Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-18
Incidents and Accidents.


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Incidents and Accidents.
"A San Francisco lady sues to recover
thirty thousand dollars for the loss of an
eye
"A respected druggist in Columbus, O.,
lately hung himself to his bed-post while
rehgiously crazy. ~o
"A twelve-year old boy in New Haven,
on Friday, while stealing ride on car
rage, caught. his foot in the wheel and
broke his leg VA titt "@g
"A young and estimable lady of Fox
Lake, Wis, named Miss Nathana Parrish,
committed suicide by throwing herself into
a cistern on the 9th. The cause is I'M
known. la I3 Old s5szsA
Solomon N Bierce was convicted, at
the Ontario IN. W Sessions, the other
day, of bribing juror, and wasfned 81 900.
The juror, who received 500, testified
against ,Bierce. NI} nn {It5.
The steamer Alabama, laden with 1900
bales of cotton, when near DonaldsOnvi1le,
on the Red river, caught fire at o'clock
on Monday morning the 9Th, and was totally
destroyed, with all it's freight F. m
A street car difficulty occurred at
Charleston, South Carolina, recently. Two
negroes got into car, and, refusing to get
out, were elected by the police. They re-
sisted, but were overcome, and lodged in
the station house. D0 H.5 E@~
On the 9th inst, at Keokuk, Iowa, a
laborer, named Patrick Morrissey, while
dining under bank which he was engaged
in excavating, was instantly killed by the
caving in of the earth. He leaves a wife
and six children, IF
One hundred and fifty barrels of coal
OIL on board two cars on the Pennsylvania
railroad, caught fire near Philadelphia, on
the 4th. The heat of the flames burned the
sleepers and twisted the rails on the track
for more than one hundred yards.
Several San Francisco Jews were
taken in and done for, lately, by pretend
ed alchemist, who piled his trade by melt
ing gold coin, and the sailing" of mining
claims. He had pocketed $685. before
his swindle was discovered He was then
arrested.
"A man named Hoppis was brutally
murdered at Anderson, Ind, on the 9th, by
a man named White. Hoppis was going to
Whites house to look after some stolen
meat, when White met him and smashed in
his skull. The murderer and his father-in-
law are under arrest
The secret detective corps of Col
Woods United States police made large
haul on Wednesday last, at Rochester, N.
Y In all, thirty-fo rascals engaged in
manufacturing, buying, and selling coun-
terfeit money throughout Western New
York were captured and lodged in Jail Z
An Oberlin paper says: at is ungen-
erous to criticise our fashionable young
ladies for walking ON tip-toe as theydo
now a days. They can't help it: the wa
terfalls on the top of their heads draw up
the backhair so tightly that they can't put
their heels down squarely without great
pain" + +
One Payne, going from Dunleith, ILL.,,
recently, to his home on farm four miles
away, came to swollen creek, unsafe to
cross, and attempting, it is supposed to
climb through the school-house to sleep
there, cut the main artery in his arm and
bled to death on the SPOT. +. He was intoxi-
Gated s.
We are informed that a young lady re-
siding in Richland county, Wis, is the pos
SCISSOR of thick and promising beard. 1t
made its appearance about four months
ago, and has already attained the length OF
two inches The young lady will undoubt-
edly excite the envy of all the beardlesS
youths in the country.
"A gentleman in Portland lost an en-
velope on the street containing $500, on
the list of April. Several people passing,
supposing it to be an April Fool joke,
kicked and poked it, but no one lifted it
up until boy came along, took it up and
developed its contents, which were re-
turned to the owner. e> m
Two miners were blown to pieces, one
! day last week, by the premature discharge
tofa blast in Shotweli's mines, near Casey
vile. Ky. The other miners, enraged at
the carelessness of the man firing it, seized
him and locked him in the powder house,
declaring their purpose to hang him that
night 1t is not known, but believed, that
they have done so.
Hartford has another case of whole
sale poisoning! The four children, between
six and twelve years of age, of Nathan
Lazarus, were taken seriously i'll, on Friday
night, and a medical examination showed
that corrosive sublimate had been taken by
them in food. None have yet died. but the
sufferings of all are terrible, and two are
not expected to live There is no doubt
the poison was administered Intentionally
though it is not known by whom.
There is now living in Lawrence
county, Ohio,sa gentleman who separated
from his wife, in Pennsylvania, many
years ago He came to Southern Ohio,
and married Miss P, of Marietta.
After the second wife's death, daughter
by the first marriage brought about a re-
Cancellation between her father and her
mother, and they were remarked more
than twenty years after the date of their
separation-the first wife becoming the
third vrorse-F Er~ -,ta{T rro-
Portions of the wall Of the Lindell
Hotel, st. Louis, recently fell, doing no in
jury. Thereupena committee, headed by
Colonel Joel, endeavored to get rope over
one of the walls, for the purpose of pull
ing it down. The attempt was made to fire
bullet, over with, a string attached, but
this failed. = Rockets We're then sent up,
and the fiery messengers refused to go in
the direction required. Kites were sent
up, and one Of them got on the other side,
but the tail hung on the wall and the ex-
,,aripoant can,a tn uaupht