The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-10-28
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KENoSHA, WISCONSIN.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

week. Speeches were made by Gems. Kill
patrick, Pemberton and Pryor.
The first building in the country erected ex-
cI,hivelv for the order of the Sovereigns of
Tndustrv. was dedicated last week at Spring
field, Mass.
national convention of Universalists was
in session at Lynn. Mass, last week. The
statistics of the Church show steady increase
throughout the country.
Butterick & Co., the well-known dealers in
fashion-pIates, dress patterns, etc., of New
York, have failed.
On tho 10th of December last Jacob Stander
man killed Louisa Siedenwald, in New York
city, because she refused to marry him. jacob
has Just been tried for the crime and sentenced
to death.
Frederick Hudson, for many years managing
editor of the New York Herald, was killed by
railroad accident at Concord Mass, last week.
Hudson was the author of work called s'The
History of Journalism, !" and was one of the
ablest journalists in the country.
The District Attorney of Brooklyn has en-
tered noLle prosequis in all the suits growing
out of The Beecher-T ilton scandal, and there is
little probability that the great scandal will
ever come prominently before the public again.
Damaging evidence has been discovered
against La Page, the French Canadian arrested
at Pembroke, N. H., for the horrible murder of
Miss Josie Longmaid.
A sad fate befell MI. and Mrs. Murray, a
newly-married couple, at Cheshire, CT, the
other day. The house in which they had taken
rooms was destroyed by fire, and they persisted
in the flames.
shocking domestic tragedy is reported from
Mercer Me. Greenleaf Tracy murdered the
divorced wife of Hiram Walton, who was living
with Tracy, but who had been pardoned and
returned to Walton, by shooting her with q
shotgun. He then fed to the woods and took
his own life. Cause, jealousy.
W. J. Anderson, until recently business
manager and Treasurer of the Hartford cot. }
Euening Post, has been discovered to be a
defaulter to the concern to the amount of
100000
The large dry goods house of Morgan Bros,
in Montreal, was entered by burglars, few
nights ago, and robbed of $4,000 worth of
goods.
sad havoc with the cattle of several counties
on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware
river.
The west.
Two brothers named Cartwright, who were
implicated in the murder Of the Sheriff of
Portage county, Wis, were taken from the Jail
at Stevens Point by party of about forty
1~oA faxx ;r,I%
Both of the victims were old men, aged re-
spectively so and 60 years.
Mrs. Rapp, of st. Paul, Mimi, for the muir
der of Ulrica Lick, has been sentenced to
the Penitentiary for life, twelve days of each
year to be passed in solitary confinement.
Her husband had already received similar
sentence, and her brother will be hung for
participation in the same crime.
It is reported that Gen. Crook, the great
Indian fighter, is preparing for an active win
ter campaign against the fractions savages of
the Upper Missouri.
Chicago elevators contain 800, 935 bushels of
wheat 1922, 524 bushels of corn; 346,975
bushels of oats ,361 bushels of rye, and
$50, 141 bushels of barley making grand total
of 2,541 9S6 bushels, against 2, 9OS, 1897 bushels
at this period last year.
Gen. Sol. Meredith, one of Indiana's most
prominent Generals during the late war, died
asst week, at Richmond, Ind, from cancer of
the stomach, caused from injuries received in
1862 at the battle of Gainesville Va, where
he was crushed beneath horse.
Denver, Col. is reveling in first-class
Gopsofiny1 yoao,1lo Of oifxy xr-oro bO,,.;
fed few days ago, at the discovery of the
mangled bodies of four persons in the cellar
of building, their Threats cut from ear to
ear. The bodies were those of an old italian,
his two sons and nephew, and they had evil
IDENTIFY been murdered some days. The whole
matter is involved in deep mystery.
The people of Williamson county, ILL.,, show
determination to make murder odious in that
locality. short time ago two assassins were
sentenced to long terms in the Penitentiary,
and now Marshall Grain, one of the worst out
laws in the county, has been sentenced to death
for the murder of VIM. Spence.
A young German, Fritz Kaiser, committed
suicide, in Chicago, the other day, by jumping
from the top of the water-works tower, dis
lance of 1877 feet.
Elmer Washburn, Chief of the United States
Detective Service Bureau, has succeeded in
breaking up formidable band of counterfeit
ers whose headquarters were at Centralia, H.
Six boxes of the queer were unearthed il the
woods near Centalia, aggregating some $780,
900 in fifty-cent fractional currency and SIS ma
tional bank notes. and $1,000 in $50 national
bank notes. The SIS notes were on the Traders
National Bank of Chicago First National Banks
of Peru and Aurora, and the Paxton and Canton
National Banks, of Illinois. Several of the
counterfeiters were arrested. They had been
living quiet life in Centralia, having excited
no attention or suspicion from the citizens.
A Chicago paper states that there are five
theaters in that city, but notes the fact, some
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