The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-07-22
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KENOSHA, WISCONSIN.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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The East.

The Brooklyn friends Of Henry Ward Beecher
are perfecting arrangements for grand mass
meeting to indorse him, and express confidence
In his innocence.
The Kings County On. 70 Grand Jury has
returned true bills against Joseph Loeder and
John ]. Price, who are charged with having
sworn falsely against the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher and Mrs. Elizabeth r. Tilton.
A recent fire at Dunellen, n. j., destroyed
five of the largest buildings in the place, with
a loss of 800, 900.
The New York banks have received notice to
look out for forged notes on the Bank OF En-
gland and Bank of France
Hon. VIM A. Foster, Chief-Justice of the
Vermont Circuit Court, was wounded in the
arm by shot being fired in the car window
while riding between Concord and Boston re-
Gently. 30 clue to the perpetrator of the act.
at Pittsburgh, Pa, last week. while the
family of John S. Hays were at dinner az the
Monongahela House their rooms were entered
by thief and robbed of $4,000 in diamonds
and jewelry.
The Roman Catholic clergy of Lawrence
Mass, have published card condemning the
rioters in the severest terms and expressing
the hope that they will be punished to the full
extent of the law.
whole family named Hessler, consisting of
father, mother and three children, were killed
last week in Montgomery county, Pa, by the
falling of their house during the prevalence of
tornado.
gentleman in New York City has brought
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amended Postal law, claiming that it originated
in the Senate.
James L. Bailey shot and killed his father, in
New York city, last week. The murdered man
was wealthy and prominent citizen, and has
for many years been connected with the Hud-
son River railroad.
The West.
John D. Lee, the Mormon, has turned States
evidence, and will be a witness for the prose-
cution and tell all he knows about the Mountain
Meadow massacre.
Advices from Minnesota are to the effect
that the grasshoppers have forsaken that State
entirely, going no one knows whittier. Their
depredations have not been extensive and
there will be no perceptibIe diminution of the
crops in consequence.
The United States Grand Jury at st. Louis,
has returned nearly thirty indictments against
the members of the whisky ring, about one
third of them being against Gen. John Nc
Donald and Col. John A. Joyce, ex-Supervisor
of Interval Revenue and ex-Revenue Agent.
The Lincoln State Journal prints carefully
corrected report of the crops III all sections of
Nebraska, showing that in all portions, except
in few counties, the crop prospects are excel
lent.
Secretary-of-War Belknap has started on a
jaunt to the Yellowstone region.
The crop reports from all parts of Iowa are
very encouraging. Wheat, oats and barley
especially look fine. Corn is growing rapidly,
and since the rains ceased the farmers are
working among it with renewed courage. There
has been more prairie broken this year than for
some time before.
Two Indians were killed and three wounded
by the soldiers at the Red Cloud Agency few
days since, and there is much excitement. The
negotiations of the Commissioners are entirely
suspended.
News has been received from Bow River VAL
ley, Neb., of the murder of an emigrant family
by the Ponca tribe of Indians.
Prof Donaldson, accompanied by an EUeniqeg
Journal reporter, left Chicago in balloon fo1
an aerial voyage on Thursday evening, July Is,
going in northeasterly direction. Nothing
has been seen or heard of them up to Saturday,
the 18th, and the impression prevailed in Chi
cago that the unfortunate aeronauts had been
wrecked by the storm that swept over Lake
Michigan on Thursday night.
Sprague, who murdered saloon-keeper,
named Dwyer, in Holden, No., last year, and
who afterwards escaped, has been convicted
of murder. The murderer will have to serve
two years in the Missouri Penitentiary before
being punished for the murder
The statement of John D. Lee, of Mountain
Meadow massacre notoriety, exonerates Brig
ham Young and the leaders of the Mormon
Church from the charge of being connected
with the massacre.
Crop reports from Dakota are very encourag-
ing. The wheat yield will be this year about
1000, 900 bushels.
Ionia, Neb., has volcano, from which great
clouds of smoke and steam ascend. The heat
is rapidly increasing, and it is expected the
mountain will soon be red hot.
The South.
On Sunday last, at Van Buren,, Ark, Willie
Drennen and Charles HALEY, two prominent
young men, went boat-riding with two young
ladies, when the boat capsized, and Drennen
and the two ladies were drowned.
The first bale of new cotton arrived at New
Orleans, on the 18th inst, from st. Landry Par
ish, La.
Miss Lena Hebb and Miss Cecia Reibert two
young ladies, aged respectively 10 and II, while
seated in the door of the residence of Miss
Hebb, in st. Mary's county, Nd, one day last
week, were instantly killed by stroke OF
lightning.
The Cotton States Congress-; at Raleigh N. c.,
adjourned on Thursday last, after harmonious