The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-03
DOMESTIC NEWS.
East.

The managers of the Philadelphia Exposition
are curtailing their force of employees in order
to reduce expenses. The average daily re-
ceipts, since the opening of the show, have
been $12,2 85, while the expenditures have av-
eraged about So, 600
James Nolan's shoddy mill, in Philadelphia
was burned last week. Two women jumped
from a third-story window to escape the flames,
and we're instantly killed. Another one was
frightfully burned, and will probably die.
jaw Cooke & Co. have been discharged from
bankruptcy by Judge Cadwallader, of the
United States District Court, at Philadelphia.
West.
dispatch from La Crosse, Wis, to the Chi
cSgo Tribune says: ''The most discouraglng
reports regarding the condition of the growing
crops continue to come to us from North
ern Iowa. Southern Minnesota, and North
western Wisconsin. Wheat in some localities
is reported as total failure, while the best re-
port as fair. Barley and oats are good crop.
Corn is fair.
The death of L. P. Richardson, cores
pendent of the Springfield (Iass.) Republican,
is announced from Cheyenne. The body was
found about 100 miles north of Fort Laramie,
scalped and riddled with bullets.
policeman. named Koenig was shot and
killed by burglars whom he was attempting to
arrest in Chicago a few days ago.
The extensive steel works which have been
in process of erection by the Vulcan Iron Works
Company for some time past at South st. Louis
Lot T1,o1o Hc orc
for the exclusive manufacture of Bessemer steel
rails, are the largest in the country, cost some
5000, 900, and have large orders to fill.
We learn from the ST. Paul Pioneer that the
grasshoppers are causing terrible devastation
in the northwestern, western and southwestern
borders of Minnesota The Pioneer says:
s'The greater part of the region west of and
including Jackson county to Eastern Dakota,
and south through Northwestern Iowa. is COW
cred with the devo1ring hosts, and our reports
indicate that the entire crops Of the region are
being swept away, and that many of the dis
couraged settlers are temporarily leaving. We
record the sad. fact as matter of news, which
it would be useless folly to attempt to con-
ceaI. for it might as well be understood now
that the Northwestern States have got to fight
these grasshoppers to the death, and to get rid
of them at any cost, or they will make desert
of the whole region west of Lake Michigan
before many years"
Capt. j. S. Poland of the Sixth Infantry, has
forwarded to Gen. Ruggles, from Standing
Rock Agency, very interesting account of
Clusters last fight, as told by some Sioux In
dams who were IN the battle. Their account
is as follows: The hostiles were celebrating
their greatest of religious festivals, the sun
dance, when runners brought news of the ap-
proach of cavalry. The dance was suspended,
and general rush followed, mistaken by Gus
ter perhaps for retreat, for the horses, equip
ments, and arms Maj. Reno first attacked the
village at the south end and across the Little
Big Horn. Their narrative of Reno's operations
comedies with the published account. How he
was quickly confronted and surrounded show ne
dismounted, rallied in the timber. remounted,
and cut his way back over the ford and UP the
bluffs with considerable loss, and the continue
ton of the fight for some little time, when
runners arrived from the north end of the
village or camp with the news that the cavalry
had attacked the north end, some three or four
miles distant. TIE Indians about Reno had
not before this the slightest intimation OF
fighting at any other point. force large
enough to prevent Reno from assuming the
offensive was left, and the surplus available