The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-09-09
Louisville enjoys the luxury of a penny

Louisville enjoys the luxury of penny
paper.
Four children OF MIR. Mier, of Ascension
parish, La, were recently poisoned with French
worm lozenges, and died in few hours.
Louis Rehm, Teller of the Planters National
Bank of Louisville, few nights ago stole
$11O 900 in cash apd bonds from the vaults OF
the institution, wrapped it in sheet and buried
it, He then inflicted several wounds upon his
person and represented that burglars had done
the job. Upon being calmly questioned he
confessed to having committed the deed, and
assigned as reason that he had recently lost
heavily in speculations and wanted to make bis
losses good.
Dispatches from Yazoo City, Miss, give brief
and imperfect accounts of a riot between ne
groes, at political meeting in that place, on the
I'd inst. One of the speakers denounced some
one as thief, the lie was given and shooting
commenced. Fifty shots were fired. Several were
wounded, and Dick Mitchell, late Republican
candidate for Mayor, was killed, and W. Il.
Foote, a prominent colored politician, was
MORALLY wounded. The dispatches state that
no whites were engaged in the affair, but it is
added that they we're arming.
| dispatcn from Sandersyille Ca, says the
trial of Corday Harris, the negro accused of
attempting to incite insurrection among tho
blacks in Washington and Burke counties, re-
suited in a verdict of acquittal. 1t thus turns
out that the alleged instruction was only
big scare.
Louis Rehm, the Louisville bank teller, con-
fesses that he had been robbing the bank for
some time and covering the thefts by false
entries.
On Friday, the Sd of September the good
citizens of Fort Smith, Ark, we're RECALLED by
sight that never before met the view of any
| other people within the United States in time
of peace, namely, the simultaneous hanging of
six murderers on one gallows. The culprits
we're John Wilmington. white, aged 81; Daniel
Evans, white, aged 90; Smoker Mankiller, an
Indian, aged 10; Samuel Fooy, half-breed In
dian, aged 26; James FL. Moore, white, aged1
Edmund Campbell, negro, aged 20. Two
thousand people witnessed the CHASTITY spec
tacle. ALI of them died ''game."
More race troubles are reported in Missis-
sippi During the progress of colored polit-
ical meeting at Clinton on the 4th of September,
white man in the audience called one of the
speakers liar, which led to an indiscriminate
fight. Over hundred shots were fired, and
three whites and four blacks were killed, and a
large number wounded on both sides.
At the recommendation of the grand jury Of
Washington county, Ga, all the negroes in
dicted for completely in the alleged insurrec-
ton have been discharged from custody.
Touching the riot between whites and
blacks at Clinton, Miss, press dispatch from
Vicksburg gives the following version of the
origin of the row There is law prohibiting
i the sale of liquor in Clinton. Young men from
Raymond brought bottle with them, and
while speaking was going on, Martin Severity
and some of his friends went off a short dis
lance to take drink The negro Marshal for
the occasion approached them and forbid their
drinking. This order was not regarded when
the negro attempted to take the bottle out of
Seyerly's hand. Severity finally struck the
negro over the head with bottle. Senator
Caldwell (colored) started to settle the diff
Guilty, and was followed by some 20 negroes,
whom he ordered back, but about 100 more
came rushing up, while some one fired shot,
which was followed by a general firing and
stampede.
Washington.
J. M. Thatcher, Commissioner Of Patents,
has resigned.
The government has paid the Elgee cotton
claim, amounting to $685. 900.
The following is the statement of the public
debt for the month just closed:
Six per cent bonds. Isl, OBS 865, $50