The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-01-13
NEWS or THE WEEK.
The East.

eturned from Canada and surrendered nimseH
the authorities.
Two murderers were hanged at Pittsburgh,
Pa. on the 9th inst-Fred Myers and VIM.
Murray. convicted Of the murder of Gottshardt
Wahl, q German farmer, near Allegheny CITY,
In November last.
John Stephenson & Co., the well-known car
builders of New York, have failed.
The bad little boy who has recently been
passing himself off at ST. Adams, Vt, for
Charley Ross, turns out, as was expected, to be
a bogus Charley. He vas taken to Milford,
N. H., the other day, where he was recognized
by his mother as Jimmy Blanchard. He is a
precocious young rascal, and will some day
get into the Penitentiary, or Congress, or some
other bad place.
Gov. Tilden refuses to pardon Stokes.
DR., Samuel G. Howe, an eminent scientist
and philanthropist, died at Boston last week,
sged rs years. DR.. Howe was the inventor OF
the alphabet of raised letters for the blind.
All the churches invited by Mrs. Moulton to
the Mutual Council have been heard from, and
all have accepted. The list is said to include
some of the most eminent clergymen in the de-
nomination.
The famous Singer will case mas been de-
cided in favor of Mrs. Isabella Energie Singer,
named in the bill propounded. The Judge
rules that she is the widow of the deceased,
and her children his legitimate offspring. The
application of Mrs. Mary Singer Miss Foster),
the second wife, who claimed that she was en-
titled TO a Widows dover, is denied. The
amount involved is between $50O0.OO0 and
$6,000 600.
The West.
A family of four children, colored, were
drowned in lake near ST. Joseph, Mo-, one
day last week, by the sinking of a skiff.
Gen. Babcock's trial has been set for Feb. 81,
at st. Louis.
A case involving the possession of 5000, 600,
is being argued in Che Federal Court at Jeffer-
son City, Mo.
United States Paymaster Spaulding, of
San Francisco, whose Chief Clerk Pinney, was
SO remarkably successful in defrauding the
Government, has been arrested and imprisoned
on Mare Island. It is supposed that suspicious
of completely in the Pinney populations have
led to the arrest of Paymaster Spaulding.
There is believed to be imminent danger of
an Indian outbreak at the Red Cloud Agency
in consequence of an insufficient supply of pro-
visions.
At Osborn, Mo-, few nights ago, burglars
broke into drug store, and stole quantity of
chloroform with which they drugged the whole
town. They went through both hotels, all the
stores, and many private residences. They
secured several thousand dollars and escaped.
Advices from the plains report an immense
herd of buffalo, so miles long, in the vicinity
of Cheyenne River Agency.
A rich deposit of gold has been struck in the
Centennial lode near Laramie City, Wyoming
Territory.
Timothy Kirby an old citizen of Cincinnati,
died last week, aged 81 years, leaving all estate
estimated at between $2.0OO,0OO and $3,000,-
OO0 Among the few heirs are Dom Piatt and
Congressman H. B. Banning.
Missouri boasts of eight murderers under
sentence of death.
Washington.
& Washington correspondent states that Con-
gresham Holman has prepared a programme
for reducing appropriation bills $40, 600, 900
over last year. He cuts public buildings down
$40, 100000, and allows no more to be started !;
abolishes the letter-carrier system in cities of
less than 80 600 inhabitants abolishes the Ma
rine Corps and closes up all the Navy Yards but
one or two cuts the army and navy down one
third to one-half, stops river and harbor inn
provements almost entirely reduces the sala-
ries of Postnnasters one-half.
George w. Ingalls,, Indian Agent at Mus
koqu, T. T., has been suspended by Secretary
Chandler.
Secretary Bristow gives it out that no COM
promise with the Chicago whisky thieves will
be tolerated.
Washington telegram says there is to be an
immediate concentration of our available naval
force at Port Royal, S. G.
An important bill has been introduced in the
House of Representatives by Mr.. McCrary of
Iowa, to reorganize the Judiciary of the United
States. The purpose of the measure is to facil-
itate the administration of justice in the Fed
eraI Courts. This is reform imperstiYely de-
xnanded. The business of the Supreme Court
is fully two years in arrears and is constantly
increasing. There are over 800 cases upon the
docketnow awaiting consideration. Mr.. McCrary
proposes plan by which the Circuit and Su-
preme Courts can be relieved without creating
new offices, and yet the right of appeal be pre-
served.
Representative Whitthorne, Chairman of the
louise Naval Committee, is said to be in favor
of the abolition of al the New England navy
yards, and the committee will probably report
bills looking to that end.
Speaker Kerr has appointed the following
committee to investigate the Rio Grande
troubles Schleicher, A. s. Williams (NIich. J
Lamar Banks and Hurlbut. The following is
the select committee on the Freedmen Bank
failure Douglass, Bradford, stenger, Riddle,
Hooker, Bliss, FarweI Frost and Rainey.
The following are the principal points of
AIr Mnrrison,s new financial bill. introduced