Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-08-13

purporting to come from the missing aeronauts,
Donaldson and Grimwood, but their genuineness
is questioned by parties familiar with their hand-
writing. One of these documents read as follows;
ssJuly 1.-two a. IN. We cannot stay up more
than an hour longer, as the gas is rapidly escap-
ing. N. S. Co.
Commander A. J. Drake, U. S. n, died
at Newark, N. j., on the night of the 9TH. -, !
The O'Connell centennial was celebrat
ed in the various cities of the country on the 9TH
At Chicago, Brooklyn, Boston and New York the
ceremonies were interesting and imposing. 3I
Chicago architects to the number of five
having examined The new Custom House Chi
cago now in process of construction have report
ed unanimously in favor of continuing the work
on the original plan and with the same materials.
The report has been forwarded to Washington.
Drexel, Morgan 81 Co., according to a
New York telegram of the 9Th, have arranged
with Duncan, Sherman & Co. and Alex. Duncan,
father of the senior member Of the firm, to cash
all letters OF credit held by travellers in Europe
issued by D., S. & Co.
A portion of Knox County, H., was
swept by tornado which passed over on the
evening of the Eth, doing considerable damage to
life and property. Mrs. John Anderson, OF Hen
derson, was killed outright, and many of the in
iured were not expected to survive. In Wataga
eight houses were destroyed and several persons
were badly hurt. In the vicinity of Knoxville
Mr. Burton's residence was totally destroyed and
all his family more or less injured.
Hon. Charles Schaeffer, formerly State
Treasurer of Minnesota, committed suicide at St.
Paul on the 9Th by shooting himself with re-
volver. He is supposed to have been temporarily
insane. The deed was accomplished at the grave
of his wife in the st. Paul cemetery.
There are now on the Government rolls
the names of 22s,034 pensioners-a decrease of
4,s7 sincelast year. During 1874 $l,2a5,OOO less
was paid out than during 1873.
The printers strike in Washington, D. c.,
ended, the Typographical Union having accept
ed the employers terms of fifty cents per 1000
ems for general composition and forty cents per
hour for time work.
The business portion of Victory, N. Y,
was destroyed by fire on the night of the 9Th.
Forty buildings were burned involving loss of
s95Oo0o An old woman and boy were burned
to death and fireman was killed by falling from
a ladder.
Benjamin B. Halleck, a clerk in the
Treasury Department, w. III. Otman, saloon
keeper, and an old gambler named Brown were
arrested ON the lLn Oh SuSplClou olsSbcdiihS Iuo
$47, 900 from the United States Treasury some
time since. A special of the 9Th says Halleck
had confessed.
The jury in the case of John ID. Lee,
charged with being concerned in the Mountain
Meadows massacre, reported on tine 18th that they
were unable to agree and were discharged. They
stood nine for acquttal and three for conviction.
A committee of the creditors of j. B. Ford
& Co. have recommended the acceptance Of thir-
ty-five cents on the dollar, In twelve monthly in
stallments, commencing Dec. IS, with inter est.
On the morning of the 7th an explosion
occurred in the Government arsenal near Phila-
dephia, which resulted in the death OF one boy
and the wounding of eighteen others.
The Massachusetts Republican State
Convention will be held at Worcester on the Sth
of September.
Private Republican advices from North
Carolina, received at Washington on the 9TH, in
Dictated that the Republicans had carried the
State at the recent election and would have
majority of ten in the Constitutional Convention.