Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-02-16
= VS. OF THE WEEK.
The East,

Gno 62ECs
The New York Yacht Club has reelected
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Commodore.....
Charles and H. E. Markson have been ar
rested at New York for smuggling III gold
watches and nearly 800 articles of iewelry,
on the steamer Siberia, valued at $40, OOO.....
In the investigation of the printing frauds at
Albany, Parsons, one of the State printers,
testiies having given Ed. Phelps $4,000 for
lobby services. 1t had been the habit, he
said, to give the clerks percentage on
work carried to the firm, and in this way
Terwlliger's percentage was paid, regard
less of whether he read proof or mott. The
revenue officers raided on several Illicit dis
tilleries in the Fifth Ward of Brooklyn, on
Friday afternoon, destroying several thou
sand dollars worth of whisky, mash ma
chinery, ETC. The officials were aided by the
police.....The Newcastle (Pa.) Agricultural
Works were destroyed by fire on Friday.
Loss 10000 insurance $25,000..... The
warerooms of Bouchard & Sortie and
Thompson's book store at Quebec were
burned last night. Loss $35, 900.
HORACE GREELEY held a reception on Sat-
urday evening at New York, on the occasion
of his 6lst birthday.
THE house of Henry Mcclellan, near Erie,
Pa, was burned about o'clock on Tuesday
morning, and Mr.. Mcclellan persisted in the
flames. He was IS years of age...... The
wooden mill and boarding house of C. c..
Aldrich & son, at CRANKY, Mass, burned on
Tuesday morning Loss $4,000; insured
for 15,OOO......At New York, on Monday,
while the Brooklyn Ferry Company's boat
Fulton wasscrossing the river loaded with
passengers, she sprung leak in mid-stream.
The alarm signal was given, and two other
boats came alongside and took off her pas
sengers, after which she sunk. The villa
gers Of Whitehall, N. j., refused to allow
the burial of the remains Of Bolts in their
cemetery, and the minister declared that
no services could be held over the body
of the murderer. After an excited parley,
compromise was effected by which the
body was allowed to be inferred in q grave
that had been opened temporarily.
AN explosion Of fire damp took place in
Norton's mine, four miles below Pittston,
Pa, on Monday morning. Three men were
killed and fifteen suffUcated, but alive as far
as can be learned .."..A fire occurred on
Monday morning in the passenger depot OF
the Ogdensburg and Lower Canada Rail
road, at Ogdensburg, destroying the entire
building, the freight depot, two cars and
considerable freight. Loss, $4,000; insur-
decided that Mrs. Fisk can succeed her late
husband as plaintiff in the suits against the
Union Pacific Railroad, Credit Mobilier, and
others, by simply filing the proper petition.
......GeOrge Van Neck, formerly Lieuten-
ant in the British army, and lately on the
New York Herald, committed suicide at the
Hoffman House, New York, on Tuesday
mOrning......A fire at Oil City, Pa, on Mon
day, destroyed the National Hotel, the Tay-
lOrI 4l,O L
of the Western Union Telegraph Co., the Of
flee of the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph
Co., and two or three saloons. Loss esti-
mated at $4,000. H
The West. f..
The planning mill of Harvey Jones, at
Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire on Thurs
day evening. Loss $11,OOO; insurance,
$1,000.
On Friday evening, as the Treasurer of
Santa Cruz county, CAL, was turning off the
gas in his office, he was seized by armed
and masked men, who had been concealed
in the office, bound and gagged, and threat
ened with instant death unless he unlocked
the yault;which he did, when the robbers
took out 100000 in gold coin, locked him
in, and left him. No clue to the robbers
yet. r
On Monday evening the livery establish
ment of j. II. Estabrook, at Denver, Col,
was burned. Forty horses persisted in the
flames. Total loss $45 000......The saw mill
at Woodburn, Ind, owned by Jacob Black
burn, burned on Monday morning. Loss
about $4,000; no insurance....A haunted
house within a block Of the public square at
Quincy, H., is the sensation. The occu-
pants deserted it pell-mell Monday night on
account Of dismal sounds and strange freaks
within its walls. Several intelligent men
were among those who unceremoniously
hed.....Addison Bifge, ex-member Of the
Legislature, was stabbed and killed by DR..
Johnson, at Plaste City, Mo-, last Friday.
Mrs. Fair has been granted new trial by
the Supreme Court of California, on the
ground that the Court erred in not allowing
the counsel for the defense the closing argu-
ment, and permitting evidence of former
bad character for chastity. Charles
Kitzler, omployed in building the Newport
and Cincinnati bridge, fell from the structure
on Monday and was killed.
Two laborers named John Kearns and
Patrick Grady were almost instantly killed
in St. Joseph, Mo-, on Monday. They were
engaged in excavating earth, and the bank
fell upon EN-, crushing their lower ex-
tremities almost-to jelly -~~.s