The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-26
Crimes and Casualties.

hlDtlt We i1dtl baS DttI hitCstcL lOi idlC
on Nettie Wright, lis ster daughter, at
Union, Me-, last July.
The house of ex-Lieut Soy. Charles q.
Van Z.ndt of Newport, r. l., WAS damag-
ed So, 900 by fire Thursday
Henry Cakes, deputy postmaster at
Flint, Mich, has absconded with all the
money and registered letters on hand in the
postoflice.
Mchsl Heating, who was struck on the
head by John r. Gildea with meat axe,
at New Haven, Comp, Jan. cath, died
Thursday. Gildea is held in $4,000.
Mrs. Ashael S. Preston and her half
wtied son diedsuddenly in Rutland, Mass,
Tuesday night. from the effects of tea
drinking The tea will be Analysed
Charles F. Smith, who MAS so unexpect-
edly acquitted at Johnstown, n. V, We'd
| nesday, Of the murder of Edward Yost,
has been re-arrested on the charge of arson,
and committed to jail
The Z o'clock a. IN. express train for
Boston over the Cheshire railroad, WAS
thrown from the track by q misplaced
switch near Bellows Falls VI, Thursday,
but nobody was Injured.
A tramp about 80 years of age, supposed
to be the murderer OF farmer Dickinson of
Amherst, Mass, last fall, was arrested in
Dummcrstown Wednesday, and lodged in
Newfane jail for vagrancy.
BY the premature explosion nj giant
powder, Wednesday night, in shaft No. 8
Of the Delaware, Lackawsnna and West
crn railroad, at Bergen Hill, n. j., two
workmcn were fatally injured.
Six men, four OF them Indians, one negro
and one white, have been condemned by
the United States court to be executed at
Fort Smith, Ark, April 81 next. There
were six hung at the same place, Scptem-
Der last.
The grand jury of Springfield, Illinois,
Thursday, returned indictments against
Henry p. Westermsn, John p. Smith,
David T. Thompson, George A. NJ. Camp
bell and Albert Smith, for conspiracy &c
defraud the government of internal
revenue.
Hugh A. Baiu, late confidential clerk TO,
Thomas Riddell & Co., insolvent paper
manufacturers OF Montreal, who suspended
payment in September with liabilities
amounting to $IS0,00o, has been arrested
charged with classifying the hooks, sine,
then in his charge.
Counterfeit bonds of the New York
Central and California and Oregon railroad
companies are turning up IN Brussels. /
Is presumed that these bonds were issucc
by one of the noted forgers now in the
Tombs at Nav York. and were sent over t.
the other side, either for sale or to borrow
money on.
The recent suspension OF the Farmers
and Traders bank Of st. Louis, proves t
have been caused by deficiency of $50,
600 in the accounts of Cashier RUDOLPH
II. Dryer, son of an old and highly respect
ed citizen. lie was to have met the di
rectors on Monday to agree upon means I,
make his accounts good but has absconded
Alos Bues, negro, and one of the muir
derers of Mrs. Cochran and her daughter a
Savannah, Ca, was arrested Monday, an,
while under guard, Wednesday night, wa
shot and instantly killed by an unknown
, negro, it is supposed, enc of his own gang
,, to prevent confession. But there IL pros
pect OF the entire gang of despersdoes be
ing captured.
A case of Winslowism, scientidcall.
, ground down TO fine point, was brough