Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-05-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


A DISPATCH from Scranton, Pa, May Is,
says Persons just returned from the
scenes of the terrific mountain fire in the
neighborhood of Tobyhanna report that the
village was entirely surrounded by fire on
wednesday. The villagers mustered all
their force, and beat back the fire until they
got it under control. Had it not been for
large swamp intervening between the town
and the fire, there is no doubt but the whole
of Tobyhanna would have been destroyed.
The inhabitants and those who have been
there assisting them have had a terrible
week of it, some of the men not having
slept for four nights......An extensive fire is
reported as having occurred in Westford,
Mass, Wednesday afternoon, destroying
larg g quantity of cerd- wood, and overrun-
ming large wooded territory, preventing
travel on the highways.
Mrs. BARBARA SMITH, rendered insane by
the loss of her child, leaped from the roof
OF four-story house in Williamsburg, N.
I, Thursday, and was instantly killed.
AT Paterson, II. j., Saturday, Libbie Gar
rabrsnt, the girl murdersss, was sentenced
to be hanged on the 10Th of July ...... The
body of real estate agent named Ober-
lander was found in East river, New York,
Saturday, with his throat cut. 1t is I'M
known whether the case is suicide or MUIR
der......At New York, on Saturday, q mes
senger of the Gallatin National Bank, while
on collecting route, was robbed of pouch
containing $4,000 in gold certificates and
checks and $500 in cash .....,A Port Jervis
IN. ~ special of the 18th says: "In Pike
county, Pa, fire covering territory seven
miles IN extent is sweeping over some of
the best land in this section. At Wagon
torst's, Callahan's, and Dowling's settle
ments, nothing is left but charred and smok-
ing ruins. Dozens of families have been
compelled to flee for their lives. A quarter
of q million of dollars will not pay the
losses in this section. The land of the
Blooming Grove Park Association has been
swept over, and large numbers of wild game
destroyed" In Wayneburg, Pa, the fire
compelled suspension of coal transporta-
ton over the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company's railroad, leading from the mines
to Honesdale. The lumber villages Of Car
ter and Gould, Pa, have been almost totally
destroyed, only three houses remaining in
the two places. Sussex county, New Jersey,
and Sullivan and Delaware counties, New
York, and Monroe county are still being
sweptover by the forest fires, and the lesses
are estimated as footing up in the millions
IA lire In Philadelphia, Sunday night,
destroyed property to the amount of
100000.
On Monday the double-scull race of five
miles between Coulter and Cavtt, of Pitts
burg, and the Bglin brothers, Of New York,
took place on the Schuylkill river at Phila-
delphla. The Biglins won. Time 3201.
The woody region of limestone north of
Pittsburg, Pa, has been much damaged by
sweeping fire. The farmers dug trenches
to keep off the storm Of flame. AT Am
sterdam, N. Y, Tuesday, the knitting mill
of John Maxwell was destroyed by fire.
Loss estimated at SAL, 900.
The preliminary arraignment of Edward
Stokes for the murder of James Fisk took
place in the Court of Oyer and Terminer,
New York, Wednesday. After motion for
further time to afford opportunity for a
special plea, the Court adjourned the hear
ing for day, and Stokes was returned to
prlSon....... Greenwood's wooden mill, in
Philadelphia, Pa, was totally burned
Wednesday morning. The fire originated
In the picker's room. Loss $40 ,0OO. ... The
Gallatin National Bank, New York, has re-
ceived, through the mail, commercial paper,
drafts and notes to the amount of $46 900,
OF which its messenger was robbed on Sat-
urday last, the thieves profting only 500 by
the transaction.
The West.
A LAD ID years of age, son of Patrick
Grady, resident of Davenport, Iowa, was
struck by lightning at about O'Clock Thurs
day afternoon, and was instantly killed. He
was standing at street corner at the time.
THE boilers of the Springfield OILY
city water-works exploded Thursday morn
ing No damage was done to the other
oh
AT Lansing, ILL.,, Wednesday, a young man
by the name Of McCracken shot his father
three times. The father was abusing his
family. The son interfered, and the father
then tried to kill the son with q 6sh-spear,
with the above result. He was still alive at
last accounts, but there was no hope of his
recovery.
A TERRIBLE domestic tragedy occurred in
Chicago on Friday morning. A carpenter
named Edward Simonds shot his wife, the
ball lodging in the brain. He then blew his
own brains out. At last accounts Mrs.
Simonds was alive, but was not expected to
recover. Jealousy is the alleged cause. .....
report has been received giving the de-
tails of a massacre by Indians, Mexicans,
and negroes combined, of persons in charge
OF train OF supplies en- route to Fort Stock
ton, at Howard's Wells, near old Fort Ian
caster. All the people with the train, seven
teen souls in all, were killed or wounded,
except one woman. WORDS fail to convey
an idea of the sickening atrocities commit
ted by the demons who overpowered the
train. The men, several of them, were taken
alive, tied to wagons, and burned. An old
woman was carried some distance from the
place OF attack and then shot and scalped
Her grandchild had its ears cut off, was
scalped, and had its brains daseled out
prominent and wealthy citizen of Kansas
City, Mo-, named Wilkes B. Brown, was
called to his door Thursday night by some
unknown person and shot dead. lone of
the boilers in the rolling mill at Joliet, ILL.,,
exploded at four O'Clock Friday morning,
seriously injuring two of the firemen, one of
whom, John Leonard, died about three hours
after the accident.
AT Peoria, ILL.,, on Sunday evening, o man
named Henry Fleetmeyer be came involved
in q quarrel with neighbor named Wolf,
when the latter drew knife and stabbed
him five times in different parts of the
body, inflicting dangerous wounds......A FIRE
at Flint, Mich, early Sunday morning, de-
stroyed $150,000 worth of property At
Chicago, Sunday morning, two men named
Maloney and Foley were shoNwhile attempt
ing an outrage on the person of German
woman named Schultz.
A MAN named Kirkham was killed by two
rowdies at Rose Claire, ILL.,, on Saturday..
AT Peoria, ILL.,, on Monday, German work.
man named Johnson, employed in the
Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw machine and
repair shops, met with fearful and fatal
accident. He was elevating a car from the
track with a lot of jacks when the car sud-
denly slipped from its place and fell on him,
crushing him into an almost unacceptable
mass, and causing instant death.
FIRE at Hudson WIS Mondou n:L4