Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-05-30

that our Government is determined to stop out
RACES on the Texas frontier at all hazards.
A most terrific tornado passed over a por-
tion of Washington County, Iowa, on the af-
temoon of the 22d, tearing down houses and
fences, uprooting trees, and scattering de-
struction along its pathway. A dispatch from
Washington says that the whirlwind was
about half mile in width, and that it re-
sembled a huge balloon in shape. num-
Der of persons were killed by falling timbers,
and by being caught UP by the storm and
dashed violently to the earth. The damage to
property is immense. The tornado tore a
schoolhouse to pieces, and carried girl
fourteen years of age about quarter of a
mile away. When found she was smashed to
a jelly Miss Smith, the teacher and six or
eight scholars were hurt, some badly. Eight
persons were known to have been killed.
Up to the 25th four hundred and twenty
eight bodies had been recovered from the
wreck of the steamship Atlantic, leaving lis
passengers unaccounted for.
The graves of Confederate soldiers at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, were decorated with
flowers on the Oath by the ladies of the Monu-
mental Association. Two or three thousand
people visited the grounds.
The Grand Jury at Dayton, Ohio, have re-
ported bills of Indictment against Mrs. Earhart
and her son Michael for poisoning the Hera
family, of Germantown, Ohio, on the 22d of
April last, with intent to kill.
Levi Sauls was hanged at Marion Court
House, S. c., on the 23d, for the murder of
Noah Sutton on February 10.
There has recently been disastrous failure
in the lumber trade. Twelve firms, nine of
which are located in New York State, one in
Cleveland and two in Chicago, which had en-
tered into a combination in the lumber trade,
have suspended. Total liabilities, about
So, 100000.
From the 1st of April to the 10Th of May of
the present year, 600,56 immigrants landed at
the port of New York.
An order was issued on the oath, by Judge
Fancher, requiring the sheriff to produce
George Francis Train before him on the 2Sth
to inquire into his sanity.
Fulton, Warren and McDonough Counties,
ILL.,, have been visited by a severe wind and
rain storm, by which much damage was done
to property, and several lives were destroyed.
The tornado swept over track forty to one
hundred rods in width between Swan Creek,
in Warren County, and Avon, in Fulton
County. Many buildings were demolished
indeed everything was destroyed in the track
of the storm-houses, barns, fences, orch
ards, etc.
A telegram from Council Bluffs, Iowa, Goth
announces the arrest at Ely Station, on the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Quincy Railroad,
of person supposed without doubt to be
the old man Bender, implicated in the horrible
Kansas murders.
The examination of Col. DeBlanc and others,
of St. Martinsvile, La, charged with con-
spiracy, etc, under the Ku-lIlux laws, took
place at New Orleans on the Goth. The Com
missioner ordered their discharge, after hear
ing the evidence adduced, on the ground that
there was no proof to justify their detention.
Several physicians, members of the Massa-
chusetts Medical Society, have been tried be-
fore a Board convened for that purpose
charged with practicing homeopathy, and their
expulsion recommended.
1t is stated in Washington dispatch thatno>
official confirmation of Colonel McKenzie's raid
into Mexico had been received there, and that
even if the reports published were true, there
was no fear Of trouble with Mexico in conse-
quence.
At Shadyside, near Pittsburgh, Pa, a few
days since, while two little girls were playing
together, one of them applied.a lighted match
to the mouth of a can filled with carbon oil.
An explosion followed, and in an instant the
clothing of the children were saturated with
oil. They were enveloped in flames and burned
to q crisp.
James w. Wallack, the well-known actor,
died on the Oath in seeping-car on the train
between Aiken and Richmond, while returning
from visit to the former place for his health
He was fifty-four years of age.