The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18
NEWS OF TIL WEEK.
The East.

Ql6graceIul row occurred IN Un6 10LHSyl-
vania House of Representatives at Harrisburg,
last week. growing out of dispute on parlia-
mentary point. The Speaker ordered member
under arrest, when his friends rushed to his
assistance and rescued him from the Sergeant
alarms. Pistols were drawn during the
melee.
Samuel F. Hersey, member of the present
Congress, from Maine, and elected to the next,
is dead.
Senator VIM. A. Buckingham, of Connecticut,
died at Norwich on the 4th inst, aged II.
1t is reported from New York that one of the
jurors in the Tton-Beecher trial will soon pre-
sent physicians certificate to the effect that
the jurors lungs will no longer bear the atmos
phere of the crowded courtroom, and that
death will certainly ensue upon further expos
ure. His forced withdrawal would, of course,
permanently end the present proceedings.
An accident occurred near Norwood Station,
on the Hampstead branch of the Southern road,
caused by the washing away of part of the
track by the heavy rains. Danger being re-
ported from that point, the conductor ordered
the train to be run over that part of the line
before the arrival of the Z o'clock express from
New York. The train passed safely over, but
on the return the whole train was thrown down
the embankment, instantly killing Eli Thorpe,
road-master James Scott, engineer Barney
Callahan, fireman Benjamin Cowan, brake
man and fatally wounding two Others The
men were all old employees of the road and
leave families.
Daniel Horey John Sweeney, and James
Drew, are under arrest in New York. charged
with having been concerned in stealing a safe
which is said to have contained over $500, 900 in
bonds and money from the Adams Express
Company. The company has been very reticent
about this huge robbery, but it is rumored that
a considerable amount of the plumber has been
recovered.
The West.
Chicago elevators, as per official figures, con-
tanned, on the Sd inst, 3,439, 1853 bushels of
wheat, 1854, 987 bushels of corn, 544, IT'S bush
els of oats, IA, 800 bushels of rye, and 292, 395
bushels of barley, making a grand total of
$3.50, Isl bushels, against 5432, 1897 bushels at
the same period last year.
The Episcopal Convention for the diocese of
Illinois, in session at Chicago last week, elected
Rev. DIR. James De Koven Warden of Racine
(Wis.) College, as Bishop of Illinois, to succeed
the late Bishop Whitehouse.
The people of Yankton, Dakota, are very in
dignant because the Supreme Court granted a
new trial to Wintermute the slayer of Gen. Nc
Cook
Bishoprics in the West go a-begging these
days. Rev. Leighton Coleman declines to serve
as Bishop of Wisconsin, to which Office he was
recently elected
The lower house of the Ohio Legislature has
refused, by vote of forty-four to forty-two to
pass bill to abolish capital punishment
The South.
John Ward, alias Hall, ALIAS Blakely and
Henry Johnson, colored, two of the men i'm
plcated in the bold robbery of the express mes
senger at Memphis few days ago. have been
arrested, and have divulged the names of their
associates.
Washington.
From the time of the passage of the Currency
law on Jan. IA to the 4th inst, the Comptroller
of the Currency had received applications for
the organization of new national banks as fol-
lows Two banks in Maine, $150000 two
banks in Massachusetts, 5000, 900 ; two banks
in Connecticut, $2OO,O0O thirteen banks in
Pennsylvania 81, 70O 600; one bank in New
Jersey, $1,000 three banks in Kentucky,
$500, 600; one bank in Illinois, $500 one
bank in Iowa, 1000. Applications were also
received for an increase of capital from Maine,
$500, 900; Vermont, $15O,OOO; Massachusetts,
$150,000; Connecticut, $685. 900 Penn
sylvania, $500, 900 other States, $15OOOO Ap-
plicahons we're also made for an increase upon
capital already paid up, as follows Massachu-
sets, $1,300000 Connecticut, $500, 900 other
States, S3241, 600. Total authorized Increase
Sc, 191, O00
The Senate Committee on Territories have
agreed to report and recommend the passage of
a bill to create the Territory of Pembina out of
the northern half of Dakota.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue is
urging upon the Ways and Means Committee an
increase of thirty cents on the whisky, and four
cents on the tobacco tax
The Select Committee on Arkansas Affairs
nave submitted their report TO Congress. The
majority report, signed by Poland, Sayler, Scud-
der and Sloss, recommends that Congress take
no action in regard to the government Of Ar
kansas. 1t says
The new Constitution we regard as Republican in
form, and in many respects an improvement upon
that of 1868. The committee satisfied that the
convention to frame the Constitution, and the Con-
stitution itself, voted for and satisfactory
to the majority of the voters and people of the
State. The State officers were certainly elected by
a majority of the votes cast, and we think by ma
orty of the votes In the State. The condition of the
State has been as peaceful since the new govern
ment was inaugureted it has ever been. The
mass of people both sides are inclined to peace
and good government, and to allow all the enjoy
ment of their legal rights.
The other member of the committee
Ward of Illinois a dissenting report