The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-03-18
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KENOSHA, WISCONSIN.
NEWS OF The WEEK.
r he e a st.

A shocking tragedy is reported from Sey-
mour Connecticut. A Mrs. Evans cut the
Threats of her two children, aged three and six
years, and then cut her own throat.
The reports of gold in the Black Hills country
are vigorously denied by correspondent now
in the Hills.
Yankton has organized Black Hills trans
portation company.
second womans crusade has broke out in
Chicago.
AS the down morning express train on the
North railway was passing between Grafton and
Danbury, N. H., one day last week, one of the
passengers William L. Gordon, of Balton, VT,
hot himself in the head, dying instantly. He
was known to have been insane. On the same
train passenger named Jesse Thayer, we'll
known merchant of Toronto, feeling faint at
the incident went out on the platform and fell
off, receiving fatal injuries.
The West.
Chicago elevators contained on the 10th inst.
1882, $50 bushels Of wheat, i, 1885, 84S bushels
of corn, $50, 096 bushels of oats, Is, 314 bush
els of rye and 215, 763 bushels of barley, MAX
ing a grand total Of 6, AT, 500 bushels against
7,448, 1913 bushels at the same period hast year.
Buell., the correspondent who was arrested at
St Louis under the Poland gagg-law' for
hbeng Senator Chandler, has been discharged
on account of defect in the Indictment.
Large numbers Of strangers are concentrat-
ing at Sioux City, Ia, with the intention of
joining the FIRST expedition to the Black Hills.
The annual report Of the packing business of
Chicago printed in the papers of that city, shows
that the total number of hogs received, alive
and dressed, during the season, was 2, 362, ga,
against 2, 243 212 for the season of 1874. The
average price of the season Just closed has been
$6.6215 against $3.50 last year. Trade has been
peculiarly active, and the season has been gem
orally profitable to packers
Washington dispatches state that President
Grant has sent strict orders for the employment
of such m .litary force as may be necessary to
check the Black Hills expeditions NOW organic
ing at Yankton and Sioux City.
BY order of Judge Mexican, of the limited
States Court, at Salt Lake, Brigham Young has
been fined sos, and imprisoned in the peniten-
tiary for one day, for contempt of count.
Gen. Sherman has been interviewed, and
says that expeditions will be prevented from
entering the Black Hills country, or, if they get
in, they will be driEen out
Five colored men in Chicago have brought
suit against the St. Elmo restaurant for violation
of the Civil Rights law in refusing them enter
taimnaent-
no a+i ChicQuO
jury seems to be the finding Of indictments
against the editor of the 7Gnees. -Four fresh
ones were returned last week, three for libel
and one for obscene publication.
The fishing schooner Sarah II. Greasy, of
Gloucester, left on halibut tlip to the Grand
Bank upward Of eleven weeks ago, and has not
since been heard from, and in all probability
has been lost. She had a crew OF twelve men.
This makes the fourth vessel, engaged in the
fishery from this port, lost liza january and Feb
rualy, with total loss of forty-three lives
The Davis House, at Gloucester, Mass, has
been destroyed by fire Much of the furniture
and personal effects of the boarders were
burned and SO rapid was the spread Of the
flames that the occupants of the building es-
capped with great difficulty. Julia Kelley, an
employe, was taken from the second story, but
was dead when found or died soon after. The
eharred remains of the bodies OF Hector Skinner
and C. Smith, boardeFs, and Margaret WALTON,
an employee, were found In the ruins.
Il Chicago courtesan named Hannah Kelley,
who had been confined in the lookup for some
misdemeanor, committed suicide by taking an
overdose of morphine. She Left a note which
she stated that she had taken this step to 8" beat
Bovden (the Police Justice) out of a fee
The South.
The steamer R. B. Hart was recently sunk in
the Mississippi river about thirty miles from New
Orleans, caused by running against heavy drift
wood. Hardy Hendrew, the clerk jumped
overheard and was drowned. Ten or fifteen
negro deck passengers are supposed TO be lost
The action of the Louisiana committee now
in session in New York gives the Republicans
a majority Of two on joint ballot in the Legisla-
ture.
Washington.
Returns received at the Internal Revenue
Bureau show chat the manufacture Of whisky
has not diminished any since the passage OF the
law increasing the tax.
The totals of the appropriation bills passed
by the last Congress foot up $172, 1884, 766.
President Grant has directed the abandon
ment of the civil service REFORM Congress hav-
ing failed to make the needful appropriation to
carry it on.
The total amount Of legal-tender currency
now outstanding is $3.50, ia, 800.
The Washington Postotfice is completely
clogged by the vast amount Of public matter
which is now being franked.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has issued a
call for $4,000, 900 bonds on account of the
sinking fund. The amounts contemplated are ::
Coupon bonds $24, 063, $50 registered, So
$780, $50 They are under the act of Feb 90,
1862 The coupon bonds are of the fourth