The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04
Colorado and miners are foohing thither in


great numbers.
A severe fight between United States troops
and Cheyenne Indians is reported to have re-
Gently took place near Fort Hayes. The troops
twice attacked the Indians and were each time
repulsed with serious loss.
A large section of the Northwest was visited
by a severe storm on the 29th ult. 1t was ac-
companied by wind, hail, rain, lightning, and
in some sections by snow, and played havoc
with buildings, fences and forests
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has recovered from
her late alteration of mind, and is now con
sidered entirely free from her affection. She
is living with her sister, in Springfield, III.
The murder of an old italian and three boys
in Denver, COL, and the finding of the dead
bodies, in an advanced state of putrefaction, IN
the cellar of dilapidated sbanty, has been
mentioned in these columns. Denver dls-
patch announces the arrest of three OF the
participants in the butchery who have made
confession, but claim that they were unwilling
accessories to the horrid deed. They say that
one Galliod, Mexican was the murderer,
and that the killing was done IN broad day
light. Their story, if true, stamps it as one OF
the most fiendish and inhuman butcherles OF
the age. Two of the murderers and victims
were playing cards. and the old man was deal
ing, when Galliod came up behind him, drew
his head back and cut his throat, the blood
squirting over the cards and table. The boys
| resisted and were cut and stabbed. Galliod
finished the old man, and soon made an end
to the boys. The murderers drank the blood
l. 10 %Iao hOU
whom they had forced to play the harp for
them while their butchery was going on, to
drink likewise, but he was too sick at the awful
sight. After the first victims were dead and
had been robbed, the two other boys came IN
and we're killed in the same manner. The rob-
bers got g., 200 or 81 400, principally in gold,
for the murder.
News has reached Lawrence Kansas, of an
uprising of the Usage Indians to resist the au-
thority of Agent Gibson. The latter's life was
in danger, and troops have been ordered to the
Agency for his protection.
Hon. James Otis, Mayor of San Francisco,
died last week.
Chas. Patterson killed r. w. Porter a herder.
near Sidney Neb., last week, for which he was
taken out of Jail by party OF lynchers and
hanged to telegraph pole. Patterson was cut
down by the Sheriff in time to save his life;
but the mob were determined, and in second
attempt were more successful, and his corpse
was found one morning on rude scaffold
The National Gold Bank and Trust Company
of San Francisco, has suspended. The officers
claim that the bank can pay everything, and
will resume shortly.
The South.
Deputy Sheriff James Kinnehan, man we'll
known by the sporting fraternity throughout
the South and West, was last week shot and
killed by desperate man named Frank Flynn,
at Hot Springs Ark Kinnehan, after he was
shot, managed to rise and put one ball into
Flynn. The trouble arose out of an article
that appeared in dsreputable Chicago paper
about Hymns wife, he thinking that Kinnehan
was responsible for it.
North Mississippi and West Tennessee ex-
perienced severe earthquake shock, accom-
panied by rumbling noise. on the evening OF
Oct. 81.
-Four men were killed in coal mine near
Richmond, Va, last week, by an explosion of
f1re-damp.
Five persons were killed and several severely
injured, at Lomax, Ark, last.week, by the ex-
plosion of boiler of saw mill.
A large part of the business center of Sher-
man, Texas, has been destroyed by fire.
Washington.
The government appeal from the decision OF
the Court of Claims in the Union Pacific rail-
road case was argued in the Supreme Court last
week, Attorney General Pierrepont conducting
the case for the government.
The President has issued his proclamation
designating the 18th day of November as day
of thanksgiving and prayer throughout the
United States. u
The Postofice Department is making arrange
ments for fast mail from Washington to New
Orleans. 9a
The Assistant Treasurer at New York has
been instructed by the Secretary of the Treas
ury to sell $4,000 600 of gold coin during the
month of November as follows: $500, 900 each
Thursday
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a
call for the redemption of $4,000, 900 coupon
and SIS, 900, 900 registered bonds-total, $40,
OOO O00-of the $40 bonds of 1864. The bonds
included in this call are of the act of June 30,
1864. e '
II Adelegation of local preachers called upon
President Grant, the other day, and urged him
not to abandon the Indian peace policy. The
President informed them that he did not pro-
pose changing his Indian policy, but that he
does not propose in future to make the army re-
sponsible for the distribution of Indian sup
plies. The President also took occasion to
speak good word for Commissioner Smith,
whom he regards as q much abused man.
The national indebtedness, according to the
official debt statement for Nov. l, was reduced
So, O69, OILS during the month. of October. kp-
pended are the official figures:
Six per cent bonds 49,. 81 ,O43, 1850
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