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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 137, 21 May 1884, Page 2

Laura Johnson, a Milwaukee girl became so indignant on reading a letter from her betrothed, in which he expressed a desire to break off their engagement, that she tried to snatch the engagement ring from her finger, but it was so firmly fixed that she could not move it. Seeing a hatchet, near by she then deliberately chopped the finger off and sent it, with the ring attached, tfi the faithless lover. The magnificent Hotel de Ville, in Paris, is nearly completed, as far as the building goes; but the question of decoration is giving rise to a very warm controversy among the municipal councillors, who cannot agree either as to the choice of artists or subjects. A fearful accident occurred to some mcmbe’\s of the Dublin Fire Brigade the other day. They were putting out a fire in a jeweller’s shop in Trinity Street, and had almost extinguished the flames when the edifice fell bodily, with a fearful crash, burying six of the brigade men in the debris.