Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-19
Incidents and Accidents.

lightning struck the Court House of
Orange county, Va, last week, setting it
on fire and destroying it and five other
buildings. { a
| AT Kingston, CIV, a Miss Mooney
was burned by the explosion of coal oil
lamp, and died on the 9th. Five others
were severely burned.
At Laconia, Indiana, recently, two
brothers, named Kingsley, fought each
other with knives, and other weapons, I'M
til both were fatally injured.
IA little son of P. Bell, of Adamson
Grove, Iowa, recently approached unno-,
ticed SO near a man moving that the point
of the scythe entered his heart, killing him
instantly. h,
Daniel Moore, citizen of Danville,
(Ill.) seventy years of age, while walking
in his sleep, fell down stairs on the night
of the I'd, and was so bruised that he died
on the Sd instant.
A young German, in Terra Haute, Ind,
committed suicide on Thursday, the 4th,
by hanging. On his person were found
1000 and letter explaining that an un-
happy marriage was the cause of his death.
Richard Dammem, bookkeeper for
Nichaws, Krite 6-Co., st. Louis, commit
ted suicide on "Wednesday, the. 10th, in
consequence of the discovery of series
of embellishments, amounting to $4,000 or
$4,000 Ill
"A boy at Providence, r. l., nineteen
years old, swan distance of three quar-
tiers of mile the other day, and towed by
rope from his wrist boat twelve feet
long, containing six men, in less than
three-auarters of an houT.s Il, FER
s. Charles L. Cutler, a native of Balti-.
more, aged As years, committed suicide at
San Francisco j June II, by taking strych-.
nine, in consequence of inability TO obtain
work to support his family; he leaves a
wife and six children wholly unprovided
for q
+ A barrel Of new beer in q cellar at
Lockport burst few days since, hosting
the keeper, an Irish woman to the ceiling,
demolishing everything within range. The
lady picked herself and mildly remark,
ed, "Och, bedad-bad luck to the man.
that put the torpedy in the barrel
Ida and Ella Snow, twin daughters of
Harvey Snow, of Mattapoisett, Mass,
nearly four years, old, were poisoned to
death last week by eating friction matches.
When it was discovered that they had
swallowed the poison, the mistake was
made of trying to expel it by cathartic in.
stead of emetic remedies, with a fatal
result. .... .-.. .a,.....-r..Ef
An act of barbarity to a dumb animal
was very near causing the destruction of
the whole town of Trenton. in Texas,
fortnight ago. Some heartless wretch sat-
urated dog in turpentine and then set N
on fire. The poor animal ran bowling
under a newly built house, and rolling
among the shavings ignited them. The
house took fire in two places, and had it
not been for timely exertions, every build
ing in the town would probably have been
destroyed.
The Albany Argus doubts the death
OF Rev. s. M. Merrill. by drowning. The
reverend gentleman fell into the river at
Plattsburgh, N Y, where the water was
shallow, refused all assistance and swan
away from the boat, His body has not
been recovered and iG is said he planned
similar exploit some years ago, but it
failed. Scandal pursues Merrill very close
ly, and involves young lady at North
Adams also.