The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22
Gha 8enusha telegraph.
NEWS or tn WEEK.
The Ea ar.

entire business part OF the Village OF OVID,
n. Y, have been burned. The loss is
$4,000.
3 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is lecturing in
New England on Compulsory Education :"
and other subjects. Reports says his au-
diences are slim and lacking in, enthusiasm
DIR. "A. G. Murdoch, a prominent citizen of
Pittsburgh, was found dead last week, under
circumstances indicating suicide.
The Excelsior Salt Mill, at Syracuse, N. Y,
was destroyed by fire last week Loss $685.
900. M b.
Demas Barnes, of the Brooklyn Argus, has
been indicted for publishing libels on Henry
@. Bowen. This is another suit growing out
of the recent scandal
1t was the fortune of Beecher and Moulton
to be guests of the same hotel in Boston rel
Gently. l/~}A. 4tsf e33-
The New York Herald is asserted to have
determined to reduce it's daily to three cents
on the LIST of January, and the other papers
will be compelled to do the same
The west.
The reunion of the Army of the Tennessee
was held at Springfield ILL.,, on the 14th of
October. Gen. Sherman presided, and Gen.
John Tillson read poem. The monument to
President Lincoln was unveiled on the 18th
with appropriate ceremonies. Among the
distinguished gentlemen who attended were
Gen. Grant, Vice President Wilson, Secretary
Belknap, Gems. Mcdowell, Custer, Hedrick,
Force, etc.
The firm of E. S. Edger q Co., grain dealers
and millers, of Burlington, Iowa, has suspend
ed liabilities, $40O, 900.
The Governor of Pennsylvania has issued
warrants for the execution of William E. I'd
derzook, Daniel 0 Mara and Patrick Irwin on
Nov. II.
man named Agnew, supposed to be from
Columbus, committed suicide at Mount
Vernon, Ohio, last week, by hanging himself
to a railroad bridge.
The cattle men at Jacksonville, ILL.,. are Or
ganizing committee composed of the noted
cattle kings of Illinois, Missouri and Kansas,
to confer with the officers of the Chicago and
Alton railroad with reference to making that
city the grand resting place for stock shipped
over that road.
party Of seven men from Yankton, D. T.,
Ell route for the Black Hills, were attacked
by a band of Sioux at the mouth Of the Little
Platte river, and in the conflict which ensued
one Of the party was killed and one mortally
wounded. The survivors retreated to Yank-
ton, in a badly crippled condition. Appre-
tensions are felt for the safety of party of
tWenty-seven who left Sioux City for the
Black Hills and who intended to travel in the
track of the Yankton party. The Indians are
understood to express a determination to
prevent white men entering the hills at all
hazards
A passenger train on the Marietta and Gin
cinnati railroad was thrown from the track
near Chillicothe, Ohio, last week, resulting
IN the killing of Samuel Purdue and Joseph
Parent, the engineer and fireman.
The ssutn
In July last there arrived in this country
the duly commissioned representative of
European capitalists, holding upward of
$780, 900, 900 of bonds of the Southern States,
and he was armed with the power to effect
with such States settlement Of their ia
debtedness. This agent, who is now in New
Orleans has effected settlements with the
following States, in the sums here given {:
Virginia, $24 600; South Carolina, $1O,-
100000; North Carolina, $2OOO0,OOO; Ala
bama, $8,000,000 Arkansas, entire debt,
$3,5O00OO; total, $75, 100000. The $8,OOOO 900
of fraudulent debt Of South Carolina has not
been settled.
The cotton crop in Tennessee has been Sc
Verely damaged by the early frosts.
The United States Marshal at Montgomery,
Ala, telsgraphs to Attorney General
persons charged with committing outrages
upon Republicans.
A convention Of White Leaguers at Frank
lin, La, recently passed resolutions recog-
nizing all the political and civil rights of the
colored people, and inviting their corporation
in the election of fusion ticket, the blacks
to nominate candidates for one-half of the
parish Offices.
Fifteen of the Coushatta Ga murderers
have been arrested and taken to New Orleans
for trial.
Washington.
The organization of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue is working so well that no recon-
mendation will be made by Congress for ite
amendment.
Ex-senator Cattell who has been appointed
Special Treasury Agent to negotiate the new
loan, will be assigned to duty in London.
The resignation of Richard W. Busted
United States Judge for Alabama has beer
received and accepted by the President.
The internal revenue receipts for the fisca
year promise to exceed those Of last year BY
about two million dollars.
A few days ago the employees in the Patent
Office presented Gen. Leggett, Commissioner
of Patents, with handsome silver tea service
inasmuch as he contemplated resigning at the
end of the month. It now turns out that the
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