Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1867-02-26
c,,1mEs AND CASUALTIES.

At n recent fire in Cincinnati Jewess,
named Mrs. Mikel, was smothered in at
tempting to save her goods.
The boiler of a paper mill at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, exploded on Wednesday night,
killing four persons and injuring three
others.
A little boy of seven, in Bridgeport, Conn,
had the whole Of his under jaw removed by |
a surgeon without anesthetic agents, and |
never groaned.
In Elgin, G. W., few nights since, |
woman heard dog barking loudly at her
door. She followed the animal for quarter
of mile through the snow, and found her
father in drift, dying of cold and exposure.
NJ. A. Hawkes., who shot his wife in st.
Paul last summer, as was thought accident
ally, has been arrested, charged with muir
dering her. lie is known TO have previous
" insured her life, and other circumstances
have given rise TO the suspicion of foul play.
New York has another small sensation. 1t
appears that the paymaster of the Harlem
Railroad has suddenly disappeared, and that
the triniug sum of twenty or thirty thousand
dollars belonging to the Company went
along with him. He specialized in stocks, and
didn't win. His name is John Adams, and
detectives are anxious to make his acquaint-
ance.
The Macmas Republican says man by
the name Of Bryant, becoming dissatisfied
with his vile, last week called upon an
auctioneer, and the wife and furniture in his
house were sold at public auction. The wife
was sold for ten dollars. Sometime before
next morning the husband and wife made
up their troubles, and Bryant refused to de-
liver to the purchaser the wife and furni-
ture.
A man named Freeman, in Chautauqui
county, New York, horribly murdered Iii
little child last week, by placing it an OLE
boiler, in back room, where it froze Il
death.
A family in Bridgeport, Ct, were latel.
poisoned by eating diseased meat, purchas
ed of some street vender. Three ofthe partie
are quite sick and one dangerously so.
The valuable mill belonging to j. N
Palmer, formerly of Ohio, at JohnsonvillG
Tenn, was set on fire by incendiaries o
Wednesday morning and destroyed. Nj
Palmer was warned of the outrage, an
made efforts to get military protection, bl
failed
Seventy two deaths occurred in the worl
houses between the 18th and 21st of Janu
ry, among those admitted within few da,
before, after extreme suffering from cold al
want of food.
A destructive fire occurred in the villa
of Warsaw, Wyoming county, New Yor
on Tuesday night Fourteen business hot
CO and a bank were burned. The loss
very large
The Tennessee Senate has declined to {
point committee to investigate the rep,
of conspiracy TO assassinate Col. Stol
and other prominent Union men of I
State. The committee to whom the pro-
sition was referred made q report dismissi
the whole subject as 'unft for legislat
action. :"
Howard Fletcher, charged with the muir
of Stewart, AZ President johnson 3 receipt
in Indianapolis, in September last, was
Friday convicted of murder in the soct
degree, and was sent to the penitentiary
two years.
In the Wabash river there is great fires
and for ten miles above Vinoennes, India
the tops of the houses are barely visible