Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-03-10
Incidents and Accidents.

Two hundred and four persons be-
longing to the marine were drowned in
the lakes last year.
The Methodist Church at East Wev-
mouth, Mass, was recently destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000; insured, $1,000.
John Ward and wife were suffocated
at Boston, the other night, while sleeping
in room warmed by charcoal fire.
"A seventeen-year old girl was recent
ly sentenced to five years in the Penlten-
tiary for burglary, at Quincy, Illinois.
In Jersey City, the other day, wo-
man sent for Dovers powders. The drug
gist's clerk gave her solid opium. She
took it and died.
"A child of Joseph White, at Clarno,
Wis, set her clothes on fire with box of
matches, recently, and was burned to
death
One man was fatally and another Sc
siously injured a few days ago by an ex-
plosion of still in an oil refinery at Lon
don, Canada.
The boiler of Boston steam tire-en-
CINE exploded the other night, while work
ing at fire, and several tircmen were in
iured-none fatally.
"A Lafayette, Ind, man who has been
winding clock daily for twenty years,
recently discovered for the first time that
it was an eight day clock.
"A Cincinnati belle caught her boot
heel in sidewalk grating, and when she
was extricated, she was found to be two
inches shorter.
A paper in Virginia, New, few days
ago, said that late wind-storm blew away
all the dust so there was little suitable ma
terial left to make mud when the rain
came.
"A fat man at a minstrel concert in
New York laughed so immoderately at
the performance the other evening, that
he came near choking to death.
A portion of the roof to the old Bed
mines, at Morale, near Port Henry, n. l.,
fell a few days ago, and two miners named
Martin and Lynch, were crushed under
800 tons of ore.
"A man by the name of Walbridge fell
dead at Bangor, Me, the other day, from
actual bursting Of the heart. A post NOR
tenn examination disclosed a rent in the
heart two inches long, caused by engorge-
ment of blood.
A careless driver in Philadelphia ran
over two children-aged nine and six years
"a few days ago killing one and serious
ly iniuring the other. The driver was ar
rested.
The tow boat Neville, bound from
Louisville to Cincinnati, burst her boiler
when opposite North Bend, fe lays
ago, and several Of the officers anu rev
were fatally injured.
A man and his wife slept few nights
ago in fresh painted room, in Brooklyn,
N. Y. The next morning the man was
found dead, and the woman unconscious,
it was supposed from inhaling the gas Of
the new paint
There were several cases Of trichtna
spiyalis at Bridgeport, Conn, few days
ago. One woman had died, and several
other victims were quite seriously i'll, and
one of them, the wife Of a well-knoWn
citizen, was not expected to recover
The Good Templars' Convention, re-
Gently in session in Auburn, paid the fine
of man, once member of their Order,
who was sentenced to 100 days imprison,
ment for drunkenness. Such evidence OF
forgiveness and goodwill ought to aid
him greatly in his efforts to reform.
"A drunken drayman drove with
load of hams twenty-one times around a
L1ool, in Cincinnati one day lately, lmar-
ming that he was making straight trip
10 market. The load travelled about seven
miles before policeman stopped its cir
cult.
A California man, who was employed
by widow to sell number Of mules re.
ceiyed for them $4,000, and then wasted
the money in liotous living in San Fran.
cisco. The police were notified, and he
being arrested, promised to refund the