Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-03-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

The East. : - ~
On Thursday morning Mrs Welsh, living
near Scranton, Pa, went to neighbours,
leaving two children, aged two and four,
asleep IN the house. During her absence
the building caught fire, and the children
were burned to death.
JOHN VALENTINE, an eccentric bachelor and
miser, of East Meadow, L. l., was missed a
few days ago, and his neighbors bursting in
his door found his remains lying in the fire.
place terribly burned. The head was a
crisp, and the hands entirely consumed. On
turning the body over bloody axe was
found beneath. A tin box kept on shelf,
supposed to contain about two thousand dol
lars, was gone. The perpetrators are un-
known......The Sigourney House, large
family boarding house in Hartford. Conn.
was found to be fire about O'Clock on
Sunday morning. When the flames were
extinguished it was found that the house had
been set on fire in five different rooms and
on three different floors. The author of til 9
fire has not yet been discovered The les
see is said to have an insurance on the fur
niture much in excess of it's value. Over
forty persons were sleeping in different parts
OF the building.
AT New York on Monday apassenger on
Jersey City ferry boat, who went into the
engine room to warm himself, approached
too near the engine, and was crushed into
an unrecognizable mass...... DR.. Jayne's
splendid-e lght-story granite building on
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, YVES totally
destroyed by fire on Monday night The
loss by fire and water is estimated al
$1,000, O00...: 9. Brooklyn's new Comptroller
has reported to the Board of Aldermen de-
ficiency Of 100000 in the late city and
county officials accounts. Mrs. A. c.
Downs was arrested at Hartford, Conn, on
Monday, charged with arson, in firing the
Sigourney House.
JAMEsFW. COLEMAN has accepted $500 fol-
his receivers fees in the matter of the Erie
railroad suits. His original claim was fol
100000. The schooner Clara Bell, with a
cargo Of coal from New York to Boston
grounded on Monday morning near Cape
Gods The. officers and crew, Eeveo in all
attempted to reach the land, but only one
succeeded, and lie was nearly frozen. The
rest persisted in The The grand Jury
of Jersey City has Brought in ffby-one adj
ditlonal indictme ats againtt members OF the
Commissions and officers OF the city govern
ment, for frauds o. various DEGREES The
weather was extremely cold throughout
NewLEngland on Monday. A dispatch from
Mt. Washington reports the thermometer 40
degrees below zero, and the wind 100 miles
an hour. gTU4 ss.a. .t..
IN the New. York Legislature on Wednes-
day a statement was made by two sneakers
that members from the rural districts were
selling their votes at $40 per head No ae-
ton was taken......Patrick j. Bannon has
been sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and one
years. imprisonment for sending obscene
matter through the New York Postoffice
The carpet yarn mill of the Wilton Manu-
featuring, Company, of Wilton, N. H., was
burned on Wednesday. Loss $4,000 par
TALLY insured. e,
81 The West.
A DISPATCH rom Wyckenbourg, Arizona,
saysAthe Apachcs attacked two trains be-
tween that place and Phoenix, and murder
ed Samuel Cullember and tomas Harris.
At Martinez Rancho they ran of the stock
and p!undered the $40 zion o. all movab1es
Cullember and Harris were EMPLOYEES the
stage company. The station is but four
miles south OF Gimp DaGe Creek where are
posted three companies OF regullls, two of
infantry and one Of cavalry. The rancfe IS
distant about twenty-five miles from t1e
scene Of the luxembourg stage massacre,
where Lolfng was killed. ,...
j. L. CoRDER, agent of Wells, Fargo & Co.
at Margeyille, Col, blew his brains out with
shotgun on saturday. He was insane
from neuralg ia...... The ice commenced NOV
ing out of the Mississippi river at Keokuk
Iowa, on Saturday.... Frederick Luth, a
resident OF the town of Worth Cook coup ~
ILL.,, on Saturday afternoon killed himsel. Nv
cutting his head ops with atchet.
ROBERT WARD, o" Medina, O., broke through
the ice In Grand river, ear Jack -on, Mich.
Oh Monday, and was drowned On Sunday
the stable OF Col. Hutchins, in Tippecanoe
1nd., was burned, together with two hors es
ana iced. Loss $4,000; insured for $4,000.
JACOB MooG died in his tailor shop al
Roapqke,, Ind, ION Monday night, fro ex-
essiye dr mixing. He was married man
about As years old, and leaves several small
cn1ldren......Hon. Thomas NJ Brown a. dis.
tinguished attorney OF New ALBANY. Ina.
wnlle returning rome rom bis office "a that
Guy, on Monday evening, suddenly fell on
the pavement and expired almost immedi.
ately"...A freight train on the Lake Shore
and Michigan Sou Shern railroad was thrown
from tne. track by abroken rail near Clyde
w., on Monday morning, and twenty cars
were wrecked. A section man. Standing
near tue track, was Struck by toe cars as
they lett the track, and killed......L L. CAREER.
Esq, DIVISION Superin tendent o. The Chi
cage Turin tona aud Quincy railway, was
Kllled ms railroad accident near Burling-
ton, Iowa, on Tuesday afternoon No Others
injured. The accident was caused bv the
engine of the freight train running off a
bridge on account of the rails being taken
up for repairs. The engineer and fremen
saved their lives by jumping off.
THE steamers Altoona, Kate Robinson. st.
Charles, Argosy, Major Anderson, and
Champion were burned Thursday at Vim
cinnati. Loss 1926, OOO...... Johnny Deyine
al " the Chicken" has been convicted OF
murder and sentenced to be hanged at San
FranG1scoon April 26..... At Detroit, Mich.
cofored man named Ferguson, his son
and a Mary Mowan were so badly burned
they cannot live. They started the fire
with kerosene..-..The North Pacific railway
was on Wednesday opened to Red River fo1
business,ts.A fsticuff fight occurred on the
fooro the House of the Missouri Legisla-
ture on Tuesday, between H. j. Latshaw
member from Kansas City, and Sergeant.
alarms Grafton, but neither party was
hurt.....Part of the LAGRANGE County In
Urinary, at LAGRANGE, Ind, was burnt on
Wednesday. One of the inmates, whom il
was necessary to keep in close confne-
ment, was burned to crisp. He was
a middle-aged man, named Abraham Ma
The South.
Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STowE was yery