The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-08-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
The East.

the rate of 100 day, chiefly from cholera in
fantum.
The New York Times prints statement to
the effect that Donaldson, the missing balloon
ist il not dead, but is alive and well in Michl-
gan. Little credence is placed in the story.
There is considerable excitement in the oil
regions of Pennsylvania over the discovery OF
resh oil wells of large capacity.
The miners in the anthracite regions OF Penn
sylvania are said to be preparing for another
contest with the operators.
Foster Brothers, carpet-weavers OF Brook
Iyn, n Y, have failed. Liabilities, 500 OoO.
Atameeting of the Western nail manufacturers
at Pittsburgh, the other day, it was decided 10
fix the price of nails at So per key, net. This
is lower than the price has been since the year
1866.
A magazine exploded at Frankfort Pa, on
the 7th inst, killing one boy and injuring
twenty others.
A large mass of soft rock fell in the Hoosac
tunnel the other day, and blockaded the big
bore.
By smashup on the Geneva, Ithaca and
Athens railroad, on the 9th ult., the conductor
of freight train and two brakemen were
killed and the engineer and fireman so badly
scaIded that there are little hopes of their re-
covery. The accident was caused by mis-
placed switch, which was opened, it is be-
ieved, by bandits for the purpose of throwing
the passenger train from the track, with the
intention of robbing the passengers.
There was brutal prize-fght in the suburbs
of New York last week, between two roughs
named Gallagher and Madden. Both contest
ants were terribly punished.
The village of Victory, Cayuga county, n. Y,
has been almost entirely destroyed by fire.
A melancholy tragedy is reported from
Niagara Falls. party of six gentlemen and
ladies' visited the Cave of the Winds without
guide. After passing through the cave, two OF
The party, Mr.. Ethelbert Parsons, aged %. and
Miss Lottie G. Philipott aged rs, descended to
au eddy which is never visited by the guides.
The lady lost her foothold, and was caught by
the gentleman, but the current carried both
into the river below, where they were drowned.
They were soon to have been married.
The West.
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held in Cincinnati last week. Nearly all the
newspapers in the United States under the con-
troll of colored men were represented.
Woodruff, late Treasurer of the Western
Development Company, San Francisco cor
poration, is the champion defaulter of the
year. His irregularities are something over
a million dollars.
Prof King made perilous balloon ascen-
sion from Bloomington, Iowa, few days ago.
He passed through heavy thunderstorm and
narrowly escaped being struck by lightning
The rain freighted the balloon heavily, and
caused it to fall rapidly, lodging in tree near
Olena, ILL.,, tearing and damaging it seriously
though not injuring the inmates.
A locomotive was thrown from the track of
the Wabash railroad near Catlin Station H.,
on Thursday last, causing the death of the en-
gineer and the serious wounding of the fire.
man. The cause of the disaster was a mis-
placed SWITCH done by some villains with the
intention, it is believed, of robbing the express
train, which followed closely after the wrecked
locomotive.
G. B. Wilkinson and John L. Bittinger, Rev
enue Collector and Gauger in the st. Joseph
mo. District have been arrested for embeZzle-
ment. Wilkinson and Bittinger are the pub
fishers of the st. Joseph Herald.
terrible tragedy was enacted near Eau
Claire, Wis, on Friday, the 9th inst. On the
preceding Wednesday babe of Mrs. Austin
Drake fell out of bed into bath tub and was
drowned. The event so worked upon her mind
IS to unsettle it. She arose on Friday morning,
apparently as well as usual. After preparing
breakfast for herself and children, three in
number, she took the two oldest boys, four and
six years of age, respectively, and went out
of the house. The male members of the
family had previously gone into the har-
vest field. In about an hour after Mrs.
Drake left the house, the youngest boy re-
turned, black in the face, wet through, and SO
exhausted hat he could not speak. Restora-
tives were applied, and the first words he ut
tered were, ''Oh, grandma, mamma has
drowned herself and VIVIAN and tried to drown
me-" Mrs. Drake, after leaving the house, in
8 fit of insanity, went to creek, carrying the
youngest boy in her arms, and leading the
other one. Arrived there, she threw the
youngest in, and dragged in the other,
and then committed suicide. The young
est caught hold of a tree, and succeeded
in reaching home. The alarm was given Inn
mediately, and Mrs. Drake and the boy were
found locked in each others, embrace, both
dead. Mrs. Drake was woman of more than
ordinary intelligence and culture.
The war of rates between the st. Louis, Kan
ing lines, has at last reached most interesting
point to the travelling public. The frst-named
road has cut the rate to 50 from Kansas City to
ST. Louis, and the Hannibal and st. Joe road is
selling tickets for S. from Kansas City to Chi
cago and so for the round trip.
A dispatch from Beaver, Utah. says the jury
in the case of John D. Lee, charged with being
the leader of the Mountain Meadow massacre,