Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-21
TELEGRRPHIC SUMMARY.
RESUME OF THE NEWS OF The WEEK..
CRIMES AND CAsUALrIEs.

RESUME OF THE NEWS OF The WEhk.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A man named Jencks Howard, proof
reader In the Office Of the Detroit Post, was /
arrested ON the 25th for a murder committed /
on a Mississippi Steamboat, two years ago.
The Valley House and Walter Wa |
gers cabinet shop in Valley Falls, n. Y, were |
destroyed by IRE on the sth. Loss Sl5.OOO.-
Partially insured.
A soldier of the 9Th United States
regulars Tuesday night robbed the army
PaymssteT's safe, at Nashville, OF 1859, GOO, and
escaped with ms plumber.
The rope works of Weaver & Filter,
an Philadelphia, were destroyed by fire Satur
day night. Loss probably $3.50, 900 with little
or 10 insurance
The machinery work of Rogers &
Co.. NillOwvale, Oneida county, New York,
were destroyed by incendiaTy fire on the
Fourth. Loss 500, zoe; insured 100000.
A disastrous fire occurred in Utica,
n. y. Wednesday morning, destroying Met
calf g. behring's carpenter shop, Pierce, Bah
cock 4 90. 8 tobacco mandatory, the cabinet
ware rooms Of Fritz q Co., and tine clothing
establishment Of Jacob Weldelsohn, besides
iniuTing more or less adjacent buildings
Total loss about $40. GOO, on which there was
insurance of $4,000.
The Scandinavians had 4th of July
celebration at CleTmOnt, Iowa, and while firing
the cannon it burst and killed two young
ladies (sisteFs,) instantly, and wounded an
other woman, so that she died in few hours.
Several others were injured. The ladies were
IN little bower, over fifty yards from the
cnnOn.
During a storm in Hartford, Conn,
on the evening Of the Sth, the lightning struck
the house Of Chas. Whitney, IN FOTestvllle,
Bristol county, instantly killing MIR Whitney
a bra A yKaa gaTIOuElV luIuFf0.
and though she still lives, IL Is doubtful II she
will recover. She and Mr.. Whitney sat on a
sofa, and her son on a char near by.
A boy IL years Of age, named nj. w.
Cooper, employed by MessTs COngreye, Stuart
u Cooper, Of New York. had bag containing
=, 100 znatched from his hand While standing
IN the cashiers Office of the Custom House,
bv an unknown man. He pursued the man,
but soon fell senseless in the street from the
effects Of chlOTOfOrm it Is thought. The man
escaped. The money belonged to Messrs.
johnson, Schmidt & Ruperti, and 1t was about
10 be paid for customs.
The New York Commercial says par
ties concerned in getting up a dangerous
counterfeit plate on the Highland National
Bank Of New York, have been arrested in
Baltimore. One Of them is Charley Sands
an accomplished cOunteTfeiter, and the other
Nm. SNYDER alias Wilson, who Is a sherlff's
officer IN New York The bills found on them
are lettered "a" and are mostly numbered
ESQ, $685.
The Charleston Courier says that the
Rhett assassinated a few days ago near
Charleston, 5 C., was not ex-senator Robert
Barnwell Rhett. the former well-knOwn seces-
sion and notification leader referred TO IN the
Associated Press telegram, but hfs younger
brother BENJAMIN S. Rhett. well known cot
ton factor OF Charleston. who has already been
engaged In planting and commercial pursuits,
and who has never figured in any way in pOlit-
al Ia abn load rrf1Iln rIdinrs n
horseback, a short distance from the city, by
an assassin, who lurked In hedge by the
roadside. At last accounts no traces of the
Murderer had been discovered.
During a thunder storm on the Sth,
the lightning struck the gas pipe in the
Western Telegraph well, &C Iltusyiile
Pennsylvania communicating the ire with
the tank, which exploded, and the oil
ran down the run, communicating the fire
to several other tanks which IN turn exploded,
and caused one OF the heaviest conhagratlOTs
that the OIL regions has ever experienced.
We learn that between eighteen or twenty
large productive wells we're burnt up, IN
Guiding two or three large flowing wells,
among which were the Sheridan and Western
Union Telegraph wells, both OF them large
flowing wells. The Sheridan well had eight
or nine tanks filed with oil, al Of which we're
destroyed. As far as We can learn some
twenty thOusl and barrels of oil were destroyed,
and some parties estimated Il at much
deep as il ran To Oil Greek. There were also
twenty or thirty drrTicks destroyed, the wells
ofwhich were IN various stages Of completion.
The loss can not be estimated at present,
but it Is large.
A severe thunder storm passed over
Rising un. Ind, about 3 o'clock last Sunday
afternoon, and within period OF i've min
utes the lightning struck IN four different
places OccasiUniuC in one instance, loss Of
life. the Methodist Sunday school had been
dismissed somewhat hurTiediy in consequence
OF the impending storm. Two boys, one the
son of Alr. John a. Jones, and the other his
cousin, a son OF Alr. Samuel Seward, remained
to put away the books, and they we're just
leaving the church when the lightning struck
the steeple, passing to the ground, killing
young Jones instantly, and burned all the
clothes OF his person above his waist. Three
dwelling houses, situated ahalf-mils from the
church, and fully that distance from each
other, were struck by lightning about the
same time, but no serious damage was done.