Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-06-14

MARQUETTE, the Bay City and East Saginaw,
the Holly, Wayne and Monroe, the Flint
River, and the Cass River-haVe been con-
solidated into one corporation, under the |
name of the Flint and Pero Marquette Rail-
road Company McLane, Decatur,
Ind. broker, was shot and killed by a man
named Zimmerman, on the 4th inst, for al
legged intimacy with the latter's wife...... The
fourth trial of Mrs. Glenn, the alleged In
dianapolis murderess, was commenced at
Lebanon county, Ind, on Monday, june 3.
......Andrew Bauer fell into a privy vault OF
the st. Nicholas Hotel, at Pittsburgh, on
June 4, and was suffocated in the excrement.
IAN unknown man was run over by
train of cars at Bloomington, ILL.,, on june 4,
and literally torn to pieces ...... On June 4, an
unknown Swede was run over and killed by
a construction train at Moline, Ill.......The
switchmen on the railroads centerins in
Chicago are on strike for an increase of
wages.
NEWCASTLE, Ind, had $25, 900 fire on the
night of June Late advices from Da-
kota Territory state that the workmen on
the Northern Pacific railroad have no trou-
BILE whatever with the Indians, and the mon
are all healthy and happy, with the work
rapidly progressing 1.-THE Oregon electon
has resulted in the success of the Republican
ticket.
The South.
Miss ELIZABETH Fl. PATTERSON, of Louis
willie, has instituted suit against the pro-
prietors of the United States Hotel, in that
city, for $4,000 for alleged SANDER. The
porter of the hotel told the propretors he
saw men going into Miss Patterson's room
at unreasonable hours, and they refused to
blow her to remain in the house. She was
also discharged from a lucrative position on
account of these evil reports. Accounts
of the freshet few days ago, in Southwest
Missouri, say that whole farms were COM
pletely washed away, leaving nothing but
rock and gravel. Live stock of all kinds
were drowned in large numbers, and hun
dreds Of yards of tho Atlantic and Pacific
railroad track were swept from it's bed into
adjacent fields. wall of water FIVE feet
high rolled down Spring river valley, 1eav-
ing only devastation and ruin behind.
John Branham, who murdered his wife at
Owenton, KY, by splitting her head open
with an axe, was taken from the Owen
county jail, by mob, on the night Of the
3Oth ult., and hung to the limb of a tree.
GEORGE F. CLARK, attached. to Noyes' cir
Gus, in making an ascension in a balloon,
at Memphis, on the 3lst ult., struck against
the jackson block, when the ropes support
parted, letting him fall to the ground, q
distance Of fifty feet, cutting and bruising
him in a horrible manner. Little or no
hopes of his recovery are entertained. His
parents reside at Columbus, 0.
THE twentieth annual session of the IN
ternational Typographical Union assembled
at Richmond on the Sd inst. Eighty-one
subordinate unions werc represented, in
Guiding three from the British provinces.
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, VIM Ham mono,
of New Orleans; Vice Presidents, E. ..
Crump, of Richmond, and Robert G. Streat-
er, of Deseret, Utah ; Secretary and Treas
surer, John Collins, of Cincinnati; Corres-
ponding Secretary, r. A. Hamilton, of Phil
adelphia.. O. P. Nicholson, an old-timo
politician of Tennessee, has just had his
political disabilities removed. IT.
A FIRE in Pulaski, Tenn, on juno 5, de-
stroyed $40, 0OO.worth of property. James
Parker was. killed.. and several others in
iured, by the explosion of locomotive
boiler, ataSanderson, Fla, on the 9Th inst.
Ia n ! %~WashingtOns ~ &C. - = '~
BorH houses of Congress have reconsdered
their resolution to adjourn on June 3, and
extended the time to Juno 10......The Secre-
tary of the Treasury has directed the Assist
ant Treasurer at New York to withdraw
$1,300,000 of three per cents.....It is an
nounced that the civil service regulations
respecting the appointment of clerks in the
departments arc completed. The United
States District Court at Washington has di-
rected the payment to three parties of the
proceeds Of the sale of their property by the
government under the onGscation act. This
ruling accerds with the Amnesty law.
The President, on Saturday, vetoed the bill
to pay DR.. Milton Best, of Kentucky, the
value of his house, destroyed by Union
againstsa large class Of loyal claims peading
in Congress.
Tue latest advices from the capital leave
no hope for the success of the supplemental
artcl g. to th s. Was hin gton Treaty.. y. The
conference committees of the two houses Of
Congress on the Tax bill have agreed to re-
port consolidated tax on spirits of 20 cents,
and to fl the duty on tobacco at 20 cents.
49,. EXT President johnson has gone to. Wash
ington, in response to g summons from the
House Military Committed, to testify with
reference to the missing Buell. ceurt-martial
records. ffe@%@E~ ENek sfHfEGEF#8
& TEE Presidents proclamation, just issued
in accordance with atheGamnesty act dis
misses all penal prosecutions against those
persons coming under its provisions, who, it
is alleged, held office in violation of the~t
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States. Rumors that Sec
rotary Fish is about to resign are again rife
at the capital.
n Foreign.
ADvIcES from Spain to the 30th ult. repre-