Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-26

Charles Ulrich the notorious eounterieiter
of limited States 500 and $500 bills, who caus-
ed great trouble and expense, pleaded gmIty
before Judge Leayitt, IN the Ohiteo s'ateS
Court al Cincinnati, Friday, and was SEN
fenced TO the Peniteutiary for twelve years.
His conviction breaks up q powerful and dam
rerous gang of counterfeiters- 81 p
Friday morning. during heavy thunder
Storm three school children, Frank j. Hawley,
,eed il. David M. sherman, aged III, and
Charles p. Rubbed, aged years, while stand
mo ON the school house porch, at Monroe,
G6nneeiicut. were instantly killed by light
ming. A little girl named ii. Abbell was Sc
yerely stunned, but has recovered. The
school house was badly damaged.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
has been considering for some time MIR.
Banks bill relative TO the nights OF natural
iZed citizens abroad. Mr.. Seward feared that
the clause of the bill providing for retaliation
bv arresting foreign subjects might involve us
in difficulty with other governments, and on
his advice the committee have agreed to re-
port the bill without 1t.
Last Saturday five of the prisoners confined
in the Vigo county (Ind.) jail, including man
named Stevens. charged with murder, sue
ceeded in burrowing under the stone moor,
dee,, outside the north wall, and made their
ESCAPE. ONLY a boy named Dodd was rear
rested.
An exnlosion occurred in the steam saw
mill OF stephen Clarhs beal SuiocAi M,
on Wednesday morning. The entire building
was shattered, and DIR. III. Scott Thurston,
the clerk and Morris Sibley, engineer, and a
man named Perksware instantly killed. Two
other workmen were badly injured. The dis
aster is alleged to have been caused by the
carelessness of the engineer
The Treasury Department is busy in pre-
pairing a schedule for paying the interest of
| the 5-2Os and 81 bonds, which falls due on
the LIST of July. The amount of interest
which the government will pay ont amounts
to $50. DOC, 600 Tho treasurer will anticipate
the interest, and begin payment toward the
last of the present month.
Gen. Mcmahon, of New York, lis in Wash
ington. His nomination as Minister to Next
co will not be acted on by the Senate on ac-
count of the war in which that country is en-
gagged and the consequent difficulty IN reach
ing it, He is a candidate for the appointment
of Minister to Mexico and if nominated will
probably be confirmed.
Accounts from Oregon report that the ma
iority for Smith (DemOcrat) for Congress, Is
between IL, 600 and 13, 000 Official returns
from counties next to Idaho give unexpected
" large Democratic major1tles. The total
vote in the state is nearly 22OOO, the largest
ever polled. The State Senate stands twelve
Democrats to ten Republicans, the Assem-
bly, twenty-eight Democrats TO nineteen he
publicans.
Preparations for the Sixteenth Annual
S;eengeTfest of the North American SsenSer-
bund which is TO be formally opened III CHI
cago Thursday, are about completed. The
decorations for the occasion are ON maSnlh-
cent scale nearly all the German business
houses and a large number of private resi-
dences being handsomely festooned. The
foreign delegations are expected Thursday
morning They will be met at the depot by
the Executive Committee and a committee OF
citizens, and escorted to apartments at the
Sherman House.