Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-29

Railway postal-car service has been
directed by the Postmaster-General to be pro-
vided between Pittsburgh and st. Louis, 0iG the
Pan Handle and Vandalia route.
In letter to the Attorney General, re-
ceived on the ed, Gov. Ames, of Mississippi,
states that the threatened troubles in that State
had subsidized. The militia had been disbanded,
and there was no prospect of further trouble.
Henry Brown (colored) was hanged on
the 22d at ST. Louis for the murder in May last of
Philip Pfarr.
Returns were received from seventy-six
counties in Ohio on the 22d, which, with reliable
reports from the remaining twelve indicate that
Hayes majority will exceed $500.
According to Des Moines Qowa) dis
patch of the 22d Gov. Kirkwood's majority in
ninety-seven counties was 1885, with the
counties of Lyon and Palo Alto to hear from,
which would increase it by 200.
A German named Fritz Kaizer jumped
from the tower of the Chicago Water Works on
the afternoon of the 22d, and fell to the ground,
a distance of nearly 200 feet. He was almnstZan
undlsU1nguishable mass of flesh when picked up,
every bone in his body being broken. He was
undoubtedly insane, and had been a recent in
mate of an insane asylum. tse j.
A New York mercantile agency in a
recent circular states that the business failures
in the United States for 1875, up to Oct. 1 num-
Der 1894, with liabilities aggregatng $751; SOB
They were more numerous during September in
volying liabilities estimated at S54,32S, 237.
The Charlottesville (Va.) National Bank
suspended on the 23d. Several prominent busi-
ness men in that section closely connected with
the bank were also forced to close their doors
The registration in New York for the
approaching election aggregates 144,934, against
LAG, 21S last year.
The annual report of the Commissioner
of Pensions shows an invalid army-roll of ,4;S,
requiring an annual payment of $10,961, 210. The
army widows number 104,S requiring $12,S35,-
$40 per year. There are 1888 survivors of the
war of 1912, requiring $1,524000 annually. The
widows of the war of 1912 number 5,163, requir-
ing $495,648 annually.
The town of Vermillion, Ohio, was al
most wholly destroyed by fire on the morning of
the 22d. Loss estimated at $4,000.
Mrs. D. L. Murden, of New Orleans,
was burned to death on the 22d by the explosion
of a coaloil lamp.
Hayes, the Arctic explorer, in a recent
letter to the New York Herald, expresses his be-
lief in the existence of an open Polar Sea and
grets that the Pandora did not winter there and
renew the search for the records of Sir John
Frankln's expedition in the following spring.
He says C the north pole is within the reach of
any nation that will think it worth while to spend
money enough to get to it,
Messrs. Moody and Sankey began their
revival work in the Brooklyn IN " Rink on the
morning of the gath. The services were largely
attended both morning and afternoon. An
nouncement was made that services would be
held every evening during the week except Sat-
urday.
According to the estimates of DR.. Lin
derman, Director of the Mint, the gold and silver
production Of the country next year will be in
the neighborhood of S100000,00.
Mr.. and Mrs. Murray, recently married,
were burned to death at their residence in
Cheshire, Conn, a few nights ago.
Prof. Atchison, an aeronaut recently
attempted balloon ascension at Elkhorn, KY.
When several hundred feet high the balloon took
fire, and the aeronaut was precipitated to the
earth and dangerously if not fatally injured
Col. John A. Joyce, formerly Revenue
Agent at st. Louis, was convicted on the 23d, at
Jefferson City, Mo-, of conspiracy to defraud the
revenue.