The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-07-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

have been goaded by the police into making
confession Of being guilty of the crime for
which he was first arrested, and that he was
entirely innocent
The great thirteen-mile swimming match be-
tween J. B. johnson, of England, and Thomas
Coyle. of Chester, Pa, for the championship OF
the world, came off on the Delaware river, at
Philadelphia, last week. and was won by the
Fnglishman. Coyle became exhausted and gave
no on the tenth mile. The entire distance swan
by johnson was 1917 miles, and the time three
hours and ten minutes. After being taken
from the water he was as fresh as when he
entered, and began dancing jig.
Hugh Donahue, of Springfield, Mass, has
lust accomplished the unparalleled feat OF walk
ing l. 100 miles in l. 100 consecutive hours.
During the last few day of his weary tramp he
was very nervous, and almost Frustrated by loss
of sleep, and firearms had to be discharged to
wake him for his hourly toll.
Ingleside, well-known summer resort near
Holyoke, Mass, has been totally swept out OF
existence by fire.
At Philadelphia, on Monday, fool named
Conor playfully pointed a gun at his young
wife and pulled the trigger He thought it
was empty, but it wasn't and Conor is now a
widower.
A locomotive boiler exploded the other day
at Port Jervis, N. Y, with frightful effect.
Three men were killed outright-the body of
one of them, the engineer, being blown dis
lance of over thousand feet, where it lodged
in a tree.
A large amount of spurious fve-cent nickel
coin has been placed in circulation by Brook
lvn gang of counterfeiters.
The West.
A dispatch from Beaver, Utah, states that
the substance of John D. Lees confession is
that thirty Mormons, with the assistance of a
large number of Indians, decoyed the emigrants
from their intrenchments by flag of truce !;
that all were murdered except seventeen child
rem that the deed was done under the orders
of the leaders of the Mormon chuith that he
took the news Of the massacre to Brigham
Young, who deplored the transaction, and said
it would bring disaster on the Mormon people.
The statement of Lee, so far as known, only
confirms the previous reports in regard to the
massacre. During the progress of fire at
Cincinnati a few days ago, the Chief Engineer
of the Fire Department, Enoch G. Megrue and
ten fremen were buried beneath the ruins of a
falling building. Fortunately only one of
them, Richard Holcomb, was killed, though
nearly all were sadly bruised Chief Megrue's
Injuries were the most serious, but hopes are
entertained of his recovery.
A Laporte Qnd.) clairvoyant claims that
hall
lists who recently assembled from Chicago, are
not lost. He says the air ship came down on
the east side of Lake Michigan, at some point
where two lakes are connected by a stream, on
some part of an island in the midst of sand
hills and pine trees. That in coming down one
of the men was cut under the eye and on one
arm, the other being unframed. He says they
are alive, and will shortly be heard from.
The Chicago Journal thinks there is q
chance that the lost balloon is still drifting
about in the high upper atmosphere, it's pas
sengers hfeless, and the vessel at the mercy of
the currents. If so, it will, of course ulti-
mately descend to the earth and be heard from
Edmons and Cochrane accused of participa-
ton in the Vandalia railroad murder at Long
Point H.. have been fully identified and COM
mitted to rial without bail.
The trial of John d. Lee, for the Mountain
Meadow massacre, is in progress at Beaver,
Utah. The jury consists of eight Mormons and
four Gentiles.
A terrific explosion occurred the other day in
the paper mill of Close & Son, at Iowa City,
Iowa, resulting in the death of five workmen,
the bodies of three of whom we're blown a dis
lance of 500 feet across the tops of houses.
The mill was valued at $3.50, 900, and was badly
injured.
News has been received at Gen. Sheridan's
headquarters in Chicago that 500 Ponca In
dams have abandoned their reservation. 1t is
also reported that Spotted TAIL with 260 Sioux
warriors, had left his reservation with the in
tention of visiting the Ponca Agency and mas
sacring first the whites on the reservation and
then the Poncas.
Kansas will have no State fair this year, be-
cause no city can afford sufficient subsidy.
John Garretty, Peoria pedestrian, succeed
ed the other day in walking seven miles in 5719
minutes.
Hows circus was sadly demoralized by tor
nado at La Crosse, Wis.,, few nights ago.
A prisoner at Fort Leavenworth, while work
ing in quarry, was sunstruck, and it is said
that while in that condition, Sergeant Hogan,
in command of the gang, commenced to beat
him, and inflicted injuries from the effects of
which he died soon after.
A report comes from the Black Hills, by way
of Fort Laramie, that new and richer gold
fields have been discovered about thirty-five
miles northeast of Harneys Peak, and that all
the miners in the Hills, about eight hundred
were rushing pell-mell for the new diggings.
1t is reported that nuggets have been found
worth 81 and upward.
Judge Booth, of the Circuit Court of Cook
County, ILL.,, has rendered a decision to the eff
feet that the bondsmen of David A. Gage, late
City Treasurer of Chicago, are liable for the