The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-15
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college who were found in the act of dissect-
ing four corpses which had been missed from
a cemetery. The students were released on
parole to appear when required.
The West.
The annual report of President Keep, Of
the Northwestern railroad, has been pub
lished. The gross earnings for the year end
ing May 81, 1874 were $15 63l, 936.61; net
profits for the year, 81, 1855, 081.65.
The fre-plugs in the business portion of
Chicago were thoroughly tested a few days
ago, and the fact was developed that the
water supply was exceedingly deficient.
O'Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, has just
accomplished in st. Louis, one of the most
extraordinary undertakings on record
namely, walk of 200 miles in S6 hours and
20 minutes. The last 80 miles were accom-
plished in hours and 80 minutes
The Chicago papers of the 9th inst. (the
anniversary of the great fre) contain review
of the building operations in that city for the
past year, from which it appears that 1889
brick and stone structures were erected at an
aggregate cost of $12 694, 200.
Died, at Woodstock, ILL.,, Oct. 9, Mrs. Ellen
QuinIin, aged 1902 years.
The insurance question still agitates Chi
cago.
The Western railroads are about to abolish
the custom of making excursion rates.
According to reports in the State Auditors
Office, there are 2,O49,569 cattle and 8, 46O, 166
hogs in Illinois.
A grand jury in Salt Lake has indicted one
of it's own number for lascivious cohabita-
ton. The man under indictment has five
wives. One of his daughters is tie principal
witness for the prosecution.
Hon. S. A. Irwin, Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Chicago district, died of
paralysis last week, aged Al years.
Gen. Mackenzie, during a recent raid
against the Indians 10 Northern Texas, sur
prised five camps of Cheyennes on Jute
creek, near Red river. The troops destroyed
over 100 lodges and their entire outfit, and
captured !, 424 horses and mules, of which
1,O48 were at once killed. The bodies of four
Indians were brought in. One soldier was
killed and one wounded. Gen. Mackenzie, at
last accounts was in hot pursuit of the re-
treating savages.
Near Colborn, Tippecanoe county, Ind, re-
Gently, a man named Clawson was Instantly
killed by the bursting of 8 boiler attached to
a steam threshing machine. A number of
other persons were more or less injured.
rho South
Another stage robbery is reported from
Texas. The bligands claimed to be the same
party that robbed the Hot Springs stages and
the Gads Hill train.
Hon. Bland Ballard, of the United States
District Court for the district of Kentucky,
delivered u-remarkable charge to the grand
jury at the opening of the court in Louisville,
last week, instructing them that the United
States Court has no jurisdiction in Kentucky
to punish Ku-Klux outrages under the En-
forcement act.
Sixteen Petersburg (Va.) election judges
have been indicted for violating the Enforce
ment act.
A dispatch from Brownsville. Texas, says !:
"The organization of bandits to invade Texas
has been partially suspended on account of
high water on this side and the almost i'm
passable condition of the country. Informa-
ton received from undoubted sources states
that the plan of operations is to strike the
detachment of troops stationed to prevent
the crossing of stolen cattle, and then murder
and rob generally. Gen. Cortina heads the
ganizing to defend themselves. The military
are in possession of the facts and are on the
alert Mounted men are held ready to move
at short notice"
Washington.
Messrs. Purvis and Langston, colored, re-
Gently brought suit against Harvey & Holden,
hotel keepers in Washington, for refusing to
furnish them with meal at their restaurant.
The defendants claim that they did not refuse
entertainment, but only service at a particular
table pre-engaged by other parties. The case
will be pushed to trial.
The Washington correspondent of the Chi
cago Times is authority for the statement that
the postal telegraph project advocated by
Postmaster General Creswell will not be rec
commended by Mr.. Jewell in his next report,
nor by the President in his message to Con-
gress.
A dispatch from San Francisco announces
the suicide of James t. Eckfeldt, Appraiser Of
the Mint, and superintendent of the construc-
ton of the machinery for the mint in that city
Temporary insanity s assigned as the cause of
this act.
The receipts and expenditures of the Post
Office Department for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1874, were 1876, All, 071.82, and the ex-
penditures 1892, 1876, 41458.
A letter addressed to the President by a
prominent Conservative politician in Mssis-
sippi, argues that the only true way to restore
peace and prosperity to the South is for Con-
gross to pass an act to pay for the quarter
masters and commissary stores taken by the
Union army in the South during the war, and
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