Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-06-09
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
RESUME OF THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND NASUALflhS.
The Western Hotel, in ST. Paul, was
DESTROYED by ire ON the night OF the 2Sth.-
Loss "a 600.
AS party at Gait, Canada, was fir
ing a salute in honor Of the Queens 6lrthday,
an old Russian cannon eSpiodeu' Ahiins '"o
men.
tarriff, storm of wind. hail and |
,sin swept over Rochester, N. n, last week, /
doing great damage to property, killing fowls |
and epdangering the lives OF ANNALS
On the 23d, at Norwalk, Connections,
. ,;ttIe son of Can't Edgar S. Sehoheld, TOT |
New Haven, went with little glrl 10 play
-'ear a nnnd. They got into boat, which up |
set. and both we're drowned.
destructive fire at Paw Paw, Mich,
On the night of the 25th, destroyed elght
stores in the business part on the t1xn anu anu
nsTtiaIIv burned the Court House. Total loss
about $4,000.
IL. Beardsley, respectable farmer
living near Memphis, was brutally murdered
ON the 9th, while riding nome III M MsSoui
md robbed of s. 600, of which he had lmpru-
IDENTIFY made display
Gabriel J. FOrsee, of Randolph cohh-
" H.. has been convicted OF the lnuIusL %
Airs Elizabeth Darwin, OF Llbefty, IsAnuolPh
cr1Dtv and sentenced TO be hung IN wafer
loo, on Saturday, June I'd.
A LAWYER named Alfrey was murdered
n Mercer county, Mo-, last week by man
named williams whom AlfTey had prosecuted
on a charge of assulting his Wlie AFTER ths
triJ Williams attacked Alfrey with revolver
and shot him dead
Tbo staamer I,enora, bound for Fort
I1a,,toY was burped below Nankton City, on
tIa Inner Missouri, on the oath. Loss on the
Tnst s55 Goa. insured for $4,000. Her yalu-
able cargo was insured
During a severe storm at LeaVeh-
worth. ON the 18th, five men we're Struck py
LIGHTNING on the Military Reserve, north oi
the CITY near the mouth OF Two Mile cTeeh,--
Four were killed instantly, and the MIN Dauiy
sc0rched, but not fatally injured
At BufTalO. on Saturday night, the
bricE dwelling house, No. % ElllcOtt street,
Occupied bv a Mr., Bancroft, was badly shat-
tered by an explosion OF gas. Iottoh oi
the rear wall was thrown down ana the Iront
wall messed ont of line. The damage amount
ed to : 500.
WILEY Heard, of Ballard county, Ky,
,r,s arrested in Caro-, on the 2Sth, for at
teDDtipn to pass counterfeit $50 greenbacks
huntington 4 DunbaT's jeweTy store, IN
Cairo was robbed on the night OF the 10Th, oil
between 81 900 and $1,000 worth of watches
and iewelry.
Saturday morning, as the passenger
train from Prairie du Chen, on the Milwaukee
4 Prairie du Chen railway, neared Madison,
the rear coach was thrown from the track by
broken Iail. A Mr.. CTOsswell, from st. Paul,
had his leg broken, and lady was somewhat
bruised All others were able to proceed ON
heir journey.
At Centralia, ILL.,. on the 18th, Pres
ton Wiley was shot and killed by Milton j.
SkilingtOn. The killing seems to have been
deliberate murder. SkiilingtOn having partici-
mated in chdiUGTi given TO Wiley, who was
recently married, anC afterwards induced
quarrel by abusing the ladies OF Wllleys
house.
United States Marshal Murray, of
New York. has seized on the steamer General
Sedgwick, from Galveston, which had on
board s. 900 rounds of ammunition and so re-
yOIvers, consigned to the Adjutant General of
the Fenian Brotherhood. From correspond
eDce which fell into the Marshals hands, it
appears that the property was stolen from one
OF the Federal camps IN Texas.
The Charleston, Ill. Courier, describ-
ing a heavy hail storm which occurred recent
" IN Coles county, says; A gentleman living
some three miles north Of this city informs us
that he verify believes that 80 bushels of hail
might have been gathered IN one fence corner
in his neighbOThOOdl The growing wheat
crop, as well as the fruit was entirely de-
str0yed in that section.
Reports were current at Chattanooga,
Saturday, of the murder, near Resaca, Ga of
a Union man named Wills, on his way home
from church with his wife. Six men, armed
with guns, suddenly appeared on the roadside
and ordered him to halt. One OF the Williams
leveled his gun, when the wife caught the
as-aSsin's hand and the bali passed over Wills
head. The rest OF the scOundrels Immediately
fired all their shots taking effect, killing bm
at once After cheering, and abusing Wills
wife. the muTdeTeTs fled and are still unappTe-
hended.
The bingham, ILL.,, Register, gives
an account Of the murder of a man named
Nicholas DOusch, a German barber in that
town, on the I'D, by one J. n. Dayle. The
parties between whom there had been diff
Guilty. met in a saloon, when Doyle addressed
the barber IN rough language, which led the
latter to strike DOYLE a blow on the he al with
beer tUmbler. The two then clinched, but
were parted by the bystsnders, when Doyle
drew a revolver and shot the German in the
abdomen and back, INJECTING wounds from
which he soon died. Doyle was arrested.
The fire which broke out on Third
Street in St Paul, on the evening of the 25th, |
destroyed two saloons, a tanning mill factory |
a tailor shop, a watchmakeTs shop, a barber !
shop and drug store. The flames were stay |
ed by brick building, used as a shoe store |
and which was nearly destroyed. The intense |
heat set fire to the Cosmopolitan hotel, on the |
opposite side Of the street. This was a sub |
stantial stone building, was owned by the Sec |
Ond National Bank, and was worth SIG, 900. |
1t, together with the contents, valued at SlO,- |
600, was destroyed IN half an hour, leaving /
only the stOneWalls standing. The total loss /
by the fire is estimated at SIS, 900.
The most destructive fire ever IN the 1
oil regions occurred in Oil City Saturday. The /
whole east side of the creek, comprising half /
the business portion of the city, is in ashes,
consisting of IS stores, hotels, 40 dwellings,
1 church and seminary. Loss one million dol
lars. Insured for S10O, 900. The fOllowingf
are among the principal sufferers: Gordon g.
White, mercantile building, $4,000, insured
for 5,tOe; Fox, Fuller & CO.. lumber $40, Ou0,
insurance $4,000; Robson & Co., pipe works,
$4,000, insured for $4,000; Alfred Wright
tools and tubing, loss heavy; Bishop & Daw-
son, dry goods, $4,000 insured for So 600;
Burchfeld, EasteTline & Co., hardware |
$50, COO insured for $4,000 Williams & Co.,
$4,000, insured for $40, 00O The oil shipping
portion of the city sustained no loss. Over
one hundred and seventy-fve families are
homeless.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The President has approved the hill