Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-19

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rowly missed the Mayor of Helena. It was
only after desperate struggle that Hanley
was overcome and committed to jail
Incidents and Accidents.
Mrs. Maria Boyer, captured by the Sioux
Indians in 1862, has been surrendered, and
has returned to her home.
A western merchant was choked to death
last week at an eating room in New York, by
a piece of beef-steaA which he was eating.
The sacred bull owned by Dan Rice-the
only specimen of the kind outside of Burmah
was killed near Philadelphia last week by
an accident.
Asad mistake in giving medicine occurred
in Kokomo, Ind, last week. A lady gave
child large dose of morphine, thinking it
was quinine. The child died from the
effects of the morphine.
A man named Jourdan and one Robert
Brown had a difficulty on board boat in
Bon Secour Bay, Mobile, on Friday, in
which the latter was stabbed several times,
fell overheard, and was supposed to have
been drowned
Patrick Farley, an infrm old man--switch-
man at the crossing Of the Rock Island and
Michigan Southern railroads, near Chicago
was killed, on the 9TH inst, by wretch
named John Mollison, who struck him on the
head with an iron car coupler. The latter
AoI b,f no hnop orroctod
Edward Green, the Maiden murderer, VINO
has for months been the Master Barnardine
of Massachusetts, is to be hung on Friday
next at East Cambridge, all the stay appli-
ances of his friends having been exhausted
in the refusal of the lately sought writ of
error.
A discharged German soldier, unable to
find employment, with q starving family,
committed suicide at Philadelphia last week.
by shooting himself with toy cannon be-
longing to one of his children, which he
loaded with powder and marble, and which
he fired into his mouth.
The storm OF the I'd damaged bridge No.
6, on the Prairie du Chen Railway, near
Wauwntosa, Wis, to such an extent that,
Immediately after the afternoon passenger
train had crossed it, it fell with crash
into the stream. The water was from five
to seven feet deep on the railroad track in
that vicinity.
The freshet in Cedar rivers, in Iowa, has
been very destructive. Between GAINESVILLE
and Waverly the water rose SO rapidly and
SO high that several families living near
the banks narrowly escaped with their lives
Five families were ra fled off while their
houses went down stream. There was
great destruction of sheep. One man, S.
d. Bryant, lost one hundred and ffty-six
The wife Of Samuel K. Rose, Justice of
the Peace of Hamilton county, Ohio, was
burned to death at noon on the 9th, while
preparing dinner. She was found dead in
the kitchen, her clothing entirely consumed,
and her body burned to crisp. 1t is sup
posed that the unfortunate woman tainted
on discovering that her dress was on fire,
and was therefore unable to give the alarm.
Mr.. Wbipple of Riga, Monroe county, N.
Y, who, with his family, was bound with
cords on the night of the 28th of February,
and his safe robbed Of about $26, 900 in u. S.
and county bonds, has recovered all of his
property but $4,000 or $4,000, having re-
ceived through the mail package post
New York, March 27, which contained all
the bonds except the amount above men
toned.
Dates from San Domingo to the 25th ult.,
give particulars Of the great fire at Port au
Prince on the 10Th. The FIRE burned for
thirty hours. The cause of it is unknown,
but it is fact that efforts were made by
some men to set on fire the houses that had
escaped. Tbirty-three blocks were COM
pletely burn ed down, embracing about l 1000
houses Eight or nine thousand people are
now without home, many not being able to
save clothes for themselves and children
There is great distress in consequence.
A horrible murder came to light in Phila-
delphia on the 18th. A father, mother, and
four children, together with niece of the
family and hired boy, were the victims.
1t is one If tne most atrocious butcheries Of
the century. The clothes of the murderer
were found, and on the 18th, the murderer
was arrested in Philadelphia. His name is
Antonio Gsnter, and he confesses to having
killed the boy Cornelius Cory, but states
that man named Jacob Yonder killed all
the Deerings. The excitement is great and
attempts were made to lynch him.
terrible crime in the lower section of
Philadelphia was discovered on the after
noon of the llth. A family of seven per
sons had been murdered Christopher
Deering, his wife, niece, and four children,
ON Mr.. behring's farm on the Point
House road. 1t is supposed that the muir
ders were committed on the 9th, by
German laborers on the farm. The crime
was discovered by finding the bodies of
Deering and his wife in the barn. One o.