The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-18
The west.


All the Italians, five in number engaged in
the horrid butchery at Denver, Col, have been
arrested. It is hoped they viii be speedily
brought to justice. Hanging is too mild pun
ishment for such inhuman monsters.
Smallpox prevails to an alarming extent in
Cincinnati.
The Minneapolis Mimi Tribune has no less
than seven libel suits on its hands, the damages
claimed aggregating 100000
The telegraph furnishes a synopsis of the
statement of Neal O'Haley, one of the two sur
vivors of the Pacific disaster. He says :
s'About $50 people were on board When the
shock occurred I ran on deck. Everything
was in confusion, and the passengers providing
on the hurricane deck. The ship fell off into
the trough of the sea. I saw long vessel
under SAIL which they said struck the steamer.
The passengers crowded into the life-boats,
against the command of the officers. /, with
the chief engineer, got the port boat forward
into the water got fifteen women and six men
in her. She was capsized by the rolling of the
ship. l saw none of them afterward. sup
ported myself by floating skylighS about
fifteen minutes; then got on a portion of
others. On looking for the steamer,
I found she had disappeared, leaving
mass of human beings. The
screams for help were fearful, but soon ceased
and we were alone on the raft. There were
the Captain, second mate, second cook, and
four passengers, including young lady. At
o'clock next morning it blew gale from the
southeast, the sea making a clean breach over
the raft. We lashed ourselves on. About 4
m. the sea washed overheard the Captain,
second mate the lady, and another passenger.
About the second cook died. 1t cleared up
about D. m. I saw land fifteen miles distant,
and piece of the wreck with two or more on
it. About p. M another man died. On the
morning of the 9th, at p M, large empty
box floated near me- and got it on the raft
for shelter. slept sound that night for sew
eral hours. On the morning of the 18th, at 8
o'clock, was rescued by the cutter"
The mystery which at first shrouded the loss
of the steamship Pacific has been cleared up.
vessel cruising for survivors in the vicinity
of the disaster discovered upon an island the
Master and crew of the ship Orpheus, which
ran upon reef and sunk. The Captain of the
Orpheus states that his vessel collided with an
unknown steamship, undoubtedly the Pacific.
and sustained serious damage. He imagined
that the steamer had received little. injury,
and Tat she would put about and render him
needed assistance. But, the steamship kept
on her course, and finally disappeared in the
distance. The Master Of the Orpheus affirms
that he used every means possible to avoid COLI
liding, but that for some reason the lights of
the Pacific were not visible when they ought to
have been, and she bore down upon the Or
pheus rs though utterly obliuous of her pres
ence. The vessels struck and parted; when the
Orpheus sought harbor, but, making a mis-
take in her reckoning, she struck reef and
went down, all hands being saved.
The Jury in the great Ward viii case, at De-
troit, failed to agree on verdict. Eight were
in favor of breaking the will and four in favor
sustaining it. -
Col. joyce. ex-Revenue Agent, who was re-
i. Gently convicted at Jefferson City Mo-, OF
sevenue frauds, has been sentenced to three
\ half years imprisonment in the Penl-
arv Joyce made an eloquent appeal to
aurt in mitigation of his sentence, as
his innocence, and declaring that he
icted on the testimony of perjured
llation of Kansas, according to the
ensus, is 543, 900.
ern millers propose to give all their
ad freight to the Baltimore and
provided it will keep out of the
nbination.
"a the Black Hills report the dis
diggings in the northern hills.
ners who were driven out of the
the point of the bayonet have