The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-24
NEWS Or tn WEEK.
The East.

way of being solved, but in somewhat tragic
manner. The secret of the kidnapping is
about to be brought to light by the death of
two notorious New York burglars who were
killed near that city, few days ago, while at
tempting to rob the house of Judge Van
Brunt. One of them made a dying confession
to the effect that he was the veritable abduc-
tor, but failed to reveal the hiding-place of
the boy.
Boston was visited by two disastrous con-
fagrations on the morning of the 18th inst,
destroying property to the amount of over
one million dollars. On the same day q
fire in Charlestown, Mass, consumed $685.
600 worth of property, and another at Au
Sable Forks, N. Y, destroying rolling-mill,
involving loss of $125OO
The Republic, the new Republican paper
started in New York few weeks ago in oppo-
sition to the Times, has suspended.
A hotel and nine stores in Bangor, Me-,
were burned on the 10Th inst.
A large portion of the town of Forest City,
Ark, has been destroyed by fire.
The losses by the Boston fire are set down
at $3.50, O00 insurance about $150,0OO.
Mayor Stokely and other officials of Phila-
delphia have received anonymous letters from
unemployed workmen threatening assassina-
ton unless their demands for work and paw
are complied with.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Holmes, OF Philadel-
phia, who have for some months been exhibit
ing materialized spirit purporting to be that
nf { ROT r
200 years ago, have been exposed as frauds
and swindiers, and Robert Dale Owen and Dr.
Childs, two leading Spiritualists of Philadel-
phia, have united in denouncing them.
Commander William B. Cushing, removed
a few days ago to the Government Insane
Hospital, is dead. He was native of Chau-
tauqua county. N. Y, and was appointed to
the navy in 1857.
Hayden, Gore & Co.'s new dam at Hayden
vile, Mass, gave way one morning last week,
and the water demolished every object in it's
course. The ice was covered with skaters at
the time. 1t is not known that any lives were
lost.
The West.
Des Moines, the capital city of Iowa, has
been disgraced by case of lynch-law At 2
o'clock on the morn ing of the 18th inst, a dis
guised party of $50 men forced their way into
the Jail, and taking out one Charles Howard,
a rough character, who, few hours pre-
viously, had been tried and convicted of MUIR
dering John Johnson, an equally rough char
acter, in brothel, hanged him to lamp
post. Howard had been sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life.
The amount of grain in store in Chicago on
the 18th inst. was /, $40, 244 bushels of wheat,
956,822 bushels of corn, 5O2, 100 bushels of
oats, 22,777 bushels of rye, and 800, 658 bush
els of barley, making grand total of 8, 49,
G31 bushels, against 2,706, 1913 bushels at the
same time the previous week.
According to the Cincinnati Price Current
good commercial authority-the total number
of hogs packed at 279 interior points in the
West, up to the 10th of December, was /, $780,
900 head, against 10000 last year. The
average weights indicate falling off of about
81 pounds per head from last season. The
packing at the six principal cities is given at
100000 to date, against 100000 last year.
The Price Current estimates that the total
packing this season will aggregate 3,40O, 600
head, against $3.50, 900 last season.
Hon. J. B. Rice, Representative in Congress
from the First Illinois district died at Norfolk.
Va, last week.
The Governor of Kansas telegraphs to the
Chicago Tribune that 10000 people in the
Western counties of the State will need aid
this winter.
The Uncpapa band of Sioux Indians are
up in arms and threaten bloody war if their
chief, " Rain in the Face" now in irons at
Fort Lincoln for the murder of the members
of the Yellowstone expedition of 1873, is not
released
Fifteen men were killed and number of
others wounded at Angelica, Wis, OF the 21st
inst, by boiler explosion in the mill of J. B.
Laird & Co.
The South.
The Champion cotton press in Charleston.
s. c., was recently destroyed by fire. Loss,
$250,000.
The Mississippi Legislature met in extra
session on the 18th inst. Gov.-Ames sent in a
message claiming that the disturbed condition
of affairs was brought about by the violence
of white men, but makes no recommendation
to the Legislature.
The mixed-schools question is a source of
much discord in New Orleans. The students
of one of the boys high schools marched in a
body, the other day, to one of the girls high
schools, and demanded the removal therefrom
of all the colored pupils, threatening to use
force if necessary. The colored girls promptly
and quietly left the building, and the boys
returned to their own school, The same day
serious row occurred at another school be-
tween white and black pupils, resulting in
several bruised heads and scratched faces
Washington.
The House Postofice Committee have
ooraed RI recommend the passage of a. bill