Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-11-30
Incidents and Accidents.

A woman in Pennsylvania recently ex.
ploded kerosene lamp by blowing down
the chimney. The report was like a mus.
ket, and the careless woman, Mrs. Mathews
narrowly escaped death portion of the
lamp was thrown with great violence agans
| one Of her eyes, and the brass neck Of the
lamp within which the chimney was set, was
blown into many pieces.
| Mrs Eliza Alison, aged sixty-seven years
| in Avon, Rock county, Wis, while watching
with sick child, got asleep sitting too neal
the stove, her clio hes took fire and burned
completely off her body up to her waist
| She was terribly burned, the flesh being
| fairly roasted off the bones of her limbs
She survived until next day when death pu
an end to her terrible sufferings.
man in Providence, r. l., recently de-
| posted in an unused stove 81, 900 for safe
| Keeping. A cold snap coming on while hi
was out Of town, his house keeper built !
| fire in the stove and the hard earnings O.
years were in moment reduced to ashes
Mrs Bonner, a resident of Erie, Pa. was
so shockingly burned, last week by the &C
cidental overturning of a kerosene lamp
that she died in great agony
Among the de tn Gently registered il
| London was that of an infant from splinter
of wood, swallowed accidentally in little
sugar, causing perforation of the bowels.
A man passil G through mill in Lock port
! n, Y. was sucked in and buried under TWEEN
| ty feet of grain, being smothered before ht
could be removed.
Two children, named Antoine Morle, ageG
five years, and Hervaise NORM, three year,
Of age residing with father at Wellington
Bridge, near Montreal. we recently scald
ed tn death by the upsetting Of pot O
boiling water. The children were sleepin,
/ beside the stove, when a man came into The
house drunk, and while attempting to ligh
his pipe upset the stove and a large pot O
boiling water upon the children.
| A St. Louis lady's hoops caught on tn,
steps of a street car as she was alighting
and the fnishap being unobserved by tn,
driver, his horses were started rapidly anc
the lady dragged some distance over th'
stones. Though severely bruised, she wa.
not dangerously injured.
Henry Rover, of Toledo had difficulty
with his wife, and put pistol in his moutl
and fred it off. He never knew what hap
pened after he pul-e the trigger.
A man near Lansing, Iowa, got married
and then hung himself.
The Bloomington, I'll Pantagroph say
that ". H Lawrence, formerly a compassion
in that Office, fell head frs into a W. IL abou
sixty feet deep on Friday evening and wal
taken out but little hurt
On Thursday. a freight train on the Tole
| do Wabash nd Great Western railroad wa,
thrown off the track at Island Grove station
| The locomotive and several cars were smash
ed the engineer, David johnson, was kill
ed and the fireman, Mr.. Us brother was
seriously injured
DIR. Chambers, of Kingston, N. Y, was
beset by two stout highwaymen in lonely
part of the road few nights since and his
money demanded Tbedoctor said, Well
if l must give up my money had better dc
it." So he quietly took off his glove, and,
| putting his hand into his side pocket, he
| drew out-not his pocket book-but neal
revolver, and bringing it to bear in an IN
| slant, he shot one OF the robbers dead. The
other other rufhan then fred at the doctor,
but the ball went harmlessly through his
| hat. The doctor then took his turn again,
and wounded the fellow severely. He then
| rode back to Kingsf on and made known the
facts, but, on returning, the wounded man
had escaped.