The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-09-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

work.
A second swimming match between Coyle, OF
Philadelphia, and johnson, of England, came
off in the Delaware river last week. and was
won easily by the Englishman. Coyle, after
swimming six miles, had to be taken out OF the
water, being badly chilled.
Loader, the upholsterer indicted for ibeling
Beecher, has just been admitted to bail in New
York.
Certain Eastern newspapers have attacked
the proposed fast mail train between the East
and the West and have asserted that this train
has been projected and will be conducted
mainly for the benefit of the New York daily
newspapers.
1t is stated that Ben Butler viii act as coun-
sci for Tilton in the second trial of bus suit
against Beecher.
Stirling, Ahrens & Co., of Baltimore, heavy
dealers in sugar and molasses, have succumbed
to the general pressure of business. Their
total liabilities are 81, 500, 600.
The news of the collapse of the Bank of Cali
fornia caused considerable excitement in East
ern financial circles, but it's effects were only
slightly felt.
firm of Longstreet & Durinson, heavy leather
dealers at Syracuse, N. Y, has followed the
example of Ralston, and committed suicide.
The well-known Boston publishing firm of
Lee Shepard has failed.
Union Adams & Co., heavy wholesale dealers
in mems furnishing goods, New York, has sus-
pended.
The Was<
The total earnings of all the lines operated
by the Northwestern Railroad Company, en-
bracing about 2,000 miles, for the past year
were $13 $685. SIC, and its net earnings, after de-
Quoting expenditures of all kinds, were $685.
266.
Extensive frauds on the part of distillers and
revenue officers have been discovered at San
Francisco.
An express train ON the St. Paul and Sioux
City railroad went through a bridge near the
latter place on the night of Aug. "a, instantly
killing the conductor, engineer and fire.
man. None of the passengers were seriously
injured
The city of San Francisco has been thrown
into fever of excitement by the failure of the
Bank of California the leading financial insti-
tuition of the Pacific coast The Bank had
paid up capital of $4,000 600, and has always
been regarded as one of the staunchest and
best managed in the country. The suspension
was caused, as in the cases of Jay Cooke & Co.,
Duncan, Sherman & Co., and B. f. Allen, by
disregard of the laws of banking. 1t had
made unlucky ventures in the mining districts
of California and Nevada, and the President of
the Bank, W. G. Ralston, is known to have
been heavy and reckless operator in mining
stocks. Under the circumstances the collapse
of the concern need not excite surprise.
Capt. John Gordon, of Black Hills fame, has
been released from confinement on a writ of
habeas corpus. He has commenced an action
against the military authorities for false i'm
prisonment.
The Canadian steamer Manitoba collided
with the propeller Comet on the evening of
the 9th of August, near Wbitefsh Point, Lake
Superior, and sank her instantly. Ten of the
twenty persons on board the Comet persisted.
No one on the Manitoba was injured, and she
continued her journey. The Comet was bound
down, heavily laden with ore, while the Mani
toba was bound up, light.
An express car on the Union Pacific railroad
was robbed of several packages of money, near
Table Rock Station, Utah, few days ago.
The robbers got on top of the cars and climbed
through window while the train was in mo-
ton.
A San Francisco dispatch announces the
temporary suspension of the National Gold
Bank and the Merchants Exchange Bank.
A female forger was captured at st. Louis,
the other day, in an attempt to defraud the
Broadway Bank out of $4,000. She presented
letter of introduction, and what purported to
be certified check on a Chicago house, but
he bank officials suspected swindle, and the
woman and confederate were taken into GUS
tody.
The large four-masted steamer Persian,
bound from Chicago to Buffalo, with $1,000
bushels of grain and other freight, was lately
burned on Lake Erie. The vessel was valued
at 1926, 5000.
A malignant and fatal plague has broken out
among the cattle in the vicinity of st. Louis.
w. G. Ralston, on the day of his death, deed
ed ali his property to William Sharm in trust
for the benefit of the creditors of TIE Bank of
California Public opinion in San Francisco
is divided regarding the cause of the great
bankers death, some people believing that he
died of apoplexy. The majority, however,
adhere to the theory of suicide.
The crops in Kansas pan out immensely.
The Secretary of State estimates that the State
will have 100000 bushels of surplus corn for
expectation.
The funeral of William G. Ralston, at San
Francisco was one of the most imposino ma
geants ever witnessed on the Pacific coast.
Among the mourners were delegations from
all the military and civic societies of the city,
as well as representatives of all the manufac-
turing concerns in which the deceased was in
terested. The entire city was draped in mourn
ing as a token of respect for the late princelY