The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-03-25
The west.

and culvertS. FACTORIES OF all descriptions nave
lost heavily.
The West.
A powder explosion about five miles from
Cleveland last week gave that city very clear
idea of what good square earthquake is. The
conclusion was so great as to thoroughly alarm
the whole city, besides doing no inconsiderable
damage in the way of partial aud complete de-
struction. Three men were killed. stH8#
The Illinois Senate has defeated a bill to re-
peal the existing license law.
An amendment to the State Constitution of
Illinois has been offered in the Legislature,
providing for the election of Justices of the
Peace by the people, taking from the Governor
the power of appointing, as at present. M @y
Andrew Egner, the leading spirit in the Gin
cinnad lanyard horror of last November, in
which Herman Schilling lost his life. and was
burned in furnace, has been found guilty of
murder in the first degree.
The following order fully explains itself 1t
vitality concerns those who may be afflicted with
the Black Hills fever:
TO Brjg.-Gens Alfred Terry, st. Paul, Min1o., and
E.. o. c. Ord, Omaha, Neb.: .s.- ST m
Should the companies now. organizing at Sioux
City and Yankton trespass on the Sioux Indian
reservation, you are hereby directed to use, the
force at your command to burn the wagon trains,
destroy the outfit and arrest the leaders, confin-
ing them at the nearest military post in the
Indian country. Should they succeed in reach
ing the Interior you directed to send such force
of cavalry in pursuit as will accomplish the purpose
above named
Should Congress open up the country for settle
ment by extnguishing the treaty-rights of the In
dams, the undersigned will give cordial support to
the settlement of the Black Hills.
(Signed) P. H. SHERIDAN,
Lieutenant General
BY command of Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan
R. c. DRUM,
Assistant Adjutant- General
Capt. Thomas Russell writes from the Black
Hills to his brother at Sioux City to the effect
that there is gold in abundance in the hills,
that the miners are in excellent health, and
anxiously awaiting reinforcements.
A Chicago Tribune interviewer" after a
tour among the business men of the city, re-
ports the prospects dattering for general re-
vival of trade upon the approach of warmer
sun. So mote it be.
A billiard tournament begins at Chicago the
first week in April. Experts from all parts of
the West and South will participate.
The entire tribe of Sheebit Indians, about
$50, were recently baptized into the Mormon
Church. at st. George Utah.
Prof. Hayden, the well-known geologist and
explorer, writes to an intimate personal friend
in Chicago advising him not to take stock in
the assertion that there is gold in the Black
Hills worth going there to dig.
The South.
Further discussion of the resolution to adj
NIT Pinchback to a seat In the Senate from
Louisiana has been postponed till next Deem
Der.
Atlanta, Ca, was recently visited by a de-
structive confagration, large manufacturing
establishment, liquor warehouse and other
buildings being consumed total loss $3.50, 900.
The decision of the Arbitration Committee in
Louisiana, acting under the terms of the
Wheeler compromise has been submitted to
Gov Kellogg. Its effect is understood to be
the award of seats in the Legislature to eleven
Conservatives who were not counted in by the
Returning Board, and the Unseating of six Con-
servatves claimed to have been elected. It
leaves a majority for the Democrats in the
House, while the Republicans have the Senate,
with a small Republican majority upon joint
ballot. An extra session of the Legislature will
probably be convened about the 18th of April.
A destructive tornado passed through the
central part of Georgia last week, Several
lives were lost.
The Alabama Legislature has withdrawn the
license tax from hotels, and authorizes land
lords to make contracts with boarders.
An elaborate and exhaustive charge to
Memphis grand jury upon the subject Of the
Civil Rights law was given the other day by
Judge Emmons, of the United States Court,
who instructed the jury that the denial to
negro of the full and eqnal enjoyment of the
accommodations and privileges of theaters and
inns is a matter that the State government
alone controls, and can only be reached by
civil action.
Washington.
Il is stated that personal unpopularity and
arbitrary conduct On the part of Chief Justice
Mexican, of Utah, prevented him from being
reappointed upon the expiration of his com
mission. Hon. Isaac G. Parker who succeeds
him, was a Representative in the last Congress,
from Missouri.
Ex-Congressman Love- of Kansas, has been
appointed Commissioner of Patents vice Baker,
sent to Minnesota as Surveyor General.
The GRAND irrv of tho District of Columbia
has indicted Whitelaw Reid, of the New York
Tribune, for libeling ox-Gov. Shepherd.
The Supreme Court has just made an impor-
tant decision relative to the old income t TX
question. Tt holds that dividends and profits
earned in the last half of the year 1870 are sub
iect To the incnma tag of 21I ner cent