The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-06-30
News EteIsas.

Last Saturday the U. S. Senate struck
from the Revenue bill the Income tax,
and restored the tax on gross receipts,
legacies and succession. The House will
probably concur.
The U. S Treasury agents seized "a,
$50 pounds of raisins in Boston last Fri
day, belonging to firm ip Montreal, for
being improperly invoiced.
The wife of a respectable machinist in
Cincinnati, named Bigford, was burned
to death last Friday evening while trying
to start fire with coal oil.
A farmer named Thomas Cornells, in
Ohio, sold his farm, and with his wife
and daughter started in covered wagon
for Erie county, Pa, but were overhauled
by ruffians and the man and his wife
murdered, the daughter making her es-
cape The man had about $1,000.
James Gordon Bennett and Horace
Greeley are both reported very ill. 1t is
believed Mr.. Bennett will not live many
weeks e9
Gen. Sheridan arrived IN Chicago last
Friday evening after a seven weeks trip
through the Indian country.S
Spain has commenced the work OF
emancipating her slaves All over sixty
years of age are to be Immediately set
free
A supposed Fenian plot for blowing up
the powder magazine at Gibralter has
been discovered, and the ringleader ar
rested sa#
On Saturday asst Queen Isabella, oil
Spain, formally abdicated the throne OF
that kingdom in favor of the Prince OF
Austrias, her successor.
Spotted Tails favorite wife died on
Monday of lastweek. All of the presents
given the chief by President Grant and
others were buried with his wife.
An explosion occurred in store filled
with fireworks in Philadelphia, by which
the whole building was destroyed. One
man had his eyes blowed out
The last spike in the Denver Pacific
Railroad was driven last Friday. It was
solid silver, presented by citizens Of
Georgetown, Col.
Junius Henri Brown was married il
New York last Thursday to Lilly Gilbert
sister of Mrs. Calhoun Runkle.
It is stated that the English mission il
to be offered to ex-senator Morgan, Of
New York. ai4a
Three thousand acres of the most val
liable timber land on Long Island have
been burned over, recently, together with
fire wood, fences, ETC., and manages are
estimated at from $4,000 to 100000. 81
Free baths are opened to-day to the
people of New York city
Two hundred Irish and German emf
grants, on landing in New York last
Thursday, Immediately enlisted in the
regular army.
Indiana received from the U. S. Trea
surer last Saturday 1896, 900 in apay1nen,
Of her war claims. sErs1 81
The Sons of st. Crispin' in Massa
chusetts are disorganizing. The shoe
manufacturers of North Adams announcc
that they will not employ any of the or
der under any circumstances. =
| A correspondent Of the Western Farm
en- has got rid of his potato bugs by put
ting Paris green into salt sack, ant
shaking the sack lightly over every hill
! The steamer Natchez, Capt. Thos. P
Leathers, made the trip from New Or
leans to st. Louis, twelve hundred miles
in the unprecedented short time of :
days, Fl hours, and SIS minutes, the tastes
time on record.
Edward B. Ketchum, who recent,
graduated from Sing Sing prison, ha,
again made his mark on Wall street, New
York. His speculations in gold ant
stock since returning to the city exceed
ter millions of dollars A late decline ii
geld left him nearly million of dollars
below par. 1
James Boyd, a heavy New York gold
operator, failed last week. His liabilitie
are estimated at 100000 ~
A man in Germany has invented pro
cess by which ice can be made in no
weather without the aid of chemicals.
AlVah Lake, of Memphis, Tenn, com
mitted an assault on the American Consn