Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-06-14
- The West.

CAPT. HENRY sDEXTEh, one OF the oldest
steamboatmen on the Western waters, died
at Evansville, Ind, last week, from an over
dose of gmorphine So. The Indianap polls Jour-
nal hasspassed into the hands of a now stock
company ,shesded by Mr.. Redmour, late of
the junction railroad. Philip -. Banks,
maihrohberof Des Moines, Iowa, has pleaded
guilty to ten indictments ..a.. The annual
report of the State Insurance Department of
Ohlosshows72 life insurance companies in
the State, ard the total amount of life policies
now, in, force to be about $4,000 ,000......A
RTrS. Brady, wife Of Hon. A lex. Mitchell's
coackman, suicided at Milwaukee, last week,
by cutting her throat. John Barclay has
been. found guilty OF murder in the first
degree, at Columbus, Ohio, for killing Charles
F. Garner. -. Hon. :. N Camden, of Park
ersburg, has been nominated by the Demo-
Gratis for Governor of West Virginia.
JOHN Softer is under sentence of death, at
Pontiac, ILL.,, for the = murder of William
Rollings Ga. R.gD i Banks, of Page county,
Iowa. hassbeoh senteneed to ton years in
the pententiary for robbing the mail..."A
little girl fell into q barrel of scalding slep,
at Peoria, ILL.,, last week, and was so badly
burned that death ensued shortly after
ward...,., Henslee, the wife murderer, has
boon sentenced to twenty years at hard la
Dor, at Jacksonville ul..... The Supreme
Court of Indiana has affirmed the decision
of the Franklin Circuit Court, by which
Werner Be itey was sentenced to imprison-
ment for life for being az accomplice of.
Macdonald Cheek, in the murder of Thos.
Harrison, near Lawrenceburg, ing1S7O.....A
son of Col. Taylor, Paymaster United States
army, stationed at Leavenworth, Kansas,
was foully murdered in that city, by some
unknewns parties, on the night of the 31st
nit. sefes-
The vicinity Of Springfield, ILL.,, was visit
Cd by an unpreced ented re infall onsthe night
of the I'd inst, doing VASE amount of dam
age....s.A terrible, thunder storm, accompa-
MED by rain and wind passed over Terre
Hautc, Ind, last week, doing immense dam
age. The office of the Gozette was unroofed.
lit is announced that the murderers of
Hons Sharon Tyndale, at Springfield, ILL.,,
havelbeen discovered, after % years cease
less search by shrewd detectives. Charles
Dunning and James Kennedy, at present
serving out sentences in tho penitentiary,
are said to be the guilty partes......Joel f.
Grif1inypestma ster at Omaha, Neb., has plead
guiltysteatlfe charge of appropriating TO his
private use mail hacks belonging to the
tho postal Service Auburn, Il.,was visit
ed by destructive fire on the S1st ult. Loss
about $50 ap no insarapce. Z al
LARGE portion of the village of South
Scion, Madison county, Ohio, was destroyed
by tire~en-June L. boss, 10000; partially
insured. On the 22d of May the Apaches
murdered Theodore Pritz, a herder. almost
= within ssaghtsof PRESCOTT and ran off gao
sheep. dsrit&s fornaetiy Teportedsfur the prssss
of st. Leuis.s dis bod was horribly muti.
iated...% Hon. Bend Stanton, apromineaf
poltlcl angansllter merry lieutcnant Goversor
of Ohloaand dor aeight years snembersofl
Congress,wdled xatsa Whe. ling,gW. Va, on
Monday SInne 81 aged as6S.....,Atf dispatch
from Gen. Howard to the Secretary of War
states t1asb at a council held with the Mexi-
cans, Poppagoes,~ Pimos, and Apaches. in
Arizona, Z feace has been agreed upon. The
Indians agreeing To- stop further raids. and \
aid Gen. Groolx ID psaring iacesrigi BIO In n.
dams. Gen. Hpward says that success now
appears sFyssr Assm osty daring md sue.
on the nigM u 'satdrday =, Jdfns /, the store
Of c. A.aNforse, 223 west Madison street.
having he6ag robbed of iewelry and silver
plate to hheSalue OF $25,eog. 1hestore was
completely guttedl of aoverythAig except the
CLOCKS, RtraHgeate sags the burglary was
not d'scoveredstiH Monday morning. No
cue 81 to theperpet.etprs had been discovered
a. !asI accounts. mfaX 20 5zr8vE gas
Ar dubuque, Iowa, on the night of the Sd |
INST, negro named NsBfatchford was shot
anu instantly killed by his SON, who mistook
MN Tor burglar The beuse of David
Danfey, st Farley, Iowa. was strnck bv Tabt-
9lng and burned down. last veal Es;ro