The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


Jackson, the missing Boston lawyer, sWells the
amount to over 100000.
a terrific explosion occurred in the drug
store of J. L. Low, in Boston, last week, demol-
fishing the four-story building in which the
store was situated, aud burying large number
of people in the ruins. Six dead bodies have
been taken from the ruins, and it is believed
that others will be found. large number of
people we're also injured Various theories are
advanced as to the nature and cause of the ex-
plosion the chief one being that a gas gen.
orator in the cellar exploded. 1t is also stated
that nitro-glycerine was stored in the building,
as no other substance could have caused such
instantaneous destruction.
party of five persons, while yachting on
Spy pond, near South Holyoke, Mass, the
scene of the dreadful holocaust by the burning
of the French Catholic Church, were capsized,
and two of them, little girls of twelve and thir
teen years of age, were drowned.
Recent CONGREGATIONS Taylors Block, at
Worcester, Mass, loss $269,OOO, insurance
1926, OOO at st. Johns, N. B., st. Luke's
Church and sixty-eight houses and shops, with
a loss of $3.50, GOO, and 140 families rendered
homeless the Riverside Nail and Plate
Mill, at Wheeling, W. Va, involving loss of
$75, 1000
A monster expedition is organizing in Phila-
delphia for the Black Hills. 1t Is said that
10000 men are enrolled.
H. G. Cameron, of the University crew of
Trinity College, was drowned near Hartford,
Conn, last week, while practicing in shell,
in company with S. D. Hooker, the Captain of
the crew, and H. NJ. Sherman, also of the crew.
The shell was capsized by the wash of passing
steamer.
An attempt was made last week to rob the
National Mohawie Bank, at Great Darlington,
Mass. Several masked burglars entered the
home of F. N. Deland, the Cashier and having
gagged and handcuffed him, compelled him to
go with them to the bank, where they tried to
get him to open the vault. Being unsuccessful
they took revenge by robbing Deland's house
of all it's valuables, and then decamped.
Springfield, Mass, was recently visited by
the most destructive fire it ever had, which de-
stroyed nearly forty buildings, including a
number of business blocks, and causing total
loss of at least $500, 900. high wind pre-
vailed and at one time the whole business sec
ton of the city was seriously threatened, but
the fire department., with the assistance of
Chicopee, Holyoke, Westfeld and Hartford,
succeeded in getting the flames under control.
The West
The grasshoppers appear to be making but
slow progress in the West. They are being de-
stroyed in great numbers by every means at the
command of the farmers, and it is now hoped
that their devastations will not be as great as
was at first apprehended.
The officers of the secret service, in search
of evidence to be used against the Chicago
distillers, conceived the idea that the freight
bills of the several railroads would show how
much spirits had been shipped within a given
time, and by comparing these bills with the
books of the distillers and gaugers, an approx
imation of the amount out of which the gov
eminent had been defrauded might be OBJ
tanned. The officers had some trouble with the
Pittsburg and Fort Wayne company, but finally
received abstracts of bills of lading, which
furnish presumptiye evidence of gigantic
frauds.
McWaters, the notorious Western desperate,
who was under sentence of twenty years inn
prisonment in the Nebraska State Prison at
Lincoln, has finally ended his career, being
shot dead by the guard in attempting to lead
revolt of the prisoners.
Kansas City dispatches state that the grass
hopper scare is rapidly abating, and that, as a
feeling of rejoicing has generally taken the
place of dread and gloom among the people, 4
the Chief Executive will soon be called upon to
issue proclamation for day of thanksgiving
instead of fasting and prayer.
DR.. J. H. Eccleston, of Philadelphia, has
been elected Episcopal Bishop of Iowa.
The Indians in the Southwest are again re-
ported to be on the war-path. Settlers in Kan
sas are fleeing from their homes.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
has vacated the Exposition building at Chicago,
which it had been using for depot purposes FOR
some time past, and established temporary
depot in postal-car, located on side-track
laid by stealth upon city property. It is evil
IDENTIFY the purpose of the company to obtain
depot grounds by hook or by crook, and the
city will probably have good deal of trouble
on account of it.
Three brothers named Thomas, Elisha and
Hood CraEens, living near Liberty No., quar-
relied over division of land recently, when
Elisha drew a revolver and fired, instantly kill
ing Thomas, and slightly wounding Hood.
The South.
The prospects for the cotton crop are good.
J. Hale Sypher, ex-Member of Congress, and
a. J.Sypher, planters of St. Mary Parish La,
have gone into bankruptcy. Their partnership
liabilities are over $4,000, and their assets
less than $4,000
Washington.
The Secretary of the Treasury has appointed
Gen. J. d. Webster, of Chicago, Mr.. Post, a
New York architect, and Mr.. Norcross, Massa-