Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01
TELEGRaPHIC SUMMARY,
RESUME OF TEE NEWS OF TIRE WEEK.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The Petersburg, Va, theater was
burned on the 18th instant.
The brig, Flying Scud, from Malaga,
for New York, went ashore on Friday at
Rockaway Beach, and one man was lost, the
rest of the crew and passengers being saved.
A great fire occurred in Cincinnati
on the night of the 18th, destroying property
to the value of 100000 belonging to Jones
Brainou liquor dealers. and Nippher & Bro,
clothiers.
The wife of Rev. David A. Rivers, of
Somerville, Mass, was brutaly outraged by
yagrant negro on Friday morning, at her own
house. while the rest of her family were alb
sent.
The mills in Flora, @. w, owned by
J. Frazier, and run by c. W. Whitlaw, were
totally destroyed by fire on Saturday morn
ing. The mill and stock were valued at $40, :
900, and were mostly insured.
The Paducah (Ky.) Herald says an
attempt was made to assassinate Col. Dono-
van, commander Of that post, by some villain
vet undiscovered, who fired through window
while the Colonel was sitting in his office.
Bev. Jacob James, a colored preacher
in Richmond, was shot by Thomas Holmes,
another cOlOTed man, on the 10Th, and died
the next morning. Holmes also shot his wife,
but the wound was not fatal. Jealousy was
the occasion Otthe deed.
A countryman named John Olson
was drugged and robbed of 5000 and his
over coat and under coat, IN Chicago, on
Sunday night, by some rascals unknown.
Olson was found lying IN the street very
early Monday morning, in state OF insensi-
biity.
The Omaha Republican states that
Cant ". A. Allison, Of the Iowa Reservation
of Southern Nebraska, was robbed OF twenty
three hundred dollars, by five men, on the
night of the 1ZtN They missed one thousand
dollars that the Captain had in his pocket
bOOk.-A prairie fire DESTROYED large guam
tity of hay and grain in Palmyra Precinct,
OtOe county, last Wednesday one man saved
mis- house only by great eGertion.
Capt. Knight, of the brig Water
Witch. arrived IN Baltimore on the 18th from
st. joys de Cuba. He reports having been
boarded while passing Fortune Island, ON the
3Oth Of October, by parties from the shore,
who stated that everything on the Island had
been DESTROYED by a hurricane the day pre-
yious, one hundred and seven houses having
been blown down, and the inhabitants in a
state of starvation.
The brig Rheinhard, from Bremen,
was discovered within five hundred yards of
the breakers off Hell's Gate. l.. L, at anchor,
with her masts cut away and her spars aflOat.
over three hundred passengers we're aboard,
and as the gale of Friday night rose to the
magnitude of a hurricane, their lives were in
imminent danger. Through the exertlons OF
the captain the vessel OutTOde the storm, and
was finally brought to the city by the steamer
Chamberlain.
A terrible locomotive boiler explo-
sion occurred at the station of Newburg, near
cleveland, on the Atlantic and Great West.
ern railroad on tine 2lst, resulting in instant
" killing the engineer and fireman, breaking
the leg Of the conductor of the train, and
sIiOhtIy ipiuring several employees of the
road The top of the engineers head was
blown of, and his body thrown distance of
one hundred and fifty feet. The body of the
fireman was thrown five hundred feet. Both
we're horribly mutilated The debris of the
locomotive, which was made a complete
wreck was scattered far and wide. One pOr-
ton. weighing eight hundred pounds, and
another near.y a ton, being hurled with tre-
mendOus velocity distance OF 900 feet.
A destructive confagration visited
the CITY OF Alton, Ill. on Sunday morning,
the 18th. destroying three brick stores on Sd
street The buildings were occupied upon
the fret floor by j. A. Hart, clOthler; Messrs.
Gottlieb. dry goods dealers, aud j. ID. Sicher,
Also dealer in dry goods. The second floor
was occupied by Messrs. CLANCY Lewis, fur
niture dealers. They were the property of
DIR. T. nj. Hope. A thTee-stOry building on
PeIle street also owned by DIR. Hope, was
ALSO PARTIALLY consumed. This building was
oecupied ON the first floor by MIR. Kleinpeter
as a saloon, and the adjoining store-roOm was
vacant. The second story consisted OF offices,
snd tbe third story was the Hall Of the Order
OF odd Fellows English and German Lodges.
This building was badly injured internally by
the fire: the third story and part OF the sec
ond being entirely Quilted The total loss Is
about $4,000; partially insured
On Sunday morning Chicago was
visited bv destructive FIRE, VIII ch consumed
a number Of business houses on Lake and
South Water streets The total loss will
reach $3.50 coo. on which there is au insurance
of $500. $50. The following Is a summary of
the buildings burned, by whom OF, upied and
losses: Lake StTeet--NO. 232. occupied by
Sickles, Preston y Co, hardware merchants,
goods much damaged by water; insured for
IS 600: insurance on building Sl7 600. No.
pa i've stories and basement, was occupied
by G. L. j. Meyers, dealer IN sash, doors and
blinds: loss S25, 600; insured for sl6,SO0;
building was worth SIS, 600, insured for 81, 500.
No, 236. ReinbOld & Ma gnus, hardware mer-
chants loss 100000. covered by insurance;
building insured for $500. No. 23S, &. Ash
lev Mears hardware dealer, stock amounted
to $50 600. insured for $4,000; insurance on
building $4,000. No. 24O, Wheeler, Pierce &
Co. commission merchants; loss IS 600; in
sured for $4,000. No. 242, T1bbals. Shirk j
Co was damaged by falling walls; loss on
ing $500. South Water St--NO. 247, DObsOn
& Co. insured for $4,000. No. 249, McMur-
pby. Boyles & Clark, commission merchants;
loss $4,000; insured for $50, 900; building in
sured for SIS 900. No. 25l, AlinchrOd Daniels,
commission dealers; loss heavy; insured for
SI4SOO. The two last buildings were brick
aud five stories high. No 253, Daniel Bun
ker, Jr, and Co., Wholesale tObaccOnists; loss
abOut 5000 insured for $4,000 No. 255,
Swezy. Smyth & Co., commission merchants;
loss 81, 600, insured for Sc, $50. The above are
all the principal sufferers, although there
were other minor losses, the upper stories of
the buildings being sub-rented.