Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-12-21


4 young lady in New Orleans had her
eye put out, recently, while ria1ng IN
street car. by the careless flirting OF the
drivers whip.
aBurleigh." the nom de plume under which
the Rev. Matthew Hale Smith writes to the
Boston Joayr.aI. tells Of remarkable rob-
berry in New York He says: "Ihe bro
ker was inside The counter near the safe.
man came in without q hat, and With pen
behind his ear. He walked around to the
SPOT where the banker stood who was talk
| ing with a gen leman. and said TO hlm,
! sPlease move, SIR and The banker did. The
fellow 600 / took from the sue several thou
sand dollars in q. S, bonds, and as eooily
walked ayay. and has never been heard OF
| from that day to this. Near tho closing
| hour Of business, the bonds were sought for
| for and could not be found. The banker
| turned to one of the clerks, and asked for
them. stating that he sa.4 him remove them
| from the drawer. Fortunately the clerk
| visa able to prove an abb, and then the Gu
dacity of the thief was made apparent"
| TERRIBLE ACCIDENT "A WHOLE FAMILY
BURNED BY KEROSENE. = The family OF
| Henry Menlen, living on the corner OF
! Watson and Peckham streets, met with
/ sad accident on the morning OF the 4tll lnsf.
1t seems that the father had just come home
| from his work and his wife was lighting the
lamp, when some of the children overturn-
| ed it, and The oil by some means taking ire
an explosion took place, by which the liam.
1 ing oil was thrcwn over Mrs. Menden ana
her children They were fearfnlly burned,
and one of the children (Joseph) died Tues
| day of his Injuries Mrs. Menden at last
accounts, was not expected to live. Her face
is 80 very much burned and swoolen that
she cunnot be recognized by any person
/ who kntw her. DR.. Winkler was called
and did all in his power to relieve the suf-
fering family. Mr. Menden, in trying TO
save his children ana wife. had his hand
4 burned so that he is suffering severely. An
other child was more or less burned, but is
not thought to be in any danger Coroner
| Edwards has commenced an inquest on the
body of the boy Joseph.-Bufato Express,
/ 7M.
An old gentleman named Lane died in a
Boston horse-car on Wednesday. He was
supposed to be sleep until the conductor
attempted to collect his fare.
A young lady in Chesterfield, Morgan
I county, Ohio, was recently shot dead by the
! &CC1UHutdl OK plOSiOA VI u SuA' J"7o 90 SAS
| was kissing her lover to bid him good-by.
The Poughkeepsie Press states that Mr..
! Hiram Penny, station agent on the Harlem
railroad, at Towners station, was Knocked
senseless, while in the act of counting some
money last week, and robbed Of So, OOO by
an unknown man, who is supposed to have
escaped on the next train. Mr.. Penny was
so much injured as to be delirious tor time
| but is recovered. 4vs
/ Mrs. Lydia Scott ,6f Newport, r. l., was
fatally burned by the explosion Of a kero-
sene lamp, which she was trying to extin-
guisb on Thanksgiving morning and died
that night. Her cries brought servant to
her assistance, who had young child OF
Mrs Scott's in her arms, ard in her fright,
she threw the child in its mothers lap,
where it was badly, but not fatally injured.
A man was killed in drunken row in a
New York saloon, by having the point 81
an umbrella thrust into his eye, penetrating
to the brain.
A fire at Oswego on the 18th instant, de-
stroyed the steam saw mill of Chandler q
Wilmot. Loss $4,000.
The boiler of J. G. Murray & Co.'S brush
factory at Lansingburgh, N Y, exploded on
the 18th inst, killing p. Ward, the engi-
neer. Loss $4,000 to $4,000
An engineer on the Orange and Alexan-
/ dria railroad, while the train was in rapid
motion, say hawk sitting upon the track
ahead. and imagining it 10 be Il broken rail,
became so frightened that be jumped from
the engine and was immediately killed.
man was found by the police dead
4 drunk, in the streets Of New York with 81,
500 in his pocket.
A little boy was fatally bitten by horse
in Litchfeld, Conn, few days since.
A girl fifteen years old is on trial in Bos-
ton for bigamy Her first husband, married
at the mature age Of ii, ia in the states
prison.
AEgarroter was captured in Boston the
ether day, and sentenced to rs years in the
penitentiary.
John Rcwes messenger at Gen. Palmer s
headquarters in Louisville, fell from the
fourth story to the basement Of the building
the other night He wa supposed to have
arisen in his seep. Strange to say, he was
not even knocked senseless, though he fell
mre than 40 feet.
In Cambridge, Vermont, six members of
1 the family of Andrew Chase have died with
malignant diphtheria within the short
space of two weeks. A mother and daugh-
ter were buried in one grave.
boy at Fox Lake, Wis, 16 years of age,
broke open his fathers trunk and stole $500
in greeenbacks. The young rascal was
caught, and the money restored.
] A street car driver in Detroit was killed,
the other day, by being caught between
two cars, one of which was in rapid motion.
He was literally ground from end to end by
the two cars, which crushed him completely
to jelly.
Mrs. Sweep, wife of a respectable and
well to do farmer, was killed at Madison,
Wis, the other day, by being thrown from
wagon while the team was running
away.
Two children who were playing with
matches in an attic in Lawrence, Mass,
| recently, set fire to the house. The fire was
extingushed with buckets bnt one of the
children named Rosby, was SO badly burn
/ ed that it died. The other, the child of Mr..
Ward, has since died,
| A key Of gunpowder in a store in Phila-
/ delphia, was exploded the other day by the
careless use of matches, and much damage
done to the building and its contents. No
4 person was killed
q PugiIists Funeral.
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