The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-11-16

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The work on tho great East river suspension
bridge at New York is to be prosecuted through
the winter, except when the gales are 80 strong
as to make it unsafe, and it is hoped that by
spring the work will be ready for the main
cables that are to suspend the structure foot
bridge wire-rope was raised and anchored
lately it is 8, 700 feet long and ~ inches III
diameter ALI the ropes and cables thus far
thrown across are only preparations for the
suspension of the great cables in the spring.
A Brooklyn court has decided to grant the
motion of the defendant in the case of Moul-
ton vs Beecher, to change the venue to 8
northern county, and Delaware county will be
selected, unless good reason for not doing 30
is given.
The suit of Mr. Francis D. Moulton against
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, for malicious prose-
cution, in which damages were laid at $5O, 600,
has been discontinued, owing to the change of
venue to Delaware county. ss11 .,.s !.
ae1H .sHoifa2 West eod
An attempt was made, one evening lately, to
perpetrate one of the most infamous outrages
which the mind Of man can conceive of-that
of stealing the bones and ashes OF Abraham
Lincoln. The scheme was frustrated, through
Mr.. J. C.. Power, custodian of the Lincoln
monument becoming convinced, In some
manner, Chat there were designs upon
the remains. He communicated his
suspicious to Leonard - SWEET and
Robert Lincoln, who ordered guard to be set
at the cemetery. Elmer Washburn, late Chief
LoI
Tyrrell, and three other men were stationed In
lakewood cemetery on the might in question.
The vandaIs were not arrested, but strong
2 hopes are entertained OF their capture. Ran
som is the only conceivable reason for the act.
.' The fall OF one of the piers Of the bridge, at
Louisiana, No., recently, is calculated to give
travellers a chill OF horrible apprehension
whenever they may happen to approach one
OF those complicated scientific structures, rail-
road bridges of the modern type. The pier III
question was undermined by the current, and
went down with crash without . note OF
warning. taking two long spans. of the bridge
with il. By almost miracle of good
luck, there was no one on the falling section
attne time, and the only loss occasioned by
the casualty was that of the property itself,
some 100000. f3.u maa' oAaT3l eI9if0
a railway accident occurred on the Hannibal
and St Joe railroad, at q point about q, mile
this side Of Brookfeld, Mo-, one morning last
week, by which fourteen passengers were in
jured, three or four of them seriously. - r.
A new stock board, to be called the Nevada
Stock and Exchange Board, is being organ
lied at san Francisco CAL 1t will be devoted
mainly to dealings in Government bonds,
bank stocks, State and county securities, gas
10 and water stocks, and, lastly, mining stocks
u brGen. Terry has ordered b200 ponies and
mules taken from the Missouri river Sioux, te
be sold the proceeds to be invested In COWS
and hogs for the Indians. He expects to cap
ture 1850 more from q camp about twenty
miles out from Standing Rock. A few ponies
were left with the old men, but the young. In.
dams were all diemounted. o.