Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-06-22
TELEcRAPHIc SUMMARY
Personal.


Hawks who has been on trial IN st
Paul for the murder Of his wife, was acquitted
on the 10th.
Duval Rigeley, son Of a prOminen
st. Louis citizen, committed suicice on tn
nth.
Gen. Hooker sailed for Europe. OF
the 18th. on the steamer Scotia. Hon. Il. q
winthrop Was also passenger on the same
steamer.
A. A. Kelly, manager and proprietor
OF Eellyis Great North American Gift COncer
scheme, WAS arrested in New York ON TIA,
I2th, charged with swindIing.
Gen. Sherman, with the cOneHfrenc,
OF Secretary stanton, has agreed to ALLOW
Governor Hunt, OF COlOradO, to equip 5O
volunteers for Indian service.
General Grant has telegraphed q
General Sheridan that there il no truth in thI
reports that Secretary stanton aud himsel
censnred him for removing Gov. Wells.
Colonel John z. Campbell, a noted
turf, man formerly Of Baltimore, but late O
Mobile, died ia Louisville ON the night of the
Sth inst.
Calvin N. NOrthTup has been SEN
fenced to twelve years ia the state prison foI
the attempted murder Of his wife. by poison
ing, ma Meschester county, New York.
Geo. KiTman, aged Is years, com
pleted the feat Monday afternoon, at the race
course nm Memphis, OF walking 100 miles in
that many consecutive hours, for a wager OF
5000. lie made the last mile in IL minutes.
MIR. Harker's team, Bruno and Bru-
nette, trutted mile on the Fashion Course
Tuesday, IN 2.25i beating tho time made by
B0nneT's Lady Palmer aud Flatbush mare, in
lSG2, by three-quarters OF a second.
John Antrim, of the firm Of Antrim
& Severt, merchants Of st. Louis, has fallen
heir To a large estate IA Ireland, the property
Of the late Earl of Antrim. The whole estate
Is valued al IL QUO, GOO, Of which Mr. Antrim
gets about One-half.
Horace w. uovey,a school teacher of
freedmen IN Richmond, Va, was convicted Of
whipping a child not belonging 10 the
school, sud sentenced to pay fine Of one
hundred dollars. and imprisonment for one
month. Gen. iiChOlield remitted the fine and
the Governor pardoned him from imprison-
ment.
Edward Ross and son, abOut four
years old, living farm about nine miles
from st. LOuis, were found dead in bed Sat
urday morning by Mrs. Ross, who had been
on visit to the city aud just returned home.
lt II supposed that herman boy, Is yea z
old, IN the employ Of Ross, committed the
deed, lac having left the place taking Ross
team and wagon with him.
MIR. and Mrs. Alfred King, residing
at No. 80 East 18th street, n. Y, were found
on Monday morning lying dead on their bed
which was covered with blood. a pistol WAS
found ON the bed, three chambers of which
had been discharged. The suppOsitiOn Is
that King first shot his wife, having preyi-
Ously given her chIUrUfOTm, and then killed
himself.
Miss Kate Norton, n native of Maine,
aud until recently resident of Detroit, COM
united self destruction 81 her residence ON
West Eleventh street, New York, 10y taking
morphine. a mau named Edward Dewey
seems to have sedueod her some iour years
ago, under promise of marriage, aud has
been living with her since. lie came here
Gently aud married another woman The
above is the sequel.
Col Pennybocker, Kentucky state
agent, has Recently called the attention of
the CUmmi-sioueT of Pensions to an 8dyeT-
tisemcnt which Represents that the soldiers
of the war Of 1912, or their widows. nov oh
tam government pensions "a Is "A month. 81
The commissioner states that such TcpTeSen-
tatI1ns are wholly unwaTranted, uO law ever
having been enacted by Nhirh pensions are
granted tO the soldiers Of 1872, or their Wild
OwS, except a. provided more than fifty years
since, to the soldiers and the widows Of those
dying. wounded and disabled IN the service