Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-07-11
NUMBER Al.


ascendcd 500 or 600 feet, when the balloon col :
lapsed. The ropes passed from under the bas-
ket, and the Professor came down 100 feet
from where he assembled, to the horror of ten
or twelve thousand persons.
The deaths from cholera reported in Nash
vile on the 4th were nine, and on the 9th,
four; in Memphis on the 4th, five, on the 5th,
two, and on the 9th, six; in Cincinnati on the
5th, nine, and on the 9th, five. In Chattanoo-
ga, on the I'd, there were sixteen deaths. Cases
are also reported from Franklin, Ky, Wheel
ing, WA, Huntsville, Ala, and other
Southern towns.
The landing of the shore end of the new At
lantic cable at Hearts Content was successful
ly accomplished on the 4th.
On the morning of the Fourth picnic party
went out on Green Lake, Wis, in small
yacht, on a fishing excursion, and had proceed
ed but a short distance when squall struck
the boat, capsizing it. The following persons
were thrown into the water and drowned: Mrs.
A. p. Carman, Mrs. Geo. Harding, Miss
Jennie Ola, Mrs. M G.. Russell and child,
Wm Bloxham, wife and child Mrs. John
Baird, and child of the Rev. Mr.. Allen.
Frank H. Walworth has been sentenced to
Imprisonment in the State Prison for life.
Judge Davis, before passing sentence, said that
the evidence, in his opinion, justified the ver
dict (murder in the second degree( and he was
not sure but it would have justified verdict
of murder in the first degree. The prisoner
heard his sentence apparently unmoved, and
at the close retired from the courtroom ac-
companied by his mother. Upon being taken
to his cell he parted cheerfully from the Sher-
iff saying that his was a case which he thor
oughly understood, but did not blame the
world for not understanding.
Elizabeth McWay, at Noblesyille, Ind, used
the kerosene can to hurry up the fire few
days ago, and was burned to a crisp from the
neck down. She lived but a short time.
A young man and a woman named John
Elliott and Margaret Rollinston, accompanied
by child, attempted to cross the Niagara
Ruin from the American side in small boat,
on the 4th, but were caught in the rapids and
carried over the Falls. The young man and
the girl were from Cincinnati, and were to
have been married on the following day.
The storms which prevailed throughout
portions of Chic and Indiana on the I'd, Sd and
4th, caused great obstruction. Houses were
unroofed, trees blown down, bridges washed
away and the crops in many cases nearly ruin
ed. We have accounts of the ravages of the
storm also in portions of Iowa, Missouri,
Kentucky and Wisconsin.
The steamship City of Washington, from
Liverpool June "a, for New York, struck on
Gull Rock Bar, Port Lebear, seventy miles
west of Sambro, on the afternoon of the 5th,
IN f1,oY a.1An
were landed safely. The ship was likely to
become a total wreck.
A Frenchwoman and child in Dudley, Mass,
were so badly burned by an explosion Of kero-
sene oil, few nights ago, that both died.
Another child could not recover.
The investigating committee appointed by
the Trustees of the Howard University to ex-
anime into the alleged financial mismanage-
ment of that institution and of General
Howard's connection Herewith, have made
report, showing the University to be in
sound financial condition, and entirely exeul-
pating General Howard from the charges made
against him.
The news from the Indian country on the
7th was that band of 200 Arizona Indians had
crossed the line and entered Chihuahua to
spoil the Mexicans. Captain Jack and his
companions in confinement were reported to be
growing wan and weak from the effects of
their imprisonment. The number of Modoc
captives had been increased by the surrender
of three more braves, with then, " omen and
children. f5 .et--aa~s .Fret. s.g,
A Des Mones dispatch Of the 1tn says ''the
anti-monopoly party in Iowa are going forward
to make nominations, for State and county
officers" ~y 4%k.st@A
Buffalo had three slight shocks of earth
quake on the evening of the 9th and another
ON the morning of the 7th. The only damage
done was the throwing down of a chimney in
the center Of the city. @ T
1t is now stated, upon good authority it is
said, that the illness of Vice President Henry
Wilson has assumed q paralytic form, dis
abling him physically, and rendering neces-
sary a cessation of intellectual labor, at least
for the time being.
A dispatch from Stanley's Yellowstone ex-
pedition, dated Scamp, seventy miles west of
Bismarck, Dakota, June 30," states that the
health of the whole command was good. The
Indians were offering no serious resistance to
the location of the railway through their hunt
ing grounds. Abundant coal of good quality
was found twenty-seven miles west Of the
Missouri River, on the surveyed line of the
road, and the country thus far traversed by
the expeditionary force is an excellent one,
well grassed and watered.
Washington dispatch says that the deficit
charged against Jacob Thompson, Secretary of
the Interior under Buchanan Administration,
is explained by the statement that that amount
of Indian trust bonds was abstracted by one
Goddard Bailey, clerk in the Department Of
the Interior. The deficit, though charged to
Thompson's account, is carried from year to
wear in the accounts of the Secretary of the
Interior. rT
The deaths from cholera reported on the
18th, were: In Cincinnati, seven; Memphis,
three; in Nashville there was none. One fatal
case had occurred in Jersey City. A special
from Chattanooga reports fifteen deaths from
the disease in that city during the preceding
forty eight hours.
A BLACK AND WHITE Boy CoMBINA-
remarkable boy was to be seen
at the Nashville depot yesterday; in fact
one of the greatest curiosities Of the age.
He is half white and half black, not in the
mulatto and miscegnation sense, but the