The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-08-05


failure was caused by heavy advances made on
stocks and cotton account. The liabilities OF
the firm are between $5, O00 900 and SO, 000,00
The news of the failure produced the widest
excitement in Wall street. Barring Brothers,
of London, are heavy losers. Americans travel
ing in Europe will also fferlargely by the fail
ure For a time it was feared that the collapse
of this great house was but the beginning of a
great financial crash, but an exposition OF the
causes that led to the suspension showed that
these fears were unfounded.
The Commercial Warehouse Company, OF
New York, has suspended. Liabilities essi-
mated at 81, 500, OOO The stock of the COM
pany is owned principally in Cuba.
j. B. Ford & Co., publishers (not proprietors)
of the Christian Union and ''The Life OF
Christ" are greatly embarrassed, and their
suspension is looked for
The Trenton Banking Company, of Trenton.
N. j., which lost 100000 by the Jay Cooke
failure, loses 100000 by the suspension of
Duncan, Sherman & Co.
A man named Miller was killed by his own
son at Brunswick Me-, the other day.. Miller
was engaged in the pleasant occupation OF
beating his wife, when the son interfered and
shot him.
MI. Beecher's hundred thousand dollar sala-
ry is good thing undoubtedly, but the Ply
mouth people do not appear to be willing to
fork over the amount 1t has TRANSFERRED that
not more than three thousand dollars of the
amount has been subscribed, and that the con-
gregation will be obliged to look to outsiders
for the balance.
The bad-smelling Tilton-B eecher volcano
threatens to burst forth again. Theodore Til
toms counsel have notified Mr. Beecher's law
yers that they will move for a new trial of the
case on the LIST of September.
The West.
A mixed train on the Northern Pacific rail-
road consisting of twenty-five cars, recently
went through bridge across the Mississippi
river at Brainerd, Mimi, killing five persons.
The bridge is about eighty feet high.
A freight train on the Louisville, New Albany
and Chicago railroad went through trestle
orty feet high, near Cloverdale, Ind, on
Thursday, killing the engineer, conductor, and
head brakeman. The fireman had one leg and
one arm broken.
A dispatch from Springfield, No., states that
report has reached there that Col. VIM. P.
Ross. principal chief of the Cherokee Indians,
and candidate for re- election to that position,
had been assassinated near Fort Gibson, by
party of Downing men, his political opponents.
Col. BOudinot, who was in the Territory, is said
to have fed north.
ho roYoYf hot Nbiof Rocc Of tbo H1nrolyne
Nation, had been assassinated, is denied.
In the Southern section of Illinois, known as
EGYPT, during the month of July, the extra
ordinary amount Of nine and half inches of
rain FELL The wheat crop will prove almost
total failure, and corn, tobacco and hay have
been seriously damaged.
O'Leary the Chicago pedestrian, has failed
in a second effort to walk $50 miles in 80 hours.
Despite his failure however, he did some fine
walking. He walked his so miles in 8 hours
and minutes, and 100 miles in 20 hours and
IA minutes.
At Denver, Col, the other day, there was
wrestling match between two athletes named
Williams and McMann. The latter was thrown
by Williams, whereupon desperate named
Cleveland who had bet heavily on McMann,
was so incensed at his losses that he drew his
revolver and shot him dead. The murderer
escaped.
The police of Chicago found the body of
Frederick Burger in the lake, which at first
they were sure was the lost aeronaut Donald
son, and now they mourn the loss of the
800 reward.
A bottle purporting to contain card writ
ten by Newton s. Grimwood, Donaldson's asso-
ciate in the recent disastrous balloon ascen-
sion from Chicago, was picked up on the beach
near that city, few days ago. Grimwood's
friends doubt its commences.
George l.. Dunlap has been appointed and
confirmed City Marshal of Chicago.
The South.
A war of races has broken out in East Fell
eiana parish, La. A bad feeling has existed
between the whites and blacks in that parish
for some months, which threatens to break out
into open hostilities.
The st. Louis delegates to the Missouri Con-
stitutional Convention, now in session at JEFF
ferson City, have finally decided to recommend
plan for the complete division and separation
of the city and county of st. Louis. The city
is to sustain the same relation toward the State
as a county, and to become the owner of all
penal and charitable institutions and public
buildings within the extended limits, and to
assume the entire Indebtedness of the county
the county is to organize as new county, and
the county seat is to be selected by majority
vote of the people of the county.
The funeral obsequies of ex-President John
son, at Greenville, Tenn, on the Sd inst, were
witnessed by an immense concourse of people.
Washington.
James Gillfllan succeeds Avery as Chief
Clerk of the Treasury Department.
The late defalcation in the Treasury Depart
ment attributed to theft by some of the female