The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-08-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

yania are said to have never been better.
Two Indians living on the Niagara Reserya-
ton. in Western New York, last week decoyed
into the forest one of their tribe, Samson
Williams, against whom they had grudge
stabbed him to the heart and scalped him.
George w. Fishback, formerly publisher of
the ST. Louis Democrat, who is now rusticating
in the East, while riding along the beach at
Southampton, L. l., the other day, discovered
q woman in the water in drowning condition.
having been carried beyond her depth while
bathing. Like true Knight. the valiant ex-
editor leaped from his buggy, dropped the rib
bons, plunged into the billowy waters, and res
cued the drowning woman.
Serious forest fires are reported in Western
New York. The village of Walcott, Jefferson
county, has been burned, and other towns are
threatened.
A furious tornado passed over the northwest
arn part of Philadelphia on Wednesday last,
causing great destruction of property.
Notice of trial Of the 100000 libel suit of
Theodore Tlton against the Brooklyn Eagle
and Thomas Kinsella has been entered in the
Brooklyn City Court, for the September term
Archibald Baxter & Co., grain and commits
sion merchants, New York, have failed. Their
liabilities are stated at 100000.
The villages of Western Massachusetts which
so severely suffered by the fearful flood oc-
casioned by the breaking of the Williamsburg
reservoir, May is, 1874, have again been
similarly visited, though this time there has
been no loss of life, and the damage is incon-
siderable compared with last years. few
nights since the dam of the Searsville reservoir
ON the western Goshen branch of Mill river
was swept away, causing a wild panic in the vii
lagos below, the inhabitants fleeing pell-mell to
the hills. Several bridges were swept away
and the damage to property will amount to
many thousand dollars.
Horace Binney the Oldest and most promi-
nent member of the Philadelphia bar, died a
few days ago, at the age of 81 years.
A Boston dispatch says The excitement
about the sea serpent and his alleged appear
ance hereabouts increases. Capt. Howes, of
the steamer William Lawrence, from Norfolk,
for this port, says that he saw this afternoon off
Cape Cod light, some sort of aYgigantic marine
animal. It projected its head and neck and
part of its back out of the water and seemed
to be black on the back and white on the breast.
and as the portion visible was at least twelve
feet, the animal must have been some near re-
tation to the sea serpent"
The Northern Pacific Railroad, with all it's
franchises, including the franchise to be a
Company, and all the property except the lands
which have been patented, was sold at New
York, the other day, under decree of court
for the nominal sum of 100000. It was
bought by the Committee representing the
bondholders, who have assented to the plan
of reorganization.
A statement of the affairs of Duncan, Sher-
man & Co. show their liabilities to be "a, 872,
1913, while their assets are considerably less
than half that amount, namely, SO, 112, 740.
On the closing day of the Rochester races
the little mare Lula in the free-for-au race,
made the three fastest consecutive heats on
record, viz, 2:1611, 2:151S and 2:17, winning
the race against Goldsmith Maid and American
Girl
Three boys were drowned at Buffalo, N. Y,
ON the 14th inst, while bathing.
Three men, named James Grogan, William
Horton and Henry Martin, were drowned at
Passaic Falls, N. J., by the upsetting of boat.
A grand international pedestrian tournament
is to be held in New York in October
Edwin Booth, the tragedian, was recently
thrown from his carriage, by the team taking
fright and running away, and received serious
injuries. The accident occurred at his coun-
try residence in Connecticut.
The West.
The returns of the Wisconsin census show q
population of 1927, 921, being gain of 1885,
251 over over the census of 1870.
A dispatch from Cheyenne says: "Gen.
Crook and Col Stanton returned here to-day
from the Black Hills. The miners were pre-
pairing to leave, covering up the richest lodes
to prevent their becoming known till such time
as they can return. The mountains are full
of quartz. Capital and skilled labor will de-
velop mines equal to those in California OF
Nevada. There were about 800 miners in the
hills. Prof. Jenny's party were still exploring
the hills, and will probably remain until the
middle of October"
A dispatch from Salt Lake, Utah, says con-
siderable excitement is prevailing in the neigh
borhood of Corrinne, growing out of the
demonstrations of a large body of Indians
camped near there. Nearly 1000 of them were
recently baptized into the Mormon church.
They have supplied themselves with ammuni-
ton and gums and have sent all their squaws
away and have made threats of driving the
Gentiles from the west side of Bear river,
which, they claim, has been granted to them by
the Mormons for reservation.
The crop of oats, rye barley and wheat in
Northern Wisconsin is simply immense. Farm
ers are now in the midst of the harvest and the
yield, it is said, will exceed that of any pre-
vious year in the history of the State.
Advices from the regions of the recent floods
in Southern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio indicate
that the aggregate loss and damage to crops
will not be nearly as great as was at first re-