Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-07-13
Grimes and Casualties.

One fatal case of sunstroke was re-
ported in New York on Saturday.
Frank Somers, fireman on the AL
bany & Susquehanna Railroad. was run
over on Friday and died the next morn.
ing.
Duncan S. Green of Passaic, n. j.,
travelling salesman for New York firm,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heart with a pistol, on the
Common in Boston, on Saturday after
noon last. He lived about an hour and a
half, and retained his isenses till within
ten minutes of his death.
Joan Mccormack, the eldest daughter
of wealthy farmers widow in De Kalb
county, Ill, was shot dead through the
window, the other evening, while sitting
at the supper table with her family. An
ignorant farm laborer was the murderer,
who was angry because she wouldn't &C.
company him to a Fourth of July cele-
bration.
Mr.. Maccoullay, Secretary to the
Speaker of the House of Commons, was
killed on Saturday, in the election riot at
Monticello, Ottawa County, Canada. Hel
was knocked down and so badly kicked
and beaten that he died soon afterwards.
"A furious storm of wind, accompanied
by heavy rain, took place in the vicinity
of Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday afternoon.
A number of trees in and around Dayton |
were uprooted. The German Lutheran
Church wac demolished, and four persons
were killed and twenty wounded. The
bridge over the Miami river was destroyed, |
and two boys were killed and one I'M ured. |
The Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum was
unroofed, and two female patients were in
iured. The school house of the Church
of United Brethren was blown down, and
the st. Mary's Catholic Church and the
Miami Railroad depot were unroofed, and
about fifty other houses were damaged.
The loss is over $4,000.
The most violent storm known for
years passed over Syracuse, N. Y, at
two o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and was
followed by another an hour later. The
wind blew down large trees from one to
two feet in diameter. One new building |
was blown down. The high school in
Gaddes, and several barns were unroofed. |
The lightningI struck in every part of
the city, including the house of Senator
Kennedy and Alderman Hewlett, and the
Binghamton Railway engine-house, doing
private dwellings, six miles west of SYRIA
cuse, and struck Eugene Harris, carpen-
ter, Killing him instantly, and stripping
his clothes entirely off his body. During
the storm hailstones as large as walnuts
fell, doing great damage to the crops in
the surrounding towns.
David P. Wilbur, police officer, in
Chelsea, Mass, was shot dead in the street
on Friday night last, by an assassin, who
approached and addressed him, and al
most instantly fred the fatal shot. The
assassin also fred several shots at police
officer Westley Abbott, who was near
officer Wilbur at the time of the assassin
alton, but they failed to take effect. From
the description of the assassin given by
Mr.. Abbott, suspicion was directed to a
notorious rough, named Cornelius Con.
mars, and on examination he was held to
await the action of the grand jury in
August
News has been received of the total
wreck of the French sbipi Souvenance on
the coast near the Cape of Good Hope.
All on board, including a large number
of passengers, were lost One hundred
and fifty bodies had washed ashore from
the wreck.
The house, barn and out buildings Of
Enoch Blaisdell of Lebanon, Maine, we're
totally destroyed by fire on Saturday at.
ternoon; also twenty acres of wood and
tillage land were burnt over. Loss about
four thousand dollars; insured for fifteen
hundred dollars.