Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-05-03
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Z little girl about 10 years of age was
drowned at Lansing, Mich, on the 20. Her
shaker blew into the river near the dam,
and she waded in after it, when, the current
being swift, she was carried over the dam.
The proprietor Of restaurant in Blairs-
vile, Ind, we'll to do nthe world, and with
no family troubles, cut his throat few days
aeo because new liquor law for The county
in which he lived had been passed by the
last legislature.
A young man named james Z. Harris,
residing in the town Of Westfeld, Wis,
committed suicide on the 10th by taking
strychnine. This vas the fourth time he
had attempted to take his life. Three times
he tried laudanum and failed.
A laboring man in Boston, Mass, by
mistake, drank glass full Of solution Of
Potash, used in temperi4g steel Before ne
could be made 10 vomit his entire body
turned bright red color. His life was
finally saved after enduring serrible agony
for several hours.
The ferry boat Windsor, belonging to the
D. & II. r. r. Co. as well as the passenger
and freight depots Of that company and of
the Michigan Southern r. R. Co. at Detroit
were all burned on the night Of the 25th.
Twenty eight lives are believed to have been
lost The DISRUPTION Of property is valued
at 100000
Two brothers went into drug store at
East Saginaw, Mich, the other day, and
bought quantity of quicksilver and aqua
fortis, which they put in the same bottle.
One Of them gave it shake, causing an
explosion, throwing part of the contents in
their faces and eyes, and causing tempo
rary, and perhaps permanent blindness.
An old man in johnson county, H., was
killed BY his TIVE children, aged thirteen
and fifteen, who beat him to death with
clubs. after which they secretly buried him.
The neighbors suspected all was not right,
visited the house and questioned the chill
dren, when they ascertalned they killed
him because he was old and sick and q
great deal of trouble.
A gentleman named Barnes, living in
Jefferson county, Ind, was to have been
married on last Thursday, to q lady named
Jones. On Sunday he called at the house
of his intended, and the same day both Of
them became sick; she died the same night,
and he on Tuesday. The affair is as sad
as singular
English papers give an account of the
destruction by ire, April l, Of the packing
house of Thomas Sinclair & Sons, at Belfast
the largest in Ireland-by which one
eighth of the bacon packed in the United
Kingdom was destroyed. Among the items
were $4,000 hams. The total loss is estim-
ated at $75o,Q0O a5
Gen Burnside met with an accident at
the New Haven Railroad depot, in New
York, o few days ego, which, fortunately,
was unattended by very serious results.
He was about getting on car to start for
home, when q man getting off crowded him
back, and he was caught between the NOV
ing car and an iron post; and rolled along
in very narrow space. He suffers some
from the bruises, but the surgeons decide
that he is not internally injured.
a Memphis despatch says that the steamer
John Raymond exploded her boiler and
took fire, when near Island No. 40, at 1C
! o'clock on the morning of the Gath. The
first engineer was blown overheard end lost.
The second engineer was badly scalded.
| Six firemen and deck hands were more OF
less injured. After floating FIVE miles down
stream, the fire was extinguished, and the
passengers were rescued by the steamer
Tennessee, and taken to Memphis. The
Raymond was valued at $4,000. The
| damage will amount to about $1,000.
The Providence Journal notes it as sing
ular coincidence that in the recent disaster
IN the Sound, David Crowley, who had
charge Of one Of the Electra's boats which
went to the succor Of the passengers and
craw OF the III fated steamer City of Nor
witch, was one Of the four men who sue
cessfully struggled for life in that terrible
night when the steamer City Of Lexington
vas burnt, near the same place, twenty six
years ago, while Charles B. Smith, the chief
engineer of the Electra, who had charge Of
another boat, which aided in the escape Of
so many drowning people, was also sur
vivor Of the Lexington disaster.