The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-09-30

rioys were pacified. The commissioners were
greatly frightened remembering the fate of
Gen. Candy, and at one time thought their hair
would surely be lifted Through the efforts of
Young Man-Afraid-of His Horses the fractions
Indians were removed, and large party OF
mounted friendly Indians stationed near the
Commissioners.
The Fourth National Bank or Chicago has
closed it's doors and gone into liquidation. De-
positors will lose nothing, as the assets of the
bank largely exceed the liabilities.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered
work to be resumed oR the Chicago Custom
House. The foundation of the structure will
be strengthened and some portions of the walls
taken down and rebuilt, in accordance with the
recommendations of the last commission OF
architects.
In the Geographic columns of the daily press
of last Sunday was chronicled shocking list OF
murders in the Far West Tom Fortune, a
Waterman at Bismarck, was shot and killed by
John Mcmahon, whom Fortune had arrested.
Nine miles below Bismarck, in whisky
row, Jack Duffy shot and killed Nick Morgan,
a hunter, and wounded in the leg man named
Snow. DIR. S. c. Cheney was basely murdered
at Columbus, Kansas, by adesperado, who fired
sixteen buckshot into his body. John Wright,
herding cattle four miles north of Bismarck,
was killed by Indians, and 100 head of stock
run off.
One dry goods firm in Chicago sold 100000
worth of dry goods last week..
The Chicago papers report that grain is be-
ginning to arrive in that city at the old
fashioned rate, the daily receipts by rail
amounting to over a thousand carloads.
The head of an unknown man was found
hanging to tree in the woods near Marshall
town, Iowa, the other day, and on the ground
beneath lay the headless trunk. It is supposed
to be case. of suicide.
The South.
Perfect peace is reported to reign in the
lately-reported disorderly portion of Mis-
sissippi.
The people of Richmond, Va, turned out en-
noGsse, the other day, to witness the reception
of Foley's statute of Stonewall Jackson, pre-
sented to Virginia by couple of Englishmen.
Advices from Texas place the number of
lives lost by the recent terrible flood at 400
600, 900. A party of Mexicans, who were en-
gagged in robbing the dead bodies washed out
on the plain near Indianola-the scoundrels
chopping the fingers, hands nd ears from the
men and women to obtain their jewelry-were
caught by the Americans, and five of their
number killed. Christians Point was also en-
tirely swept away by the late storm. The
Wolf
capsized, and was carried to sea, having as
supposed, been abandoned by the crew.
The defalcation of Rhem, late teller of the
Planters Bank of Louisville, is $85,00O
There is now no doubt that the bank robber
recently killed in Kentucky, and supposed to
be one of the James boys, was Thompson Nc
Daniels, a brother of the desperate of that
name killed some months ago in Lawrence,
Kansas, after he had broken jail.
The Sheriff Of Gentress county. Tenn, has
arrested a man answering the description of
Cole Younger the bandit.
Washington.
A strong influence has been brought to bear
upon Acknowledgement Pierrepont to induce
him to forego the prosecution of young Fisher,
who is accused of stealing the papers of the
police courts so as to protect his rascally
friends. But to these appeals Mr.. Pierrepont
has made answer that the law must take it's
course that Fisher must be punished not
withsta1tding the responsibility of his family
connections.
The commander of, the military. department
of Texas telegraphed to the Secretary Of War
asking if government aid, as in the Alabama
overflow, can be extended to the sufferers on
the coast of Texas The Secretary of War re-
piled that the Texas district inundated does
not lie within the scope of country included in
the loan authorizing aid by the War Depart
ment and can extend no assistance.
1t is announced that the law in regard to
the proper branding. of cigar boxes which has
been largely evaded, is henceforth to be rigor-
ously enforced.
A new morning penny paper has been
started in Washington. It is to be Democratic
in politics.
Judge Vail, of lowe. has purchased con-
trolling interest in the Chronicle newspaper.
The Government Directors of the Union Pa
cific railroad have filed their annual report for
the year ending July l. 1875. The gross re-
ceipts. were $11, $50, O21, an increase over 1874
of 81 ,275, 1863. The increase of net earnings
for the same time was 81, SIT, 424; operating
expenses, $4,78S, $50.
Cen0ral.
The New York Llperai Republicans in their
Convention at Albany decided not to place a
ticket in the field, but contented themselves
with the adoption of platfol m and the recon-
mendation that their followers throughout the
State exercise each his own choice as to the
candidates already in nomination by the Re-
pubhcans and Democrats.
The steamer Tgress, which picked up the
survivors of the Polaris, is reported to be to-
tai wreck on Entry Island, near Halifax, N. S.
The National Agricultural Congress held a
thran davs, cocsion of Cincinnati Last week