The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-09-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK
The cast.

A laborer named Davis was recently muir
dered and robbed by tramps in the WOODS near
Danville, vt.
Patrick Reardon, of Saxonville, Mass, last
week shot and killed his wife and then snot
himself dead. 4
A singularly tragic suicide was enacted at
New York the other day. Signor Pietro Viapnl,
a prominent italian artist, while reciting
poem at picnic of his fellcw-countrymen,
suddenly drew revolver from his pocket and
shot himself through the temple.
The Congress Hotel, at Sharon Springs, n.
Y, a popular summer resort, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
There was heightened wedding at Newport,
r. l., last week. Charles Joseph Bonaparte,
grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, was married to
Miss Day, of Boston.
Sooy, the defaulting State Treasurer of New
Jersey, has had preliminary trial. The ex-
act amount of his deficit is ascertained to be
ga, 116. The Justice held him in $75, 900.
No rail was offered, and he was fully COM
mitted.
There is now strong grounds for believing
thai little Charlie Ross is alive and may yet be
restored to his parents. Mrs. Mosher, the wife
of Bill Mosher, the abductor of the child, viz
tually acknowledges that thechud is living, but
does not know his present whereabouts.
The Pennsylvania State Normal School, at
Bloomsbury, has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
$780, 900.
South Deerfeld, Mass, was visited last week
by a disastrous confagration. Property Of the
estimated value of $500, 900 was destroyed.
Tiltons woelen mill, at Cavendish, Va, was
d sstroyed by fire, last week. Loss estimated at
$17O, 900; insurance 100000.
Three of the Schuylkill county Pa.) Com
missioners have been convicted of malfeasance
in Office and sentenced each to two years i'm
prisonment and 81, 900 fine.
1t is announced that Tilton has abandoned
ali hopes of new trial in the Beecher case,
because he CTilton) cannot raise the funds tc
conduct the prosecution.
The population of Massachusetts, accord
ing to the census just completed, is 100000
A disease similar to the old epizootic has
broken out among the cattle near Avon, N. Y.
Forty died within two weeks.
The West.
Sixty-three Chicagoans died during August
under circumstances sufficiently suspicious to
require Coroner's inquests.
Thieves entered the residence of Gen. Arson
Stager, in Chicago, at midday, bound and
gagged the servants, broke open the silver
chest and carried off its contents.
The Bank of California has been reorganized,
with ID. O. Mills as President and will imme-
diately resume business. Seven million dollars
have been subscribed to tide the bank over it's
present difficulties, of which Senator Sharon,
d. o. Mills, Michael Reese, E. J.. Baldwin and
J. r. Keene contributed $1,000, 600 each.
George A. Smith, Brigham Youngs chief
lieutenant, is dead He was Second President
OF the Mormon church.
Col G. B. Wilkinson, editor of the st.
Joseph CTo.J Herald and Internal Revenue
Collector, who was arrested some time ago and
placed under bonds of SIS, 900 for embezzle-
ment, has not been heard of for some time,
and it is said he has fed to Canada or Europe.
Creditors have attached all his real estate
The wheat crop in Minnesota, Iowa and
Western Wisconsin was badly damaged by the
recent heavy rains.
An excursion train of six cars on the Atchi-
son and Nebraska railroad was thrown into the
ditch near Bremen Station, Kan, and three
persons killed, and eight or ten badly wounded.
The accident was caused by the spreading of
the track. The train was conveying persons to
Atchison to attend the bridge celebration.
Gordon. the Black Hills adventurer has
backed out of the suit which he commenced
with SO much flourish against the military a1-
thorities at Omaha for false 1prisonmert, and
paid the costs of the litigation.
A fire at Virginia City, Nevada, last week,
destroyed $125,OOO worth of property.
The jury of inquest in the case Of Ralston,
the San Francisco banker, returned verdict
of accidental DEATH.
1t now transpires that the failure of the Bank
of California was not caused SO much by con-
spiracy on the part of it's enemies as by the ras-
cality of the late President. The directors of
the institution authorize the statement that
Ralston's defalcation will amount to between
three and four millions of dollars, and that a
large overissue of stock has also been discov-
ered The directors, for mysterious reason,
decline to let the public know what particular
use was made of this large sum Of money.
John N. Edwards, of the St Louis Times, and
Emory S. Foster, of the st. Louis Journal,
fought bloodless duel last week in Winnebago
county, Ill. One round was fired at twenty
PAGES with navy revolvers, the bullets whistling
harmlessly in the air. Edwar Is demanded an
other shot, but Foster declined After consid-
cradle parley the affair was amicably settled,
the belligerents shook hands, the genial Bour
bon was produced, and the agreeable termina-
ton of the trouble generously toasted. The
difficulty grew out of the jeff Davis Winnebago
county controversy.
Another aeronaut has met with tragic death.
A man calling himself Prof. Ariel, travelling
with circus, made an ascension in hot-ai1