Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-04-03

escaped. - -
In Lawrence, Kansas, few days
since, two men entered the Office of the
Kansas Stage Company, while the agent
was asleep therein, and stole the safe and
carried 1t off without detection.
7 "A negro attempted to rob the till of a
butchers shop in Buffalo, was arrested,
and turned on his captor with a razor,
when the butcher cut him down with a
cleaver, inficting trightful wounds.
"A young man of Troy, New York,
was so ,enraged at the conduct of his aft
ancea, who pettishly threw his engages
ment ring into the fire, that he dealt her a
black eyey cand was mulcted in damages
and COSTS
IA man was recently executedoin Vir,
ginia for, having murdered three persons
in family of four. He confessed the MUIR
ders, was devoutly thankful that Provi-
dence had prevented him from perpetrat-
ing the fourth. and was profuse in his de-
claratiOns of forgiveness for all his enc
mics. r,a i, Fs...,.sg,-.,s.,.,, ,,, -,,s.
--On the 22d, the boiler which supplies
hot water to the bathroom of Theodore
Cooks residence, Cincinnati, exploded, and
the windows, furniture and every thing in
it, besides shattering the walls so as to rem
der the building worthless. No one was
seriously hurt.
oS-George Bush, aged about twelve years,
was recently killed, near Fort Wayne, Ind,
by tree which his father was cutting
down, striking him in its decent, and cut
ting open his head and killing him in.
stantly. He was taking his fathers din.
ner to him, but was not seen by him until
after the fatal accident. 8 hfod d47ud0 4
An American. medical gentleman, In
an article in the Boston Medical and iiSurgi-
cal Journal, on Foreign Bodies in the
Ear" says that in his experience he has
taken from the ear beans, cotton, slate.
pencils, peas, maggots, cockroaches, beads
glass, crockery. shells, paper, pins, ivory
teeth of combs, stones, and seed. ,,, ~,
Some Californian started the follow.
ing: "a noted trout fisher died in
Alameda county, not long ago. Fishing
was the one idea of his existence. Hi
last words were characteristic: Il say
Brown, I'm going to peg out sure. I've
with me--who knows but they bite in Jor
danr" ~ ''"o'
g AT Webster, New Hampshire, on cleo
ton day, where there are less than two
hundred voters, there were twenty-six mer
who were over seventy years of age, clever
between eighty and ninety, fourteen be
tween seventy and eighty, and one ovel
ninety, who walked upward of mile ani
back, and was the first to come and among
the last to go. iasl5 afs9i ? ="
/ lin San Francisco suicide has assumed
an epidemic form in fact, for several
months suicides have been very numerous
no less than 700 bodies have been found
floating in the bay, and in each case inves
tigation has indicated suicide as the cause
of drowning. During the same time there
have been found dead in their beds six per.
sons, most Of whom we're suicides.
o The Clark county (Ky.) Democrat
says. "We met a lady in town the other
day, a blood relation OF ours and wife of a
minister in this county, who has eaten
nothing for five years. She takes no nour-
ishment whatever unless it be in fluid
form, and very little then Itwould take
her all day to swallow a cup of coffee, and
at times she does not consume a teaspoon
full in twenty four hours. She is in the
enjoyment of good health, and attends to
her household affairs as do other women"