Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-04
Incidents and Accidents

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Incidents and Accidents. 4
"a Robinson, Rea g. Cos machinery
works at Pittsburgh were burned on the
oath. Loss $4,000.
TWENTY-FIVE divorce cases are pending
in the Vigo, Ind, Circuit Court Why go
into matrimony at all.
The house of Mr.. Heickel, with five of
his children, was burnt on the night of the
9th, at Suffield Center, Ohio.
Patrick Corners was sent to the Peni-
tertiary for sixty days for whipping his
father at Syracuse, New York, Wednes-
day.
The Methodist Church of Ports
mouth, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on
Sunday night. The building was valued
at 100000.
On the 9th, man. his wife and child
rem, while crossing the st. Lawrence river
at Cornwall, in a sleigh, broke through the
ice, and were drowned.
The Fayette Qnd) County Herald
tells of cat in that place that Matched out
couple of chickens, by making her bed
in a box in which some eggs were kept.
Hiram Coon convicted of the murder
of Mrs. Larken in the town of Petersburg,
in October last, was executed at Troy on
the 22d. He made statement denying
his guilt. On Old
An old man, named Earnest Gleih,
living in Huntington, Indiana, committed
suicide early last Sunday morning by hang
ing himself He had been drinking very
hard for some time previous to the act. q {.
Two mechanics, named Conley and
Mackey, recently, became embroiled on
Front street, Cincinnati, and the latter cut
his companions throat with a pen-knife,
killing him almost instantly. The murder
er was arrested.
Mr., Henry E. Brown, of Salem, Wis,
while on aatrip from that village to Keno
sha, on the 22d, fell between the cars and
was instantly killed. Tide was endeavoring
to step from the passenger to the smoking
car. He leaves family.
An incautious individual at Terre
Haute, Indiana, the other day, after smok
ing, put his pipe in his pocket with pack
age of powder He was seen, shortly after,
looking good deal surprised, and inquir-
ing for his coat tail, and large piece of
his breeches.
-Philo Clarke stole So, 800 in st. Louis,
from Sterling, Watson & Co., went to
Newark, Ohio, engaged to marry young
lady but was arrested, confessed his
guilt, and gave up the money ($2,000) the
week before the marriage was to have
taken place. -
Geo. Rolfe, aged thirty five, was muir
dered7 Sunday morning, the Oath, in the
Williams House, Falmouth, Maine, by
Eben Williams, aged twenty one, who shot
him through the heart with rifle, and
then cut off his head with an axe. Will
liams is an imbecile under guardianship. -r
"A man named William Plant, living at
Kimmswick, Mo-, was engaged to be mar
ried on the 9Th inst, but the night before
went into the woods and opened vein in
his arm to bleed himself to DEATH He
would have succeeded but for the cold,
which CONCEALED the blood and prevented
it from flowing. t..-r -,aasr
"A row at horse-race in Hopkins
county, Texas, the other day, resulted in
three murders inside of fifteen minutes A
man named Newsom killed a Mr.. Brum-
ley the latter's brother killed Newsom,
and some Of Newsom's friends killed a
third party named Fry, who was disposed
to "take hand in"
On the night of the 27th, two of the
river police at Cincinnati, heard a cry from
some one in the stream. They procured
skif,, and rowing to the middle Of the river,
fished out a thief who had his pockets
filled with false keys and bottle of chic
reform. He had been attempting to rob
house on the river bank, became alarmed,
and, running the wrong way, fell into the
water, and f1oated considerable distance
before being rescued. He is now in JAIL
The Waterloo IN. " Observer says
that in Jerusalem, Yates county, recently,
while two boys were rehearsing the tragedy
of Lincoln and Booth, for a school exhibit
ton, the pistol Of the boy Booth unfortun-
ately had ball in it, which passed through
the cheek of the boy Lincoln (named Otto
White), fattening itself against molar
without even breaking it. Lincoln spit out
the blood and ball together, with "cusses"
too numerous to mention at the terrified
Booth. 7eiB' aN
"A funny suit Is IN progress at Cincin-
natl before the Superior Court. Not long
ago, W. s. Merrell & Co., manufacturing
druggists of that city, instructed cores
pondent in Kentucky to send them an in
definite amount of sassafras pith:. The
man addressed hired large number of
women and children, and in a short time
had loaded three flat boats with sassafras
pith, and delivered them to the astonished
drug gists in Gin cinnati The latter refused
to pay the bill of nearly $4,000, and they
have accordingly been sued for the amount
Mrs. W. e. Brain, who lives at First
Station, near Cincinnati, went on the oath
to the residence of her father, on neigbor-
ing hill, taking with her two of her four
children, a blind girl of three years and an
infant of eight months. In the kitchen of
the house of Mr. Dyer, there is cistern
with trap-door, and into this the blind
child accidently fell Her screams imme-
diately attracted the mother to the spot, and
she, in the deliriom of her fright and grief
is supposed to have fallen in head first,
with the infant in her arms, in her efforts
to rescue the other child. When the people
of the house reached the scene of this heart
rending affair, the mother and her two
children were dead-all drowned together
The husband and father of these unfortun-
ates is now absent from the city, in Mem
phis.
A man named Cyrus Bartholomew
took poison at Cameron, Mo-, ON Saturday
week The landlord of the hotel at which
| he was stopping sent for Dr. King, who
came, and, after examining the man, gave
it as his opinion that he was only q sham
ming" sick, and, as test of his sickness,
ordered that rod of iron be heated red
hot and applied to, his feet. This inhuman
suggestion was acted upon, and continued
after the dying man had begged them to
desist from torturing him. Afterward the
learned man of physic concluded that he
might have been mistake !, and ordered