Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-12-28
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Incidents azass Accidents.

On the night Of the 10Th, in Chicago, Miss
| Clara Butler, enc OF the actresses at the
Varieties, was Seriously Injured On the stage.
! In the last scene Of the first piece they were
| playing she was struck in the eye by the
| wadding of pistol. The wound was a
/ painful one, and it is feared she viii lose
the use Of the eye.
A woman in Washington got pistol and
watched for an opportunity to shoot an old
| lover. While waiting for him, the weapon
was accidentally discharged and sent its
bullet through one.of her knees. The lover
| did not express any regret. ea
| The TftusUale Herald says that the other
| day, when young man was having barrels
of petroleum emptied from his wagon into
| receiving tank, he slipped into the oil. and
before help could reach him he became 3
sardine.
At Rastatt, lately, soldier belonging to
the company on guard wrapped himself up
in leaves and branches in such manner as
entirely to conceal his humanity, and in the
| middle of the night crept up on all fours to
enc of the sentinels. The latter, astonished
at the extraordinary phenomen, challenged
ii three times without receiving any answer.
Upon this he put his bayonet into it, and
the intruder fell without uttering sound.
1t was his last Joke. The man was dead.
A man in Barry comfy, Mich, took his
gun to shoot 8 cat, when the weapon was
prematurely discharged, and killed his
wife.
A man in Albany was sent to state prison
for 10 years and six months for knocking o
woman down and robbing her of three or
four dollars. He had better work for his
money hereafter.
man in Albany turned his little son out
Of doors the other night, and the poor boy
was found almost frozen to death The
place destined for the father will not be SO
cold.
A man at Goshen, Ind, lost 68 bead of
fine sheep in one night recently, by the
attack of dogs.
AT Baraboo, Wis, on Thanksgiving day,
two sons of Mr.. William Christie, respec-
lively ten and eleven years old, were skat-
ing on the river. The elder offhe brothers
broke through The younger, exclaiming,
g My brother win drown he will never GO
to school wiHl mo any more " ran to his
help. He also got in, and both were
drowned
Three burglars tried to get into P. T.
Barnum's residence in Brdgeport few
nights ago, but an alarm telegraph set the
bells to ringing, and the men vamosed.
Geo. Griffin, conductor on the Dixon (Ill)
Airline road, was walking on top of his
accommodation train near the Junction on
tho night of the 18th, when he slipped and
fell between the cars, killing him Instantly.
Two boys in Ohio got into a scuffs at
school the other day, when one stabbed
the other fatally with q knife. The juvenile
murderer is about ten years old
The negro Kit who committed rape on
two children near Eldorado, Ark, was ar
rested by four colored Fmen. Judge Lynch
gave him 8 short shrift and O. stout rope.
The steamer De Soto en- route from New
Orleans for pascagoula 3 few days ago ex
ploded her boiler, killing four persons and |
wounded several others. 1
In Edwardsvjlle, Ind, on she 4th instant
Mr.. Denton Shirley, we'll known and re-
spectacle farmer, WAS found in his barn in
an insensible condition with forty-three cuts
and stabs about the head and face In |
addition to this his shoes and stockings had |
been taken of, his leg laid across block, and !
his foot cut of. MIR, Shirley is improving, |
and hopes are entertained for his recovery. |
If he should survive, he will probably |
be able to tell who his would be assassins |
are.
a large rock weighing 10000 pounds fell
into the tunnel at Tunnel Hill, on the |
Nashville & Decatur Railroad, the other
night, breaking the rails and delaying
the passage of the trains for twenty flour
hours.
A Maine blacksmith had his ear bitten off |
close to his head by horse he was hoeing, |
An express train run off tho track Of the
Hudson River road, last week in conse-
quence Of the negligence of switch tender,
smashing the engine, tender and baggage /
car. No one hurt. The switchman didn't /
think it was time for the train TO come yet