Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-03-08
NEWS DE THE v~'

indulgird on fire, and was burned to death.
vet ne indicted Ringites of Jersey City,
uprising three Police Commissioners, three
Fire commissioners, and the Chief OF Police,
We're on Wednesday arrested and held to
ball, some in Sc 900, and some in 81 ,O00......
B. A. Streets cotton knitting mill, and Coffin
Simpsons -four mill, at Kenwood, near
Albany, N. Y, burned on Thursday after
noon. Total loss about $4,000; partially
insured......A fire at Selin's Grove, Pa, on
Thursday night, destroyed twelve dwellings,
five stores, Baptist church, and twelve
stables and barns. Loss 100000.
HENRY QUAoKENBUsH, lately on the staff of
the New York EUening Nesos, committed
suicide at Central Park on Thursday during
mental aberration......It is stated that Col
lector Arthur, of New York, has rendered
his resignation, and that the place has been
offered to Treasurer Spinner, who declined
lt....The Republican printing office, three
law offices, drug store, and other buildings
were burned at Monticello, N. Y, on Thurs
day morning. Loss, $4,000.
BELLEFoNT MILLS, in Cranston, R. l., were
burned on Saturday. Loss $50, 900; insur-
ance $10,0O0......On Saturday night, the
American Iron Works, Pittsburgh, Pa.
owned byJones & Laughlin, were partially
burned, The upper rolling-mill, with six
trains of rolls, the spike, bolt, and nut fac
tory, pattern shops, pattern storehouse, and
foundry were entirely destroyed. The loss
VIII be from 100000 to 100000. The
works were the most extensive in America,
atordlng employment to $500 hands.
THE house of Henry spinney, Yarmouth
county, N. S., was burned on the 18th instant
and his five children persisted in the flames.
Mr.: and Mrs. Spinney were absent on a
visit......The large sugar refinery of Bartol &
Barker, at Marcus Hook, Pa, was entirely
destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. Loss
$4,000; insurance $105, 0OO.. On Sunday
night last farmer named Daniel Kramer.
residing about nine miles west of Auburn,
Schuylkill county, Pa, was brutally MUIR
dered and his wife left for dead. Mr.. Kra-
mer's son, on entering his fathers house on
Monday morning, found his mother on the
bed with her skull fearfully fractured, and
still living, but unable to speak. The father
was found about one hundred yards from
the house with his brains beaten out and
frozen to the ground. No trace of the muir
derers has yet been discovered. The muir
derers robbed the house. Mrs. Kramer can
not recover. r'-tt up
RESOLUTION has passed the Maine Legis-
lature, requesting the delegation in Congress
from that State to urge the construction OF
the Niagara Ship Canal. .... VeryRev. Henry
Benedict Coskey, Vicar General and Adj
ministrator of the Archdiocese of Balti-
more, died in that city on Tuesday evening.
OF pneumonia, after an illness of several
weeks, in the cath year of his age... The
New York city charter of the Committee of
Seventy passed the Assembly on Tuesday.
SO to 28......One of the storehouses of the
Harmony Mills, at Cohoes, N. Y, was
burned on Tuesday. Loss $4,000: insured
for $4,000. The fire was caused bv spon
taneous combustion.
The West.
THE decision of the Supreme Court of Ne
braska is that the present extra session of
the Nebraska State Legislature is illegal,
the Court holding that the proclamation of
Actlng governor James, revoking the call of
the President of the Senate, was authorized
THE spoke factory of Birnell 6 Co., and
an adjoining dwelling, at st. Mary's, Ohio,
was burned on Wednesday morning. Loss
S3O,0O0, with no insurance on the factory
IA lire at Leavenworth, Kansas, on
Wednesday night, destroyed the Brevoort
House and several tenements. Insurance
Gght......The National Labor Reform Con-
ventlOn, in session at Columbus, Ohio. closed
its labors on Wednesday. Judge David
Davis, OF illinois, was nominated for Presi-
dent, and Gov. Joel Parker, of New Jersey,
for Vice President...... The National Prohi-
btion Mass Convention met at Columbus,
o., on Feb. %. One hundred and ninety
four delegates were present from nine
States. James Black, of Pennsylvania, and
John Russell, of Michigan, were nominated
for President and Vice President, after
which the convention adjourned sine die
Chas. ID. Smith, one of the managers of the
National Engineers Association Gift Enter
prise, was arrested at Milwaukee on Thurs
day morning under the Wisconsin law
against lotteries. This virtually explodes
the swindle. -
CHAs. D. SETH, the gift enterprise
swindler, who was arrested at Milwaukee on
Thursday, bailed himself out and has left
for parts unknown...... After nearly three
months partial or entire suspension to nav
lgatlon from st. Louis south, the ice gorges
broke up and ran out on Friday, and the
river is now open to all southern points...
The famous Flagstaff mine, at Little Cotton
wood, Utah, has been sold, with the Buel
furnaces, for ST. 500 .000......The brig Lawler
has sailed from San Francisco for the Cocos
Islands with pirate treasure seeking expe-
dition. 49,. Extensive mines of copper, coal,
and marble are reported to have been dis
covered near Los Angeles, Cal.....A gambler
named Bob Smith assaulted j. Nichols, city
editor of the Indianapolis Eoening Journal,
on Friday afternoon, for noticing his arrest
IN gambling den. Smith shot at Nichols,
the ball passing through his coat, whereupon
Nichols knocked him down, and was giving
him sound thrashing, when the police in
tertered and Smith was lodged in Jail, his
ball being placed at heavy amount. The
gambler says he intended to kill the re-
Porter......On Friday passenger train on
the Central road, when near Cedar Falls,
Iowa. struck and instantly killed a man
named Jno. O'Brien, who was lying on the
track intoxicated. He was about so years
OF age and unmarried.
EIGHT freight cars, belonging to the In
annapolis railroad, with their contents,
principally dry goods, were burned on the
track at East st. Louis early Saturday
morning. Loss about $25, O0O..... The COW
cred bridge on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati
and st. Louis railroad, near Cambridge,
IND, was destroyed by fire on Saturday
night. The bridge was about 800 feet long
1.-The ice in the Missouri river has bro
ken up at Fort Benton, and the water is
rapidly rising.....At Fort Madison, Iowa,
on Friday, Frank, son of James Layton, a
well-known citizen, hanged himself in his
fathers barn, with the reins of bride. He
was bright and intelligent boy, and
highly esteemed by all of his associates. No
cause can be given for the sudden attack of
insanity.
AHEsJapanese Embassy arrived at Chicago
on Monday, and left for Washington on
tuesday evening. The body of Mr..
Cnaries A. Badger, for many years the clerk
OF the fremont House, Chicago, was found
noatlng IN the river in that city on Monday.
Mr' Badger had been missing for about six
weeks. 1t is supposed that he Committed
suleloe;'....The steamers J. R. Lockwood