The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-17
NEWS or THE WEEK.
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The East.

The members of the wel-known dry goods
house of II. B. Clafin & Co., New York, have
been indicted for smuggling silk goods through
the Custom House. 80 ~ = z ~
The Orangemen of New York have decided
not to parade this year, and to honor King
William of glorious and pious memory by a
grand excursion and picnic July II.
The international Typographical Union.
closed it's session at Boston by seIecting the
following officers: President Walter H. Bell,
Philadelphia First Yice-President James
Harper, Montreal; Second Vice-President, G.
F.Sheldon, Kansas City; Secretary and Treas
urer, William A. Hutchinson, Chicago; Core
spending Secretary, w. S. Pride, Wilmington,
Del ~ 49,
Charles G. Fuller, President, and J. T.
Maury, Treasurer, of the Chaplin Paper Com
pany, of Norwich, Conn.,, have absconded, leav-
ing outstanding obligations estimated to amount
to $4,000, the greater part of which is be-
ieved to be in forged notes.
The steam yacht Octayia, built at Cleveland
in 1864, for T. w. Kennard, engineer of thaAt-
lantic and Great Western railroad, is under sur
VIGILANCE at New York, suspected of being fit ed
out to aid the Cuban insurgents.
The Boston express train for New York ran
off the track near the latter city, last week. mar
rowly escaping destruction. Two parlor coaches
were overturned and number of passengers
quite severely bruised. Vice-President Wilson
was in the rear coach and escaped injury. Miss
Annie Louise Cary, the vocalist, was slightly
hurt. Ex-Speaker Blaine occupied seat in the
first coach, and received slight injuries.
The WAefI AY i& ISL
The champion base ball club of Boston sus-
tanned crushing defeat in their game at Chi
cago last week. the score standing to 0 in IA
vor of Chicago. The Bostons had previously
been defeated by the st. Louis club. In their
games in the East the Red Stockings had
scored twenty-seven victories, and itseemed as
though they would win every game they played
this season but base ball is very uncertain,
and it is not safe at any time to bet odds of
and to 1.
The Quahada band of Comanches surren-
w dered last week to the commandant at Fort
SILL The band comprised $50 warriors and
800 women and children, with 1,400 ponies.
A desperate encounter recently Occurred in
the vicinity of Stockton Rocks county, Kansas,
between Mr.. Alexander, Sheriff of Ellis county, j
both. ra ~ a3a9t0gJ 81
The plan of paying bounty per bushel for
dead or asshoppers in LIE Sueur county, Mimi,
has been success So far the greater portion
of that body of the.pests has been destroyed.
Two hundred and twenty-seven bushels
were captured in two towns in lie Sueur
county.
A disease known as the ''Black Death, is
making great havoc among the swine on the
Upper Ottawa river, Canada.
The National Sportsnen's Association held
their second annual convention atCleyeland,
Ohio, last week, with large attendance of
delegates. Hon. J. Y. LIE Moyne, of Chicago,
was elected President of the association for the
ensuing year. 6Sfs
Gen. Sheridan has forbidden lot of gold
hunters from entering the Big Horn country.
He says that territory is included in the Sioux
reservation under the treaty of 1869, and white
men win be prevented by the military from en-
tering it for any purpose whatever until the
treaty is abrogated.
Rev. DIR. Jacob s. Shipman, of Lexington,
KY, has been elected Episcopal Bishop of the
diocese of Fond du Lac, Wis.
Prof. Janney, of the government exploring
expedition in the Black Hills region, officially
reports that there is no gold there.
Bill King has given bail to appear for trial at
Washington on the charge of perjury.
Heavy frosts visited some portions of Central
and Western Michigan on the night Of June ID,
doing considerable damage to growing crops.
1t has been decided that the new Custom
House at Chicago is insecure, and that no safe
piling All the work of Mullet, therefore, will
have to come down, and Architect Potter will
construct an entirely new building.
The lumber operatives of Chicago recently
threatened strike in consequence of areduc-
ton in their pay, but better counsels prevailed,
and they very sensihly concluded they would
be cutting their own throats by such course,
as a number of unemployed were ready to take
their places. They therefore continued to work
as usual at reduced rates.
The South.
In the case of the editor of the Galveston
Nesrs, arraigned for contempt of court in
charging the Judge with partiality in pending
case Judge Morren decided that it was within
the province of the press to criticise freely the
acts of the Judiciary, and concluded with the
declaration that 1.-The publishers have unrestrict
ed liberty to apply an epithet to the Judge of
the court without being in contempt for SO do
ing.
The Maryland Democratic State Convention
to nominate candidates for Governor Comptrol-
Ter and Treasurer, is called to meet in Balti-
more on Wednesday, July q.
An atrocious murder was committed at Salem,
Rutherford county, Tenn, last week. VIM. Jar
riett returned home from visit and found his
mia I,r;ror dead ON the floor with a cord drawn