Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-02-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


plosion of an oil tank while they were
making repairs in the furnace. An Italian
aged so years died of starvation in New
York on Monday, heabeing unable to obtain
aid from tie authorities, to whom he had
applied......H. W. Tener, q Philadelphia
lawyer, has disappeared, leaving liabilities
to the amount o. $75, 000....In the budget
presented to the Ontario Legislature by the
government.are. $4,000 reward for the ar
rest of the murderer of Mr.. Scott, and
$780, 900 to promote immigration. The Leg
islature has voted to adopt the use of the
EnglishsEmigratio Society. as q part of
the colonial emigration system. q -
TIE son and daughter of Mrs. Thomas,
aged 81 and 4, persisted in q fire in scran~
ton, N. j., on Saturday .....Porter and Thos.
Brixley, fashionable burglars, were arrested
in New York on Saturday with the imple-
ments of their profession. They offered
$4,000 each-to. the officer to be released. They
have heretofore moved in aristocratic society.
IA clerk in the paymagter's Office of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail-
road Company, in Scranton, Pa, absconded
on Saturday right with $l0,000-of the com
pany's funds. ohm Henry, a bartender,
was fatally shot on Saturday night in lager
beer saloon in New York by Charles Garvin,
whoswas arrested:E u - - oC
~The-oii4eloths factory Of Potter, Son / Co.,
at Philadelphia, wass.tetally destroyed by
fire on Sunday night. Loss 500, OOO......A
Scranton adispa tehs ksayssthat the Coron er,s
Jury an thesreee emit explosion in the Henry
mine, gave q verdict hat the explosion re-
spltedstron m " ant Of care in ventilation. /.
Phe City Council of Springfield, Mass, has
elected Miss S. j. Williams City Ply sician.
THREE young sons of Mr.. Miller, of sha-
re n ID ass5 were drowned in that town on
Tuesday, by Breaking Through the ice...a..
The Government has commenced an action
to recover $22 600 deficit in the accounts of
A. M. Wood, late, Internal Revenue Collector
of BroekIyn... Judge Bedford, Of New York,
has sentenced a garroter pnamed McLaugh-
lin to twenty years hard labor in the State
Prison.. Charles Gleason and Daniel
Dougherty, the Grafton, Mass, bank robbers,
have been sentenced respectively to fourteen
and thirteen years. confinemen in the State
Prison. Last Friday evening, T at Puce
River, IN the township Of Madison, Is miles
from Windsor, Ont, Wyett Stuart killed
Samuel Hamilton by striking him on the
shoulder with an axe and cleaving him en-
titsly through the, body. He afterward
snashedT two ribs in with the axe. The
murderer and his brother, Green Stuart, are
inaSandwich' jail, and will be tried in April
Ter murder 4 .iGld93 2n'aE,Hs $3.50
adj r,. The West. ,.4n ~rn,
THE celebrated old Methodist divine, Rev.
Peter Cartwright, was stricken down with
paralysis on Mo inlay last, at his home in
Pleasant{P Palms, .sangamon county, H., and
is now speechless and lpless. The attend
ing physicians say his death may occur any
moment. This venerable man is 81 years
old, and has been in the ministry So years
....ThesCoroner's Jury sitting on the bodies
of the persons killed by the railroad acct
dent near Alton on Wednesday, returned
verdict that death was caused by the crimi-
nal negligence of Frederick Baker, con-
dUetor of the freight train, as the principal, ).
and Patrick Halpin, engineer, as accessory
...r.Quite ashock of earthquake was felt at
Cairo, Ill., on Wednesday morning, about
O'Clock. -. Jesse Zimmerman, the aged
wife murderer; of Rockford, ILL.,, has been
sentenced by the Court to life imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary. 1t will be remem-
bered that he killed his wife with scratch
awl several months ago.
Tins Diamond FIGURING Mill, at Younes-
town, Ohio, owned by Noel Brown &, Co, was
burned'on Thursday morning. Loss $45, 900;
insured for $4,000. The stage5 between
Mineral Hill and Eureka, N ev., was robbed
on Thursday by two highwaymen....A To-
freight train burst its boiler near Schwarz-
burg on Ihursdayes morning. killing VIM.
Tiel, brakeman, and Ransom, fireman was
fatally scaldedS. % ASmemoriaI 10 CONGRESS-
has passed the Kansas Legislature asking
money to build a Court House at Topeka,
and Postotfice and Custom House at Leaven-
worth. $50,
The Rockford, Rock Island and st. Louis
Railroad Company have offered a reward of
$500 for the apprehension of Frederick
Bakersand, Patrick! Halpin, theaconductor5
and englneer Of the freight train w hich col
hded with the passenger train, near Alton,
on~W ednesdav last......A lad named Earnest
Priest, IA years of age, broke through the
ice on the lake at Milwaukee on Sunday
morning, and was drowned.
The snow blockade on the Union Pacific
still continues between Creston and Washa-
kie.I Thsrasia m ueh indignations among mer-
chantsSand business men that the road has
not@before this made arrangements to run
the mails and passengers over the blockaded
division by the old stage road. If the rail-
road would pay, commm unication could~be,
kept aeeh easily, and passengers sent round
the HlQek ade Without diffculty.....A three
year old dauehtersof Michael Gavan was
burned to death Peoria, Hl.,.on Monday
morning. The mother locked. he child in a
room while she was awaysSfrQin home, and
the little ones clothes catching Are from
the stove, burned her to cinders before the
mother returned.."..A new 5000 900 railroad
car shop is about to go into operation at La
porte, 1nd......A fire at Monticello Iowa, Jon
Sunday morning, destroyed the steam plan
ing and Touring mill of Frost, Wood & Co.,
the foundry of D. W. Page, and two other
ssmnaaiilerebuildings Loss $2olCvUS INSURED for1
S5,Oeg'wA q EFT Ss9yxE
TIE residence and barn of Mr.. julius
Hand, near Winona, Mimi. were burned
about 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning. Three
children lost their lives in the flames. $500.
The steamer Nashville sunk AT Cincinnati on
Tuesday, Injured by the ice She was heavily
loaded with groceries and furniture valued
at $175,O0O......R yan's marine elevator, at
Milwaukee, Wis, was burned on Tuesday
Loss $4,000. Partially insured .... Thomas
Connell who was to have been hung at jeff
erson City, Mo-, on the 18th, has been req
proved by Coy. Brown, until April as, to
afford an opportunity to examine his men tap
condition, it having been asserted that he
was insane. -
The South.
BEFORE the Congressional INVESTIGATING
Committee at New Orleans on Thursday,
Captain Sinnott and Captain Scott testified
very clearly to bniberess inpehe Legislature,
the atter laying deliyereds money to Camp
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