Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-11-23
incidents and Accidents.

A shocking affair transpired at Museoda,
Wis, last Friday. A lad sixteen years Of
age, named Charles Dimock, a son of Mr..
John H. Dimock, of Chicago, and heir to the
principal part Of the estate of Asa Dimock,
went out to do some chores in the morning,
and in about an hour after was found hang
ing by the neck, dead, in the barn. His feet
were touching the floor, and it is supposed
he was only experimenting, as he had re-
Gently attended circus in Chicago, where
one Of the performers went through the mo-
tons of hanging himself, and since then he
had talked about it a good deal, and won
dered how it would seem. He was bright
intelligent lad, and liked by all who knew
him.
The Europe, of Frankfort, gives the de-
tails of horrible crime recently committed
at Zajezla, Croatia The cure of Lemic was
sitting at supper, when six brigands forced
their way into his house, end whilst three of
them guarded the door, the others proceeded
to bind all the servants and lock them up in
the cellar They then turned upon the cure
and demanded all his money, inficting div
ers cruelties upon the old man. They even
went so far as to pull out his nails with PIN
GERS. They then cut off his fingers and
leaving their victim in that horrible state,
and carrying off all his ready money, to-
gether with his watch and plate, worth about
day of his wounds.
A collision occurred on the Michigan Gen.
trail Railroad on the l4th, by which three
persons we're seriously injured.
A child was scaided to death in st. Louis
by hot grease; "but," says the reporter,
''the parents have two other children"
At Rochester, on Friday of last week two
children were run over at different street
crossings by trains Of the New York Central
railroad.
A fifteen-month- old baby fell from four
story window in Boston, Thursday, and
struck unframed in the yard below.
A man named Riley, in Davenport, Iowa,
attempted to commit suicide by shooting
himself through the head. The ball entered
his forehead and came out at the back CT the
head, but he was still alive at last accounts
A man created sensation in St. Louis last
week, by endeavoring to commit suicide in
the public street A bystander, seeing his
intention, knocked him down, and a police
man near by took him in custody.
Details of the fatal accident to W. P.
Johnson, brother of the President, show that
he was accidentally shot while removing a
gun from a small boat in which he crossed
the Brazos river, on the Oath of October
The ball shattered his arm, and, amputation
being deferred too long, he died after linger-
ing three or four weeks. He leaves wife
and three children.
The Springfield Jorrnol is informed that
on the 9th instant as the up passenger train
on the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad
was in the vicinity of Chatham, one of the
lamps in a passenger car fell from its fas-
Jennings and burst, throwing the oil OVERTIME
floor. In the fall the oil became ignlted and
the flames flashed along the car with fearful
rapidity, endangering the lives OF several
lady passengers, but who escaped as by
miracle lis informant states that before
the flames were extinguished several seats
were burned. and, had the car been full,
many must have lost their lives before they
could have escaped.