Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

the 1862 bonds should be called in during
the year 1872 at such time as the Roths-
childs may designate 1t was also said, IN
the same dispatch, thata refusal tor eighteen
months was required to be granted the same
house to accept 5000, 100000 of Al per cents.
......A messenger boy was robbed OF Sll,oO0
in checks and coupon bonds while IN the
Central National Bank, New YORK, on
WednesdayT The Russian frigate SHETLAND
will remain at New York for some time, the
Gear having ordered new boilers. This VII!
proIong the Grand Dukes stay, and he will
visit every part of the United States.
THE gas works connected with the Glasgow
gingham mill, at South Hadley Falls, ex-
ploded on Monday morning. Mr.. Nicho-l
and Charles Benway, EN- ployes, were Sc
verely injured......A man named Boner was
picked up by an enormous hy-wheel in the
rolling mill of Packer & Co., at Pittsburgh,
on Monday afternoon, and taken out
dreadfully mangled corpse. --..-
The coroners jury in the Fisk homicide
returned verdict that "Fisk came to his
death in consequence CT wound or wounds,
inflicted by ball. or balls, from pistol in
the hands of Edward S. Stokes, discharged
by aim in deliberate manner at the person
Of said Fisk at the Grand Central Hotel"
......A railroad war has broken out IN Hemp
stead, L. I. The Brooklyn Trust Company
foreclosed the mortgage on the Hampstead
Branch Railroad, on behalf of the bond
holders, who had not received overdue cou-
pons. Disputes as to who should have pos
session of the trains resulted in the wound
ing of several persons...... VIM. lotion, IL
years Of age, was accidentally killed at Now
York on Tuesday by barber named Walden
...... Charles J. Perry, x-Mayor OF Hoboken,
shot himself in the head on Monday after
noon, inficting mortal wound. Despon-
dency is supposed to be the cause.
A BILL has passed both houses of the New
York Legislature providing for the payment
of the Indebtedness of the city of New York
falling due next month. 1t authorizes the
raising of $4,000, 000......It is rumored that
General Mcclellan will be the successor of
Fisk as Vice President of the Erie Com
pany :. :. The father of James Fisk has gone
crazy over the assassination of his son.
The West.
On Thursday evening Robert Blair, of
Kawkawlin, while attempting to get on the
cars while in motion at the Jackson, Ian
sing and Saginaw railroad depot, at Detroit,
fell under the wheels, receiving such inju-
ries that he died shortly after......A man.
named Stephen Wilcox was fatally injured
by an explosion of the boiler of the heating
apparatus in the Detroit Car Works on Fri
day afternoon. The explosion demolished
moderate. sized brick building. The store
and goods belonging to w. j. & B. r. Dell,
at Lakeport, Mich, were consumed by fire
on Thursday morning. Loss $4,000; par
TALLY insured.
A GERMAN named Peter Roeder was sufo-
Gated at Chicago on Sunday by the fumes of
ool,o oh xxa. b,,~r;ucr bra1 for
purpose of drying the newly plastered walls
of his House,. Alexis and suite gazed upon
the display of legs by the Lydia Thompson
troupe at St. Louis on Saturday night, and
attended grand reception ball on Monday
evening at the Southern Hotel...... Great in
terest is felt at Salt Lake City in the new
mines recently opened in the southwest
corner of Idaho, one hundred miles from the
Central Pacific railway. 1t is reported that
veins of solid mineral, from ten to sixty feet
wide, and ranging between 800 to $3.50 per
ton, are developed. Contracts have been
let for the construction of the Rock Island,
ILL.,, water works. Seven miles of pipe are
to be laid, the cost of which, with buildings,
etc, is estimated at 5,000...... Female
compositors are considered success in Des
Moines, iowa. One woman there clears $24
O. week on book work, which leads the Reg
lister to remark that Sc There is one vocation,
at least, where woman's right to entire
equality of labor and wages is acknowl-
edged" "A fire at M cunt Carmel, ILL.,, on
the goth ult., destroyed several frame build
ings in the business part of the town. Loss
$4,000; insurance small.....At Elk Prairie,
near Mount Vernon, ILL.,, on the 9th ult.,
fellow named Richard Ross, who had separ-
ated from his wife, went to the residence of
her mother and deliberately discharged at
her loaded shot gun, while she was holding
L 1. h.
man and child were filled with shot, but at
last accounts they were still alive. A young
man named Beckham, Mrs. Ross's brother,
while trying to disarm Ross, was terribly
stabbed and cut in the back with knife,
and will probably die. Since the shooting,
Mrs. Ross declares that little boy of theirs
who died suddenly, some months ago, was
killed by blow upon the head by the brutal
father Ross escaped.
On Tuesday evening last little daughter
of Capt. Richard Owens, of the canal boat
Phoenix, of Lockport, ILL.,, fell from the gang
plank to the ice, receiving such injuries
that she died on Friday evening. ..... Elk Gov.
Matteson of Illinois, was thrown from a
sleigh at Springfield on Monday, receiving
probably fatal injuries.....A few days since
the skeleton of Chinaman was found on
Goodyear creek, Sierra county, Nevada, the
head being suspended by two ropes attached
to a tree 1.-THE rest lying on the ground. He
had been missing for about year......C. c..
Ball, of Flint, Mich, discovered a broken
rail on the Flint and Pere Marquette rail
road, the other day, and stopped an APP
preaching train. For this the company re-
warded him by granting him q perpetual
free pass..".. Mrs. Warren Thayer, Of Clin-
ton, Wis, took cyanide of potassa in mistake
for medicine, on Wednesday last, and died in
few hours.
The United States District Court Of
Utah met at Salt Lake City on the 9th, but
for lack of money to pay court expenses ad-
journed to the second Monday in March,.
Amarried woman named Scholl was drowned
IN cistern at Madison, Wis, on Tuesday.
Whether suicdally or accidentally is un-
known. She had been in the Insane Hospi-
tai a year ago."..John Sherman was re-
elected United States Senator from Ohio by
the Legislature of that State on the 9th inst
1.-THE Lower House of the Missouri Legis-
lature has passed a resolution indorsing the
one term plan for President Of the United
States by a vote of Sc to 2l.
THE semi-annual report of the Illinois
Central Railroad Company, just issued, shows
the gross earnings of that road, for the six
months ending October 3lst, 1871, to have
been So, sos $40, seven per cent of which, or
$25l, 6s7.sO, has been paid into the State
Treasury in pursuance of law...... Ex-Gover-
nor Matteson, of Illinois, who had three
ribs broksn,a few days ago, by being thrown
from a cutter, is improving rapidly.
sFleishman & Co.'s distillery, at Riverside,
just outside of the Cincinnati city limits,
burned Tuesday evening Loss, s60, 900; ipsu-
rance, $50, OO0..... On Tuesday morning Delos
Burtch, employed in saving wood for the
Sheboygan railroad at Fond du Lac, Wis,
fell against circular saw, cutting his right