days to
repair the damages.
A TERRIBLE railroad accident occurred on
Wednesday morning on the New Jersey
Midland railroad. The train leaving Pater-
son for Hackensack, at a. M, was passing
over the Saddle river bridge, two and half
miles above Hackensack, when the struc-
ture suddenly gave way, hurting the train
into the water below. John r. Doremus,
brakeman, was instantly killed, the bag
gage master, name unknown, had one of
his legs broken, and a passenger was in
jured in a similar manner. David Blanvelt,
conductor, was badly bruised about the
head, and and is in a precarious condition.
Isaac Wortendy, Probate Judge of Bergen
county, was terribly injured. Twenty five
or thirty passengers were taken from the
wreck in a more or less injured condition.
Had the water in the river been at the usual
depth, none of the passengers could have
q escaped ....Mullen, Parker & Co.'s paper
mill at Carlisle, Pa, was destroyed by fire
on Wednesday morning. The fire was acct
dental. Loss $4,000; insured for $50 900.
1.-The Union Hotel, of Saratoga, was sold
st auction on Tuesday to an agent of A. T.
Stewart, for $535, OO0......Two colonies from
Pennsylvania, numbering three hundred
families, left Allentown on Wednesday for
homes in Russell county. Kansas ......A fire
at OIL City, Pa, on Wednesday morning,
destroyed the Gait House, the Benn House,
Fishers large tank, the Model Refining
Company's tank, and large school house.
The loss is about sos, 900. The fire engines
were burned, but others were sent from
Titusville and Franklin. The whole city
was in danger at one time, and a high wind
was teyailing.
The West.
GENERAL MERRILL BARLOW, prominent
lawyer and polit clan, died at his residence,
in Cleveland, on Saturday morning, from
the effect-o a paralytic stroke. Deceased
was Adiutant General of Ohio during the
war ,.....D Davis & Rice's commission house,
Sargent's jewelry store, Biendorf's bakery,
Huberman's jewelry store, and pawn
brokers shop and restaurant, in Omaha,
burned on Sunday. Loss probably about
&0,000.....Dr. Marvin and Samuel Boyd
have been found guilty Of causing the
death of Miss Oliver, of Wood River, Neb.,
by causing abortion. The former has been
sentenced to three and half years, and
the latter to six months, in the Peniten-
tiary.
p AT sandusky, o., on Monday, Mr.. J. B.
Merck, architect, aged about fifty years,
fell from scaffold, striking on his head,
and intiicting injuries which caused his
death in about two hours. On Monday
morning the depot building of the Louis
vile, New Albany and Chicago railroad, at
New Providence, Ind, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire, including the telegraph
operators and railroad books, railroad
tickets, Postoffice books, etc. Loss $4,000.
On the morning of april terrible tor
nado visited the vicinity of Newton, Jaspar
county, Ill, unroofng barns, demolishing
houses and forests, and destroying life. The
house of one Ezra Mehauey was demolished,
and Mrs. Mehaney killed This was eight
miles southwest of Newton. One mile far
Their it struck the house of James Reed, de-
molished it, killing Mr.. Pope, Miss Little,
and Mr.. Pope's father-in-law, and wounding
seven others. Two miles further on its
devastation ceased.
D. WOOSTER, surgeon of the United States
Marine Hospital at San Francisco, is sued
for $4,000 by patient for alleged malprac-
tice..... Letters from Lone Pine, CAL, say
that the whole of Owens Valley has sunk
fourteen feet. Over seven thousand shocks
have occurred to date, and still continue,
but not of sufficient force to do damage.
..f-.F.,ri i The South. ...U
ROBERT CAMBRIDGE, a cadet at Nashville
University, youth of fifteen years, while
hunting pigeons in the new theater on
Thursday afternoon, fell from the upper
ceiling to the floor, some thirty-fve feet, and
was killed.
DISPATCH from Brownsville, Tenn, says
that a frightful tornado swept over that
town on ] Tuesday, blowing down many
dwellings and outhouses, and injuring
number of persons, one-Mrs. Boston-fa-
tally. "A cabin containing dozen negroes
wasturned over several times without hurt
ing anybody. .aA> Baltimore dispatch saws
thatenough is now known of the Huston
investigation, which the Methodist Episco-
pal Conference is secretly conducting, to
show that the. charges against that reverend
gentleman, of his eccentricities with lady
members of his congregation, are true.
WILLIAM MARD1s, farmer, aged 70, near
Saloma, Taylor county, KY, was killed by
lightning on Monday, The bolt came
through the roof and passed down his body
from head to foot......At Frankfort, KY, on
Monday, during the storm, lightning struck
the house of a man named Martin, killing
his child, and seriously injuring his wife.
Much damage was done in that vicinity by
the great risein the streams, washing away
saw mills and bridges.
Washington.
MRsssHFA, who has been on trial for sew