The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tne East


The Nashua and Rochester road has been
completed. and. with it's connections. forms
an air line between Portland, Me-, and New
York city. The old line between the two
points is 444 miles long, and by the new line
the distance is reduced to 33S miles, thus eff
fecting saving of 106 miles between New
York, Portland, st. John, Halifax, and other
points in that direction. A new line of
steamers between Portland ard English ports
has just been put on.
Col. Forney has sold the Philadelphia Press
to Col. A. K. Mcclure and other anti-Admin-
istrationists for $25O,OOO.
A number of prominent citizens of New
York, among them Edwin D. Morgan John
J. Cisco, Jonathan Sturges, Thurlow Weed
and William E. Dodge, have petitioned the
Police Commissioners to enforce the laws
against Sunday amusements in that city.
~ Particulars of battle among the coal
miners Of Westmoreland county, Pa,
Nov. 80, have been received. band
of about twenty-five Italians entered
the village of Showers, and conducted them
selves in riotous manner, but were finally
driven off, and in the afternoon of the same
day they were attacked by party numbering
seventy-tive. During the fight, which lasted
nearly an hour, four Italians were killed and
number severely wounded, while the Amer
leans escaped entirely unhurt. The Italians
finally surrendered, and promised to leave the
place.
Mavor Havamavor of Nou Vo~l~ d;o5 sud
denly of apoplexy, in that city, On the morn
ing of the 3Oth ult.-the day of the expiration
of his term of Office.
Col. Forney has reconsidered his deter
mination to sell the Philadelphia Press, Mr..
Childs, of the Public Ledger, having agreed
ments.
The West.
The Atchison (Kan.) Champion computes
the number of destitute il the State frem
10000 to Is, 000 but of these many are located
in the older counties, where the crops, with
she exception of corn, were fair to average.
In eight counties the restitution is general.
Almost the whole population will need more
or less assistance. At least $4,000 people
must be assisted during the winter and until
another crop is grown.
The schooner Augustus Ford, from Detroit
to Oswego, with wheat, was wrecked at Port
Maitland during the late gale. Cap. Pease
and three of the crew, one named Charles E.
Hurd, and woman cook we're lost.
Michigan's official census, just completed,
shows that the State now has population of
1,336,8O8, being an increase of 152, 526 since
1870.
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that
colored children are not entitled to the public
school benefits of that State, because the
State Constitution provides that only the chill
dren of citizens are entitled to those bene-
hts, and that colored people, not having been
Citizens when the State Constitution was
adopted, the Fourteenth Amendment of the
National Constitution, subsequently adopted
does not supersede this provision of the State
Cons titution.
A convention of those interested in an ex-
pansion of the currency was held abIndian-
apohs last week. Alexander Campbell, of
illinois, Alexander Troup, of Connecticut
James Buchanan, of Indiana; Horace Fl. Day.
OF Now York; l.. A. Wood, of Kentucky, and
several other prominent infationists, were in
attendance. a declaration of principles was
adopted in which the withdrawal of national
and State bank-notes, and the issuance of
greenbacks in unlimited quantities in their
stead, ia demanded. A national convention
o.. Expansionists, to nominate candidates for
President and Vice-President, was arranged
to be held at Cleveland on the 18th of March
1875.
Ihe Chicago papers announce the death in
that city, at the age of 45 years, of S. G.
Campbell, the great baritone singer.
The committee of the National Board of
Fire Underwriters, who visited Chicago to in
spect the improvement made there. with a.
view to safety against fires, report that thew
feel very hopeful for the future prosperity of
that city.
Two serious earthquakes were experienced
in Nevada On the 29sh ult.
Walter Strain, of Buffalo, N. Y, has re-
turned from the Black Hills, where he has
been prospecting since August. He made a
thorough prospect and reports some "pocket"
gold found, but not enough to pay. He de-
clares that there is not shadow of truth in
the statements made as to discoveries of gold
in that country. Two of his comrades were
shot by the Indians, of whom the hills are
full.
The South
A hurricane at Tuscumbia, Ala Nov. %,
made terrible havoc, killing some twelve per
sons, and iniuring many others, besides de
stroying one-half of the residences. Among
the killed are: Mrs. William Winston. the
, mother of the late ex-Gov. Winston the wife
and two children of the Hon. T. B. Moore.
State Senator, and F. D. Hodgkin, ESQ.,,
editor of the Chronicle, his wife, and four
children. Appeals for assistance have been
made to Huntsville, Louisville, Nashville and
Memphis. The storm also visited the town