Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-09-19

he was escorted by an enthusiastic multi
tude of people to the Grand Hotel, where
he made a speech congratulating the people
on their complete victory over railway mon
opoly.
The Board of Health of Memphis officially
announced on the 18th that the yellow fever
had appeared in that city. 1t was said to be
confined to few blocks in the northwestern
portion of the city, and it was hoped that 1t
would not become epidemic. The news from
Shreveport, La, on the 14th, was to the effect
that the disease there was on the increase. 1t
was estimated that 500 persons were down
with the fever, and the deaths SO far amounted
to 146. A dispatch to the Howard Association
says no report could possibly exaggerate the
condition of affairs in Shreveport, and they
were indeed depIorable. Physicians pronounce
the disease genuine yellow fever in its cpl
demic form.
The banking house of s. II. Tucker, of Little
Rock, Ark, suspended on the morning of the
18th.
A dispatch from Shreveport, La, OF the
18th, represents the yellow fever unabated,
and the distress in the city indescribable. VI
six men in the telegraph office, five have taken
the fever and two are already dead The IN
terments average thirty or forty daily, In
population of perhaps not over 4,OOO. Inc
physicians and nurses are worked down.
Sixty per cent. of those attacked die. Ihe
people of Memphis, Tenn, are greatly excited
over the rumors of the prevalence of yellow
fever in that city. On the 18th, all the trains
leaving on the various railroads were crowded
fha
A dispatch from Grand Rapids, Mich, says
q train was wrecked, on the 18th, ON the De-
troit & Milwaukee Railroad, between that city
and Lowell. There were eleven passenger
coaches, all crowded, and all are reported
demolished. Six persons were known to be
killed.
Another car-hook murder was perpetrated
in New York on the 18th. Walter Bray, who
was riding on the front platform OF Third
avenue street car, struck street-sweeper on
the head with car-hook because he did not
get out of the way as promptly as the driver
wished. ta
A Washington dispatch of the 18th says
that ex-President johnson is in that city, 10
take part in the controversy now going on In
relation to the trial and execution OF Mrs.
Surratt.
Ex-City Treasurer Sprague, of Brooklyn,
has been arrested for malfeasance in office.
The railway bond forgers of Wall street,
johnson and Yates have been admitted to bail,
the former in $33, 900, and the later in $4,000.
The N. Y Express announces the failure OF
the Eclectic Life Insurance Company with
deficiency of nearly 100000.
On the recent voyage to New York OF the
steamship City of Brooklyn, woman who
was steerage passenger, insane from SICK
ness, threw her little boy, four years old, over
board, and then, with her babe in her arms,
dmped into the sea. She was rescued, but
the children were drowned.
The forty-ninth annual communication OF
the Grand Lodge of the United States OF the
I. o, of O. +. commenced in Baltimore, Nd,
on the 18th. Forty-one grand lodges ana
thirty-fve encampments were represented in
the Convention. The number of lodges OF the
order at the close of the year was 5,045, and
of the members, 1856, ,097.
Lieutenant Commander A. N. Mitchell,
commanding the Pawnee, at Key West, died OF
yellow fever on the 18th. ."54
The steamer Ironsides, of the Engleman
line, one of the largest steamers on Lake Mich
igan, foundered and sunk within seven miles
from Grand Haven, Mich, on the 18th. Her
signal of distress was hoisted at nine O'Clock
in the morning, but 30 terrible was the sea
and heavy the wind that no assistance could
possibly reach her. She labored in the trough
of the sea from about 7:30 a. m. till the time
she sunk. The passengers and crew, of which
there were nineteen of the former and thirty OF
the latter, manned the life-boats and left her
about IL a. M, the last boat leaving her at
1850 a. m. When the last boat had
got about a quarter of mile from
her, she went down. There were six boats
filled with the crew and passengers. One OF
the boats, having five men and four women,
capsized, and only one man reached the shore.
Four boats had reached the shore up to IL p.
m The boat with Captain Sweetman, his
wife, and five passengers had not been heard
from 1t is feared they are among the lost.
Thirty-two per- ons are known to have been
saved, and eighteen bodies had been recover
ed. The following is partial list of those
lost, whose bodies had been recovered and
identified: John Driscoll, steward of the boat;
John Hilles, of Milwaukee; Charles Wimmell,
agent of c. E. Harling & Co., New York; Mrs.
FL. A. Valentine and child, of Milwaukee; Mr..
John Denison, of Spring Lake, Mich; Mr.. j.
B. L. Dewitt, of Milwaukee; James Brown,
Harry Hughes, Ed. lyle. The Others are not
yet Identified.