Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-02

Iucideuts and Accidents.
An Ohio. editor had a new shirt collar
given him and he is now waiting for some
one to give him shirt
"a portion of the rock of Freely
marble quarry at Springfield, Massaehu
sets, fell recently and killed five work
men.
.r While on it's way to the grave, last
week. near Louisville, hearse upset, the
coffin fell, broke, and the corpse rolled out
upon, the 1sward. n 0rrnNrTfT
I Joseph Keller, of Winona, Mimi, was
garroted recently, while saying his prayers
. in st. Patriek's Church, st. Louis, and
robbed of $40. The robbers escaped.
in Springfield Erie county, Pa, few
nights since, two dogs entered a sheep fold,
and out of a flock of sixty-four only three
escaped unframed, the rest being either
killed or wounded. -
The Dayton CO., Empire is advised of
a case in one of the public schools of that
city, wherein a female teacher punished a
little fellow until he Misunderstanding him
about fifty-one blows on the hand.
Mai JohnlA. Goodson, formerly mem
Der of the Kentucky State Senate, and
for many years Mayor of Covington, Ky,
committed suicide on the nth. Deceased
was IA years old, No cause is assigned. /
"A child of Henry Beerman, of Elgin,
tipped, kerosene lamp upon itself, on
Monday evening of last week, and set its
clothes on fire 1t was burned so severely
that it died on the Wednesday succeeding.
"A farmer named johnson, residing
near Albany, NJ Y, who was a few weeks
since overpaid $1,000 by one of the saw
ings banks of that city, has been arrested
and placed under bail, he forgetting to re-
turn the money.
8 "A lady tainted a few days Since in the
cars. A medical gentleman present, who
went to her relief, exclaimed "Has any
gentleman flask of whisky or brandy ?'l
Over thirty pocket pistols flashed in the
air at once. ...'. ~
"A man on the stage of the Boston
theater, at the religious meeting Sunday
evening, cut a ridiculous figure by trying
to lay his new spring beaver on at Illusion
mantel, installing the library scene for
a reality. 81
"A man who had been grinder at the
axe works in East Douglas, Massachusetts,,
for fourteen years, died last week, and on
post amortena examination, it was found
that his lungs were full of dust from the
grindstone. 4 Y .#l.i3j L ~
| On Thursday the 18th, the clothing of
little daughter of Mr.. Lows, of Laporte
Indiana, caught fire from heap of burn
ing rakings, and before the flames could be
eXtinguished the little sufferer had received
such injuries as to cause her death in few
hours
Some miscreant at Cairo lately amused
| himself by firing a pistol through the
| al nj al, Nhn hall
passed through the face of one Of the con-
gregation, causing an ugly wound. No
arrests have been made so far as heard
from. -a
"A young lady riding IN the rear car of
long trai'. remarked to her companion
that the train seemed tomove very slowly,
and moment after added, with almost
Partlngtonian Inconsistencies But per-
haps it is because we are in the last carl"
Mrs. McGilton, aged slxty-two, was
murdered at her residence in Philadelphia,
on April Goth. Her throat was cut with a
razor, and there were several wounds on
her body from hammer. George Win
nemore, friend of the family, was arrest
ed on suspicion.
"A man at Stratford, Conn, killed a cat
recently, and buried her, but when he
went to the grave short time afterwards,
he found her quietly seated upon it. She
did not give her murderer chance to take
another Of her nine lives, but took speedy
and final leave of the neighborhood.
The Raleigh IN. CO. Sentinel reports
that two freedwomen, named Mary and
Becky Collins mother and daughter, re-
Gently burned to death a child of four years,
the nephew of one, and grandson of
the other, because as they alleged. the
child's mother had come back and made
him devil %"
Albert N Davis, the clerk of the Mas
sasoit House, Springfield, Mass, who re-
ceived pistol wound in the knee, last
December, died on Sunday April Nth
The wound was received from a pistol
which dropped from the coat pocket ola
traveller, and exploded as Mr.. Davis was
handing the coat over the counter.
damages $4,000" seems to be the
prevailing figure at San Francisco. By
late papers we see the San Jose Railroad
Company has been sued for $4,000 dam
ages for a laborers arm crushed; the D0alg
Alta is sued by an aggrieved house carpen-
ter for $25, 900 damages and the owner of
runaway horse is sued for $4,000 by
man whom said horse knocked down and
injured. -s... &, ~ Eli
"A servant girl IN Covington, KY,
living in the family of doctor, filled the
pepper castor with horse-powders which
the doctor had left loose. The unsuspect-
ing sawbones, being greatly addicted to
pepper, used large quantity of the con-
dition powder at his next meal He is now
in fine condition, has rented s all in a
livery stable, and talks about running for
Mayor.
AT Junction City, Kansas, on the 9Th
instant, man named William Moore,
while seated at the breakfast table with
his wife and children, drew a revolver and
shot his wife dead. In about two hours
after shooting his wife, he obtained pill
low, laid his wife's head upon it, laid down
on the floor beside her, and deliberately
shot himself through the head with the
revolver and died in few minutes
This note came with a baby to the
doorstep of a house in San Francisco:
Dear Mrs. Chamberln, I am little
motherless child My father is poor, but
honest. He has four other children to sup
port but my Heavenly Father has sent nae
| unto you, to be daughter to you I have
no name; therefore, please give mewha
name you may choose. | bring with me
my bottle. F eed me only on one cows
milk. Yours, affectionately, BABY"
Last Friday afternoon, the City of La
Gross, Wis, was furnished with q genuine
sensation. A Liederman, a livery stable
keeper, was shot by woman named Mrs
Shepard, milliner, formerly of Winopa
(where she was known as Mrs. Darrow),
while walking with her in the street. The
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