Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-06-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

placed, gave way and preciptated tho en-
CINE and some fifty persons into the river
below. Many of them were seriously in
iured, though none killed outright..... Sew
eral vessels have arrived in New York dur
ing the past week with smallpox prevailing
among steeragc passengers. The captain OF
one of the vessels seemed to think the dis
ease was fostered by the dirty habits of the
emigrants, who were chiefly Poles. Nothing
short of physical violence could induce
them to wash, and the men deliberately ate
soap furnished them, thinking it cheese......
A skiff loaded with six men capsized on the
Monongahela river, near McKeesport, Pa,
on the 24th inst, and four of the men were
drowned. They we're all emigrants, who
had just arrived from Europe......It is esti-
mated that over 10000 men were on strike
for eight hours of work in New York the
28th inst. Many factories are closing up
rather than yield to the demand......T The
German brewers of the United States will
hold their twelfth annual congress in New
York, commencing the 4th of June and ex-
tending four days.
TWENTY THOUSAND emigrants arrived in
New York the week ending May rs. This
is the largest weekly arrival on record.....
The steamship Adriatic made a trip be-
tween Now York and Queenstown recently
in seven days and sixteen hours......T This is
the fastest time ever made between these
two places......A man named Crawford,
brother-in-law to Commodore Vanderbilt,
shot policeman in New York on the night
of the Oath inst, because he would not re-
lease the Commodore's colored coachman,
whom he had'in custody. Dibble, Worth
Il Co., cotton brokers of New York, sus-
pended on Saturday, having been cramped
by the withholding of large amounts of cot
ton by Southern dealers. 1t is said that
other cotton merchants, who have contracted
to deliver in time, are embarrassed, and
more suspensions are expected. THE peril
to life by working in the East river caisson,
at New York, was forcibly illustrated on
Friday. A laborer, named Daniel Pearson,
went to work, and though he felt the i'll
effects Of breathing the powerfully-con-
densed air, he continued until the close of
working hours, when he was seized with
paralysis of the limbs, accompanied by in
tense pain in the head and abdomen. His
death followed the next day, and tho Coro-
ner was called upon to investigate whether
such sacrifice of the mans life was legiti-
mate
THE tug Epsilon exploded her boiler in
East river, New York, on the 9th ult., kill
ing six persons, including the captain and
engineer. 1.-The strikes among the work
piano makers, cabinet makers and pattern
makers are the latest strikers for the eight
hour system...... DR.. Andrew J. Lynn, of
Boston, has been held to bail in $40 900,
charged with procuring an abortion, result
ing in death, on Sarah Brown, d young
woman belonging to Fitchburg. The
boiler of the Gordon Company's Bleaching
Works, Philadelphia, exploded on the 9th
ult., killing the gineer and wounding FIVE
NJ nr ~
City, on the 9th, between a body of eight
hour strikers and men who had taken their
places. Three men were woundeded. The
riot was suppressed by the police.
OVER thirty thousand persons were more
or less injured by the explosion of the tug
Epsilon, at New York, on the 9th ULTRA
terrible triple tragedy occurred at New
York on the 28th ult. One Trefsy, baker,
stabbed his wife fatally with dirk, and
then stabbed her paramount, Franz Linde-
man, winding mp by cutting his own throat.
All three will probably die......Lyman IRE
maine, John D. Townsend and Henry Daily,
Jr., have been retained as Stokes counsel.
......Over 10000 workingmen are on a strike
for eight hours, in New York. They are
quiet and confident of the ultimate success
of the moVemcnt...... Bids for supplies for
the Indian Department were opened in New
York on the 2Sth ult. Bids for 81 900 900
pounds of beef on the hoof, delivered at diff
fercnt agencies during the year, ranged
from $1.S4 to $4 per 100 pounds. An award
will be made of from $1.S4 to $3.50 per 100
pounds. Bids for 81 100000 pounds of flour,
delivered at the agencies, range from $2.S5
to 81 per 200 pounds...... Capt. Samueis'
famous yacht Dreadnaught, which original
ly cost $4,000, was sold at Now York, the
other day, for $4,000.
The Brooklyn Schutzen corps will start on
June 20, for Hanover, to take part in the
German National Schutzenfest, in father
land...... Two mines of the Delaware and
Hudson Company, one at Carbondale and
the other at Olyphant, Pa, have suspended
operations in order to reduce the production
Of coal. The tive mines throw out of en-
plOy 700 men and boys, and decrease the
production of the company 5000 tons per
day.. Faber & Co.'s lead pencil manufac-
tory was destroyed by fire, in New York, on
the 29th ult. Loss, 100000.
The West.
PRoF. HENRY S. MOVES, of the North
western University, at Evanston, Ill, died
recently at that place....John Rever, of
Lyons, ILL.,, died on the Gath from the effects
OF pommeling, at the hands of Valentine
Hoffman.....One million three hundred and
forty-four thousand dollars will be required
to run the county government of Cook
county, Ill during the coming year......The
schooner Robinson was run into by the
propeller Manistee, On Lake Michigan on
the 24th inst, and sunk in ten minutes.
She was loaded with 10000 bushels of corn.
The crew were saved. "A terrible tornado
passed over portion of Adams Co., ILL.,, on
the 24th inst, unroofng houses, barns,
trees, &c, and doing serious damage.
severe gale also occurred about the same
time near Burlington, Iowa, which caused
much injury. Land Commissioner Ed
munds, of Michigan, has been acquitted by
the State Senate of that State THE vii.
iage OF Hayesville, near Ashland, Ohio, lost
It's entire business portion by fire on the
Gath inst.
a MAN was found dead, hanging in a
small window of barn in Chicago, on the
24th. His head was covered with blood and
badly bruised. The fingers of the left hand
were gone. 1t is supposed that he attempted
to crawl through the window when drunk,
and that he was attacked by horse inside
tho barn and suffocated in his effort to re-
lease himself.....J. T. Weswell, book keeper
in the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail
road shops at Aurora, ILL.,, was run over by
the switch engine at that place and instantly
killed on the 25th inst.."..T Two trains col
hded on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cifc railroad at Joliet, H., on Sunday, by
which several passengers were seriously in
Jured-none fatally 49,. Mr.. John J. Cham
Plon was thrown from his buggy, at Spring
held, Ill, on Saturday, and fatally in ured.
Two boys named Mann and Hight were
were drowned in Catfish river, at Rockdale
Mills, Iowa, on the 25th ult., while. bathing,
making seven drowned in that vicinity in