The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-07-01

The East.

Island Prison 8 lew nlSntS ago. Ills 1lO0AoJs
however was of short DURATION as he was re-
arrested on the following morning and lodged
in ludlow Street Jail in default of $1,000 600
bail.
Chief WasLburn and his secret-service de-
tectives made large haul of counterfeiters
at Pittsburgh, the other day. new style of
counterfeiting was developed in the course OF
the search among the effects of the criminals.
It appeared that they had turned their attention
to railroad passes, and had On hand beautiful
collection, embracing the counterfeited sigma
lures of officers of all the leading roads in the
country.
The complaint in the suit brought in the
name of the people against Peter B. Sweeney,
to recover over $1,000, 900, which it is alleged
was fraudulently distracted from the treasury
of the county of New York, has been filed in
the County Clerks Office.
The double-scull race for the amateur cham
pionship of the United States, between Frank
E. Yates, of Grand Haven Mich, and W. B.
Curtis, of Chicago against r. B. cambridge
and Ed. Smith, of New York, was rowed on the
Harlem river last week, and resulted in VIC
tory for the Westerners. The distance was
three miles, and the TIL of the winners was
10 minutes 53sl seconds.
Three executions took place ON Friday of last
week. At Dedham, Mass, James FL. Costley
was hung for the murder of Julia Hawkes.,
whose killing was traced to him upon evidence
purely eircumstantial, but of the strongest and
most conclusive character. At Thomaston,
Me-, two murderers swung together-Louis
Wagner the bloody actor in the Isle of Shoals
tragedy, wherein the victims were two Nor
wegian women who were so unfortunate as to
have $40 in silver in their possession and
John True Gordon, who murdered Ill their
beds his brother and the latter's wife and infant
child. and then set fire to the house to conceal
the crime. Gordon was hung while in a state
of insensibiity, resulting from an attempt at
suicide by stabbing himself in the breast on the
morning of his execution.
A terrible disaster occurred last week il a
shaft of the Susquehanna Coal Company, near
Wilkesbarre, Pa. A party of six carpenters
were engaged in lining up the shaft, and while
working near the top of the opening the scat
folding gave way, precipitating the unfortunate
men to the bottom Of the shaft, distance of
500 feet. They fell into some thirty feet of
water, and were either killed outright by the
fall or drowned.
Five persons were killed last week at Fall
River, Mass. while attempting to drive across a
railroad track in front of a train.
The New York Grand Jury has found six new
indictments against William NJ. Tweed, for OBJ
tanning money from the City Treasury by false
pretense.
The West
Advices from the Black Hills expedition I'M
der the lead of Prof. Jenney are of an exciting
nature. Col. Dodge, the officer in command of
the escort. writes that gold in paying quantities
has been found, and that Clusters report is
fully confirmed. One hundred men were found
In the hills, busily at work, and taking out gold
at the rate of from S. to $25 per pan. They
report quartz mines as abundant and Indians
scarce.
A new and dangerous counterfeit of SIS
notes of the First National Bank of Canton,
H., is in circulation.
An Omaha dispatch says: Prominent
frontiersmen and army officers express the
opinion that there will be great trouble with
the Sioux, Cheyennes and Arrapahoes this
summer and fall. At least five large war par
ties have left the reservations in the last two
weeks. The cavalry in this department are
unable to keep them on the reservation through
limited numbers. 1t will be impossible for
the soldiers to guard the Black Hills and attend
to the Indians"
The Commission appointed to examine the
walls and foundations of the new Chicago
Custon-House have made their report. They
find that the soil underlying the foundations
in many places is soft and treacherous, and
that the layer of concrete was not of sufficient
width to equalze the pressure of the weight
above; that the stone used in the walls was of
all shades and qualities, and lacking in the
essential requisite of uniformity of color and
texture; that most outrageous system of
patching has been resorted to in order to con-
ceal defects, and that even the mortar was
poor with which the stones were laid. Fraud
and incompetency are shown to have -four
ished unchecked in the construction of the
building.
fearful tornado swept over a portion of
bUG City VI O6I1O1t ldSO k0ulIudJ, 6NdGu
varying in width from 100 to 500 feet in a
northeasterly direction as far as the corner of
Grand River avenue and Twelfth street. dis
lance of more than a mile. The Whirlwind
assumed the shape of water-spout, and was
seen for miles away, while the crash of its de-
struction was heard distinctly in distant parts
of the city. The damage to property is vari-
ously estimated from $4,000 to $50, 900.
Eighteen houses were demolished, and twenty
others more or less injured, besides out-houses,
barns, etc. Charles Peike was fatally injured,
and his child. an infant years old, was killed.
Mrs. Fred Rademacker is fatally injured. Rich
ard Bates a boy 10 years old, was blown fur
long through the air and into an elm tree sixty
feet high, whence he dropped to the ground,
and was picked up dead. Mrs. Lizzie Perkins will