The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-05-24
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE
East.
The Governor of Massachusetts has vetoed
all the liquor legislation of the present Legisla-
trre of his State, and the laws regulating the
traffic remain without change.
The Pennsylvania coal combination has de-
cided to suspend mining operations during
June and July.
Clinton Mills, a lumber village in Clinton
county, N. Y, was burned last week. ALI the
mills and nearly every house in the town was
laid in ashes. Six hundred poor people are
rendered homeless by the calamity. The loss
is estimated at $4,000 900.
President Hayes gave a reception at the City
Hall, in New York, on the occasion of his visit
to that city last week, and accomplished mar
velous feat in Misunderstanding. The procession
was kept moving so rapidly that the President
shook on an average forty hands minute ;
5000 were thus greeted in the space of an hour
and a quarter.
The house of Mr.. and Mrs Frank Dunnigal, of
Cortland county, N. Y, was burned few days
| ago, and their five children, the eldest Of whom
was years old, persisted in the flames
We have startling details of the ravages of
the forest fires in Northeastern New York, Yer
mont, New Hampshire and the adjacent re-
gions. The loss of village, farm manufacture
ing and other property is terrible in extent.
People have had to fee for their lives from the
various scenes of devastation, and it is thought
that many have persisted in the forest hamlets.
A dispatch from Vineyard Haven, Mass. says
the steam-collier Harrisburg collided with the
schooner Marietta Iilton, off Cross Rip, sink
ing the latter in few minutes. Capt. Worth
and wife, and the mate, cook, and two seamen
were drowned. Two seamen were saved.
Ex-Gov. Kent, of Maine, is dead. He had
reached the ripe age Of Is years.
The New York Tribune says that g from in
formation obtained, it has reason to believe that
the Russian feet, which recently sailed from
that port, is now keeping strict watch along the
coast for the purpose of intercepting vessels
having munitions of war on board for Turkey"
West.
The Governor of Utah has called upon the
President for considerable augmentation of
the military force in that Territory.
Hon. Charles Fl. Bryan, ex-Judge of the SUI
preme Court of California, died the other day
in Carson, New, while at dinner, a piece of
meat stranging him.
Ten houses were destroyed by tornado at
Fulton, Mo-, one day last week. One man was
killed and several seriously injured.
Charles Fl. Blackburn, prominent Cincin-
natl lawyer, has mysteriously disappeared.
Pecuniary troubles.
The Illinois Legislature has passed law
making silver legal tender for the payment of
all debts, public and private. similar law has
also been adopted in Ohio.
The Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury at
Washington recommends that all the suits
against Jacob Rehm, of Chicago, for violations
Of the Revenue law, be stopped, as it seems to
be well settled that he was promised immunity
from further prosecution by the authorities.
William Skaggs and John B. Adcock, of Tus-
cumbia, Mo-, recently fought duel with bowie
knives, in which Skaggs was disemboweIed an
killed, and Adcock mortally wounded.
The rectfying house of B. M. Ford, Oliver &
Co., of Chicago. has been seized by the revenue
officers.
The steamer J. D. Cameron, bound for the
Yellowstone river with a load of Government
stores, was lately sunk in the Missouri river,
forty miles below Sioux City. The losses will
aggregate $4,000.
Mrs. Donovan, of Cleveland, Ohio, took her
two babes to the river, and, with one under
each arm, deliberately jumped into the water
all three drowning before assistance could reach |
them. Cause, domestic troubles.
The champion bigamist lives in Hannibal, |
Mo. Rev. J. Foster is his name, and he was |
until recently pastorof Congregational church |
in that city. It is asserted that he has five liv
ing wives, from none of whom he has been |
divorced. Foster acknowledges to three wives, |
but claims to have been legally divorced from
all of them. He has been bounced from the |
church by the indignant congregation who
naturally feel greatly scandalzed at the con-
duet of their pastor.
south.
Miss Cornela Chisolm, wounded In the KEN
per county Miss affray, died of gangrene of |