Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-07-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

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cage containing fifty monkeys was among
the wrecked All the monkeys are loose
in the woods. Loss $4,000. sGsa@
The heat in New York, ON July d, was
intense. Many of. the militiamen, while
parading, were Frustrated, several of whom
died. Scarcely half of the number that
set out returned with their command.
Ninety seven cases of sun-stroke were re-
ported in the city, "a proving fatal. Three
persons were killed and many injured by
railroad collision on Long Island, N. Y,
July 49,. Budd Doble, the well-known
jockey, who handled Dexter so success
fully, has, IN view of the alleged trial of
Mr.. Bonner's. horse Joe Elliott of a mile in
2:l55, and the repeatedly alleged perform
ance by Dexter of a mile in ZIG, chal-
lenged either or both these horses. to trot
the Maid for from $4,000 to $50,G0G side.
If the Ledger man still adhcres to his
former objections to 9 public match for q
any or all of his horses in a match simply
for the sake of fairly and regularly de-
Gliding the question of speed......John ?.
Bigelow, ex-Mayor of Boston, died July 5,
aged IA. The mortality in New York for
the'week ending July 5 was terrible, the
death rou reaching 1,659......The Long
Branchlracing meeting just closed was the
most successful ever held in American.
The New York Times announces the con
solidadon of the'Ere and New York Cen
trail Railroad Companies under the direc-
ton of the English stockholders, Com
modore Vanderbilt being selected Presl-
dent with Unrestricted powers. An adj
vance IS to be made in freight and passen-
rates West and North. 49,. Three men were
killed by a stroke of lightning, near Bos-
ton, July 3D.. Nj argaret Elliott murdered
her daughter Jane, aged II, at New York,
july 5, by strangling her TO death.
NEAR Utica, N. Y, July 6, barn in which
PARTY of railroad laborers had taken shell
ter was blown down, and two of the laborers
killed and several seriously injured ...... The
reported consolidation of the Erie and Cen
trail railroads, and the elevation of Commo-
dore Vanderbilt to the head of the new
corporation, turns out to be without founda-
ton. 1.-The deaths in Philadelphia for the
week ending July 6 numbered 764-an in
crease over the preceding week of $50. One
hall We're children under one year......Judge
John Ii. McCunn died in New York, July 6,
from nervous prostration, the result of his
modification and grief at being removed
from Office by 'theState Senate on the ground
Of corruption and malfeasance. Judge Nc
Cunp left an estate valued at S., 900 ,OCO......
Three boys were killed by an explosion OF
fireworks in South Boston, July 5...A po-
liceman was beaten to death by gang of
rowdiesin New York, on the night of July z.
IN one day, last week, twenty three boys
were sentenced to the Pententiary, in a
New York city court.....E. L. Sanderson,
lawyer, sues the Brooklyn Union for libel,
claiming $4,000 damage s ..A man fell
from the top of the Brooklyn ,tower of the
I. East river bridge, distance ofone hundred
ieet, the ether dry, and, strange to relate,
was uninjured.
A CUBAN war vessel, heavily armed, was
captured of Newport, r. L., July 8, by a
United States revenue cutter, and taken into
sNew York. What disposition the Govern
nent will make of her is not yet stated 800.
The much, mQoted question of the Erie man
agement has been finally settled by the
election of 2. III. Watson, of Ohio, President,
and Gen. Devin, of New York, Vice Presi-
dent, They sre'in the interest of the Eng
lish stockholders......An explosion in the
iron works at Quakertown, Pa, July 8,
killed three persons and seriously injured
several others.
THE daily New York Standard has sus-
pended publication. This makes about 100
daily journals started and suspended in
New York within quarter of century,
after~a precarious existence. Tho capital
sunk in them has not been less than $685.
;00Qsa...The great trot at Fleetwood
Park, New York, on July 9, between Gold
smith Maid, Lucy, Henry and American
Girl was won by the,Girl in three straight
heats:' Time-221, 2l94, 224. After the
second heat, Goldsmith Maid was allowed
to withdraw, on the claim that she had
cut her quarter. Sporting men, however,
generally contend that the Maid was
besten on her merits, the slight crack in
her heel on which she was withdrawn be-
ing regarded as a mere subterfuge. The
time made is the best ever accomplished
over the Fleetwood course, and good judges
claim that, considering the track, it equals
the best of Goldsmith Maids performances
......T The new directory of the Erie railroad
are going to inaugurate some healthy re-
forms in the management of the affairs of
the road. Their first move will be to cut
off the Fisk and Gould side shows, the oil
companies, car building companies, and
other concerns that have been sucking
Erie's life blood. The Opera House and
the Twenty third street offices sre to be
sold, and the company will go back to its
less pretentious office at the foot of Duane
street, where its real business has always
been done.
- the West.
JoHN MCNAMARA was killed at Chicago,
on the 4tb, by policeman who was at
tempting his arrest. John Kelly, friend
wounded in the ARRAY ..An aeronaut
made an ascension in q balloon from
Chicago on the 4th of July. The balloon
refused to be controlled by the air voy-
ager, and land ed him in Lake Michigan,
some two miles from the shore. He was
finally rescued in q halfdrowning con-
dition ...... William Smith, an old Cincin-
natl journalist, and brother to Richard
Smith, of the Gazette, died July 4, aged 60.
AT SEYMOUR, Indiana, on the evening of
the Fourth, a man in lighting the hall
preparatory to a theatrical performance,
let fall a coal oil lamp in the midst of a
group, of children. The lamp burst,
ton, setting the clothes of the chill
drcn on fire. The little sufferers ran
wildly. through the ball, and before the
flames were extlngulshed, three of them
were burned to death. ..... Another fearful
mine disaster is recorded. A fire broke
out in a new mine at Limaville, Ohio,
July 8, resulting in the death by suffocation
of eleven persons.
A PARTY of fifty Bostonians were lured out
to the Pacific slope by swindler who pre-
tended to have discovered rich gold dig
gings in portion of Oregon inhabited by
Indians. The sharper succeeded in getting
$4,000 out Of the Hubites, and abandoned
them at San Francisco. Some of them are
left without funds to return home.. Two
boys were drowned IN Luding creek, Gin
cinnati, July 7..... There is a general, strike
among the lumbermeno Of Saginaw (Mieh.)
valley, and the mills are silent. Employers
and employees each declare their firm deter