The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The Z asst.

The Phlladelphla TTeSS or the lzLn lnst. says
in its review of the wheat crop reports from all
sections of Pennsylvania: 6 careful survey
leads to the belief that not over half crop will
be gathered. and even this amount depends
upon the continuance of dry weather"
A bill has passed the New York Senate for the
reduction of tolls on the Erie canal 1914 per
cent.
horrible tragedy occurred at Byfeld, Mass,
last week. William Russell aged 81 killed his
mother with shoeknife, nearly severing her
head from her body. He then attacked and
dangerously wounded his father and three
brothers. The young man had shown symp-
toms of insanity for sometime past and at
the time of the tragedy was suffering from
neuralgia.
At last accounts the extensive strike of coal
miners still continued, with more or less vio-
lent demonstrations.
The investigation into the operations OF the
New York silk conspirators shows that OF the
silk placed upon the market in that city the
government was deprived of 81 100000.
A dispatch from Philadelphia states that S.
Gross Fry, President of the Philadelphia Dar-
by, and Spruce and Pine Street Railway Com
panies has made an over-issue of Darby stock
of from 10, 900 to 20, 900 shares, and of about
800 shares of the Spruce and Pine street road.
The money raised upon the stock was used to
bolster up the Emans Iron Company. Mr..
Fry expected that upon the revival OF the iron
trade he would be enabled to return the money
borrowed on the stock for that company. He
has made an assignment for the benefit OF bis
creditors.
Horace B. Clafin publishes statement in
the New York papers in regard to the manner
in which the government has been robbed dur
ing the past two years by the silk and lace i'm
porters He claims that the regular importing
houses have lost two millions of dollars by IT.
regular impOrtations.
A monster Black Hills expedition is being Or
ganized in the East, and will leave Philadel-
phia about the first of June. Nearly 1000
names have been enrolled.
A number of whisky seizures have been made
IA Boston and Brooklyn.
The OPERA House and several stores at Bur-
lington, VT, were burned last Saturday. Loss,
$4,000
Alfred Spear, of Rockland, Me-, shot his
The West.
Grasshoppers have appeared in muldtudinous
numbers in some portions of Kansas and Mis-
souri,, and the indications are that the devasta-
tions of last summer will not emily be repeated,
but that new territory will be rayaged and
robbed of its human sustenance.
The ST. Louis Democrat has been sold to the
st. Louis Globe, and the two papers consol-
idated. The price paid was about $350,000.
One hundred men have left Kansas City for
the Black Hills, and 800 more are at Cheyenne
on their way to the same point.
The Grand May Musical Festival took place
at Cincinnati last week, and was a magnificent
affair. The city was garlanded with flowers
and bedecked with flags, and the enthusiasm
and music was immense.
The first general convention of the Reformed
Episcopal Church was held in Chicago last
week.
Judge Dillon of the United States Circuit
Court in a decision rendered at Des Moines last
week, affirmed the validity of the Iowa Railroad
Tariff act of March %, 1878.
The Western Unitarian churches have just
was largely attended.
The ninth annual reunion of the Grand
Army of the Republic held in Chicago last
week. was the largest and most successful the
veterans have ever had.
Judge Dillon, of the United States Circuit
Court has decided that Council Bluffs is the
eastern terminus of the Union Pacific railroad.
The Council Buffers are jubilant at their vic,
tory, while Omaha is correspondingly despond-
emit.
The Western distillers whose establishments
were recently seized, have formed combina-
ton for the purpose of testing the constitu-
tionality of the revenue laws that permit the
seizure of property in such summary manner.
A party Of Black Hills adventures, consist
ing of forty-two men and six wagons, has been
captured by detachment of troops and taken
to Fort Randall IS prisoners, to be held until
instructions are received concerning their treat
ment.
The fears hitherto expressed of a renewed
visitation of the grasshopper plague is verified
by accounts from various quarters. In Eastern
Kansas and Western Missouri grasshopper
panic already prevails. The pests are already
up and doing, and have started on their line of
march, destroying everything green in their
way. The route hes in a northwestly direction,
and the only hope of the farmers is that the
grasshoppers may disappear in time to save the
cor1,-crop In several counties in Minnesota
the eggs are Matching fast, and warm westher
is expected to bring with it renewal of last
wears devastation and ruin.
James Lick, of San Francisco, has made
new trust deed which, however, seems to be
equally liberal with the one recently cancelled.
Charles Pope, the eminent tragedian, is
playing an engagement at McVicker's theater
Cainnnn in the great historical drama of