The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-01
DOMESTIC NEWS.
East.


Thomas W. Piper, the Boston fend who
murdered the little girl Mabel Young, was
hung on the Goth of May. On the same day
Samuel J. Frost was hanged at Worcester
Mass, for the murder of his brother-in-law in
July, 1875 horrible incident attended the
latter execution. In arranging for the strang-
ulation of the murderer so great fall was
allowed to the body that the criminals head
was torn from his body.
Director Gen. Goshorn gives official notice
that no goods will be received for exhibition
at the Centennial after June Is, except under
extraordinary circumstances.
West.
Chicago elevators, as per official returns
contain 1,436, 210 bushels of wheat 500, 207
bushels of corn +; 273, 587 bushels of oats
81, 1O8 bushels of rye, and 1873. $50 bushels of
barley, making grand total of 2, 49, 51 BUSH
els, against 8,547,832 bushels at this period
last year.
The Jury in the case of ex-Revenue Super
visor Mum, on trial at Chicago last week. rem
dered verdict of not guilty, after an absence
two hours.
Late letters from the Black Hills report that
the whole region is swarming with Indians.
Five men have been slain and scalped two or
three miles from Custer, while out of forty
two persons lately prospecting at Deadwood
twenty-seven have been murdered. There is
plenty of gold, some of the writer's say, in par
ticular sections, but the evident determination
of the Sioux that nobody shall live to carry any
of it away somewhat discourages the miners,
and hundreds of them are holding on to their
hair and moving out of the timber as rapidly as
possible.
Dubufes great painting, ''The Prodigal
Son." was destroyed by fire at Cincinnati q
lew days ago. This work of art had perhaps
received greater and more fattering popular
attention than any other picture ever sent to
America. It was valued at $4,000 and in
sured for $4,000.
Intelligence has reached Lincoln, Neb., that
company of adventurers from Cincinnati
were recently attacked by Indians near Custer
City, in the Black Hills, and eleven out of
twenty-five killed. They were sons of wealthy
Cincinnatians, and went on the trip more for
frolc and to see the country than anything
else.
G. N. D. Bloss, one of the editors Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, was recently run over by
train of cars and instantly killed while walk
ing along the track Of the Little Miami rail-
road near Cincinnati. Mr.. Bloss had been
connected with the Enquirer for over twenty
years.
Latest advices of Wyoming Territory indicate
that the Sioux Indians are ON the War-path and
that Gen. Crook, with a considerable force, has
left Fort Fetterman to pursue and give them
battle
The recent heavy shrinkage in provisions has
caused the failure of several Chicago firms.
South.
The New Orleans Picdyone says: ''There
were twenty-nine negroes killed in Wilkinson
county, Miss, during the recent disturbance
there"
A fire at Galveston, Texas, last week, de-
stroyed 100000 worth of property.
a New Orleans telegram says: Northern
papers contain Washington specials asserting
that President Grant administered fitting re-
buke to Gov. Kellogg, and stated that he was
tired of being annoyed with Louisiana affairs.
Gov. Kellogg states that these reports sre in
correct, that he received from the President
every assurance that he could reasonably ask
that the peace would be preserved in Louisiana,
and lawlessness suppressed"
W. P. Walsh, Postmaster at Hot Springs
Ark, recently shot and killed John G. Hall, a
well known citizen of the town, and son-in-
law of Gov. Brownlow, of Tennessee.