Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-06-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


Colonel of the Eighty-seventh regiment OF
b. New York recruits (colored) ...... During
floral concert in Henry Ward Beecher's
a1 church. New York, on the 18th INST, MISS
Margaret Rich ardson was fatally burned oy
the explosion of kerosene LAM p nlly
Dersons were poisoned at a New YORK BOARD
..t.. ing house. on the 14th inst, by eating Gust
ard. One has died, and others are IN a
dangerous condition ...... cambridge Wad-
leigh Republican, is New Ha mpshlre's new
limited States Senator vice James W. Patter-
By the falling Of new smoke-stack
in process of erection, at West Conshocken,
Pa, on the 18th inst, six persons were killed
outright, and eight wounded..... Four cases
of sun-stroke in New York on the 18th inst.
IAN attempt was made to burn the CuOan
headquarters, in New York, on the 14th inst.
49,. The steamship Rhein, which arrived at
New York on the 18th inst, had on board
the German Imperial Band, Herr Strauss,
Nine. Pescha Leutner Zen route for the Ju-
bilee), and the wife and daughter of Horace
Greeley.
New York and Brooklyn, and their sub
urbs, were visited by fierce hurricane on
tho evening of the 14th inst, doing consid-
cradle damage to property. Many persons
were injured, and in Brooklyn three were
killed outrig ht..... The citizens of East New
York have been annoyed by incendiaries to
such an extent that they Rave formed
vigilance committee, and propose to deal
summarily with these dangerous e-bugs....
~ La Grave, the swindling New York mer-
chant, carried away some 100000. Detect
ives announce that he has fled to Europe......
The New York Orangemen have determined
to parade on July IL, fully armed for any
emergency. The water in White Lake,
Sullivan county, n T., near Fort JARVIS, mas
receded several feet the past few days, and
is still rapidly sinking. The lake is on the
mountain-top, and has probably found
subterranean outot...,By the explosion of
locomotive near Hornellsville, N. Y, on
fryn Had ond nnn
-..s wounded.
The International Peace Jubilee, which
opened at Boston on Monday, June II, may
be set down a success. The telegraph
informs us that the audience immense
and enthusiastic, and the chorus, though
gigantic, proved perfectly manageabe....
The notorious bank robber, Dutch Heinrich,
inmate of Sing Sing, has become a.ravins
maniac......Rev o. B. rockingham, of New
York, has been Illuminating from his pulpit
against the striking laborers......Th is
much tribulatien in Pittsburgh, produced
by the announcement of fatal case of I'M
doubted Asiatic cholera......T Tom Thumb has
sailed for Europe. 1t is announced that
Thomas has sailed down $500 ,000......A direc-
tor of the st. Petersburg (Russia) Prison
Commission was in Pittsburgh, the other
day, picking up prison statistics.
GEN. ScKLEs is said to be the coming Presi-
dent of Erie. The smallpox has broken
out in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa, and the
students scampering for home. The
sugar reiners of New York have struck, and
the refineries are idle.
The employing manufacturers of New
York have resolved to resist the eight-hour
movement to tho bitter nd......Since Jan.
l, 051 emigrants have arrived at New
York-an increase of 1875 over the same
period last year...... The trial of Stokes, the
SLAYER James j New
York, on June 19...The venerable Peter
Cooper, of New York, has given the shirt
cutters 81 900 to aid them in their strike......
AT the recent Convention of Railway Man
ayers of the New York Central, Erie, and
Pennsylvania Central railroad lines, an
q a agreement was made to sell hereafter no
more passenger tickets for political meetings
State fairs at reduced rates......J Oseph
Jefferson's condition, it SEEMS is not SO bad
was at first supposed. The great artist is
said to be daily improving, and there is
every reason to hope that his eyesight will
be completely restored within very short
period......A nong the gentlemen spoken OF
tor President of Erie Gen. Geo. B. Nc
Clellan; T. B. Blackstone, of the Chicago
and Alton road and James F. JOY, of the
Michigan Central. 1t is the impression
that Gen. Mcclellan will be the successful
man.
The West.
NOTWITHSTANDING the late frosts, California
gallons of wine, and more than her usual
quota of brandy THE assessed value of
property in California is $500 O0O, 600.
...... But three polvgamous marriages occurred
in Utah for the month ending June 1......
R. G. Gordon, a wealthy citizen of st. Louis
while spreading tarpaulin over newly
made wall of an addition to his residence, to
protect it from the storm, last week, slipped
s-. 81 . and fell, rupturng bloodvessel, and died
~ in half an h1ur..... Bennett Pieters, former
wealthy citizen of Chicago, and the inventor
and proprietor of the famous Red
Jacket Bitters, has just enlisted a private
soldier in the regular army.
s... BY tho explosion of the raft boat D. A.
Mcdonald, on the Mississippi river, oppo-
site McGregor, Iowa, June Is, about
thirty persons were killed, and a great
4 ~ many manned THE murderer of Hon
Sharon Tyndale, of Springfield, ILL.,, has al
last been discovered in the person of James
Kennedy, an Illinois Penitentiary convict
Gov. Palmer has just pardoned the culpr
out of prison, in order that he may be pu
on trial for the deed. The credit Of unearth-
ing the author of this foul and mysterious
murder is said to belong to Mr.. Charles T.
Askins, St. Clair county, ILL.,, farmer, who
obtaining faint clue, pursued it ftl
months in, TIE face of the most discouragine
obstacles-even after the professional de-
tectives had abandoned the scent-until he
has succeeded in establishing a chain Of tes-
tmony which, it is claimed, cannot but re-
suit in the conviction of the man Kennedy
IA Mrs. logan, residing near Rockford
ILL.,, last week, in a fit Of dependency, SUI
pernduced by domestic troubles, threw hel
babe into the river, and then jumped il
herself, both being drowned..".In boring al
artesian well, at Jacksonville, ILL.,, on the
18th inst ~ vein of water struck, which
burst up with such tremendous force tt
drive off the workmen. At last accounts the
auger was still in the well, and the Wei
squirting up through four-inch pipe to the
height of fifty feet =
REPORTS as to the state of the winter whoa
s sown in five of the prominent Northwestern
States indicate the failure of the crop. II
many instances the crop has been plowed in
being useless. but manure, and in the re
naming cases the yield has scarcely beer
one-third or one-half of that of last year,.
'ebaker Brothers extensive wagon man
Stu. at, South Bend, Ind, was burned
ufactory. IL. Two adjoining dwelling
Monday Inn. consumed. Loss, $50, 900
houses were ol.o =" killed and twenty
-Four nersnns NO, # construction
injured by the wrecking AT GIN