Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-05-05
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

TWenty-eightb lOoded sheepwere con-
sumed by the burning OF barn at Aurora,
Kane county, IL, last week.
James GlennOn was executed at
Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the Goth, for the
murder of his vie.
On the 18th, some miners near Col
fax. Cal, we're blasting rock with nitrO-gly-
cerine. The compound pTematuTely exploded,
and six men were killed. ...f-
Thomas Shields, convicted of the de-
liberate murder of Robert Taylor, was hung
on the 10th, in Libby Prison, at richmond
He was unrepentaht to the last moment.
A boy, named DahOney, fell from the
trestIe work on the st. Paul n Pacific railroad,
on the 25th, in order to escape an approach
ing train, and was drowned, The body was
recovered. .s
A day or two since, Mr.. Hiram Nc
Intyre of Illinois who was visiting q brother
at Dover, Duchess comfy, NY, while prac-
Using with a revolver, fired at dog house
in which two little daughters of his brother
were playing, killing one of them instantly.
A letter from Lopez, Arizona, dated
April 18th, announces that NJ Miller, of the
18th u \. Infantry, and four men, were killed
while going from Fort Grant to Tucson. Ar
ter the murder company OF MaricOpas and
PimOs went in pursuit of the Apaches, kill
ing twenty-five and capturing Others
The small stern-wheel steamer Mug
get, one Of the first boats which left for Mon
fana this season, has been sunk in forty feet
of water high up the Missouri river. She
belonged to Charles Kaizer and VIM. W. Nc
PhersOn, of st. Louis, and had sixty tons of
freight for Fort Benton. She was valued at
$4,000.
The house of David Petit, a farmer
residing about mile from Norwich, Chenan-
go county, N. v, was robbed OF Sl,OOO IN
money and government bonds on the 18th,
during the absence Of Mr.. p. and his wife.
The men assaulted his son and made him
disclose where the money was kept. He was
so badly beaten "a to be insensible when his
father returned home.
The wall of building in process of
demolition on Orange Lane, Boston, fell down
on the night of the Dist, burFying in the rub
bish and killing three little boys named Rob
ert Wilkins, Henry Woods, and Robert st.
Clair, all between STA and twelve years OF age.
Mary Fisher Is years old, had both Ofher legs
broken, and received other injuries. The
parents of the children are poor people resi-
ding in tho vicinity Of the scene OF disaster.
On the 18th, a most destructive fire
broke out in the Pittsburgh Acid Works, Law
renCeville, near Pittsburgh owned by Boston
company under the firm of Farrah Co. The
fire originated from an evapOrating pan filled
with acid, which Is supposed 20 have boiled
over and communicated with the furnace.
Farrah a Co.'s loss is S5O, 900, on which they
have an insurance of 600 in Eastern COM
panies. Hackett, Mckee x Co.'S loss is s12-
900; fully insured
The COrOner's jury on the inquest
held on the bodies of Samuel Knight and ten
others, killed by the late explosion in San
Francisco, found that their deaths were caus-
ed by the explosion Of BitrO-glycerine, con-
tanned In a wooden box, which arrived ON the
steamer Sacramento, on the 18th inst, adj
dressed to w. III. Miles, Los Angeles, and
that no mark indicated its character. The
jury express the opinion that the shipper of it
Is guilty of manslaugbter and should be pros
ecuted. They acqIit the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company, and We :, Fargo, a Co., of all
blame. e-..
The PI -sident has pardoned the fOls
lowing criminals: J. G.. Harris, of Kentucky,
convicted for violation of the internal revenue
laws, and sentenced to pay fine of 5000;
Horace l.. Jones, of Michigan, convicted of
embeZzling from the mails, and sentenced to
10 years imprisonment; Wallace ". Whittlesy,
OF Ohio, convicted of abstracting public re-
cords from the United States treasury depart
ment, and sentenced to pay a fine Of Sf,OO0,
and stand convicted until the fine was paid.
Whittlesy has been in confinement about eight
months, sndis now pardOned because his health
has become so much impaired as to endan-
ger his life. H