Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-18
Crimes and Casualties.

Lightning shivered the flag. staff on
Meeting house Hill in Dorchester, Mass,
on the Fourth.
The Indians in Texas have added to
their other amusements that of skinning
their white prisoners alive.
A man seventy years of age has been
sentenced in Kentucky to be hung in
August for numbering his wife.
"A tender hearted father was arrested
in Hoboken, N. j., on the I'd inst, for
striking his son on the head with q
smoothing iron.
Mrs, Elizabeth Lochman died a few
days ago in Bethel, Pa, at the advanced
age of one hundred and five years.
Ida and Ella Snow, twin daughters
of Harvey Snow of Msttapoisett, nearly
four years old, were poisoned to death
last week by eating friction matches.
John Handley, of Lowell, got liter
ally decspitated on the Sd inst, by his
head being caught in belt and carried
over the shaft, wrenching the head from
the body.
The q. S. Consul at Kingston,
Jamaica, reports that the yellow fever
prevails there as an epidemic, and is
quite malignant Twenty-Five per cent.
OF the cases prove fatal.
A young lady named White was
killed at Niddletown, Ct., on Friday, by
the mistake of druggist, who mixed
Ia Of nh -,
scrlption prepared for her.
The rope walk of Andrew G. Bra
gam, at New London, CT, was totally
destroyed by fire, with its contents, July
4th, by fire. crackers, the city authorities
having neglected to prevent the use Of
the dangerous missiles in that city.
Reports of sporadic cases of malig-
nant diseases peculiar to our hot season,
and coming simultaneously from parts
of the country widely separated, convey
timely warning in regard to the neces-
sity for complete sanitary preparations.
Preventives and provocatives of disease
should alike receive attention.
ON the evening of the Fourth at
Niagara Falls, Mr.. Tyrell, a sleeping-car
conductor on the Central Railroad, fired
a musket, supposed to be loaded with
powder only, into the street. He imme-
diately heard groans proceeding from the
sidewalk, and there, to his horror, he
discovered woman named Fitz badly
wounded In the legs, and her child, a
babe, shot in the breast, dead.
The Herald's Louisville special says
that Kerns, who murdered Finley on
the Attn inst, was captured on Saturday
about thirty miles from that place while
on train returning towards New Al
bany. He unsuccessfully attempted to
shoot one OF his captors.
"A fracas occurred on Sunday night,
about 8 o'clock, in Hoboken, between
Edward Marion, aged fifteen years, and
John Glenstein, aged eighteen, in which
the latter was killed by an unlucky
blow from stone. Marion resides In
New York. He was committed for trial
in default OF $1,000 bail.
Two oxen jumped upon the track
of the Rockport railroad directly in
front of train, on Thursday, and the
engine, tender and baggage car were
thrown from the track III consequence
of passing over them The engine run
iuto ledge aud was badly damaged.
No person was hurt. This is the first
accident that ever happened on the road.
"A Young woman in Gloucester was
engaged to be married to a young man
on voyage to the West Indies as soon
rs he returned. When he came back he
married another, and the disappointed
girl set to work and found second
lover, to whom she became engaged.
tie went TO his home in the Provinces
to prepare for the wedding, and was Ia
ken sick and died, and the unfortunate
Gloucester maiden Is now in the matri-
monal market third time.