Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
Tie East.

died at his residence, at Jamaica, Long
Island, on Wednesday, aged 79.....The
steam frigate Chattanooga, lying in the
channel at League Island, Philadelphia,
sprung a leak and sunk. 1t is supposed she
was cut through by the ice...... Charles R.
Burroughs was found dead by the Sheriff,
who went to serve an attachment on him,
sitting in two chairs, in his house, at Pater-
son, N. j. He committed suicide by taking
poison on the 10th of December, the body re-
naming frozen stiff till found in his room on
Wednesday.
THERE are ten more indictments against
J. D. Minor, who has just been acquitted of
ounterfeiting, and it is the intention of the
Government to try him upon one of these at
an early day......An explosion in the law
office of James Nickerson, Saturday morn
ing, damaged the building to the extent of
$16,000.... An elevator gave way at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York, on Saturday, and
four servants were seriously injured. 1.-The
oil refinery of Lambert, Ayers & Co., New
York, was burned on Friday; loss $25,O00.
The building occupied by William Ester, fur
inspector, was also damaged by fire to the
extent of $18,0OO...... VIM. M. Tweed sent in
on Thursday last his resignation as member
of the Board Of Directors OF the Erie rail-
road. 1t was accepted, and Henry Sher-
wood, Of Corning, N. Y, has been elected in
his stead...... Fisk is reported to have secured
the suppression of his correspondence with
Helen Josephine Mansfield, and the discon-
tinuance of the suits, by the payment of
$56, 6,O0O... The new Hudson river bridge at
Albany is completed, and trains pass over it.
WIN. BR1GGs, newsboy, was killed at
Lynn, Mass, Saturday morning, while at
tempting to get on train in motion......
BENZ. Kusea, a Mormon elder, is now in
Eastern Long Island arranging for revival.
The people say they will appeal to the au
thorities to prevent the meetings. Lively
times are anticipated.
MOB attempted to break into the Jail at
Rochester, N. Y, on Tuesday, where was
confined negro for an attempted outrage
upon little girl. The police and military
resisted, and upon being assaulted with
stones and clubs, fired into the crowd, killing
two men, and wounding one man and boy.
...... VIM. III. Harris, mate of the schooner
Julia E. Gamage, killed one of the sailors
and mortally wounded two others in quar-
rel at New York, on Tuesday ..... Dennis
Mccarthy was kicked to death in New York
on Tuesday morning by three unknown
roughs, while peaceably going home......At
Albany, N. Y, on Monday, during a scuffle
d
and instantly killed William Trunnell, aged
Is. Hefford is in custody......At a special
election in the Ninth Congressional District
of Massachusetts, on Tuesday, to choose
successor to William B. Washburn, who re-
signed to become Governor Of Massachusetts,,
Col. Alvah Crocker, of Fitchburg, was
chosen by a very large majority, receiving
at least nine tenths of all votes cast.....The
ship Liverpool, from London, arrived at New
Tuacdou houiOr N hoard Cantajn
Wood and the crew, twenty-six in number,
of the ship Europa, from Glasgow for New
York, abandoned at sea on the 23d ult., sink
ing.....On Monday, l. N. Hughes & Co.'s
drug store, at Williamsburg, Pa, was des-
troyed by fire, together with the adjoining
dwelling. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
...... The American Ring Company's shop and
machinery in Waterbury, Conn, were dam
aged by fire on Monday night to the extent
of $25 900; insured. An explosion occurred
at the oil works at Blssville, L. l., on Tues
day night, owned by John B. Cozen. The
building was wrecked and The Offices and
stables adjoining burned. Loss probably
| $4,000.
In the case of Charles H. Calender,
charged with receiving bribes from the
Ocean National Bank to make false returns,
the President and Cashier of the bank have
teStluo tlab Llo accused maze LQOTOuSu
and searching examination into its affairs;
that his report was in accordance with that
examination, and that the $4,000 loan had
nothing whatever to do with either the ex
animation or report. Calendars friends
feel confident ofhis acquittal. The frigate
Congress sailed from New York for Havana
on Wednesday, to remain until further or
ders. It is said that other vessels are to go
to the Cuban coast, and their Commanders
are ordered to give special protection to
such Americans as have incurred the dis
pleasure of the Spanish volunteers......A
special from Wilkesbarre, Pa, states that
| quicksand broke into coal mine at New
port, few days ago, but the miners were
warned in season, and had just time to save
themselves. A mule team was buried, and
the slope of the mine is filled sixty feet in
width and depth. The Philadelphia Led
ger says that the Susquehanna Canal has
been leased by the Reading Railroad for 999
years, with the intention of making Havre
de Grace large coal depot fo- Southern
shipping, and supplying Baltimore and
Washington with cheap anthracite..... A
man named Billings, his wife and another
woman, whose name is unknown, were
found murdered at Windsor Locks, Conn.,,
on Tuesday night. There is no clue to the
perpetrators.