Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-04-12
The East.

OOO, on charge 81 Forgery IN optah4hs 'n
signature Of a lady to sheet ct blank
paper and filling the page so as to OBTAIN II
her property.......The family OF ool. ". ~
phyxiated on Wednesday night by tne
fumes of coal from defective furnace: MISS
Norton, a visitor, was found dead. Ihe re-
mainder of the family, eleven. in ,nnmnb oe
will probably recover. a.. - uIla Quiniah ms
been awarded 3 81 800 damages Irotn tns
Sixth Avenue Railroad Company, Ne" 1orA'
for injuries received from COLLISION OF
borsn-car with a. run q way team mol
negligence on the part of the company was
shown.
THE steamship City of Galveston took fire
while lying at her dock in New York on
Thursday. The vessel and cargo was dam
aged TO the amount of $50 ,OOO.....A bill
passed both houses of the Pennsylvania
Legislature on Friday, consolidating the
boroughs on the south side of the Mononga-
heIa rivorwith the city of Pittsburgn....
Weikel & Smith sspice mills at Philadel-S
phia were burned ON Friday night Loss
$85 900; insurance $40, OO0......Pearson
Brother & Co.'s rope works at Boston were
destroyed by fire on Friday afternoon. Loss
$4,000; fully insured. 80
ONE thousand six hundred and eighty
six immigrants arrived at New York on
Thursday ION Thursday afternoon, a diver
at New York, named George Leaman, 40
wears of age, one Of the most expert divers
in the country, lost his life while following
his avocation. He was operating on
wreck, and having been down longer than
usual without giving the signal. 10 haul up,
the attendants became alarmed and he was
drawn up. 1t was then found that his
breathing tube had burst, and he was dead
before reaching the surface. r.. .Tlta,..s-
TIE dwelling house of John Givenan, in
Rockaway, N. j., was destroyed by fire on
Sunday, and his wife and three children
persisted in the flames. Charles Volmann
died in Hoboken, N. j., on Sunday, from the
effects of bleeding produced by the extrac
ton of five teeth on the Tuesday previous.
Gary, Nash & Ogden's paper mill and
Geo. 0. Morris'ss Touring mill at Port Dick
inson, N. Y, burned on Saturday night.
Loss sac, 900; insured for $21 ,OO0......The coal
oil works Of J. T.. Stuart, at Schuylkill, Pa,
were burned on Monday. Loss $4,000;
insured for $4,000.
THE dwelling of Charles W. Felt, in Cam
bridgeport, Mass, was burned on Wednes-
day night, and his three-year old son was
suffocated. Mrs. Felt was prostrated by
her child'szdeath,an her life is despaned
was burned on Wednesday. morning. It
cost about $50, 000......Sylvander Johnson's
cotton mill at North Adams, Mass, was de-
strOyed by fire on Wednesday night Loss
estimated at $l5O,O0O; Insured for $4,000.
1.-The Northern Central railroad bridge,
which spans the Susquehanna at Dauphin,
Pa, was burned on WedDe sday evening.
Loss 100000; insurance O,0OO..... The
Western Union Telegraph Company di-
rectors have voted to issue ST 100000 in
bonds for the erection of the new building
on the corner of Broadway and Dey streets,
New York......The office of the Lycoming
Fire Insurance Company, at Muncie, Pa,
was entered by burglars on Tuesday night,
and one of the safes blown open. Over
$4,000 ofe regigtered railroads bonds and
stocks were abstracted, $4,000 of which be-
longed to the company and the balance to
private individuals. s..~r 4..- ~
The West.
Two young men named George Barber
and Michael McGarry got into. a dispute
about dog, at Middlebury, O., or Thursday
morning, when Barber shot and instantly
killed MeGarry. @3ie 11F3 3"
HENRY BERRY LowERY and Boss Strong,
the North Carolina outlaws, are certainly
dead. The confirmation of the news comes
simultaneously with, the escape of the Her
aid cOrrespOpdentdrom the swarnpy suburbs
OF sylvan Shoe Heel. Henry Case was
run over by locomotive and instantly
killed at thopisyillle,on Friday. Q'gl3@W y
A HEAVY rain storm passed over ST. Louis
about eight o'clock on Saturday night.
During the storm terrible tornado from
the southwest struck the large brick
market-house- on Seventh street, between
Spruce and Poplar, and Ieveled the, north
ern half to the ground in a twinkling. Most
of the roof and several heavy timbers were
carried across Seventh street, and striking
building opposite, knocked two great
holes in it, exposing the rooms. Part of
the roof of the vitriol factory, on the corner
of Austin and Thirteenth streetsy was blown
oil. In East ST. Louissth e.roof of the round
house belonging to the Terra Haute rail-
road was blown OFF and several locomotives
were somewhat injured. The steamer H. C.
Jaeger, and ferry-bo in the harbor, lost
their chimueys and the steamer North
western was blown across the river Chas
W. Dyer, young man from Toledo, O., who
had just arrived in the city, was struck on
the head by piece OF the metal roof of the
market and instantly killed. Some ten or
twelve persons were more or less injured.
The part of the market house destroyed was
about l5e feet long As, feet wide, Is feet
high: 1t win scost probably $4,000 to
THE rain Of Saturday and Saturday night
raised the Illinois river foot at La Sale,
and there is now seven feet of water from
that port to the dam at Henry &C. G. Cole.
one OF the Supreme Court Judges of Iowa,
who rendered mis- esiguation to Governor
Carpenterssome time since, has withdrawn
his designations at the request of the Covers
nor......The first train crossed the railroad
bridge at Leavenworth, Kansas, on Mon
day. The test was highly satisfactory...
A young man named Benjamin Tallmadge,
aged "a years, committed suicide at the
Pa'tey House. Fond du Lac, Wis, on Sunday
morning, by shooting himself through the
heart. He was to have been married short
y to an estimable young lady of that city.
No cause is assigned forAthe deed,. The
Union Paci6eRailroad Company is making
survey for a snarrow-gauge road from
JuIesburg up~the South Fork of the Platte
river to Greeley, Denver, and Golden City,
to connect with the Colorado Central rail
road, which they are extending to Central
Clty......An alteration occurred on Monday
morning between Barney. Kane, @ laborer,
and ThomasI Russell, Z Superintendent of
some public work in the western suburbs of
st. Louis, when Kane struck Russell ter
rhc blow on the top of the head, splitting
his skull from ear to ear, killing him in
stantly. Kane sescaped,.."The convicted
2nt-ChineseL rioters at Los Angeles, CAL,
nave been sentencedto from two to six years
In the Penitentiary. e..,,a r-aF 7
A FIRE at Milwaukee on Tuesday night
destroyed Geo. Dyer & COS entire stock of
saddlery goods, and the greater portion of
Messrs. Zellner & Bonn's stock of clothing.
Loss S2lO,OO0 !insuralce 81 so ,0O0.... Three