The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

petrated upon the National Bank OF North
ampton. Mass. The residence Of the cashier
was entered by masked burglars at midnight
who took from him the keys OF the vault They
then repaired to the bank and helped them
selves to 1910, 900. OF course, much of this is
not negotiable, so that it is difficult to esti-
mate the real loss to the bank and depositors.
The bank officers offer reward of $4,000 for
the return Of the property and the conviction
of the burglars. The loss falls comparatively
light upon the bank, the greater part of the
securities belonging to special depositors.
Jonathan Earle, Treasurer of the
Norfolk and New Brunswick Hosiery Com
pany, Of New Brunswick, n. j., is de-
faulter to the amount of $4,000. He has
turned over all his property. Wall street spec
ulations led to his downfall.
It has been ascertained that E. d. WinsloW,
the Boston publisher, who recently robbed his
friends of large sums by means of forged
checks, sailed from New York for Rotterdam,
Holland, with which country we have no extra
dition treaty.
Later accounts of the Northampton Mass
bank robbery are to the effect that the total
amount of funds taken is at least 81, 900, 900,
the half of which is negotiable.
-Four men, while filing a lime kiln at Colum-
bi a, Pa, one day last week, were overcome by
gas and fell into the pit. Only enc was res
cued alive.
Among the failures reported from the East
are Pforsheimer, Dreyfres & Keller, jewelers.
of New York, liabilities, $t14,00O; John Fl.
Jockey, of Leominster, Mass, liabilities, $93,
900 and Patrick Donahue, Boston book
seller, liabilities. $1,000
The village of Greenpoint a suburb of Brook
Ign, is agitated by murder of unusual atrocity.
A man named Simmons, hammersmith in a
steel foundry, disappeared suddenly and mys-
teriously. The next day the head of the miss
man was found in ship-yard, wrapped up
a newspaper. Detectives arrested man
named Kretz, at whose house Simmons had
been visiting. They found in the house
trunk locked and nailed together SO tightly
that it was opened with great difficulty.
In this they found packed the arms and legs of
the murdered victim, and in a boiler they
found the trunk of the body, skinned and cut
up The entrails had been removed and quick
lime put inside SO as to cause speedy decom-
position. Kretz then confessed to the murder,
and said he had done it because he had found
the victim in criminal intercourse with his wife.
Mrs. Kretz however, denies this, and says that
her husband committed the horrible crime for
the purpose of robbery; that he first stupefed
his victim with liquor and then chopped his
head off with Ratchet
The residence of David W. Slidmore, near
Deer Park, Long Island n Y, was destroyed
by fire last night and all the occupants-Mr
Skidmore, Fleetweeks, an old man who had
lived with Skidmore many years, Mrs. Titus,
the housekeeper, and her hEsband-were
burned to death.
The West.
The National Poultry Association has just
closed most successful exhibition at the Ex-
position building in Chicago. The display of
fancy poultry and fancy dogs is said to have
been the finest ever Witnessed in the country.
non-sectarian school bill is pending in the
Iowa Legislature.
A letter received at Helena. Mont, from
Fort Pease, on the Yellowstone River, says
Sitting Bulls band of Sioux had attacked a
party near Fort Pease, killing one man and
wounding five Others. Eight horses were also
killed. Another party of nine men were cut
off from the fort by Indians who numbered
several hundred. 1t was feared that the en-
tire garrison would be massacred unless speed
ly assisted.
There is fresh outbreak Of the Black Hills
gold fever at Bismarck and other frontier
towns.
j. Esaias Warren, one of the largest real
estate operators in Chicago, has gone into
bankruptcy
The Federal Grand Jury at Chicago has re-
turned several more indictments against the
whisky conspirators. Among the indicted are
Anthony G. Hesing, of the Stats Zeitung,
and Jacob Rehm, late Chief of Police.
The Ohio Legislature has repealed the cele-
brated Gegtan law. about which there was so
much agitation last summer.
Ohio proposes, through the Legislature, to
make habitual drunkenness for one year good
ground for divorce.
Another boy. supposed to be Charley Ross
has turned up at Tifin, Ohio.
Much damage has been caused along the
pOruerS OF Cne Onlo h1Ver py the recent neaVy
food in that stream.
The trial of William Mckee, senior proprietor
of the st. Louis Globe Democrat, on the charge
of completely in the enormous whisky frauds,
has resulted in his conviction. The result was
wholly unexpected by Mckee and his friends,
who had calculated confidently upon a verdict
of acquittal.
Four notorious desperadoes and dealers in
illicit horse-fesh, named Cox, Hutchinson, and
Jack and Ed. Connaughty were recently hung
by vigilants in Brooks County, Kaneas.
Washing .on.
Two hundred and six new bills were intro
duced in the House last Monday.
The House Judiciary Committee have pre-
pared bill allowing pers ons to testify in their
.orrn hehalf in criminal cnsea