The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-08-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


a fracture of one rib ana the left elbow bone
and in few weeks will probably be able to re-
sumo his place upon the stage.
A sad and shocking sEicide of a mother and
her children occurred at Harrisburg, Pa,
few days ago. Mrs. Philip Bessinger, becom-
ing naadly jealous of her husband, dressed her
three little children as if intent O. giving them
a pleasure walk. She proceeded to the canal,
whore, assisted by the children, she gathered
stones sufficient to fill a basket, which she tied
to her waist She then clasped the tnsuspect-
ing little ones under her arn,s and plunged into
the water.
''Buchu Helmbold has just been confined
IN Philadelphia lunatic asylum.
Duncan, Sherman & Co. propose to settle
with their creditors on the basis o. 3313 cents
on the dollar.
A Cuban privateer, the Uipuguay, has escaped
from New York, laden with arms, ammunItion
and stores for the relief of the insurgents.
Henry Ward Beecher's paper, the, Christian
J7a5on has passed from the hands of J. B.
Ford & Co., publishers Henry M. Cleveland
has become the manager. Mr.. Beecher will
retain the editorship.
The Albion Mills, at ConshGhocken, Pa, have
been destroyed by fire. Loss, $3.50, 000-
The American rife team arrived in New York
last week, and we.e received with distinguished
honors.
A New York dispatch states that the entire
family of Thurlow Weed have been Frustrated
BY the use of a copper tea-kettle which had
been cleaned with oxalic acid. The family had
a narrow escape, including Mr.. Weed himself
Abraham Eyznonds, of Pine ELL, N. Y, re-
Gently killed his daughter, and then committed
suicide.
The West.
The painful mystery surrounding the fate of
Prof Donaldson, the aeronaut, and Newton S.
Grimwood, Journal reporter, who assembled
from Chicago in balloon on the 18th of July,
and sailed away over Lake Michigan, has at last
been partially solved by the finding of the body
of the unfortunate reporter on the east shore
of the lake, between Whitehall and Pentwater,
Mich. It was discovered on the 10Th of August
by stage driver while driving along the
beach, was turned over to a Justice of
the Peace, who, after the customary in
quest consigned the remains to mother earth
in the regular burying in Claybanks
township, Ocea1la county. When found, the
body was fiat on its face ON small pile of old
food-wood. The hair was nearly all gone, and
the face badly disfgured. The nose was en-
tirely gone, and the hat and boots were miss
ing. An India-rubber ife-preserver was found
on the body. The preserver had a hole in it
about two inches long. That the aelonauts
were lost in Lake Michigan during the gale
that swept over it on the evening of their de-
parture does not now admit of doubt.
passenger train on the st. Louis, Kansas
City and Northern railroad went through rot
ten bridge near Plattsburg, Mo-, few days
since. Three passengers were killed, eight or
ten had either their arms or legs broken, and
some twenty others we're more or less injured.
The accounts of Shaffenburg, late United
States Marshal of Colorado Territory, show
deficit of about 100000. Shaffenburg has
sloped, but the officers are after him.
A terrible affray occurred at Eberhardt City,
New, recently, between two men named jack
son and Beck. The former plunged bowie
knife to the hilt five times into the body of
Beck, when bystander struck Jackson down.
Then Beck, though dying of his wounds,
crawled to the PROSTATE form of jackson, took
the knife that had been used with fatal effect
upon himself, and buried it in the heart of
Jackson.
The war between the competing railroads
running from st. Louis and Chicago to the
Missouri river has ended, and the reduced fares
have jumped back to the old figures.
We have some more glittering stories from
the Black Hills. Some miners are said to have
taken out from $50 to $50 day, and nuggets
have been found weighing from $15 to $35.
William Braden, an Indianapolis stationer,
has failed for $145,000 Speculation in grain
swamped him.
The law-and-order people of Williamson
county, H., are evincing determination to put
a stop to the lawlessness that has so long pre-
vailed there. A militia company has been or
ganized with this view, and Gov. Beveridge has
shipped 100 guns and 5000 cartridges with
which to arm the bold soldiers.
A battle recently occurred in Franklin county,
ILL.,, between Sheriff's party of twenty-three
men and body of fourteen Ku-Klux. Infor-
nation had been received that the night-riders
would visit the place of County Commissioner
J. B. Maddox, during certain night, and pre-
parations were made for their reception. At 2
o'clock in the morning they made their appear
ance, and the Sheriff ordered them to halt.
Their reply was: ''We will not do it, sir, F"
and they fired into the Sheriff's party. At
least six guns answered them, when
general engagement ensued, resulting in
the complete rout of the Ku-Klux. number
of them were wounded, as the CARDS picked up
were covered with blood.
A most brutal and unnatural murder is re-
ported from Cincinnati, the victim being Will
liam Moran, an9 the perpetrators being his own
brothers, Thomas and Nicholas Moran, who act
ually kicked him to death with their feet.
1t is ascertained that at least seven of the