Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-02-09
The West.

BAKER, one of the witnesses for the prose-
cution in the Robinson murder case, at Salt
Lake city, has made an affidavit that his
testimony before Judge Mexican in the pre-
liminary examination was wholly untrue
and false. On this affidavit Baker was ar
rested for perjury, and is now confined at
Camp Douglas.
THE Supreme Court of Kansas has sus-
pended the execution of DR.. Melicott, who
was to have been hanged on Thursday for
poisoning Mr.. Ruth, until the ed of March.
.....Six persons, confined two in cell,
escaped from the jail at Oadiz, Ohio, OH
Thursday, by digging from one cell to an
other with iron rods from the masonry of
the jail, and then making their way to the
upper story, escaped by means of a bed cord
from q window......Mrs. Reynolds, wife of
Ex-Governor Reynolds, of Missouri, was
most shockingly burned on Thursday even
ing by her clothes taking fire from an open
CRATE. She was in feeble health, and when
discovered had all her clothes burned off
except small portion about her neck and
breast. Her I'M uries were so severe that,
after lingering in an insensible condition
until o'clock Tuesday morning, she died.
THE business part of Abbcville, Mo-, was
destroyed by fire on Friday. Loss $50 900
insurance $15,000.....The body of an I'M
known German, about IS years of age, was
on Saturday found suspended from tree, at
Kenosha, Wis. Deceased is supposed to be
from Milwaukee or Chicago, and a murder
is suspected ...... Both houses of the Missouri
Legislature have unanimously passed a bill
authorizing st. Louis to issue 81, 1856, 900
bonds for the extension and protection of
water works.
LITTLE seven year-old daughter of Mrs.
A. Grissam, near Shawneetown, ILL.,, was
burned to death on Sunday by her clothes
taking fire.. Mount Hood Oregon. is
throwing out a dense column of smoke, in
dicative of active volcanic action ..... Louis
Zimmerman, of Cleveland, aged 10, COM
mitted suicide on Monday morning by shoot
ing himself. 49,. The spoke and hub factory
belonging to the Defiance Manufacturing
Company, at Defiance, Ohio, was destroyed
by fire on Sunday. Loss $4,000; insured
~ for $4,000.
E N<~JoHS OBURN committed suicide at Joliet,
ILL.,, on Monday, by shooting himself with o
shot gun. The shot took effect in his heart
s. causing instant death. The deceased was a
very Incorporate man, and leaves a wife and
& six children in destitute circumstances......
On Monday night Frank Grice, city editor of
the Kansas City Net0S, shot Charles White
head, city editor of the Times. Both had
previously INDUCED in newspaper personali-
ties. The latter sought the former all the
evening, finally found him at the Ne,os office,
and in the darkness grappled with him.
Grice finally drew Derringer, and shot
Whitehead in the hip. The latter will be
laid up month. Grice gave himself up,
and was released on bail.
ALDERMAN BUssE, of Chicago, was on Tues
day found guilty of accepting brides, max
ing the third conviction in the Common
Council of that CITY, The planning mills of
Rudy, Hilton & Co., at NATION, Ill, were
n burned on Tuesday morning. Loss, $40 900;
no insurance.....F The steamer Mary Taylor
3 sailed from San Francisco for Ecuador on
Wednesday with divers and machinery for
raising the treasure sunk on the Spanish
frigate L'Acadie in 1902.
The South