Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-05-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East,

&fiVer,1New York, Friday, with his hands
ana leet strapped together. 1t is supposed
thatsthe man was murdered. His remains
were unrecognZed. Mrs. Abbie Christian
saarswas thrown from a car and instantly killed,
e1a friday afternoon, while on her way to
t"@ UaIvary cemetery, New York, to visit her
husoands grave. Engineer James Wood
ran special train from Rochester to SYRIA
cuse, N. Y..,Friday, distance of eighty-one
miles, in eighty-two minutes. Emma
Couch has been held to bail in the sum of
a. 5000 for blackmailing Rev. Dr. Carter at
ara New York. II, ~. . =. 80
1aa Il SATURDAY morning while party of engi-
neefs were examining the disused gangway
in Pine Ridge colliery, two miles from
e---Wilkesbarre, Pa, an ex plosion of fire-danp-
eook place. Thom.s Morgan, David Nor
gan ana Ivan Davis were killed, and an
other badly hurt, but will recover. The
Equal Rights Convention, at New York.
geo fSiter volumes of persifage, on Saturday
.#t %Votgo 10 enter the canvass with the goddess
'.' OF OF liberty on their banner and authorize
4, $5,0eo IN bonds to elect Victoria Woodruff
TO the Presidency 800. The lead works of Fab
zr.. nestock, Hazett & Swartz, on Liberty
street, Pittsburg, Pa, took fire at two O'Clock
sunday afternoon, and were entirely de-
"a sEroyed, together with dwelling adjoining.
Fahnestock's loss is very large, and will
asss probably reach $685. insurance $50, 900.
e'a@...::T. buchanan Ried, The poet died at the
'~-- Astor House, New York, on Saturday..
reports from Chichester, Ulster county,
n: T., say that the mountain fires there are
tnree miles In length. The united efforts
OF IoO men alone saved the village Of Chi
chester.
FIRE at Williamsburg, N. Y, Monday
evening, destroyed sixteen houses, and
rendered 1872 families homeless. No lives
81 We're lost The dwellings, were worth
fz. sou 700. 1.-The Grand Trunk railway bridge,
=, at South Paris, Me-, Monday, burned hav-
ing caught fire from embers dropped by
the engine. ... Richard Keefe, Dennis Shea
-- Geo. Briggs and Thomas Franklin were
capszed in sail-boat off Erie, Pa, on Sun
.a,t day night. Franklin got-an oar and pad
died the boat ashore with one of the others
on 1T, who died after. The 9th ers
drlfted OIL and their bodies have not been
recovered. The propeller Chicago, of Chi
cage, laden with flour and general ~mer-
schandise, sunk about twenty miles from
w~Buffaio, N. y, on Monday. Crew saved.
The body of man named Ward, clerk
ma u. Stewards, New York, who disap-
peared on March l, has been found in North
r+8 river. O.. Ward had evidently been murdered
and robbed.
The New York Tribune of Wednesday
morning publishes the following card from
Horace Greeley /" The Tribune has ceased
" w q Pdlby OIBdu1 UuL bl6 unexpected
nomination of its editor al Cincinnati seems
tolnyolye it in a new embarrassment. All
( must be aware that the position of journal
lst, who is at the same time candidate, is,
- at best, lrksome and difficult; that he is
tettered in action and restrained in criti-
cism by the knowledge that whatever he
may say or do is closely scanned by thou
sands eager to find in it what may be so in
terpreted as to annoy or perplex those who
are supporting him as a candidate, and to
II chAOl In1n
NIT him to be serviceable. The undersigned,
therefore, witbdraws absolutely from the
conduct ut the Tribune, and win henceforth,
until further notice, exercise no control
@supervlson over its columns" The editorial
management of the Tribune falls on White
law Reid..... officer John Leslie had his
head split open with cleaver, in New
York, Tuesday, by German rag-picker,
Who was prevented by the officer from muir
derlng ais wife.....The fire in the Shawan-
gunk mountains, New York. has burned
s over space of two miles in width, destroy
ing 50O cords of wood and an immense
quantity of timber. THE fires in the
woods IN the vicinity of Scranton, Pa, are
stlii raging in many quarters, destroying
vast amounts of lumber and timber. A
number OF barns and small houses have
peen destroyed in the vicinity of Moscow
and hehigh Falls. AT New York, Monday
night, John McMara, sixteen years old, shot
and fatally wounded his father. AT Pitts
burg, Pa, on Tuesday, Eliza M. Cartney,
White IN spasms, fell upon a red hot stove.
When assistance reached her it was found
mat hershead, face, arms, breast and limbs
- were burned to crisp..".O. 6. Ferry, of
connecticut, was reelected United States
senator on Tuesday.
!: The New York Chamber of Commerce, on
Wednesday, with butone dissenting voice,
~ adopted resolution approving the supple
mentary article to the Treaty of Washing
ten......Mr Bonner's stallion Startle,"
only five years old on the 18th, driven by
:. Geo. Hopkins, trotted half mile Fleet
wood Park, Wednesday, in the marvellous
-'.ss time of 1:044. This is the fastest half mile
.>s by two seconds ever made in harness on
y Fleetwood by any horse of any age. In
deed, it is the fastest half mile by two sec
~"onds ever made anywhere by any horse
81: cept. Dexter, who once trotted half mile
e. inc xactly the same time......A private dis
patch from Scranton, Pa, reports that an
other fire damp explosion occurred, at an
early hour on Wednesday morning, at the
Belleview shaft, killing three mon instantly,
andwounding many others.
-. ' :, 49,, -, ~, .' e.. The West. .-
a. A FIRE at Chicago on Friday evening de-
:, 49,. stroyed the three-story frame planning mill
and sash and door factory of F. j. Rowell &
sss Son.. Boss about $40, OoO.Mr Joshua
a, Dye, OLA bington, Ind, was almost instantly
- skifled:at Richmond, Ind, by being knocked
:. down in drunken fight at Bennet's livery
-s'stable, Friday afternoon, by colored hostler
manned Sol. Davis, who was arrested and is
now in jail.-...A dispatch from st. Louis,
- May 10, says " Some days since two men
=, named Tulden and Anderson were murdered
,sins Caldwell, Sumner county, Kansas, by a
49, man named Mccarthy, who escaped into
the Indian Territory. A vigilance commit
tee Immediately pursued, found, and shot
-, MCCARTHY After the return of the vigilants
's.aeshoeting ARRAY took place III Wellington,
90 lns'wbich Jack Lynch shot and wounded
two,1aen named Hopkins and Clark, and re-
=, ceived two wounds himself. Lynch was ar
S,fested.. The affair coming to the knowled &c
~@'ofthe Caldwell vigilants, they marched over
: to Wellington, twenty miles, took Lynch
from the officers having him in custody, and
hung him. s.z-rr... =.
- - - Amour midnight on Saturday, William
Rowles, an engineer of the Great Eastern
= railroad was crossing the track at the cor
"ner of Kinzie and Carpenter streets, Chicago,
when sheswas ca light between two cars and
- Crushed to death instantly.
AGENrLEMAN by the name of Mumford, of
: T. Chicago, about,52 years of age, was muir
dered at Kcnosha, Wis, on Monday morn
ing. His skull was found broken in by a
heavy, bent instrument, probably a bar of
.sironss "a Young German is the .suspected