The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-09-23
Thr 8enosha Gtltgrapt
KENOsHA, WISCONSIN.
NEWS OF The WEEK.
The East.

against Moulton but the latter will not con-
sent to a withdrawal of the case, and insists
upon going on with the trial.
Two members of the New Haven (Ct.) pro-
fessional baseball club have been arrested for
thefts committed on one of their recent tours.
In New York, last week, while number of
men we're experimenting with Mrs. Uda's aerial
ladder, terrible accident occurred The lad
der had been raised, and about dozen men
were ON it, some at the height of 100 feet, when
the ladder suddenly snapped in two, precipitat
ing the men to the ground. The Chief of the
Aerial Battalion and two other men were in
stantly killed, and the balance seriously injured,
some fatally.
The horses in Buffalo, N. Y, are suffering
from mild form of the epizootic. Three
fourths of the horses in the city are affected
with it.
The great Boston dry goods house of Jordan,
Marsh q Co., has been partially destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated at 100000.
The engineer, fireman, and two brakemen of
coal train on the Lehigh Valley railroad were
killed by the explosion of locomotive at Stony
Greek, Pa, few days ago.
called in the City Court of Brooklyn last week,
but was, by consent of counsel, put over until
the next term of the court. Tilton's libel suit
against tbs Brooklyn Eagle also went over I'M
til the next term, by consent
& In the case of Westeryelt, who has for some
time been on trial at Philadelphia under an in
dictment for completely in the Charley Ross
abduction affair, has been found guilty on three
counts of the indictment. But the trial has
failed to reveal the fate or whereabouts of the
lost boy.
The epizootic has broken out again in New
York. It is estimated that at least 10000
horses are at present sick with it in that CITY,
The West.
The dispute over the Episcopal Bishopric of
Illinois has also been settled by the election of
the Rev. Dr. McLaren, of Cleveland, to sue
coed the late Bishop Whitehouse. DIR. Nc
Laren was until very recently Presbyterian
minister His leanings are toward the High
Church wing of the Church.
A dispatch from Red Cloud Agency says
there will be no difficulty il treating with the
Indians for the purchase of the Black Hills
country They are perfectly willing to sell,
and will take whatever is offered them, as they
say that the white men are going to occupy
that country anyway. It is thought the Commits
sion will not offer the Indians much money but
will provide for their sustenance for long
term of years, which arrangement would be
preferable for all parties, as the government
must support them anyway.
Rev. John II. III. Brown, of Cohoes, N. Y,
has been elected Bishop of the Diocese of
Fond du Lac. Wis.
A man named Ketchum, who has spent ff-
teen years among the Missouri River Indians.
arrived at Sioux City, the other day. He says
there is very great dissatisfaction among them
in regard to the Black Hills matter. Many of
the Indians at Standing Rock and other agen-
cies refuse to attend the Red Cloud council,
and openly avow their intention of going on
the war path if the Hills are opened to the
whites.
Another great banking institution is about
to be established in San Francisco, by the Lazard
Brothers.
A shocking casualty is reported from Terre
Haute, Ind. The boiler of a threshing ma
chine engine exploded and the straw sur
rounding the machine catching fire. three men
were consumed in the flames.
The deadly kerosene lamp has piled up five
more victims in Otoe county, Neb. At a farm
house out there, the other evening, Mrs.
Black was carrying small child up stairs with
a lamp in her hand, when she was run into by
boy coming rapidly down. The lamp was
knocked from her grasp and exploded, setting
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seized his wife and threw her in a pool of
water, and in striving to rescue the remainder
of the family, was badly burned and crippled
for life. The mother and two children died
before morning.
Stilson Hutchins has sold the controlling in
terest in the st. Louis Dispatch to W. r. ALI
son, for twenty-five years the editor of the
Steubenville CO.. Herald. The price paid was
$4,000
Terrible storms have lately prevailed
throughout New Mexico The town of Las
waterspout.
Washington.
The Secretary of the Treasury gives notice
that the interest on the bonds specified below
will be paid at the Treasury on and after the
18th of December next, on which day they cease
to draw interest. OF the act of June 80, 1884,
Coupon bonds. $50, No. 2,5O1 to $500, both in
elusive; 800, No. 1901 to 10, 800, both inclu-
sive; $500, Nc. TO- 100 to 15 300, both inclusive;
$1,000, No. As. 8O1 to so, 700, both inclusive.
1t has been ascertalned that the government
is paving between $4,000 900 and 81, OOO, 900
annually for pensions to fraudulent claimants
Halleck and Brown, the Treasury thieves
have been finally committed for trial in default
of 900 bail each.
Washington dispatches state that there will
be no sort of compromise with the whisky ring
and that the illicit dstillers will be prosecuted
with the utmost rigor.