Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-07
GelrarapJif Summary.


San Francisco on he 25th.
fire in Monticello, Iowa. Sunday night,
destroyed property to the value of $4,000.
Henry Roenz, a well-known confectioner
in Buffalo, drowned himself in the haTbor on
the 10Th.
-Four young ladies we're drowned while
bathing near Aurora, New York, on the oath
inst.
John Thompson, a revolutionary soldier,
died at Smithtovn, Long Island, Thursday
last, aged 1O4 years.
A railroad freight train of sixteen cars was
burned on the Erie railroad near Port Jerv1s,
Saturday morning.
The new state government in South Caro-
lima is represented as working well and Civ
ing general satisfaction
Political disturbances are again reported in
Bulgs ria and the Turkish Government has
sent troops thither to restore tranquility.
\ Mr. White was shot and killed on the 9th
in political dispute at Me enzie, Tennessee,
on the Nashville and Northwestern railroad.
4 fire on Hitchcock street, London, Cana
Ia, On the 9th, destroyed seven houses and
badly damaged three others. Loss $50, GOO.
Patrick BOYLE, publisher Of the Irish Cana
dian, who was recently arrested under the
habeas corpus act, has been released nom
custody
The coal oil factory Of Elkins Baldwin,
in Philadelphia. was destroyed by ire Sunday
rance.
The President has signed the deficiency
appropriation bill, which apprOpriates over
half a million OF dollars for reconstruction
purposes.
Patrick Roman had his hands blown of
end his eyes blown out by premature explo-
sion of glyceTine while blasting rOok, In New
York, on the 18th.
Peter Dean a well known citizen OF Ehlla-
delphia was run over and killed, on the 10th,
b. freight train onlthe PittsbWg and Con
nellsville railroad.
A CHEYENNE dispatch SAYS that several
thousand cords Of VOID and large quantity
OF coal belonging TO the Union Pacific rail-
road were burned Saturday night
The base bah match between the Univer-
sity mines of Harvard and Yale Colleges, at
Worcester on the 25th, resulted IN victory
for the Harvards. The score was . 10 H.
Governor Wells, Of Virginia, has obtained
from the Federal government S6,UOO, beng
portion of the expense incurred by the state
in raising and equipping troops during the
war.
Jefferson Davis and family sailed from
Quebec on Saturday Tor Europe by the steam
ship Austrian he will be gone several
m. nths and will be represented on his COM
ing trial by counsel
The steamer Dexter was sunk in the Ohio
sTiver on the 9th, near South Point. during
heavy storm which prevailed along the nver
lives were lost.
Fenian picnic was held near Buffalo on
Monday. Some 5000 soldiers and civic MEM
beers, with bands, music and banners, marched
in procession. Between 20, 600 and $4,000 per-
sons were on the ground. The most perfect
order prevailed.
A large fire occurred in Columbia Penn,
on the Goth, destroying the planning mill,
stable and several out buildings belonging to
T. s Bletz. Mr.. Orell and one fireman were
badly burned. Loss about $4,000; insured
for $1,000
CAPTAIN j. C. Queen was attacked by a
gang of ruffians IN Washington Saturday night
in the lot east of the Executive Mansion. His
throat was gashed and he was otherwise hor-
Iibly maltreated and robbed. He Will prob
ably recover.
The Merchants National Bank of Memphis,
which was closed about month since for
alleged violation OF the national banking act,
after an examination by special agent OF the
Treasury Department has been turned over
to its officers, and was TeOpened on the 9th.
The question Of issuing bonds to the
amount OF two hundred thousand dollars, TO
aid IN building the Union Pacific Railroad
bridge at Council Bluffs was voted on in that
city on the 9th, and resulted in Lila FOR 10
II against
Rev Reuben ). Herndon, who was in the
Jail at Orange Court House, Virginia, charged
with the seduction and murder Of Miss Mary
Sumsend, escaped Sunday night. He left a
confession Of the seduction, but denied the
murder. s reward OF $500 has been offered
by the Governor Tor his recapture-
1t il estimated that the IRE III the woods
this season has destroyed III the Ottawa dis
trict OF Canada, standing pine lumber to the
amount of four millions of dollars, and the
woods are still burning The boats on the
Montreal route are greatly detained by the
smoke on the river.
The roof OF the Lowell machine shop.
lowell Mass n hFErE hITTlHTnu
high and 400 feet long, was destroyed by IRE
FRIDAY night. Considerable damage was
done to the machinery. Loss 800, 900. One
thousand men are temporarily thrown out OF
employment.
Mrs Col MOTren was, few DAYS since.
fOrcibly taken from her home by her brother,
and put into an insane asylum at Trenton,
New Jersey, unknown TO her husband. The
latter Ii now endeavOTIng BIZ habeas corpus
10 obtain possession Of his wife. She Is per
fectly sane
OF the three thousand brIcklayers who
struck in New York for eight hours work and
$3.50 per day, all but one hundred are now
working, and these viii be set at work upon
buildings which have been put in their hands
direct by the owners, instead of employing
contractors.
Three more of the express robbers. Moore
Jewell and Park. who had been arrested in
Illinois, were hung near Brownstown, Ind,
on the 18th. by body OF men an masks, who
the second occurrence of the kind, three hav-
ing been hung about a week ago.
letter from an officer of the United States
steamer Ossipee, dated Acapulco, June 18th,
states that the officers and crew are suffering
from malariOus fever contracted while at CO.
rentO, Nicaragua, from which DIR. J. NJ. Rice,
L. s. HaTdee, Paymaster's clerk, Bernard Co
field, landsman, and John L Pardee, appTen-
tice boy had died. The only cases still on the
list are cOnyalescent.
The heavy rain storm on Friday night did
considerable damage IN South Brook W. The
road bed of the 5th avenue horse railway was
washed away in several places, and a large
plat of made ground Of Greenwood cemetery
was also washed away. A portion of Hamilton
avenue was washed into the BAY and many
houses badly damaged by their foundations
being partially destroyed. A large number
Of cellars were flooded, and some twenty or
thirty Thousand dollars worth of damage
caused in various ways. 1t was the heaviest
rainfall that has occurred Al the same space
Of time for twenty years.
The wife and child of Capt. Charles Staley,
of the bark George ThurstOn, were drowned
in the BateaG ca nal on Wolf Island, Canada,
on the 21st inst. Two girls had taken Mrs.
Staleys little boy down to the canal to wash
him. The girl who held him slipped into the
water, which was four or five feet deep. The
other girl, becoming frightened, ran to the
house and informed the mother, who rushed
70 the spot and jumped into the water to res
cue her child, but she sank at once and rose
no more alive The girl, meanwhile, had been
rescued by her sister.
Several cases Of cholera, including three
deaths, have occurred in what is known as
the Shanf,- District Of Now YORK q 1sarfion Of