Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-15
TELEcRAPHIc SUMMARY.
aEnERAL NEWS.

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Immigrants arrived in New York on
the 6:h TO the number Of 8. III.
Commodore Ridgely, of the navy, a
native Of Kentucky, lied on the 5sh.
Jeremiah La Rogue, q prominent
member of the New York bar, died on the attn.
A grand commemoration OF confed-
crate dead took place at Ellmwood Cemetery,
Memphis, on the and.
Gov. Fen.on of New York has signed
the bin requiring the Central Railroad 10 ior-
ward freight by river vessels.
Gen. Cahoon, United States Com
missioner, was to-day appointed Mayor OF
Richmond.
Hon. Isaac Teller, Elk Congressman,
died suddenIy on the 30th ult., while riding
in q buggy in Msttledon, n. Y.
James Graham, the well-known ticket
agent, has been sentenced to Auburn State
Prison four years. for forgery.
A high government official in Brook
Iyn is re ported to have disappeared, largely
10 debt to friends for money spent In gamb-
ling.
Zumbusk's iewelry store, in Indian
suolis. was robbed Monday night OF goods
Amounting to over $4,000, inc uding seventy
watches.
John Cooper was sentenced to three
Years IMPRISONMENT in the peniteDtiary, by
the United states Circuit Court in st. Louis,
for counterfeiting.
The American Medical Association
met in Washington on the 5th; DR.. ;. ID.
Gross, Of PhiIsdeIphis, in the chair. About
$50 delegates are present.
The negro walters in one OF the
Nashville hotels struek on the 2nd for higher
wages. they were getting ten dollars
month.
Three notorious counterfeiteIs named
Gustsyus Juth, George A julien aud Harry
Schsffsr, WhNse headquarters were at New
ton, N. J.. have been arrested.
James Seaman and Riley Gray, of
Braden & ScsnIan's paper mill, Indianapolis,
were s,aIded to death Friday night by an
explosion of the tank used for staining
straw.
AIRS. Mary Morris and hrs. Fergu-
son, middle sged women. were crushed be-
tween 8 runaway tesm and horse car on
fremont street Boston, on the All, and go
badly inf afed that they will probably die.
A vein of iron ore has been discov-
cred On the Garrett Mountain, near Patrer-
son. n. J., about IA feet below the surface,
extending q mule and quarter. 1t is from
TO so feet in width.
The tres;le work at the Erie Railway
depot, in jersey City, the 5th, gave way letting
4 Iooon.ot,ve into the river. The engineer,
McCoIt. and the fireman, CaI hart, were
drowned.
Eighteen persons we're poisoned by
arsenic, which was administered IN the food
at s boarding house, in New Orleans. On
SUNDAY. Nose are dead, however, the quan-
fifty taken having been too large.
The Menhaden oil works in IL istol,
Maine. Owned b, Brighimsn q Sons of New
Bedford, were burned q few nights since by
masked mob OF fishermen. Lies ten thou
sand dollars.
A young woman FAMED Margery Me-
Ksy. living in South. Boston, attempted to
murder her seducer, George O'D0HOysn,
with pistol on the steps oil the old south
slightly injured. She was arrested.
The 44th annual report of the New
York Bible Society was read Monday evening;
from " hich it appears that the society has
distributed eince January, 1867, 694S
Bibles and Testaments. It's receipts have
amounted to 1000, and its disbursements
20 tSl 500.
IA dispatch to the Secretary of the
Interior from the Peace Commission, dated
At Fort Laramie, I'd. reports the arrival Cf
the three head chiefs OF the Cheyennes, and
that q full delegation OF Mountain Crows
and Arspshoes will be there in few days.
The official report to the Board OF
Health % the deaths in Cincinnati for the
month of April numbers 322, fonr OF which
was caused by the explosion OF the steamer
Magno'is, nineteen from email pox, and two
suicides.
A duel was fought four miles from
Baltimore on Sunday between parties from
Washingtou-an sttsche of the Prussisn le-
CATION snd an American central. One shot
was interehsnged, when the affair was ami
cably adjusted. Neither party was hurt.
At Shanghai, ILL.,, twelve miles north
west of Gale-burg, fourteen houses were
blown down By tornado on the Sd. Two
churches were unroofe0, four persons killed
and forty injured, e number Of whom it is
feared viii ole.
The brick depot of the Louisville,
New Albany and Chicago Railroad, at Bloom
inpton, Ind together with a large smount
of valuable freight stored therein, was burn
ed on the let. Loss heavy. The fire is sup
posed to have communicated to the building
By lightning.
A heavy rain storm occurred IN st.
Louis on the end, after which the me curry
rose to IS degrees in the shade The storm
extended eastward Into Illinois, and caused
a rise in the K,sksskis river of twelve feet.
A portion Of the railroad track at Shtloyville
was carried away.
The Montana Oil Works, located a
mile from Pittsburg, were totally destroyed
by fire on the I'd, togeth T with 200 barrels
of oil. The loss is between $50, 900 and $780,
600; insured for eleven Thousand dollars.
Three frame buildings adj lining were also
destroyed.
The biennial convention of German
Turner'S commenced in Boston on the 4th.
About fifty delegates were present from the
principal cities Of the North and West. The
officers are Franz Lockner, of Chicago pres
ident, Charles MBnig. of Indiansp polls. vice
president and Henry HUM, Of Washington,
secretary.
General Schofeld has appointed the
following municipal cfi -ers for RichTnond:
High Constable; Wm. z. Fall late Sergeant
St.Arms of the convention; City Surgeon,
DR.. 3. Mills. prominent citizen; Inspector
Of Gas Works, N. Sweetman, who aided the
escape of United States officers from Libby
Prison during the war; Messenger of the
Council. negro named John Oliver.
A New Mexico correspondent says
that q train was attacked near Fulorass,
April 18th, and the wagons end contents
burned and ell tie mules captured. OF
t6irty-seven men who went from Tuicrssa to
relieve this train, seven are reported 80
killed.
The Irish Canadian newspaper in
Toronto has been suppressed by order OF
the Government Patrick Boyle. Esq edl
tor, and several leading members of the H.
herman Society have been arrested, and pa
pe-s OF q treasonable character belonging TO
the Society seized, and parties arrested who
are supposed 10 be implicated in the Fenian
conspiracy.
A meeting of the Soldiers National
Executive Committee was heldin Washington
on Saturday evening. Members from thir-
teen states were present. Resolutions Were