Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

ecutors of OF ID. w. Goodman, of Alabama,
against the New York Life Insurance Com
pany. The company refused to pay policy
of $4,000 on the ground that several pay
ments of premium were due. The claimants
contended that the company, by Withdraw
ing agencies from Alabama during the war,
prevented Goodman paying the premiums.
Judge Blatchford decreed for the claimants
with costs, the company to be credited for
the unpaid annual payments......Fl on
the 22d: Whiting works of John Petit q Co.,
Philadelphia; loss $25,o00.A Residence of
Henry B. Kirk, at Morrisiana, N. Y; loss
S32 600, insured for $2I 500. Squire Ledan's
house near Cincinnati, o., loss $1,000. j. N.
Hine & Co.'s and B. F. Sisson G Co.'s dry
goods stores at Binghampton, N. Y; damage,
$40 0.....Two men were picked up on Fri
day night in small boat between Washing
ton and Alexandria, one frozen to death and
the other badly frozen, but alive.
THOMAS LARKIN, conductor on the Third
Avenue railroad, New York, was murdered
on Sunday night by Robert Halloran, dis
charged driver, with car-hook. Halloran
escaped......On Saturday evening purifying
house attached to the Metropolitan Gas Com
pany's works, in New York, exploded with
tremendous conclusion. The building was
demolished and the ruins took fire, but it
was fortunately extinguished before extend
ing to the other buildings. The force of the
explosion shattered all the windows in the
vicinity. Only one person was at all Sc
riously injured. Loss about 30,OOO....
Leonard Copenhall and his wife, an aged
couple who had charge of the Holland
church at Paterson, MI, were found dead
n their sleeping-room in the basement of
the church, on Sunday morning, asphyxiated
by escaping gas......A wind storm at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on Saturday night, unroofed sew
eral houses, and blew down innumerable
signs, chimneys, etc. A boy named Thomas
Gazzan was struck by flying timber and
instantly killed. Several other persons were
more or less in ured. At Toledo, Ohio, the
telegraph lines were Frustrated, houses I'M
rooted, and the spire of the First Baptist
Church blown down, crushing an adjoining
dwelling, but without niuring the INNS teB.
Many buildings in Buffalo, N. Y, were also
blown down or injured.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, on Monday, Charles
Johnson, politician, was fatally shot by Rob
ert Henry.....On Christmas day a bloody
ARRAY took place at East Arlington, VT, in a
drinking saloon. Farwell & Lawrence,
keepers of the saloon, shot FIVE persons, two
of whom have died since, and two more are
mortally wounded...... City Marshal Drury,
OF Boston, was stabbed several times Christ
mas morning while quelling disturbance.
He shot one of the rioters, wounding him
neutrality-suspicious. W. Kennedy, stock
broker of Pittsburgh, Pa, shot himself on
the 10Th in his Office He had been unsuc-
cessful in stock speculations, which, it is
supposed, unsettled his mind. lat Buffalo,
on Tuesday, the Grand Duke Alexis, present.
2 ed Parepa Rosa with valuable bracelet,
which he had brought from Russia, as
token OF the pleasure he enjoyed at the
opera en- Christmas. .....A terrible gale of
wind on Saturday night carried off the
newly-erected steeple of the Methodist
church at Sharon springs, at Sharon Springs,
N. Y, and unroofed other buildings.
THE New York Tribune says that Tweed
has either fled the country or skulks some
where, concealed from the Sheriff's officers
until new bondsmen come forward to save
him from lmprisonment....Th The property of
the New York Printing Company, seized by
the Sheriff on a suit brought by the Ocean
Bank on protested note, will soon be sold
at public auction......The jury in the Minor
counterfeiting case at New York have
brought in verdict of not guilty.....A fire
occurred on Wednesday evening in the Har
ward sugar refinery, East Cambridge, Mass,
owned by Nash, Spalding & Co. Loss, $780,
600. The residence of G. A. Woods, at
Wheatland, Pa, burned on Christmas. Two
servant girls were burned to death. Loss,
S25,O00; Insurance, $4,000. THE Connec-
tlcut Democratic State Convention will con-
Vene at Hartford on Tuesday, Feb. 6.
E The West.
RAILROAD accidents on Friday: A passen-
ger train was thrown down an embaukment
twenty feet high, near Burlington, Ind; the
conductor, engineer and fireman were killed
and number of passengers injured. On
the Des Moines Valley railroad, near Sum-
station iowa. q yUnc
the track, and passenger car, the sleeping
and baggage cars, and one freight car were
burned; several passengers were injured,
but none fatally. passenger train on the
Cincinnati and Indianapolis Junction rail-
road was thrown from the track near Nor
rlstown, Ind, and the conductor and engi-
neer killed, and twelve or fifteen persons in
jured, some quite seriously, but none fatally,
1t Is believed. broken rail was the cause in
all three instances. ....A German named
Chas. Kotz was instantly killed on Friday
morning in the Michigan car works at De-
troit, by getting caught in belt. His body
was horribly mangled. The Phoenix mill,
IL Lacon, Ill, burned on Friday morning.
Loss, $4,000; insured for $1I 900 O On
Friday the residence of Mrs. John Corby, al
St. Joseph, Mo-, was totally destroyed by
hre. The house was one of the finest in the
city, and was worth $4,000, while the loss
IN furniture, carpets, ETC., will make the
whole amount 500, 000...... Beaver, Miller &
Co.'s planning and flooring MILL and Creze &
Co.'S chair factory, together with several
barns and one dwelling house, were destroy
ed by fire at Fort Wayne, Ind, on Friday.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000. Daniel
ID. DrlscoIl, an eminent criminal LAWYER of
Chicago, diedin that city on Thursday. $50.
Mrs. Mary 81. Buckley dropped dead at the
door of a neighbours house in Chicago on
Friday. Heart disease was ,supposed'to be
hn VI e " Is. 4
A TERRIBLY, accident occurred on the Bur-
lington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota rail-
road, on Saturday. The bridge over the
Shell Rock river, at Rockford, gave way
while a passenger, train was crossing, and
the whole train went through, falling a dis
tance of twenty-five feet James Judd, en-
glneer, BARTLETT, brakeman, and Robert
White, fireman, were killed Instantly.
Nourse, the Nbaggageman, had leg broken,
and hve passengers were wounded. Joseph
Griffith, while attending the funeral of his
wife, IN Sacramento, last week, fell head at
the grave, of heart disease.
FRED FAs1ocK, an insane German, com
mitted suicide. at Evansville, Ind, on the
25th, byneutting his throat. The Soldiers
Home at Knightstown, Ind, was burned on
Tuesday morning. The inmates will be
transferred y the Dayton, O., Soldiers
Home......Twelve buildings were burned 10
Salina, Kansas. on. Monday. Loss 5000;
insurance small. 81
On Sunday evening, at Vinton, Iowa, Wat
sons block, containing three stores and
hne public hall, was destroyed by fire. Loss
heavy......The residence of c.. Ward, at
Madls2nville, o., was entered en- Wednesday
by burglars, who distracted from a trunk