Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-02-08
INCIDENTS A-ND ACCIDENTS.

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INCIDENTS A-vD ACCKDENTS.
AT the time Of the recent explosion OF 8,
I" Pharoah Serpent manufaetory In London,
.tWoEcustomers were entering the ROOM one
was blown out Of the window, and the 9TH
er was found dead in the room. Rather
warm reception.
A defalcation has come to light in the
| Sub-Treasury at San Francisco, the amount
being $4,000. The defaulter is a brother
in-law Of the Sub Treasurer.
At Hartford, JAN 81, the jury in the case
of Albert Starkweather, on trial for the
murder Of his mother and sister, found
verdict of guilty of murder in,the first de-
gree.
By the recent burning of the steamer
Asher Ayres, on the Altamaha river, Geor-
gia, ten or twelve lives were lost.
By the explosion Of an engine on the
Jackson (NIiss.) railroad, a few days ago,
three persons were killed and four wounded.
The Bremen ship Albert Meyer arrived at
New York on the lst, after stormy passage
Of 70 days, during which there were 80
] deaths on board, - at
The town of Elmore, on the Cleveland s.
Toledo Railroad, eighteen miles east of To-
ledo, was visited by q destructive fire on
Saturday night, the 9th ult., when six
buildings in the business part of the town
were totally destroyed. The total loss is
fully $50, O00-insured for about half.
The first load of emigrants from Mobile
/. for Brazil, AZ in number, were shipwrecked
on the coast of Cuba. The lives Of the pas
sengers, and their baggage, were saved.
An aged man in Glasgow recently fell on
the sidewalk, broke his spectacles, and q
piece of glass entering his eye, he bled to
! death. "'
At Milwaukee, Michigan, on the 1st, a
man named Hendricks killed his wife, and
then shot himself.
A cattle drover at Quincy lost 40 head,
which rushed out on the river, broke through
the ice and drowned
| Il The loss by the burning Of the United
States Express car on the Erie railroad,
Jan. 80, is estimated at 100000 An over
land mail for the Pacific coast was de-
stroyed.
The Buffalo papers have "a thrilling &C
count Of o night-ride on an icesscake down the
4 Niagara River of two men, who had started
i from the Canada shore for Black Rock in a
small boat, with companion who was
drowned when the boat first struck the
floating ice,) and who saved themselves by
getting on large cakes of ice. They were
over two hours on, the ice, and were only
rescued when they reached Grand Island,
seven miles above the Falls. If they had
I passed that point, they would inevitably
have gone over the Falls. They had drifted
seven miles in this terrible manner, and
were frozen almost solid when brought to
shore.
The steamer Belfast was capturedrecently
by band of guerillas on the Tombigbde
river and her entire freight of cotton stolen
A man named Lyon was recently frozen
to death in Meridian, Miss. The "sunny
south is not all sunshine.
At Ottawa eleven stores and several other
buildings were destroyed on the Cd At
Fort Riley the Commissary and Quarter
masters warehouse was burned on the 31st,
causing loss of $1,O00,0O0.
On the LIST inst, by the breaking of O rail-
a freight train on the Toledo, Wabash and
Western railroad was thrown down an en-
bankment over hundred feet high, near
the Illinois river The cars were broken
injured that two of them have since died,
and the others are in very critical condi-
/ ton.
During the late severe storm in Minneso-
| ia, young man engaged in teaching school
in the town Of Viola, Olmstead county,
| started from the school-house to his board
ing place, distance of about six miles. He
did not arrive home that night, and in the
morning inquiry for him resulted in the dis
coyery Of his body, frozen stiff, leaning in
/ an easy attitude against fence, in sight of
q house, within a mile of home
Mrs Ruth Clark, aged SO years fell down
stairs in her house in New Bedford Mass.
last week and broke her neck
1 A woman went into house at Boston,
bhe other day with an infant in her arms,
and asked leave to stay awhile, as she was
weak and tired. She also asked for some
thing stimulating, saying that she had re-
Gently been confined. The lady of the
house went out to get a glass of ale for the
stranger, and, on returning, found that her
| own infant, which she left asleep in the
cradle, had been taken away by her visitor
and negro baby left in its stead. Nothing
has been heard of the woman since, and the
affair creates great excitement among the
interested party. 4,. .....,ie
In the late severe weather David H. PERT
| Ter, Of Meeker county, Mimi, had his feet
! frozen, and after the frost was taken out by
immersing taem In cold water, kerosene
was applied for about week, when he
died Under the penetrating and weaken
| ing qualities of the oil, his strength rapidly
! failed. It's influence ON his mind was sin
! gular. He thought the oil would burn him
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the flame in the room,
A penitentiary convict who jumped from
train near Cleveland, the other day, was
chased by thirty men four miles before he
was captured, and then would not give up
without desperate struggle.
Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, has
| been destroyed by an earthquake. Caracas
was one of the largest cities in South Amer
lea, and was nearly destroyed in a similar
manner in 1872
The steamer Missouri exploded her boiler,
Jan. 30, on the Ohio, near the month of
Green river. She had crew of about 100
men, and there were considerable number
of passengers on board, and it is reported
! that only 20 persons were saved, including
the wounded.
The steamer Miami was blown I'D and
burned, on the 2Sth, six miles above the
mouth of the Arkansas river. A hundred
and thirty lives were lost.
By a collision on the Mobile and Ohio
railroad, Jan. 20, one soldier of the 47th
Illinois Infantry was killed, and several
members of the regiment were wounded.
The jail at Marietta, Georgia, was de-
stroyed By fire few days ago, and thirteen