The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-17
NEWS OF The WEEK.
The East.


The suit of Miss Proctor against Moulton
has been compromised. BENZ. D. Silliman
acted as referee, before whom Miss Proctor
swore to the falsity of the charges made
against her. It was also stipulated that
Moulton should make an apology to Miss
Proctor, as well as pay all costs incurred,
amounting to over SIS, 000.'
The death is announced of Ezra Cornell,
the founder of Cornell College. in the 68th
year of his age.
The boy-fend," Jesse Pomeroy, of Boston,
has been found guilty of murder in the first
degree, and it is recommended that he be i'm
prisoned for life.
An earthquake shock was felt in New York
city, along the Hudson river, and in Connecti-
cut, on the night of the 10th inst.
The trial of the suit of Tilton against Beech
or has been again postponed-this time until
the first Monday in January.
The merchants and ship-owners of New Bed
ford, Mass, have decided to prosecute in the
Court of Alabama Claims for constructive
damages on account OF prospective catches of
whales destroyed or frightened out of the
Arctic ocean by the Shenandoah in 1865.
The five children Of John Datterich, ran
ging in age from to 16 years, were drowned
a sled on pond near their parents residence
at Preakness, N. J..
heavy defalcation, amounting to about
$43, 600, has been discovered in the accounts
Of the Financial Agent of the freight depart
ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
gin Pittsburgh.
The West.
A party Of five masked men stopped pas
senger train on the Kansas Pacific road, near
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 9Th inst, and
robbed the safes of Wells, Fargo & Co. of
about $50, 900. The passengers were not mo-
Tested.
Four children were drowned near Spring
field, ILL.,, one day last week, while skating
on the ice in the Sangamon river.
Quite sensation has been created in Chi
cago business circles by the shortcomings of
Henry T. Thomas, stakeholder in and bust
ness manager of the Prairie Farmer news
paper, and junior member of the Grange COM
mission house of Reynolds, Corbett q
4homas. The amount of his defalcation, &C
cording to the Chicago papers, foots up about
$4,000, and his forgeries of warehouse re-
ceipts to nearly 200. Thomas has fed to
parts unknown.
The Episcopal Convention at Davenport,
for the election of successor to the late
Bishop Lee of the diocese of Iowa, has
chosen Rev. III. @. Potter, of Grace Church,
New York.
Advices from the frontier report the Sioux
and Ute Indians on the war-path, and the
settlers arming for the purpose of giving
them warm reception.
Chicago papers announce the death of
Michael Morrissey, uncle of John Morrissey,
ex-M. G. and sport, in the Tooth year Of his
age.
Since the robbery of the express car on the
Kansas Pacific railroad at Muncie recently,
the police officers of that region have been
unusually vigilant and when Kansas City
"sport :" named McDaniels came galloping
into town after an absence Of some days. with
three reviewers and more money than he
generally carries, he was promptly arrested.
A bill has been introduced in the Ohio
Legislature to provide for compulsory edu-
cation.
A haIf-breed scout who recently had occa-
sion to visit the Black Hills in search of stolen
horses, has returned to Brule City, Dakota,
and reports that he saw large party of white
men prospecting in the lower hills-with what