Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-25
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RETrF or rHK NEWS OF THE WEEK.
rp,uEs AND CASUALTIES,

CRIMES AND CASUA lilies.
r The Touring mill of Harrison, Mari &
Co. Glasgow, Mo, was burned week ago.
Loss SIS, 600; no insurance =
About thirty rufiass attended prize
.s5I,tsa Aspkers NY, Tuesday morning.
T6ey were arrested and the fight stopped.
A man named Newton Champion was
arrested in Philadelphia for numbering a
girl named Mary Carney, in a house OF I'll fame
ON the night Of the 10th.
The extensive repair shops of the
Boston and Maine RsiTOad,' at Lawrences
Mass. were burned Sunday. Loss 100000.
Insurance $4,000.
A desperate burglar named Dufinger,
was arrested-in New York, on Tuesday night,
with three or four thousand dollars worth OF
stolen goods in his possession. g.. ~
Ph9Bix block, cornerof Summit and
Oak streets, Toledo, Ohio, was partially de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday night. Loss $4,000.
Building and contents insured Tor about one
half. -..
Is a Norwegian committed suicide at
st. PAM on Tuesday. by walking into the
river where the water was only three feet
deep, and holding his head under until he
strapBied.r E- EE.-gr rF E
There was a collision between two
coal trains on the New Jersey Central railroad
Monday morning. The cars were badly
smashed, but no loss Of life CT injury to per-
SON - reported
A terrible disaster occurred at Root
River, in Minnesota, twenty miles west of La
Crosse. by a sudden rise in the river. Thirty
persons aere drowned. i welve Of the bodies
have been recovered
George McKellop has been arrested
In washington for the embeZZlement oil
$500 from his late employers, Van Ward x
Mccoy, importers, Beeknan street, New YORK,
and taken there for trial. Half Of the money
has been recovered.
A suit for divorce has been brought
no by the wife Of a Mr.. Bishop, an insurance
broker in New York, on a charge OF adultery.
Mr. Bishop is in the CID year of his age, and
hts an income of SlO0 600 per annuIn, and
also moved in the highest circles of society.
Bishop and his alleged parsmour, Clara b
Wallace, were committed to the Ludlow street
Jail for want Of bail.
The steamer Messenger, from Gin
cinnati, for Memphis, struck a snag in Plum
Point bend, and sunk. HercaTgO Is total
loss. but the steamer viii be saved. She IS
owned by Capt. Jessie Diem, of PIttsburg, and
Is valued at $4,000. No lives were lost.
The seyerest thunder storm ever
know n to have visited that vicinity, occurred
at Parkersburg, Va. Sunday night. num-
Of bridges, culyerts, telegraph poles and
houses were washed away a family Of seven,
named Robertson, residing six miles west OF
the city, were carried away by the flood and
all persisted. man and woman were killed
by lightning AZ the city, and several easuali-
ties are reported to have occurred east of the
city.
OF a family of six persons, in Phila-
delphia, all OF whom recently returned from a
pleasure trip ia a sail boat on tine Delaware
River viOlentlyill, five have died. 1t seems
that they took ON board bundle of clothing
which they found floating on the river, prob
ably thrown overheard from some vessel, on
which there was a contagious disease. Violent
retching and fevers we're the forms of the
disease, and after death the bodies assumed q
dark purple hue. The Philadelphia papers
question Whethsri il was not cholera that car
red them of. 1t is hoped that the only sur.
vivOr will recover. -s-r