The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


L, who was charged with being a defaulter to
York, shot himself in the head while officers
were endeavoring to arrest him in the latter
city, inficting fatal wound.
The snow storm throughout New England
last week was the heaviest during the season.
Snow fell to the depth of ten and fifteen inches.
The centennial celebration of the Anti-Slav-
cry Society was held in Philadelphia last week.
Business is badly FRUSTRATED throughout the
Lehigh (Pa) Valley, on account of the long
continued strike of the coal-miners.
The strike of the iron-workers and puddlers
at Pittsburgh has ended the workmen having
conceded to them all that was demanded.
The Superior Court has enjoined the New
York, New Haven and Hartford railroad from
issuing passes to members of the Connecticut
legislature.
The strike in the Lowell, Mass, cotton mills
js increasing in magnitude.
Judge Nelson and the scandal-case lawyers
have signed petition to the New York Legis-
lature, asking for special legislation which shall
give the Supervisors of Brooklyn power to fur
Their compensate the jurymen who have served
over thirty days.
The discovery of lead and silver at Salisbury,
Mass, is reported. A sale has just been made
of portion of the Chapman lpde, Newbaryport,
ON the basis of a valuation of $1,000,000 the
mine.
It is reported that well-known merchant of
New York, bachelor of 80, has given 81, OOO,-
900 and signed will bequeathing the balance
of his estate, valued at 3d. 000 900, except life
of $250000 of estate to several rela-
tives, to endow College of Music in that
city.
The Mill river region in Massachusetts has
been the scene of another catastrophe, the
breaking of a dam having let loose a flood
which carried with it disaster and destruction
to the extent of 5000, 600 worth of property
in the villages of Wrentham and Norfolk,
about 25 miles from Boston. No loss of life is
reported.
The centennial celebrations at Concord and
Lexington of the first shots fired in the war of
American Independence took place on April 49,
on which occasion the patriotism of the old Bay
State seems to have been aroused to the utmost
pitch. The day was ushered in with the firing
of cannon, and then followed civic and military
dent and Vice President of the United States,
members of the Cabinet United States Sena-
tors members of Congress, Governors of
States, Judges, Generals, poets, orators and
eminent men of the republic lent their pres
ence to the patriotic occasion, while mighty
crowds, only limited in size to their ability to
reach the historic scenes, participated in the
memorable celebration. The extreme cold
weather had the effect to interfere somewhat
with the complete fulfllment of the contem-
plated order Of procedure but nevertheless
the joint centennial was magnificent success.
The West.
Advices from the Cheyenne Agency report
that the troops were badly whipped by the In
dams in the recent fight in the Sand Hills and
that the loss was much greater than at first
reported.
The trial of John D. Lee and w. II. Dame
for connection with the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre in Utah has been postponed.
Commander Leroy Fitch, U. S. n, aged 80
years, died at Logansport, Ind, on Tuesday
last, after several months illness.
A second party, consisting of 100 men and 20
wagons, left Sioux City for the Black Hills last
Wednesday.
Eight companies of United States troops
six Of cavalry and two of infantry-have left
Omaha for the Black Hills.
stage robbery by which Wells, Fargo & Co..
lost SIS, 500, is reported from California.
Upward of a thousand men have already left
for the Black Hills gold fields.
The st. Louis bridge last week passed into
the hands of the London banker, Morgan, and
the New York financial agent, Humphreys, the
transfer being made under the fourth mortgage
bonds. A Chicago railroad man, named Newell,
has been appointed Superintendent.
Five thousand more Mennonites are On their
way from Russia to the Western Territories
In the case of John w. Wright for the forg-
cry of Indian bounty warrants, on trial at st.
Louis, the jury returned a verdict of not
guilty.
John WEIGH gave himself up to the police in
East st. Louis last Friday, confessing to having
helped to fire the elevator of Rush & Co., at
Indianapolis, recently, causing loss of S75,
OOO
A very important arrest of counterfeiters and
capture of their tools and product was made at
Boscobel, Wis. last week.
Mrs. E. L. Erwin, highly respectable young
widow, of Hannibal Mo-, the other day, tied a
clothes-line around herself and her little girl,
years DID, fastened the other end to stake in
the ground, and then took the child in he,
arms and deliberately walked into Bear Creek.
Both were drowned.
A dispatch from Fort Laramie says: Capt
Mixs company, who were sent after the mining
party at Harneys Peak has secured the whole
of them, consisting of sixteen men, one woman
and q boy.
The Sionx Civ nartv of miners in the Blacl