Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-22


and others.
A widow woman, the daughter of George
Stephenson, residing near Elkader, Iowa, the
other day poured oil on fire she had just
lighted, when an explosion followed, setting
her clothes on fire and burning her so severely
that she died the same night in great agony.
Intelligence has been received that Para
quay, Brazil, and the Argentine Republic have
signed treaty of peace.
In a recent letter. Treasurer Spinner says:
"The resumption of specie payment has been
and think will continue to be, put off until
the time when the balance of trade shall be in
our favor. When that time arrives resump-
ton will be easy In truth, it will, from that
cause, come of it's own accord" a., tes
The returns of the Agricultural Department
for the 1st of August indicate general and
somewhat marked improvement in the condi-
ton and promise of the cotton crop since the
1st of July The average condition on July /,
was S5.5; on August ], ,91.S.
The Government examination into the Wa
wasset disaster was begun at the Treasury
Department in Washington on the 18th. A
Washington special of that date says eighty
two bodies had been recovered from and about
the wreck, and it was believed that at least
200 persons were on board at the time of the
disaster.
General Rosser, in charge of the railway
survey of the Stanley Yellowstone expedition
has reported that he finds the new route OF
access to Western Dakota, from the Missouri to
the Yellowstone River, entirely practical and
satisfactory, it being greatly superior to those
of Jox N1o dicta txUn hun
and five miles, is twenty-one miles shorter
than the survey of 1871. The grades are
moderate. The Directors of the Company
have accepted the new line recommended by
General Rosser, from Bismarck, the present
end of the track, to the Yellowstone crossing.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a
circular giving notice that the principal and
accrued interest of the fve-twenty bonds be-
low designated will be paid at the United
States Treasury, Washington, on and after the
18th of November next, and that interest will
cease from that day. Both numbers specified
of bonds called in are inclusive, and are known
as the third series, under the act of February
25, 1862, dated May 1, 1862, as follows:
Coupon Bonds-$5O, Nos. 6,201 to 10000;
$780, Nos 20 600 to SO, 75O; $500, Nos. 10, 701 to
50,S00; 1000, Nos. 22,601 to $4,000; Total,
$13, 600.
Registered Bonds-s50, Nos. 1921 to 1875;
$780, Nos. 9,501 to 10000; $500, Nos. 5,701 to
6,10O; $1,000, Nos. 23,301 to $4,000; $1,000,
Nos 1901 to 1900; $4,000, Nos. 9,6S1 to
10, 100. Total, $2,O00,O00. Grand total, $15,-
1000.
United States securities forwarded for re-
demption should be addressed to the loan
division of the Secretary's office, and all
registered bonds should be assigned to the
Secretary of the Treasury for redemption.
horrible accident occurred on the Chicago,
Alton & St. Louis Railroad, few miles from
Chicago, on the night of the 10th. The St.
Louis fast express train, which left Chicago
at nine o'clock in the evening, was met by a
coal train about two and half miles north of
Lemont, both trains running at full speed,
when a fearful collision ensued. Both
engines were completely wrecked and the
smoking-car of the express train was thrown
atop of the engine of the coal train, and the
steam passed in upon the passengers through
a seam that was made in the bottom of the car.
Eleven persons, all Of whom we're in the smok-
ing car, were killed. and forty others severely
injured, many of them fatally.
An Oshkosh CWis) special of the 10th says
J. N Hoaglan, President of the Winnebago
County Convention of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry, had published a card denying the truth
of the statement that nineteen Oranges in the
county had agreed to hold their wheat until a
rise in the price took place. 1t is said the
Oranges took no action on the subject, and IN
dgnantly deny any desire or attempt to Or
ganize corner on wheat
The seventh annual reunion of the Army of
the Cumberland will be held in Pittsburgh on
the nth and 18th of September.
S. S. Cox has been nominated by the Demo-
Gratis of the Sixth New York Congressional
District for the vacancy caused by the death
of the Hon. James Brooks.
| Gold in New York on the 18th closed at
| 11511.
A Des Moines dispatch of the 10th says an
official statement shows that the number of
Oranges in Iowa was 1850. The number in
the United States ON the 10Th of July was
| 5000, with total membership of 250,000.
| Mrs Ellen Mckinney, of Chicago, in order
to hurry up the fire, poured kerosene oil from
can into the stove. Both herself and her lit
! tie girl, aged four years, were fearfully, and
probably fatally, burned. H#
The number of killed and wounded by the
recent railroad accident near Chicago, as re-
ported ON the 10Th, was fifty-one. The dead
up to that date were: O.,
| Capt. John w. Smith, Warden of the Illinois
| State Penitentiary.; J. w. Fleury, Purchasing
Agent of the Illinois State Penitentiary; Captain
William Lettle, Springfield, ILL.,. Roger j. Brass,
| Thomas Norton George Trendel, George Reuter-
and Conrad ,Webber, Chicago; James O'Neill,
Joliet; Theodore Steng, Texas; Jacob Cundat,
! Oshkosh Wis; n. Divelblss, Springfield, ILL.,; ia
cob Lauser, Joliet, ILL.,; William Davis, fireman of
coal train: Joseph B. Niche, jackson, Tenn !;
| John Metzler, Joliet, brakeman of coal train; and
| man supposed, by papers found on him, to be
| Thomas E. Pollard.
Of the wounded alive on the 10th it was
thought all but A. G. Hickman, of Chicago,
and Frank Bridges, fireman of the passenger
engine, would recover. s3
Leading physicians have informed the Jour
| nal that, with the exception of district of a
| few blocks in the extreme southwestern por-
| ton of the city, there isno cholera in Chicago,
and that the cases that have occurred in the
district referred to were not Asiatic cholera,
| but of a sporadic character. 1t is further as
serted that the general health of the city shows
better average than the corresponding sea-
sons of the past few years.
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Mr.. Emmett Dewsmore, of England,
has invented writing machine. 1t is
about the size of small sewing machine,
has key board with three rows of keys,
each marked with a letter or number,
which connect ingeniously with duplicate
letters and figures in metal. These i'm
press themselves, when properly manipu.
| lated on wooden cylinder, around which
is rolled the paper to be written upon
By its use it is claimed that an expert can
| nript q sentence or an article from m tr