The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-27

The East.

Judge Nelson expresses the belief that the
jury in the Tilton-Beecher case will not dis
agree, but will speedily reach verdict.
Chandler, Hart & Co., boot and shoe dealers,
of Philadelphia, have failed. Liabilities,
1926, 900.
Judge Porter of counsel for the defense in
the Brooklyn scandal trial, opened his argument
on Wednesday, May 10. Tilton and Moulton
were handled quite roughly, the speaker point
ing them out in person and denouncing them
with scornful emphasis.
A terrible confagration occurred last week at
Osceola, Pa. Two hundred houses are reported
destroyed, and twelve hundred people are rem
dered homeless. The fire originated in a lum-
Der yard two miles away, but high wind car
ried the burning embers into all parts of the
city, and it was found impossible to stay the
flames. Half the town was consumed, includ-
ing all the public buildings and nearly all the
business blocks. The adjacent villages of
Houtzdale and Powellton were also partially
destroyed. The total loss will exceed 50, 900,
900.
another victim of the specializing mania has
come to grief in Boston. Mr.. Abraham T. Jack
son, hitherto respected member of the bar,
has disappeared, taking with him several large
sums with which he was intrusted, amounting
in the aggregate to 1000.
A dispatch from Pottsyille, Pa, states that
destructive fires were raging in the mountains
in that vicinity. Shutdown, small mining vii
lage was entirely destroyed. A dispatch from
the same place states that an attempt was made
to burn the town of Shenandoah, fires being
started in several places by incendiaries. The
flames were discovered and extnguished. One
incendiary was arrested.
Cardinal McCloskey has been presented with
a diamond cross worth 800, 900 by the young
lady pupils of st. Vincents Institute in New
York.
Another murder, even more horrible in its
details than that of Mrs. Bingham few weeks
since was perpetrated in Boston last Sunday.
A bright little girl, Mabel Young 5 years of
age, was murdered in church, and bruised
and mutilated. The body was carried up in the
tower and thrown upon the floor of the loft.
The sexton of the church. Thomas Piper, has
been arrested on suspicion of being the author
NSaf this foul murder,
The West.
There comes from Usage, Kansas, story of
the state of desperation to which the people of
that section have been brought by the grass
hopper pestilence. A party of farmers, scorn-
ing concealment boldly entered gristmill and
boldly helped themselves to sixty sacks of flour,
saying that they had neither food nor money,
and that they would not permit their families
to starve while food was within reach. It is
said that the condition of the people is now
more critical than ever before.
Mr.. Potter, the Supervising Architect of the
Treasury does not think that any portion of
the walls of the new Chicago Custom-House
can be saved. The structure will have to be
razed to the ground.
Mrs. Mary Lincoln, widow Of the late Presi-
dent has been adjudged insane by jury of the
County Court, at Chicago and will be sent to a
private institution for the care of the insane at
Batavia, I'll.
The unfortunate widow of Abraham Lincoln
made an unsuccessful attempt to commit sui
eide at Chicago, just before leaving for the Ba-
tavia asylum. She purchased what she supposed
to be bottle of laudanum and swallowed the
contents. The mixture, however, was of a
harmless nature, and her design was thwarted.
A number of gaugers and storekeepers in
Chicago, who were participants in the whisky
frauds, or were criminally careless, have been
removed, and three or four of them have been
held to bail to await the action of the grand
jury.
The Indiana Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
has just sustained the action of subordinate
lodge in suspending a members connection
with the order on the ground that he was a
saloon-keeper.
After protracted trial, the St. Louis Repub-
I5c07a has been assessed one cent damages for
calling a ! yyer ''shyster."
The issue of the Chicago Inter Ocean for
May q was probably the largest daily paper
ever issued in this or any other country. 1t
contained the delinquent tax-list of Cook coun-
ty, and the whole paper embraced IS full sheets
of s pages each, IA pages, and 864 columns.
Thirty compositors were employed Sc days in
putting it in type, working 1917 hours per day.
The manuscript copy of this enormous tax-list
weighed 275 pounds and occupied Ii, $40 pages.
The grasshoppers arrived in Kansas City last
week on their Eastern journey. They marched
into town and covered the sidewalks, fences,
yards, ETC.. and the citizens, instead of going
to church, devoted the day to destroying the
pests.
Daniel OLeary the pedestrian, has just &C
complished at Chicago, the marvellous feat of
walking 500 miles in 153 hours.
AS might have been anticipated, the at
tempts of parties of miners to reach the Black
Hills and their arrest by the military are caus-
ing trouble. The Gordon party was
stopped by a company of soldiers while
they were in the State of Nebraska. They
refused to be arrested preferring to
fight. The officer in command of the detach-
ment was sent to Fort Laramie and to Camp
Sheridan. and company of men with Gatling
gun started for his assistance. The miners