Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-08

"A man by the name of William 7
Handy choked to death while irving to cat
Rhode Island beefsteak, at Providence.
the other day.
Robert Delaney, of New Orleans
causcd the death of his eldest son, aged II
years, by the accidental explosion of re-
volver which he was showing him how to
load The father has gone insane.
A letter has been picked up on the
lake shore near Chicago, purporting to
have been written by a passenger on
board the ill-fated steamer Sea Bird, while
the boat was burning 1t is signed Carl
Bosthwick, West-." 8 81 ~ ~
Among the ashes of the Erie Railroad
wreck was found body, and on it an ac-
cident insurance ticket for $4,000, around
which the fire had burned everything
away, but leaving this, and thus identity
ing the charred remains -'....7es-
An old lady of seventy-seyen years
accidentally stepped off the platform of q
car, when under full Roadway, on New
York railroad, the ether day, and was af-
forwards found composedly sitting by the
side OF the track, in an uninjured condi-
ton. ssf'7a
"A little girl eight years old, in ST.
Louis, recently poured kerosene oil into
CRATE to assist in kindlin fire, when an
explosion occurred setting her clothes on
fire. Her mother attempted to save the
child and was herself severely burned.
The child died Of her injuries.
a Hartford, CT, man had the blades
at both ends of a pen knife open, and
dropped it. AS it fell, he instantly closed
his legs to prevent it from going to the
floor, and a blade went into each leg
considerable distance severing an artery,
which weakened him by the loss of blood
before the wound could be dressed.
In one of the burning cars in tho late
accident on the Erie Railroad, was an un-
known gentleman imprisoned by bar of
iron, but help reached him just as the fire
began its fearful work upon him. His
screams were frightful. When he was re-
leased he was covered with blisters, his
clothes in smoking rags. He ran off yell
ing fearfully, and nothing has been seen
of him since.
"A couple of young men at Petersburg,
Ill, on the 22d, were engaged in firing off
rusty cannon in celebration of the result
of the recent municipal election in Chica-
go, when premature discharge took place
blowing off both hands and severely burn
ing the face of one, and taking off one
hand and also burning the face of the
other. Their names are w. J. Estell, Jr.,
| and Charles Mills.
"A Beckett man, the other day, hitched
his oxen to the butt of lodged tree and
| freed it from its rest to fall into the fork
| of another tree, where the top overbal-
| anced and jerked the other end twenty
feet high, carrying the oxen with it. To
| relieve them from choking, he with fif-
teen-foot pole managed to see-saw the tops
| SO that their hind feet could occasionally
touch the ground, and continued so doing
for four hours before aid arrived to climb
| up and release the tree The cattle were
saved.
The refrain in Der FrsyscAMtz, re-
garding the bullets given to the hunter by
| the demon: Six go true; the seventh
askew," was illustrated in a recent wa
ger, said by the New York World to have
been made between two gentlemen of that
city. 1t was tC the effect that of seven
women who should enter the crowded car
in which they were riding, and be offered
seats, not one would say thank you"
| Six women entered, and took seats proffer-
ed without making any acknowledgment,
and the heart of the apparent winner re-
joiced, and was exceeding glad. When 10 !
| a weak-minded sister entered, and as she
took her seat, smiled and said THANK
you" And the would-be winner found he
had lost