The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-16
NEWS or THE WEEK.



~ philadelphia, were killed the other day by
falling adistance of eighty feet.
There is much excitement at Mahoney Clty,
pa over horrible triple murder committed
there last week. A party of masked men, at
o'clock in the morning, entered the house OF
Charles O'Donnell, seizing and binding ninl'
and carrying him back of the house, where ne
moe shot dead. A man named McAllister was
also taken from his house and shot. sister
OF McAIlister was also murdered. No reason
is given by the people in the neighborhood for
the bloody deed
Rev. John n. Vincent, the Corresponding
Secretary of the Sunday-School Union, ana Oh
the Tract Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. publishes card in the New YORK
naners disavowing, in behalf OF the society,"
anv interest in Bishop Ravens third-term sem
timents.
An order has been received at Fail RlVer,
Mass. from Manchester, England, for 25,OOO
pieces of printing cloth.
VIM. Delaney was hanged at New York. on
Dec. 10, for the murder of Capt. Lawrence, OF
the steamer Joseph E. Potts, in August last
Speir. the confidential clerk of firm en-
gagged in making bitters in New York, has
.'sweetened" his employers to the extent OF
$40, 600.
MANY people in New York adhere to the
belief that Boss Tweed is secreted in the city.
The failure of Freeland Harding q LOOMS,
extensive wholesale clothing dealers OF Boston,
is reported. The liabilities are estimated at
$3.50. OOO.
The West.
Charles E. Cist, an old and honorable citizen
of Cincinnati, has proved wolf In sleeps
clothing. He has disappeared and 1t now
leaks out that he has committed defalcations TO
the amount of $4,000.
Another one of the internal revenue thieves
Avery the Treasury clerk-has been con-
victed at st. Louis. Joyce, his pal, who was
sent up some time ago, is said to be writing a
novel in his cell in the Missouri Penitentlaly, a
portion of which will be devoted to the whisky
ring.
Several Western lawyers have been lmph-
ated in pension frauds.
The trials of the Chicago whisky ring cases
will begin Jan. ii.
Gas costs 81 per 1000 cubic feet In Des
Moines. Iowa and the business men generally,
have discarded it's use. Merchants say they
get a better hight from kerosene at ID cents
night than they did from gas at 1925. The
CITY is to be illuminated with kerosene instead
of gas lamps.
The President having granted the request OF
Gen. o. e. Babcock for court of inquiry into
the reports connecting him with the st. LOUIS
whisky ring, Gems. Sheridan, Hancock and
Terry we're designated to compose the court.
They are now In session at Chicago.
A terrible tragedy was enacted at Cleveland
the other day. A man named Alden, IN NJ
of rage murdered his wife and stepdaughter,
and mortally wounded Mrs. Benton, neigh
Dor. who interfered. The weapon used was
All ak.
Jasper D. WARd, United States Attorney
for the Northern District of Illinois, has re-
signed at the request of Attorney-Generai
Pie1repont.
There is no longer any doubt that Gen. Bah
cock, the private Secretary to President Grant,
has been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury
at st. Louis for completely in the whisky frauds.
The Indictment charges him with conspiring
with Joyce, Mcdonald Avery and others to
defraud the Treasury of the United States.
The President, IT is stated from Washington,
believes him innocent.
In view of the fact that Gen. Babcock has
been indicted by the st. Louis Grand Jury, the
Military Court of Inquiry which met at Chicago
last week to investigate the charges against
him decided to postpone its investigation until
either the trial by the Civil Court at st. Louis
shall have been had, or the War Department
shall instruct the military trial to proceed.
Minnesota is to have a State Inebriate
ASYLUM. and the iquor-sellers will have to foot
the bill, the Supreme Court having recently
sustained the constitutionality of the law IN
posing tax for this purpose
Burback and Reynolds, two of the indicted
Milwaukee whisky ring, have been convicted.
Various portions of Nebraska experienced q
decided shock of earthquake on the morning
of the 18th inst.
Hiram B. Snyder, witness in the Indianapo-
lis whisky ring trials, testified, the other day,
that in 1874 he chad an interview with John
Bingham, who assured him that the ring was
perfectly safe that Babcock, the President
private secretary, Yves in with them, and SC
long as the present Administration continued
they would be protected, but when change Il
made then to look up and stand from under.
The schooner Cornelius B. Windiate with
cargo of grain and a crew of ten men, sailed
from Milwaukee for Buffalo on the Oath of No
vember, since which time nothing has been
heard of her. There is scarcely doubt that
the vessel and all on board have gone to the
bottom of Lake Michigan.
An underground distillery for the manufact-
ure of crooked whisky has been discovered neal
Pueblo Colorado.
A stupendous land swindle has just been
unearthed in Southeastern Missouri, the par
ticulars of which we find in the st. Louis
IT, II a.,,,oors that deeds To lands in North