The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-13
DOMESTIC NEWS.
East.


Abraham R. Jackson, once prominent,
wealthy and highly honored citizen of Boston,
has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment
in the penitentiary. Jackson will be remem-
bered as the man whose extensive forgeries
amounting to several thousand dollars caused
such sensation in the Hub some months ago.
In settling up the accounts of Patrick Dona-
hue, proprietor of the Boston Pilot, who re-
Gently went into bankruptcy, the discovery is
made that he is large defaulter to trust funds
given to his charge by friends, who had un-
limited confidence in his integrity.
Another legal victory has been won by
Beecher over bis assailants, his demurrer to
Houlton's suit for malicious prosecution having
been sustained by the Brooklyn court.
grille Dion and A. P. Rudolphe played a
match game of billiards in New York, the other
day, for the four-ball championship of America
and 81, 600. Score: Dion, 800 Rudolphe S94.
Three persons were killed and one fatally
injured by the explosion of a steam boiler at
Binghamton, N. Y, last week.
A. T. Stewart, the largest dry goods merchant
in America, if not in the world, died at his
pslatial residence in New York on the 10th inst.
Mr.. Stewart was native of Ireland, was seven
ty-three years old, and has resided in this
country since his youth. He leaves wife, but
no children, to inherit his colossal fortune, es-
tirnated all the way from twenty-five to sixty
millions Of dollars. His disease was affection
of the bladder, with which he had been afflicted
for several years.
A sister Of the famous guerrilla, Gen. John
Morgan, committed suicide in New York, last
week, by taking laudanum.
West.
A barge loaded with 10, 900 bushels of grain
sunk in the Missouri river, at Boonville, one
day last week. There we're ten color ed men
on board, six of whom we're drowned.
The application of W. o. Avery, one of the
convicted whisky conspirators, for new trial,
has been denied by the Federal court at st.
Louis.
The well-known firm of railroad contractors,
F. E. Canda & Co., of Chicago, have failed,
their liabilities are 1872, 900.
Dispatches from Salt Lake City, Utah, give
the particulars of tremendous explosion of
powder that occurred in the suburbs Of the
Mormon capital one day last week. On Arsenal
Fill was located four magazines in which were
stored vast amount of blasting powder. Two
bows were out cunning for ducks, and it is sup
posed fired into one of the magazines, causing
all of them to explode almost simultaneous and
with frightful effect. Allover the city windows
were shattered, doors blown from their hinges,
chimneys blown down, and many buildings
badly injured. For short time boulders and
pebbles rained thick and fast, creating the
widest CONSERVATION. Two persons in the
city were killed outright, and many injured
seriously. The two unlucky boys that caused
the explosion were blown to atoms. The hand
of one of them was found clutching duck,
which was probably winged by the fatal shot
that ignited the magazine.
The Northern Pacific railroad is about to bid
cor Black Hills travel, preparations being COM
pleted for opening and operating the road as
far into the Northwest as Bismarck, d. t., to
which point the track was finished two or three
years ago, but not stocked.
a monster anti Chinese mass meeting was
held at San Francisco one day last week. The
resolutions which were adopted set forth the
evils flowing from Chinese immigration, urging
that local measures of relief had been exhausted
and that the only resource remaining was an
appeal to the treaty-making power, and that a
delegation should be sent to Washington to
present the question in full and urge imme-
date action.
A double tragedy of unusual horror is re-
ported from st. Louis. W. W. Jilz, the pro-
,rietor of q patent anger for well-boring,
which has been advertised very extensively,
am from which he has realized large for