The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-11-30
DOMESTIC NEWS.
East

A Joint resolution has passed the Vermont
House of Representatives to instruct Congress
men to use their influence to secure the per-
1nanent resumption of specie payment as early
as January, 1879.
By the sinking Of a coal barge in Boston har-
Dor, recently, seventeen persons sre believed
to have been drowned.
At last that long-expected guest of the au-
thorities of New York, William M. Tweed, has
arrived. he is once more quartered in Lud-
low street jail, New York city, but has to be
contented with palmer and more secure cell
than the one occupied by him before.
The extensive enameled-cloth factory Of
Atha & Hughes, on Sussex avenue, in Newark,
N. J., was destroyed by fire recently. The loss
is between $50, 900 and $75, 1000. Partially in
sured. sra a
West.
mail-coach was stopped one day last week,
ten miles north of Las Vegas, N. NJ, by four
masked me n, who, being well armed compelled
the driver and messenger to alight. They
took from the mail pouches and express boxes
everything of value, except some silver bricks,
which they said were too heavy" They also
cut the telegraph line. No clue to the robbers
has been obtained. ff a;4s
The Board of Indian Commissioners, con-
sisting of Gen. o. o. Howard, Hon. W. Stick
ney, A. E. Barstow, d. II. Jerome and Col.
Wood, appointed by the Government to confer
with the Nez Perces, with view to an adjust
ment of the existing difficulties relative to the
possession of Willows valley, have returned
to Fort Lapwai. The Commissioners held a
four days conference with the Chief Joseph
with regard to the question as to whether
settlers or Indians are entitled to possess the
valley. Good feeling and harmony character
lied the conference, and it is thought the
question in dispute will be auicably settled.
The Christian Convention Of the Northwest
held convention in Chicago last week. Many
prominent eYangeists were present, and great
interest was manifested. -.,l.t
Sheriff Groom, of Clay county, Mo-, one
night last week made descent on the notori-
GUS James boys, the much-feared bandits. at
their home, near Kearney, with a posse, but
as usual the desperadoes proved too much for
the officers. Groom and one of his men fired
at the brothers, but the weapons failed to obey
and they escaped.
The two counterfeiters, Lang and Boland
who were arrested in Richmond, Ind, few
days sgo, for passing counterfeit money, were
taken to Indianapolis, one day last week, by
a Deputy Marshal and Detective Rathburn,
Of the secret service. The latter identi-
fed Lang as the notorious Pete
Mccartney, aud Boland as Walters
alias Walter Scott, against whom an indict-
ment is pending in Cincinnati, he having
jumped bail in the gum of $1,000, which
Mccartney had put up for him. Rathburn
went before the Grand Jury, at Indianapolis,
and had them presented jointly on four in
Gictments. They we're arraigned on one OF
the indictments and pleaded guilty. Sentence
was deferred. taslm@
A Winnipeg dispatch says there has been a
serious outbreak Of smallpox in the Ginh
settlement of Icelanders on Lake Winnipeg,
and twenty deaths have occurred in ten days.
DR.. Lynch, physician sent out by Lieut.. Coy.
Morris, has eighty eases on his hands. He
telegraphs that of twenty Indians at Sandy Bar
only two survive. The Lieutenant Governor
has issued proclamation warning people from
enforce it. ara.Ii3te
2 Private advices received at San Francisco
render it probable that the revolution in
Lower California is the beginning of an in
surrectionary movement in favor Of Porfrio
Diaz. There are scarcely any Government
troops there to oppose the revolutionists.
! The clearings of the Chicago banks for last
week. foot up lof $21, OS3, O35.71, being
about 1892, 000less than for the COR
responding week of year ago. ssat 4.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota yesterday
affirmed the constitLtionality OF Law, passed
In 1873, requiring each liquor dealer in the
State to pay $40 annually for the establishment
and maintenance of State asylum for inebri-
ates. Grounds for the asylum were long since
located st the city Of Rochester, and this de-
cision of the Supreme Court removes the last
remaining obstacle to the early erection of the
necessary buildings. a.1f S, s. iads i
In q fire in row Of small frame buildings
On West Madison street, Chicago one morning
recently, four persons peri1hed, two men and
two women. A Peoria dispatch states that tive
children persisted in q burning house near
Kickspoo, H., the same day, during the alb
sence OF their parents. ss -.
NJ s4iG @at5 South. 84G 20 tR33s
The Virginia Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, in session at Rich
mond. Va, last week, unanimously approved
Of the results Of the meeting between the
Commissioners of the Methodist Episcopal
Church North and the Episcopal Church
South. held at Cape May lest August. and re-
solved that 1--WE regard the action Of the
commission as authoritative and q final settle