The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-07-08
The genosI1a Telegraph.
KENosHA, WISCONSIN.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
The East.

destroyed property valued al %zOu'UU
George W. Pemberton, the murderer OF Mrs.
Margaret E. Bingham, at Boston, has been
sentenced to be hanged.
Loader and Price, the two Witnesses who
confessed to a scene of criminaity between
Reecher and Mrs. Tilton in the Tilton parlor'
are under arrest upon charge of perjury, and
both have confessed that the afidayits were
false.
Albert Brown was hung at Towanda, Pa, on
Thursday, July /, for the brutul murder, IN
August last, of Cora Greenleaf, little girl OF
five years.
A fire in New York, Friday night, destroyed
the Ice Box and Lumber Company's premises,
together with stables containing six horses.
Loss, 100000 insurance, 1000.
The Governor and Council have decided not
to commute the sentence of Pomeroy, the Bos-
ton bov-nnurderer and he will be hanged.
Alex. Hamilton, the defaulting Treasurer OF
jersey City, has been sentenced to three years
Imprisonment, and to pay fine of $1,000.
On Monday afternoon, the stu inst, ter
rible collision occurred between two excursion
trains on the South Side railroad, near Far
Rookaway, Long Island, in which seven per-
sons were killed and twenty-seven injured,
some fatally. Great indignation existed at the
time of the accident, and people were disposed
to blame the railroad attaches. The killed
were horribly mutilated
The West.
A shocking wife-murder was perpetrated in
Chicago few days ago. John Condor, Decom-
ing enraged at the improper conduct OF his
wife, shot her through the heart, killing her
almost instantly, and then shot himself in the
head, inficting a dangerous wound.
a cold-blooded and brutal murder was COM
mitted in Ottumwa, Iowa, one day last week.
Deputy Marshal Logan was killed by Jesse Scott
Smith, of Batavia. Logan received two pistol
shots, one taking effect in the heart, killing
him instantly. Smith was desperate charac-
ter, and was on his way to the Jail, in
charge of the officer, when the shoot
ing occurred. Smith was promptly ar
rested by Marshal Van Ammon. Heavy
iron manacles were riveted on his wrists and
ankles and he was then lodged in jail The
prisoner boosted that he was the 6 bird that did
the deed, " and he meant to kill Van Ammon.
The excitement ran till o'clock next morning
and lynching was expected every moment.
Between 1 and p. N. next day. the prisoner
was taken before Acting Mayor Felzer, and, on
waving examination, was remanded to jail.
On coming down the stairs from the City Hail,
a half dozen persons, backed by 500 cool
headed citizens, oyerpowered the officers In
charge of him, aud, throwing one end of rope
over Smiths head and the other on lamp
post, left his lifeless body dangling in the air,
viewed by thousands of spectators, in the
broad sunlight
The Sioux City papers give the particulars of
bloody triple tragedy at the Winnebago Agen-
CIV. An Indian of that tribe in a fit of jealousy,
killed the eeducer of his wife, then stabbed her
to the heart, after which he committed sui
eide.
A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., says: Re
ports from the buffalo lands, in the western
part of this State report numerous wolves suf-
fering from hydrophobia, making it dangerous
for hunters. young man named Ackerly,
while sleeping on the prairie recently, was bit
ten on the nose by skunk, and died in the
most horrible agony with hydrophobia symp-
toms, the same as from the bite of rabid
dog"
Col. e. B. Carlin, the Quartz master at Fort
Sanders, wy. T., committed suicide recently by
cutting his throat from ear to ear. Financial
embarrassment and the complication of his
official affairs are assigned as the cause Of his
act.
The entire village of Meridian, Neb., was
DESTROYED by a tornado recently, and Alex
andria in the same State, was also badly dam
aged.
Another dispatch has been received at the
War Department in Washington from Prof.
Jennev. in which he reiterates his former state
ment that, so far, he has not found gold
enough in the Black Hills to warrant any ex
tended mining operations.
The South.
An entire block of business houses was re-
Gently burned at Mckinney, Texas. Loss $7O,-
600.
dispatch from Key West, Fla, states that
the yellow fever is an epidemic at that place.
An incendiary fire at Helena, Ark, last week,
DESTROYED two newspaper offices and one job
printing Office.
At Baltimore, last week, Maj. J. Lyle Clarke,
a well-known citizen, was shot while seated at
the dinner table of hotel by II. W. Brewer,
of Georgetown, who claimed to have been
driven to the act to avenge q sisters wrongs.