The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


blown up to prevent the spread of the great
fire, to recover $4,000, the value of his stock
and unexpired lease. No one has been found
to acknowledge the responsibility for blowing
up the premises.
At an election of officers of the New York
Chamber of Commerce recently, the ticket
headed by Hon. George Opdyke was defeated,
s. D. Babcock receiving 167 votes to 100 for
Opdvke. The annual dinner took place in the
evening, at which Hon. Fernando Wood made
the principal speech upon the future OF the
metropolis. He spoke of the necessity for
cheap transportation, increased terminal IA
cilities, low tolls, quick transit and diminished
taxation.
In the Tilton-Beecher trial, last week, the
court adjourned for three days, in order, it is
said to prevent Mrs. Woodruff giving in her
evidence. She had been subpenaed by tn
prosecution, but both sides feared her, and she
was not called. The trial VIII probably end by
the middle of July.
Sturtevant, the fiend who some months ago
murdered two old men and their female house
keeper, at Plymouth, Mass, was hung on Fri
day, the 9TH inst.
In the Pennsylvania anthracite country the
awful reign of idleness continues, and the
news from that region from day to day is
freighted with the horror attendant upon sloth,
poverty and passion. It is stated that the
owners of the largest mines in the district have
deliberately flooded their property, thus adding
months to the period of productiveness
which the scowling future proclaims.
The centennial celebration of the capture of
Fort Ticonderoga by Col. Ethan Allen, was eel
ebrated with spirit by the people of the village
and surrounding country.
The West.
At a game of base ball in st. Louis, on Thurs
day last, between the White Stockings, of Chi
cago, and the st. Louis club, the latter won by
score of 10 to
During last winter anotorious woman, named
Mollie Prescott, of st. Louis, hired the Temple
Hall, to deliver lecture on the ''Social Evil. J"
The owner of the hall, discovering her charac-
ter, refused the use of the premises and re-
funded the rent money. The woman brought
suit for $1,000, and last week the court award
ed her $40 and costs.
An act of heroic bravery was performed by
George H. Price, who had charge of the Adams
Express car which left Chicago on the night of
the 9Th inst, by the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne
railroad. Three masked robbers entered
the car near Lima, Ohio. The foremost of
the rufians pointed pistol at Prices
head and demanded the keys of
the safe. Almost at the same moment he fred
shot at the messengers head, but the latter
had thrown up his left hand while reaching for
his pistol with his right, and the bullet struck
him in the forearm, inficting small wound,
and then, glancing, struck him in the chin, also
wounding him slightly in that spot. The as
eailant repeated his demand for the keys, and,
not getting them, fired again before Price could
get out his weapon. This time the ball went
clean through the messengers right shoulder,
and lodged in the side of the car. Before the
robber could fire third shot the wounded
messenger had gotten his heavy pistol in hand,
and, taking deliberate aim, passed ia ball through
the brain of his assailant, and the latter fell
dead in his tracks, without even struggle.
A severe thunder storm passed over sections
of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio Sunday, the light
PhAe"SOo;
age. Taylors Touring mill. near Springfield,
Ohio, was burned, with loss of $4,000; in
surance, $4,000.
The Bender has again escaped, this time in
Arizona, and is going for Mexico, it is thought.
The new Custom House and Postofice build
ing partly erected at Chicago will have TO be
torn down and rebuilt A committee of experts
appointed to investigate the condition of the
structure, find walls very crooked and the
foundations insecure.
Government detectives have just made q big
raid on the fraudulent whisky ring il st. Louis
Chicago and Milwaukee. Irregularities in the
manufacture and sale of spirits in these locali-
ties have been suspected for long time ano
Secretary Bristow, after recent investigations,
decided to summary put stop to them. Il
appears that the frauds practiced have been OF
great magnitude, and extending over long
period of time. 1t is also stated that large
number of internal revenue officers are impli-
Gated. either as accessories to the frauds or as
having been unattentive to duty.
During the week ending Saturday, the
10th of May, the condition of the wheat
in $50 counties was reported to the Department
of Agriculture. About 800 counties OF the
valleys of the Ohio and Missouri are repre-
sented, which last year produced 10000, 900
bushels of winter wheat, or go per cent. of the
product of seven States from Ohio to Kansas.
The average of condition in these States is So
per cent, indicating only five-eighths of full
crop, if no improvement occurs-in Kentucky,
rs per cent; Ohio, 81 per cent; Michigan, 60
Indiana &c; Illinois, 63 Missouri, So Kan
sas, 81.
W. w. Embry, editor of the Leavenworth
(Kan.) Appeal, recently shot and killed Col.
D. r. Anthony, editor of the Leavenworth
Times.