Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-05-03
NEWS OLE THE WEEK.
The East.

NEWS OLE The WEEK.
The East.
AN order giving steamship companies the
privilege of receiving general order goods
into their own bonded warehouses has been
signed by Collector Arthur, of New York,
and semitic ashington for Secretary Bout
wells Endorsement.
The Jury in the case of Fanny Hyde, tried
in Brooklyn for the murder of Watson, were
discharged on Saturday morning, being I'M
able to agree. Ten were for acqulttal and
two for q verdict of manslaughter in the
fourth degree. The receipts st the Home
opstbic Hospital Fair in Boston for the first
week exceeded $4,000.
A WOMAN named Maher, residing at Green
bush, N. Y, was struck down, and had her
neck broken, on Sunday evening, in attempt
ing to stop fight between her two sons.
Joseph, the alleged matricide, has fed ......
On Sunday water-spout deluged the coun-
try around Timber Creek, Pa. The spout
lasted but two minutes. Charlton T. Lewis
has retired from the management of the
New York EUeniag Post, and is succeeded
by Parke Goodwin. 49,. Faulkner's brick dry
ing shed, in Alleg heny City, Pa, was burned
on Monday, with a loss of $4,000 and no
insurance. 1t was caused by an incendiary.
AUGUSTUS BISHOP, son of Sir H. J. Bishop,
the English composer, and Madame Anna
Bishop, the well known vocalist, was found
dead on Tuesday morning in his room in
his mothers house in New York 500. During
services at st. Michael's Church, New York,
on Tuesday night, three men who had
climbed to the sill of window fell out, a
r. 1
injured internally and it is thought they
will die, and the third had his arm broken
THE rope and Irvine works of A. III. Hart
& Co, New York, were burned on Tuesday
afternoon. Loss $4,000, including 5000
on machinery, which latter is covered by
insurance......E. P. Seward, brother of Sec
rotary Seward, died on Tuesday of apoplexy
at his home in Florida, New York.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS sailed from New
York on Wednesday afternoon, and will pro-
coed tofGene va to join the Board of Arbltra-
tion... 1.-THE New York Times publishes a
letter from st. Pierre, New Greenland, under
date ofsApril Is, giving intelligence of Capt.
Halls Arctic Expedition up to. the 1st of
March. The Polaris had been compelled to
return to Greenland in consequence of
springiDg leak caused by collision with an
iceberg. 1t required the exertions of the
CrSW, Objects, ana all JHe mem erS OF the
scientific party to keep the Polaris ahoat
The disaster occurred in the middle of Feb
ruary.s Phe health of all on board has been
good.DShe returned to Disco. ~ @A -'-
The West.
In Chicago, on Saturday afternoon, Thos.
Dolan fell from his dray and was instantly
killed. Ono of the wheels of the vehicle
passed over his chest, crushing it in...... Will
liam 0Hindell, a. banker of; Girard, Ill, who
is alleged to have absconded last September
with $4,000 belonging to depostors, was
brought back from California by Deputy
Sheriff. Cook, of San Diego county, Cal.
ADAMs DENTzLER, who was sentenced to two
years imprisonment in the Milwaukee
House of Correction for stabbing Matilda
Dentzler, his reputed wife, committed sui
eide in that institution on Sunday night by
hanging himself. <#z
PARTIES arriving at Portland from sitka,
Alaska, report great excitement in thatplace
on accountof the discovery of rich silver
mines within half mile of the town, and
rich gold and silver mines in other local..
ties adjacent to the coast. The excitement
was at.ash high pitch when the steamer left.
......Alr the buildings on the west side of the
plaza at North San Diego, including the
Franklin House, Colorado House, and Schil-
Ter & Mannasses's building, were burned on
Saturday. Loss $40 900. The ice in Lake
Pepin, on the Mississippi river, has broken
up, and navigation is now open...... The
warehouse of Besley & Burdett was burned
at Lake City, Mimi, ON Tuesday. Loss
$4,000; mostly insured.....A letter from
Texas states that the Supreme Court of that
State has affirmed the sentence of death
pronounced by the lower court upon Stephen
M. Ballou, the murderer of James P. Golden,
of Adams county, Ill.,, fixing the time of his
execution for Friday, the Oath day of May.
cocoa man named Chuck shot and killed his
wife in Indianapolis on Tuesday. After
firing six shots and making sure of his vic
tim, he cut his throat with knife, infct-
ing q severe but not fatal wound. mfr.
Shrewsbury, Mayor of Madison, Ind, one of
the oldest and most wealthy men Of that
place, fell dead from heart disease on Mon
day evening as he was stepping out of his
door togo to the Council chamber.
A MOB stopped the east bound train on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad al
Gum City. in Cass county, on Wednesday
afternoon, and murdered J. R. Cline, j. G.
Stevenson, and s. Z. Datro. Stevenson was
member of the County Court and presiding
Judge when the recent bond excitement was
raised. Cline was the Attorney who was ira
plcated, Dutro was simply killed because
he was IN the company of the others. The
mob threatened to kill any who hereafter
identified them in court or elsewhere, and
said they had just commenced their work OF
murder. Some of the mob wore masks. AL
had revolvers or shot-guns. There were
about seventy-fve or one hundre d men.
The South.s
A TERRIBLE tornado sewept ever Chester
S. c., on Thursday night. Sixty-two houses
were entirely destroyed and many others Sc
riously damaged. Nobody was killed, but
four colored persons were in ured by falling
houses. Miles of fencing was blown down,
and thousands of large fruit trees torn up by
the roots. The total loss is about $50 900,
mostly falling on persons of small means.
Ina fight among a. party Of sicilians at
New Orleans, on Saturday, Joseph Angelo
was shot and instantly killed. During the
row a Custom Inspector named Joseph S.
Soudersswas accidentally shot and has since
died, and q, boy named Edward Nixon was
slightly wounded.I3 D3uJB54J- Hus
On the Baltimore and Ohio railway, on
Tuesday, the engine of the way freight train
going east when near Parkerbury, WA,
explodedits boiler, instantly killing the en-
gineer, Milton Parker, and the fireman,
Daniel Nielsen, and injuring brakes,, n,
Mike Eagan, 50 seriously as to cause his
death in few hours.
In the Circuit Court, at Annapolis, Md. on
Wednesday, the case of Mrs. Wharton,
charged with attempting togmurder Mr.. Van
Ness by poison, was continued. Mrs. Whar-
n1ofo4 ol @hok Oh o.