The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


of the principals in the Brooklyn scandal 1t
is probable that the report of the Investigate
ing Committee which is to be published in a
short time will renew the excitement.
A man giving the name of Gustave Meyer
has been arrested in New York, having been
recognized by one Lewis Moses as Iheophile
George Kierstein, who is alleged TO have
robbed the Kuhn Credit Bank of Western
Prussia, last December, of $4,000 in bonds
and money Kierstein was a director in the
bank, and had not been seen since the de-
falcation, until his arrest. 1t is said he COM
mitted many forgeries besides the embezzle-
ment, and that one man in Kuhn lost $4,000
by him, and several banking houses in Berlin
were victimized to the amount of $50, 600.
Prof Pierre Blot, the celebrated culinary
artist, died in New York last week.
Henry G. Bowen, has sued the Brooklyn
Eagle for libel, laying damages at $1OO,OO0
Frank Moulton has addressed a card to the
public, through the New York papers, explain
ing his reasons for appearing in Plymouth
Church to hear the report of the Investigat-
ing Committee and protesting against the
rough manner in which he was treated by the
congregation. He winds up with the follow
ing threat "I will add that the hearing,
which was last night denied to me in the
place where had the right to demand and
expect it, shall ask for from the public at
large in few days. The only delay in the
publication will arise from the preparation of
fac Sinaile copies of letters and papers. l
have sought for four years. for the sake of
the innocent children of two families, to shield
Mr. Beecher from the exposure of his crime
of adultery, but Mr.. Beecher, his committee,
and his church have united to compel me, for
my own self-protection, to reveal him to the
world, as I shall shortly do, in still worse
light than in which he now stands"
1t cost New York city the enormous sum of
$50, 600 to run its municipal government
for the year ending Aug. 1.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preached at the
Twin Mountain House, N. H.. on the 30th
ult., to congregation of over 900 persons.
His sermon was pronounced one of his most
successful efforts.
The west.
A large meeting of old miners and others
interested in the development of the mineral
resources of the Black Hills was held at Des
Moines, recently. Two hundred and fifty
names were enrolled under Capt. Russell, who
intends to leave there about the 10th of Sep
TENDER for the hills. It is understood that
this organization will move in conjunction
with several others, forming in different
places on the frontier.
Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan publishes a general
order setting forth that parties such as are
organizing at Sioux City, Yankton and else
where, with the view of visiting the Black
Hills country, will not be permitted to go IN
less by authority from the Secretary of the
Interior or Congress.
Gov. Osborne, of Kansas has called an
extra session of the Legislature for the 18th
of September, to devise means for the relief
of sufferers from the grasshoppers
A Frenchman named Gardner, while walk
ing on the track of the JeffersonvilIe Madi-
son & Indianapolis Railroad, near Henryville,
Ind, on the night of the 10Th ult., was at
tackled by three men. They took his pocket
book and IS, and then tied him on the track
with rope, over a culyert, and left him. He
succeeded in getting the ropes that held his
body united, but before he got the rope that
bound his leg loosened an approaching pas
senger train was upon him. He in that des-
perate moment, threw his body off the track.
The train passed over and severed his leg
from the body. He was picked up next morn.
ing by the conductor of passing freight
train and revived sufficiently to make the
above statement. He afterward relapsed and
died at o'clock a. There is no clew to
the perpetrators of the crime.
Judge Basil Harrison, the original of Coop
er's "Bee-Hunter," died recently at his home
near Schoolcraft, Mich, aged 104 years and 4
months.
Dispatches from Dodge City state that
Capt. Threshers surveying party arrived
there last week. Six of his men were attacked
by Indians on the evening of August 23, while
in camp on Crooked creek and the entire
party killed The names of the killed are
o. L. Short, Truman Short, James Shaw and
son, John Kuckler and Henry Jones. The
family and relatives Of the murdered men re-
side in Leavenworth and Lawrence, Kan.
Dispatches from the Black Hills are to the
effect that Clusters command had arrived at
Fort Abraham Lincoln, having marched about
1900 miles during the last sixty days. The
expedition has been eminently successful in
every particular, having made valuable dis.
coveries of gold and other mineral deposits,
incurred no annoyance from Indians, and suf-
fered the loss of only four men by death
General Custer announces that withreplenish
ed supplies, his command is in good condition
to take the field.
The South.
The disturbance in Owen county, KY, is
assuming large proportions. The Federal
troops are now attempting to quell it, and
Gov. Leslie has ordered the State militia to
onnrata with the Eederal officers The