The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-31

United States District Judge of Alabama, vice
Richard Busteed
Mr.. Schurz denies that he has refused to
accept a return to the Senate from the Democ-
racy of Missouri, and denies that he expects
to be appointed Minister to Russia.
Pinchback threatens, if he is not admitted
to a seat in the Senate, to return to Louisiana
and join hands with the White Leaguers.
Appointments by the President : M. G. Hol-
lister, Chief-Justice Of the Supreme Court of
Idaho John Clark, Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of Idaho; Lew Hubbell,
United States Attorney, Eastern District of
Wisconsin.
Congressman William D. Kelley denies that
he contemplates leaving the Republican party.
Col. John Thompson, Republican, has been
elected to Congress in the Twenty-third dis
trict of Pennsylvania, to fill the unexpired
term OF Hon. E. McJunkin, recently elected
to the bench.
Senators Schurz and Fenton say they voted
for the Finance bill not because they liked it's
provisions, but to strengthen the Republican
parry CIIOugnOuC the country.
Every Republican Senator present voted
for Mr.. Carpenter for President pro tenn OF
the Senate. The Democrats supported Mr..
Thurman
A New Orleans dispatch announces that the
Conservative Committee appointed to witness
the compiling of the returns by the Returning
Board have withdrew from the Board and en-
tered protest against it's meetings. The
committee certify that Moncure, Conserva-
tive, is elected State Treasurer, that four
Conservatives and two Republicans are elected
to Congress, and II Conservatives and 81 Re-
publicans to the Legislature.
General.
The loss of the bark Amity, from Phila-
delphia to Antwerp, is announced. Only
two Of the crew of twenty were saved.
Rev. J. M. Cooms, Presbyterian minister
of Washington, committed suicide on Sun
day, Dec. %, while his congregation were
waiting for him. He had been detected in
stealing books from store, and could not
brook the threatened exposure. For some
time he had exhibited symptoms of insanity.
Foreign.
John Bull has officially notified Brother
Jonathan of his acceptance of the invitation
to participate in the Centennial.
Germany has ordered two men-of-war to
remain at Santander Spain, and demand sat-
isfaction of the Carlists for their recent at
tack upon the German brig Gustave.
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which have gotten Won Arnim into so much
trouble related to the Papal election.
Two more railway collisions in England, re-
sulting in the death and injury of several
persons.
HER Britannia Majesty's ship Basilisk has
just returned to England after commission
of nearly four years, and brings word that
large archipelago of islands has been discov-
cred in the neighborhood of New Guinea, and
that two mountains in this region, each about
1900 feet high, have been named Mount
Gladstone and Mount Disraeli. =. Twenty
miners were killed by colliery explosion in
North Staffordshire, England, on the oath of
December. On the same day an express
train flew the track in Oxfordshire, and was
precipitated into canal, by which sixteen
passengers we're drowned and many wounded
The G1and Duke Nicholas, nephew of the
Emperor of Russia, who was associated with
the diamond scandal of few months ago.
has been declared insane, and placed under
the guardianship of his father, the Grand
Duke Constantine. :. "A telegram from Ma
deira announces the burning of the British
emigrant ship Cospatrick, while On her trip to
New York, Nov. II. Only three of the crew
been lost.