Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-07-12
The West.

AuC WCSts
The excursion train, consisting of eight
crowded passenger coaches, returning to
Chicago from the Liberal Republican and
Democratic State Conventions at Springfield,
Ill. ON the ght of June 26, narrowly escaped
being wrecked six miles north of the latter
city. Some diabOlical wretches had placed
ten heavy railroad ties across the track.
fortunately the engineer deserted the OBJ
structiOn in time to avert an accident that
must have resulted in an appalling dcstruc-
ton Oflile.
Mrs. GLEN, the Indianapolis murderess,
has for the fourth time been convicted, and
sentenced to a life term of imprisonment.
An effort will be made to secure still
another trial......At st. Paul, Mimi, few
nights ago, q burglar invaded the bedcham-
Der of young lady, and while rummaging
about in search of plumber, awakened the
occupant. Naturally she screamed for
help. The burglar seized and attempted to
choke her into silence, and in the struggle
that ensued the young lady got one of the
rascaPs fingers in her mouth and bit 1T to
the bone, causing him to beat hasty re-
treat. s.- Nh ..
Mrs. CAMPBELL, of Chicago, was poisoned,
last week, by a laundering druggist..
Three youths-Charles Koch, Frank Stumpf
and Herman Friedrich-were drowned at
Milwaukee, June %, while bathing......
Three men working on the st.
Joseph (Mo.( bridge were preciptated into
the river, June 20, and drowned . The
irrepressibe interviewer reports Mrs.
Glenn, the Indianapolis murderess, cheerful,
hopeful, and confident of new trial and
ultimate acquittal $500. East st. Louis, ILL.,,
was thrown INTO a fever of excitement, last
week, on account of q rape committed upon
a beautiful young girl of respectable family
by negro. The brute was arrested, and
narrowly escaped lynching ...... Two young
ladies were drowned at Evansville, Wis, re-
Gently, while bathing in Rock river. Gin
Clnnati has just completed the first narrow
guago (threo feet) street railway in the
country ......The Newport and Cincinnati
bridge was opened to pedestrians, June 80.
.-...Col. Loomis, Chief of Artillery to Gen.
RQsecrans, and Captain of the celebrated
Do0mis Michigan Artillery, is confined at
the Soldiers Home, al Milwaukee, mere
wreck, rapidly wasting away with sOftening
of tho brain..-.. The Kiowas, Arrapahoes,
and Apaches, in Colorado and New Mexico,
are reported as being very uneasy, and
fears are entertained that these tribes will
combine for an extensive worfare on the
frontier settlements. The moral suasion
policy is being applied to these intracta5le
savages with, 1T is alleged, some hope of a
successful issue. @tr0. .af y
NEWS of most foul and unnatural muir
der comes to us from West Point, Iowa. A
Mrs. Washer, the mother of seven children,
was deliberately murdered in that village
by two of her sons, aged IL and Is. The
lady had parted from her husband, Dr.
Washer, some time previous; and, the Doc
tor being absent from home, she took occa-
sion TO visit her children. She prepared to
return to her own home Saturday, Juno 90,
but the two sons persuaded her to remain
Uvor- till Sunday. She stayed, and at 6
O'Clock Sunday morning the two boys MUIR
dered her, stabbing her in the back, breast,
ana throat. After killing her, they dragged
her body to the barn ami covered it with
hay. The youthful matricides are in prison.
&c. M. Taylor, City Marshal of Baxter
Springs, Kansas, was murdered last week
by Col. Boyd, the Mayor of tho town..
The same old story. Thomas w. Dunn, of
Jacksonville, ILL.,, in playful mood pointed
pistol.at his sweetheart, Lizzie Voorhees,,
Just to frighten her. He succeeded admira-
bly,.for the pistol went off ard sent ball
into Lzzie's head, INJECTING a dangerous
wound: Another boy, Robert Dole-the
999th this seoson-was drowned at Mil |
waukee, last week, while bathing. John
Brennan, at Toledo, Ohio, met his death in
a similar manner, July 1.-the new Hi |
nols liquor law, which went into effect July |
/. is creating the utmost CONSERVATION among |
the" saloon keepers in the rural towns. |
Thousands of them are unable to give the |
required bonds, and are thus forced to close |
their doors. There is wailing and crashing
of teeth among the topers. In some towns |
even the brewers have closed up.
CHrciGo buried 26S of her citizens during |
bo TIL
of "A over the week previous. The labor |
: citation has reached the lumber districts |
of Michigan, and the employees in the Sagi- |
nav Valley mills have struck for a reduc- |
tion Of time to ten hours. Several mills |
have been closed in. consequence.
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