Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-09-12

During 1866 two hundred lives
were lost and So 0O0, 900 of property de-
stroyed by kerosene explosions.
1t Is reported that one OF the inter-
nal revenue collectors of New York has
been arrested for connivance In whisky
frauds.
- The Bowdoinham bank robbers,
Sims, Mcguire and Bartlett, have been
sentenced to the Main state prison for
the term of fifteen years each.
A defaulting cashier named Stranger
has Just absconded from San Francisco
with 100000 OF misappropriated funds.
"whither goest thou, pilgrim Stranger 2?
-Abram Myers, conservative candi-
date for Mayor OF Nashville, fell acci-
IDENTIFY on Saturday night from the Sec
ond story OF building in that city,
fracturing his skull, causing his death
shortly afterward.
The arrangements for Ia great inter
State fair at Norristown, Pa, during
the present week, have been completed,
and a brilliant exhibition is anticipated.
The fair will continue for the entire
week.
Jacob Adams, of Morgan county; is
the fifth and latest defaulting comfy
treasurer in Indiana within six months q.
His populations amount TO $4,000, and
will probably be recovered from his Sc
curities.
In Shelbyville, KY, last Saturday
night, an old man named Isaac Gibbons,
was stabbed by his son.in-law, eight
times. The knife penetrated his lungs
and chest in various places, and it is re-
ported he cannot survive. His son-in-
law, who is desperate, fed.
A man named Charles Jackson, but
few days from Liverpool, was found
by q policeman in Tenth street, New
York, Saturday morning, bleeding pro-
fusely from the throat. On inquiry, he
confessed that he had attempted suicide
from inability to obtain work. He was
conveyed to the hospital.
Simon F. Wright, well-known
Custom House official, and formerly
attached to the Boston police depart
ment, was run over and killed on the
Old Colony Railroad, at Braintree, Mass,
Saturday morning. He got out of the
way of one train and got in front of an
other coming from an opposite direction
Charles W. Snow one of Edward
Malley's clerks, at New Haven, Conn.,
has eloped, and, doing business on the
usual extensive scale OF that firm, took
along with him two females. Mrs
Read and Miss Minnie NJ. Morley, both
of Bridgeport. They have been gone
since Tuesday, and nobody knows where
AT Fremont Centre, Steuben Co.,
last Wednesday, the boiler in the steam
saw mill OF Granger Trip exploded, and
VIM. H. Somers, of Loon Lake, who was
standing near, was blown sixty feet il
the air, and injured so badly that hi
died in few minutes. Richard Maynard
David Allen and George Ramsay wer
also badly injured. Somers was but re
Gently married.
John O'Flynn was killed on Frida,
night, in front of bar-room at No. l2lt
Broadway, New York, by a man name'
VIM. Mckenzie, who picked quarrel il
the saloon with his victim, whereupol
both were thrust out of the door by tn
bar keeper, and permitted to fight it out
The fight lasted but few minutes, whel
OFlynn fell dead upon the sidewalk
from blows dealt by Mckenzie.
Coroner's jury rendered verdict chare
ing Mckenzie with the homicide, an
he was arrested.
In St. Paul, Decatur county, Ind
the other evening, q man named Robel
Massingill made desperate attack upo
Benjamin Shyers with stones, inflictin
wounds on his head from which he die
the next morning. 1t seems that Ma
singill had invited q young ady to a.
company him to church and had starte
with her, when be was pushed aside an
his place at the lady's side taken b
Shyers Massingill lay in wait for thel
and on their return to the lady's HON
made the assault. He was arrested.
, "A young German girl named Louis
Schneider was rescued from vile de
in Williams street, New York, on Satu
day, by Mr.. Bender of the Mohaw
House, Utica. She had been inveigle
into the house as servant by the pr
prietors, and afterwards compelled /
/, severe beatings to submit to the regul
t tions. On attempting to Leave, b
, clothing was withheld. On the repr
: sensations of Mr.. Bender, who had a
l cidently come into possession Of tt
/ facts, an officer proceeded to the hou
and secured the clothing, when MIR. Be
: der engaged the girl as o servant al
2 took her home with him.