The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-02-05
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The high wind of Wednesday last did
considerable damage to buildings signboards,
etc, i'll the cities, according to the reports
of the papers the next morning At New
York. the wind reached velocity of sc miles
an hour AT Cohoes, \. V, the steeple OF St
BarnarIs Church, 223 feet high and contain
ing a full chime of bells. was blown down
the damage is estimated AT $4,000. In Phil
adelphia and Baltimore, many houses were
blown down or unroofcd the damage by the
wind in The latter city is estimated at SlO,-
coo. At Rutland, Vt, the gale was accom-
panied by drifting snow, and it was reported
that foot of snow had fallen at Montreal
In Washington, the tower of the Metropolitan
Methods Church was blown several feet from
its perpendicular, and the roofs of several
houses were blown off. At fredericksburg
Va, the spire of the Episcopal Church was
blown down, and crushed an adjoining build
ing in its fall. A telegram from Detroit saws
that terrific storm of wind and snow swept
over Michigan on Tuesday night. and at
Mackinaw, IN Wednesday morning. the Their
monster marked % degrees below zero.
Five schooners went ashore Oh Cape Henlopen.
"A most atrocious murder has come to
light at Greenpoint, Long Island. A mans
head, which had been severed from the
body, was found wrapped in a newspaper
between a lumber pile and a fence in
shipyard at that place, on Saturday after
noon. 1t was identified by the featues as
the head of w. w. Simmons, of Derby,
Conn, who had been working in Williams
burg, n. Y, (Which lies adjacent to Green
point,) and boarding with a family there.
Detectives succeeded in tracing the matter
up, and fixing the crime upon Victor Kretz,
an Alsatian, who, after studied efforts to
escape detection, betrayed himself. The
butchered limbs and body of his victim
were found at his house, where the murder
was committed. Robbery is the supposed
motive, though the murderer averred that
Simmons had dishonored his family.
A special from Camp Supply, Indian
Territory, gives an account of sharp
fight between Lieut.. Bishop, with one
hundred and fifty men, and a party of
Usage Indian cattle thieves, in which three
of the latter were killed, several wounded,
and the remainder dispersed, except one
old squaw, who, though left to her fate
said she would rather be killed than go as
prisoner. All the lodges were burned
except one, and the old squaw was left in
possession.
The thermometer was 12c below zero
at Omaha, ON Tuesday morning. Heavy
snow storms had blocked the cars at sew
eral places on the Union Pacific Railroad.
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