Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-03-01

The East.

Court, ateNew York, has sustained the de-
eison of the United States Court in Con-
-tnecticut, adjudicating the Boston, Hartford
and Erie railroad a bankrupt......On the
night of the 18th, locomotive boiler ex-
ploded at the Susquehanna depot, on the
Erie road, instantly killing Patrick Mccoy,
and severely scalding or otherwise inJurlng
on Thursday burned nine out of eleven
wholesale stores in the "Iron Block" one
of the finest in the city. Loss estimated at
100000; insured for $3.50, 000.....The dry
goods house of Byers & Burnett, at Middle
sex, Pa, was entirely destroyed by fire on
Thursday night. W. A. Henderson, clerk,
barely escaped with his life, he being very
badly burned
BUcKHoUr, the murderer, was executed at
White Plains, N. Y, on Friday. He betrayed
no fear of death, and said he was content to
die......A woolen-mill at Peterboro, n. H,
caught fire by spontaneous combustion, on
Thurs iay, and was wholly destroyed. An
operative, named Mrs. Ellen Upton, was
burned to DEATH The mill and stock were
insured for $20, 060.....1n New York on Tues
day, W. J. Pollock was arrested and held to
bail in the SUM of $4,000 for alleged snug
Cling operations in linen and jute goods......
Richard OGorman has been reelected Presi-
dent of the New York Board of Commits
sioners of igration......A collision oc-
Cured on the Connelsville railroad, at Lay
toms station, Pa, on Thursday, by which
two freight trains were telescoped. ]. Muir
tenny, TIE engineer, was fatally injured, and
four carloads of live stock were killed.
CAPT. LEONARD HENN1Ne, of Elizabeth,
N. J,,.was accidentally shot, on Friday, by
his son, II years old, probably fatality.
The challenge of the Atlanta for four
cared shell race2on the Thames is accepted
BY the London Rowing Club. Six men will
be taken to England by the New Workers.
...... Henry Hepner, of New York, who re-
Gently shot his son and then attempted to
kill himself, died of his injuries on Satur-
day.....A. B. Bartholomew killed Charles F.
Storer, of Chelsea, Mass, on Sunday, by
stabbing him twice in the breast with
large knife. Jealousy was the cause.
AUTHORITY has been received from the
Treasury Department for an investigation
into the exploded Eighth National Bank of
New York In the Pittsburgh breach of
promise case, Mrs. Vankirk VS.. johnson, the
jury has given q verdict for $4,000. Both
parties appear to be satisfied. 1.-The receiver
of the Lorillard Fire Insurance Company of
New York has declared a first dividend of
so cents on the dollar, payable on demand
1.-THE Pennsylvania Democratic State
May 30 't "t'
AT Jersey City, the grand jury have found
10 indictments, most of which are against
the ringites of that city and county for pee
rlation of the public funds..... United States
Attorney Davis has not yet taken any action
upon the orders of the Attorney General to
pr seeute the New York Custom
House = Officials who are guilty of
III ctota hot OF
next ternaaof the courts he will take steps to
have the culprits indicted.
eW @ The West.
ONE span of the iron bridge over the Big
Muddy, on the Illinois Central Railroad,
near Carbondale, gave way on Thursday,
and four cars of a wrecking train fell
through. Three men were injured, none
fatally. The will of Gen. H. W. Halleck
has been probated in San Francisco. His
wifesis appointed sole executrix and guar
dian to their son, The property is shared
between them, except $4,000 to be paid
to- his mother, and the use of the home
stead in Oneida county, during her life....
A young man named Good, while adjusting
the belt ON the fy-wheel of saw-mil at
Willow Station, on the Indianapolis and St.
Louis railroad, on Thursday morning, was
caught by the arm, and revolved about the
wheel at rapid rate until he was literally
torn to pieces. ~ ,.f
The California Assembly (Republican) by
vote of sd to II, has passed a resolution
asking Congress to permit the levying of a
special mining tax on Chinese. THE SEN
ate (Democratic). has passed the same to
engrossmeI1t.,... The shooting of James
Trimble a few days since, by the guard of
the Adams Express Company, was the ter
mination of q series of robberies of their cars
of th Ousands Of dollars worth of iewelrv.
Through his confession the greater portion
of the goods have been recovered ...... Two
freight trains on the Toledo, Wabash and
Western railroad collided near Mil
mine Station on Friday. Tony Fig
arc, brakeman, had one arm broken, and
John Patterson had a leg broken, and the
engines and a number of cars were badly
used up. On the same road freight train
ran intos a. car loaded with iron which was
standing upon side track near Carthage.
Engineer Steele, the fireman, and brake
man were badly injured The body of
Henry A. Sweet, son of Alanson Sweet, an
old resident of Milwaukee, was found frozen
between Superior and Bayfield,, few days
since, where he had gone to look after
property 1.-The first of the riot murder
cases at Los Angeles has resulted in ver-
dict efSpnot guilty, the District Attorney
statlng chat he had only Chinese testimony
tos offsr, which was not reliable. The de-
Tense introduced no witness ses.... "A grinder
employed in the4 reaper works of F. H.
Nanny, at Rockford,eIll., was fon Thursday
caught in belt from a shaft, revolving at
the rate of seventy-fve revolutions a min
ute and almost instantly killed. His head
was crushed and his bones badly broken.
The deceased was Swede, named Charles
1ngland, and was about % years old..
Harry Johnson, employed on wood saving
machine, was killed at Mazomanie, Wis, on
Thursday, by the bursting of the fy-wheel,
pieces striking him in the head and chest.
killing him almost instantly. .s
A PRIVATE letter from Fort Benton, Mon
tana, states that during the latter part of
December the thermometer marked SO de-
grses below zero that buffalo, antelope, cat
tie and horses We're frozen to death in large
nltS bers. On Janury IL, when the letter
was written, the weather had moderated to
20 degrees below zero.....At Lagro, Ind, on
Friday, the heading and stave factory of
Scherschell Il Bro. was destroyed by fire.
Loss about Sc, O00.-....T The jury in the case of
r. j. Bright, State Printer of Indiana, on
trial for PERJURY and overdraw, have returned
a verdict. of not guilty -, United States
Deputy Marshall John Peeke, having in
charge man implicated in robbing the ex-
press at Muskoga, Indian territory, was shot
and mortally wounded at that place, on the
18th inst, by some teamsters, with whom
he had some high words.
TIE Kansas House, in Committee of the
Whole, on Monday agreed to the Senate bill
prov5dhg that nobody shall be hanged for
murder until one year after conviction, and
not then unless the Governor issues the war
rant tor execution, which he may never do
unless he so elects.....At Bowerstown, Ohio.