Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-09-07

= have been one or two deaths daily among IN
3 troops during the past week. Surgeon Roe
! OF the United States army, Is SICK Win
also General Kent. Collector of Customs.
CRIME AND CASUALTIES.
: A Warsaw Indian, named w. lei
3 Fnnk. WAS killed in AN affray in Cincinnati OF
Sunday night. -
Twenty-seven convicts escaped from
The West Virginia State Prison, at Mounds
vile, on Saturday.
Samuel Chambers, IA negro steamboa
hand. fell from the steamer Addie johnson
on Sunday, at the st. Paul leyee, ana wa
drowned.
A man named David Hogan was wan
tonly. and it is feared fatally stabbed, by ont
| VIM. Green, a notorious rOugh, IN low sa
loon in Chicago, on Monday night
man named Joseph Anderson ol
Jamas Armstrong. committed suicide Sunday
night AZ the st. Nicholas Hotel, st. Louis, by
taking chlOrofOrm.
Theodore Jones, deputy jallor OF
Hudson City, New Jersey, was. ON Saturday
morning. shot dead at Union Hal, Saratoga,
by w. krittley.
/ 7 w. Winter, a clerk in an army
naymaster's Office, in New York, has been
held to bail, charged with forging draft
for IS, geo on the Treasury Department.
A serious disturbance occurred
| among the members of target company
who went on al excursion 10 Fast ne" ioIh =
| Several we're stabbed and beaten with bildg-
| cons.
A riotous attack was made on the
New York police Friday night for arrestiDg
drunken men Two officers were beaten
brutally. The leader of the mob was ar
rested,
Augustus Hand and Theodore Tuck
are held TO bail in New York, charged with
an attempt 10 defraud James OConnOr, OF
Pittsburg, of 1000 by fraudulent represen-
tati0ns.
Seven wOTkmen were preclpltated
into the river at Harrisburg, Pa, on the 24th,
by the breaking of the trestle OF the new
bridge. One WAS killed and the others we're
slightly injured
George W. Holmes, managing Ill
rector Of an alleged grand Masonic concert,
in New York in aid OF the Masonic han and
asylnm fund, has been arrested on charge OF
keeping lottery Office.
A farmer named S. S. fowler, living
three miles east OF Port Byron, H., commit
ted suicide on Saturday by emitting his throat
NTH a razor Dependency over the loss OF
property was the cause of the act.
A bow named Michael Graham was
run over by "A car on the horse railroad IN
Springfield, H., Monday morning and crush
ed and maneled in frightful manner Death
came to his relief in thirty miuutos after.
A fracas occurred near Desplaines sta
ton, on the Northwestern railroad, on Sum
day, between drunken rOwdies and some Ger
mans ia which Peter Muncheu, one OF the
rowdies. was shot and killed by a German
named ThOmss GWIn.
George Cotton, a carpenter FROM
CFestline, Ohio, While working in Cincinnati,
on the 18th on the roof of the Ohio and
Mississippi railroad depot, slipped and fell
of aud died from his injuries IA a few mia
utes.
The mill belonging to the Benning
ton CVtO Powder Company exploded Tues
dav, Instant, killing three men named Abra-
ham Mo A. Edward Cunningham aud VIII
lam Downs. The latter was blown h. fTag-
ments. The LOGS i not heavy. The cause of
the explosion IL not known.
The crew of the ship Lizzie Moore,
bound for Antw rp, from Philadelphis, mutt
MED Oh tlfe gath when Few miles down the
river. police force was sent down and ar
rested fourteen men who will be brought be-
fore the United States Commissioner. The
mate OF the vessel wac stabbed, and the skull
of one Of the mutineers was fractured.
A man and his wife got off the steam
er Rose Hite, at Alton, Ind. on Saturday
morning. After daylight their baggage wac
found ON the river bank, and there were signs
of "a struggle over the baUk TO the waters
edge Both bodies were tished out on Satur. |
day. tits supposed that this was an attempt
az murder which proved fatal to both.
On Sunday morning, a young man
named Benz amin Terry, while watering hor-
ses IN the mississippi, at Dubuque, rode one
1T them beyond it's depth, and was thrown oil
and drowned, being unable TO swim. man
was fishing GA hat-boat within rod OF
where he sunk, but did not stop hla fishing to
shove A board, Of which plenty were at hand,
to his assistance.
On Saturday, Alexander Boss, a
voung man Of twenty three, was shot and
killed By man named II. b. Johnson, at
Hamilton Landing. on the Ohio river, sixty
miles below Cincinnati. loss was druOk,
durrelsome and shouting for JEFF. Davis, and
had previously shot at the brother of the man
who killed him.
The body of DIR. Matthew II. Ram
say, a well known physician, was found re-
creted la a swamp near the Raleigh road, six
mites from Memphis, on the 18th, perforated
with balls his head smashed and his pockets
rifiad IL ia supposed that the murder was
committed for robbery. John Fancy has been
arrested on snspiciou, but there il no positive
proof against HIM The doctor had gone into
the country To visit patient. Ills hOrse was
fOuud shot IN the shoulder
Jacob Scherr, "A school teacher IN
Chicago, was shot and KILLED by the accident
al discharge OF bis gun while hunting birds
near BraceviiiD, on the Alton ~ Chicago rail
road. flo was standing with the muZzle OF
the gun in his aTni-pit the hammer being at
fuu cock when his dog oAuo up, ana, play
fnlIv Jumping upon him, struck the trigger,
when the gun went "A, the charge entering
hiS body aud killing him almostinstantly.
A Young German, named Joseph
Zumlnach, having vainly sought the hand OF
" handsome young mnliner, of Cincinnati, re-
haired to the store where Tshe works, AMI
asked to soc her. Being refused, he pro-
liuced two daggers and requested Tia one
be handed 10 her with his dying wish that
they die together. Before the second dagger
could DE taken from him. he plunged it into
his heart aud fell TO the floor corpse.
Douglas Stephens was arrested in
Detroit on the 23d inst for embezzlement.--
In Eay lastit NAs, ascertaihed that he had
stolen eight hundred dollars from =. a A.
Botsford, commission merchants. and he was
| discharged. lie confessed his guilt. and was
not prosecuted upon promising % do better
| IN future Afterwards no became book keep
| sr for Il. NJ I4emion. on Michigan avenue. and
/ Saturday was detected ip repeating his old
/ tricks. Both, business houses are now pros
s'a sfc1E p eT-+
mEsCELI.ANEOUs. 81
The ram Stonewall sailed for Japan
on the. 2sth. -..--, - g
The city of st. Joseph, Mo-, has
Voted SiOO 900 to AID in railroad enterprises.
Thefifth National Horse Show COM
menced in Springfield, Mass, on the 2Sth.
Receipts of internal revenue for the
week ending the Path were S ,s7s7 39.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop oi
Quebec died On Sunday 4
In n match game OF base ball the