The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-01-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

OnSIaus 1T ag8lnSt fhe cOnOILS Oh VIC DelnoA
Rum. The temperance reformers are holding
meetings all over the State and the enforce
ment of the Liquor law is prosecuted with ey-
traordinary vigor.
Moody and Sankey lave closed their Phila
delphia campaign, and will now, after little
rest. pitch their tent in New York city.
The town of Apollo, Pa, has been almost en-
tirely destroyed by fire. Forty houses, includ-
ing number of stores, were burned The
loss is estimated at $40 900 to $4,000 The
fire started by the explosion of kerosene
lamp.
A fresh contribution to the Brooklyn scan
dial is made by the New York San, which pub
fishes what purports to be some recently-dis-
cover ed testimony. The statement is that, on
Dec. Ii, 1870, two weeks before Frank Moulton
knew and confronted Mr.. Beecher with the
charge, Prof Moses Colt Tyler, now of the
Michigan University, was by Oliver johnson
informed that Mr.. Tilton had discovered the
crime between his wife and her pastor. Prof.
Tyler is said to have made known this fact,
and others corroborative in character, when
visiting New York on the I'd of January, 1876,
and to have intended to repeat them before
the mutual Council if that body had not failed
to exist.
The New York Mercury is authority for the
statement that body Of representative Con-
gregationalists is about to be organized for the
purpose of investigating the Beecher scandal
unhampered by any side issues. 1t is stated
that this council will take the testimony of
every one having any knowledge of the al
legged scandal including Susan 3. Anthony,
Henry G. Bowen, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
others, and will do all in their power to probe
the matter to the bottom, whether it end in the
vindication or condemnation of the Plymouth
pastor.
The magnificent residence of James Inger-
soil, the chairmaker of the Tweed ring, near
South Norwalk, CT, was burned last week.
The loss is 500, 900; the insurance $4,000.
The West.
The man Davis, who murdered the landlord
Whyland, on Thanksgiving Day, in Chicago,
was arraigned in the Criminal Court of that
city last week. He plead guilty to the charge
of manslaughter and was sentenced to twenty
one years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The war on the revenue robbers has been
reopened with vigor at st. Louis. Arthur
Gunther, ex-Revenue Agent, has been con-
victed of accepting brides while in Office. It is
expected that other convictions will rapidly
follow.
The Iowa State horticultural Society met at
Des Moines last week, and exhibited the finest
display of apples ever seen in the West, there
being 275 varieties. Prof. McAfee exhibited
100 varieties of Iowa wood, and Prof. Fox
eleven cases of Iowa geological specimens.
Two hundred and fifty varieties of apples were
prepared in wax for the Centennial, and Iowa
will be first on the ground.
The Supreme Court of Michigan has decided
that the Sunday Liquor law enacted at the last
session of the Legislature is constitutional.
Henry G. Kibbe Secretary of several mining
companies, has absconded from San Francisco
defaulter to the amount of 100000
The Minnesota Legislature has adopted a
resolution approving of the proposed transfer
of the Indian Bureau to the War Department
switch should not be trammeled in its action
by any of those sectarian or humanitarian in
fuences which have recently been recognized
by the Government to the prejudice of the
frontier settlements and of the country"
A letter from Maj. Harper, of the Sixth Cav
airy, at Camp Apache, Arizona says the Indi.
ans broke out at Camp Apache on the 18th inst,
and Maj. Harper and his company were or
dered out just in time to save the lives of Mai.
Ogilby, of the Eighth Infantry, and Lieut.. Bal
ley. The troops charged the Indians, killing
Diablo's brother, and wounding others. The
Indians then attacked the garrison, but were
driven back to the hills.
A mob of disguised men recently destroyed
he Office of the Meas ana Press at Cimarron,
New Mexico, and threw the type and material
nto the river
The Southern Car Company, of Jeffersonville,
Ind, has joined the innumerable caravan OF
bankrupts. The liabilities amount to the trife
of half million dollars.
William Harlan, the only son of ex-senator
Harlan, of Iowa. died few days ago at San
Francisco whittier he had gone in search OF
health. He was "a years old.
Boyd, the netorious counterfeiter, has been
tried e.cd convicted in the United States Dis
riot Court at Chicago.
The Minnesota Legislature has voted $40, 00C
for the Centennial.
The trial of William Mckee, the journalistic
member of the st. Louis whisky ring began
in that city last week. 1t excites more interest
there than any of the previous trials.
Indiana has 667, 1853 children of school age,
of whom, according to the census just published
only 1922 are illiterates The State has snug
little school fund, stated at So, 799 1e1 and he1
school property is valued at $40, $40, 33S.
The South.
A FIRE st Nashville Tenn, last week. de
stroyed FIVE stores involving loss Of SIS, 900.
White and Bliss the evangelists have COM
menced revival in St. Louis.