The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-02
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KENosHA. WISCONSIN.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.



He was the oldest son of John Jacob Astor,
who died in 1S48, and who left the bulk of
his immense fortune to him. The father ac-
cumulated his fortune in the fur business,
and the son has increased the portion left to
him by rentals from improved real estate in
New York city, The deceased owned 5000
houses in the city of New York, and his fortune
is estimated at $5O, 200, 900 to $75 600, 900. He
leaves two sons, who are in active business in
New York.
Another heavy New York tea house-that of
Bass & Clark-has gone to the wall.
Mrs. Charlotte Chew and her daughter Laura,
were burned to death al Camden, N. j., the
other day. by the explosion of kerosene
lamp.
A shocking murder is reported from Pitts
burgh. A woman employed in public hospital,
went into the room of lunatic named Hile, to
clean it. He seized and choked her until she
was insensible, and then drove the small end
of broomstick into her brain.
Plymouth Church has acceded to Mrs. Moul-
toms proposition to submit her complaints to
mutual council Of the Congregational churches
OF New YORK ana Brooklyn.
Another New York murderer has escaped the
hangman's moose by the insanity dodge. John
Scannell, for the murder of Thomas Donahue,
has just been tried the third time-the two
previous trials having resulted in disagree
ment of the jury-and acquitted on the ground
of insanity. The murder was cold-blooded
and premeditated one, and the presiding Judge
expressed much indignation at the verdict.
An immense rubber shoe factory at Maiden,
Mass, was burned last Monday. Loss, 5000,
OOO
The west.
There was stored in Chicago elevators on the
oath inst. /, 1851 bushels of wheat; 645, 819
bushels Of corn; 372 TIC bushels of oats; 1885, 997
bushels of rye, and 262, 481 bushels of barley,
making a grand total of 2, 547, $40 bushels,
against L, 832, 276 bushels at the same period
last year.
Barry Sullivan, the world-renowned TRACE
dian, commences an engagement at McVicker's
Theater, Chicago, Nov. 20. This is the first
time in nearly twenty years that this great
actor has visited the United States. The East
ern cities are lavish in their praise of his act
ing, particularly his renditions of Hamlet,
Richard Ill, and other Shakespearean char
acters.
An old man named Frederick Happel, living
near Fort Wayne, Ind, recently murdered his
wife by shooting her with a rifle. He then re-
loaded the weapon and ended his own life by
putting bullet through his head.
A youthful trapeze performer was fatally in
jured while performing in a Cleveland theater,
few days ago, 10y falling from the trapeze to
the stage.
Chicago was the scene of cold-blooded and
unprovoked murder on Thanksgiving. Day. The
victim was Mr.. Charles Whyland, one of the
best-known restaurateurs in the city, and one
of the proprietors of the st. Elmo Restaurant,
attached to Kuhn's Hotel. The murderer is a
notorious gambler named Henry Davis. There
is much indignation in Chicago over the das-
tardly deed, and there are threats of cleaning
out the whole gambling fraternity.
The schooner Sunshine has been wrecked on
the Oregon coast. She carried thirty passen-
gers and crew of ten, all of whom are proba-
bly, lost
The Black Hills are said to be full of miners,
who are working without interference, the
troops having been withdrawn.
The trouble with the Apache Indians at the
Gmarron Agency, New Mexico grows threat
ening. The savages, numbering $50 warriors,
have fed to the mountains, where they are
awaiting reinforcements from the hostile Utes.
It is feared that they viii attack the settle
nents, as they have often done heretofore.
The places of the striking coal miners, at
Carbon and Rock Springs, Wyoming, on the
Unioia Pacific Railroad, are being filed with
Cinnamon.
Another party of Russian Mennonites has ar
rived at Topeka, Kan. There are now about
5000 of these people along the line of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
The bark Florence has been wrecked on the
Pacific coast. Seven of the crew persisted.
The South.
Tony Nellum and Alice Harris, colored,
were hung at Monroe, La, on the Goth of No
vember for the murder of the latter's husband.
On the same day. at Sardis, Miss. Ben Edwards
and Oscar Freeman, also colored, were executed
for murder and robbery.
Washington.
Orders have been received at the Navy De-
partment for the fitting up Of five more IRON
clads This makes a total of twelve ironclads
which, within less than four weeks, have made
ready for active service.
The contested election cases in the House
will exceed in number those of any previous
session. Papers in fifteen cases have already
been filed. In one-that of the Fourth Massa-
chusetts District-the papers are so volumin-
GUS that the Election Committee can never
nope to read them ALL They weigh over half
ton, and it required six men to carry the box
containing them into the Capitol.
Gen. Benet, Chief of the Ordnance Bureau
in his annual report, urges an increase of the
annual appropriation for arming and equipping