Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-07-26
i nstween Thomas and samue, Knowland

L. between Thomas and Samuel knowland
(uncle and nephew, resulted in the instant
killing of the former and the mortal W ound-
inp of the latter 49,. Col. VIM. T.. Phillips, a
prominent citizen of Kansas, has mysteri-
ously dsappeared......R Rich cinnabar mines
have been discovered in Oregon...... Chica-
go's death roll for the week ending July 16
foots up 307, of which number 225 were
children under three years of age......John-
son & Jones' soap and candle mandatory,
at Milwaukee, was burned July Ii. Loss,
$75 ,OO0.. ....Sedalia, Mo-, Rising Sun, Ind,
and Piqua, Ohio, each had SAC, 900 worth Of
fire on July 16......T The man who started out
to navigate the Mississippi from its source
to its mouth in a canoe became tired of the
job, and abandoned his little craft at Peoria,
Ill, on the 10th inst. ------... -<3
THE wheat crop of Southern Minnesota is
the largest ever known, and the quality
excellent.
se. The South.
SEVEN persons were killed outright, and
several dangerously injured, by bridge
giving way ben cath railroad train, near
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va, on the 18th
of July. 1.-The caterpillars, in unusually
large numbers, have appeared all through
| LU6 CObtOn Ucib Vi [dIdUdHld1 bA1CO "NS@>S
earlier nan ever before. The same report
comes from South Carolina. There is much
| depression among the planters IN conse-
| quence. .Stilson Hutehins has sold his
/ one third interest in the st. Louis Times 70
Henry Ewing for $4,000.
ADv1cEs from Pope county, Ark, the scene
of the recent disturbances, state that Gov
Hadley had gone there to investigate the
outrages. The militia were in arms, pressing
horses and ammunition from the people.
ON the evening of July ID, some boys
who were bathing in the river at Memphis
were fired upon by a Waterman named
Sturgeon, the weapon being a musket
charged with slugs. Three OF the missiles
entered the head of little boy named
Johnny Murphy, producing instant death
The murderous Waterman, frightened al
his bloody work, Immediately Jumped into
a skiff and made his escape down the river
THE caterpillers and boll-worms are play
ing havoc with the Alabama cotton fields
A frsshet in the Alabama river and tribu
tares recently destroyed over $2,000,0Ot
worth of cotton and corn crops......Judgt
Linton Stephens (brother of Alexander ID
Stephens), for many years prominent IN the
| pOllGlcS Ol UeOISld, ~ uedu.
TIE first bale of cotton of the season was
received at Galveston, Texas, July l6, anc
sold for SO cents pound, gold. ..'
THE VIZ Department at Washington has
details of the massacre of the Lee family a
Clearford, sixteen miles below Fort Griffin
Texas. The father, mother, and little CIR
eight years of age, were killed by arrows
then scalped, and the bodies left with tn
arrows sticking in them. Cordelia, aged 10
Susannah, aged II, and John Lee, aged Is
were taken prisoners. Gen. 4Augur fears tina
more extensive operations will have to bt
taken against these Indians before they
will remain peaceable. Gen. Sheridan, in {
communication to the War Department
says: owe can never stop the wild Indians
from numbering and stealing until we pun
ish them. If white man in this country
commits murder, we hang him; if he steal
horses, we put him in the penitentiary. |
an Indian commits these crimes, we Civ
him better fare and more blankets. 1 thinl
may with reason say that under this polio.
the civilization of the wild red man viii
progress slowly"