The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-01-13
News Items.

L. D. Latimer, formerly resident of
Darien, Walworth Co., has been appoint
ed District Attorney for California.
| Emma Shicker, "a little girl in James
vile, broke through the ice and was
drowned while skating in that place on
Tuesday of last week.
President Grant has signed the bill to
REIN burse loyal owners of steamboats, and
vessels taken by the United States
during the war.
A wealthy bachelor in New York saw
a young lady help blind man across the
street-obtained an introduction, wooed
and married her. Since then all the
anxious" young ladies have been look
ing for blind men,
St. Louis is confident that the remov-
al of the Capitol to that city has become
a certainty. lli
Pitts burgh shipped 100000 bushels
of coal during the year 1869.
The, sentence of Walsh, the Chicago
wife murderer, was last week committed
to Imprisonment for life, and he was
taken to Joliet last Friday. /
A congregation in Indiana are making
strong efforts to induce Beecher to come
and preside over them,-they offer him
$500 and house rent free "a
1t has been rumored in London that
President Grant would visit the sover-
eigns of Europe in a short time, accom-
panied by a feet of iron clads. r.
The. Alton House, at Alton, ILL.,, caught
fire from defective fue last Saturday
morning, and was totally dstroyed. Loss
$4,000; insured for $4,000.
Counterft so cent notes of the new
issue are in circulation. The backs are
very good, but the faces are blurred.
Salt Lake City is now connected by
railroad with the Pacific Railroad. Il
The telegraph operators union is called
the league oflightning."
The gamblers in New York feeced
Brigham Young Jr., out oe nearly a
thousand dollars while he was in that
city recently.
In Fort Howard, a few days since, as
man was throwing a snow ball, SAC
ring slipped off his finger and went with
it. a @
The Green Bay Ad0ocate hears of a
case of trichin@ in that town.
The people of Sturgeon Bay are moving
IN the matter of having the Northwestern
railroad extended from Green Bay to
their burgh.
William Dubois, considered the bast
watch maker in the world, died Nov.
25th, at Locle.
It is reported that A. T. Stewart has
purchased an interest in New York pa
per. Does he want to be poor man?
On New Years day Mr.. D. D. T. Moore,
proprietor of the Rural New Yorker pre-
|sented twenty of his employees with paid
up life Insurance policies of from $500 to
SIS, 900 each.
The Racine Adoocate has entered upon
it's twenty ninth year.
Ten thousand persons are employed in
the diamond-cutting business in Amster-
dam.
Seth Jones, an old citizen of Bangor,
Ia Crosse county, was killed last Thurs
day evening by railroad train while
trying to cross the track.
w. r. Finch, late of the La Crosse Re
publican, has purchased an interest in the
Sheboygan Times.
1t is reported that the Cuban Junta
last week sent large propeller to Cuba,
and that another is about to sail with 800
men.
A despatch from Rome states that the
Bishop of Panama is dead.
The New York San speaks of late
wedding in that city as an undress affair.
A"poor beggar woman" in Poughkeep-
sic, N. Y, died recently leaving 1000.
Poor relatives!
On Tuesday of last week Bohemian
cigar-maker in Milwaukee, committed
suicide by soaking bunch of matches in
some water, and then swallowing the DOSE
Last Monday night tenement house
was destroyed by fire in Detroit, and five
children-four girls and one boy-per-
ished in the flames.