The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-04-26

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William M Tweed has at last "laid down"
on his pals, and given to the world
free revelation of the operations of
the band of thieves, of which he was
the head that so numerically plundered the
city of New York. The confession goes back as
far as 1867, when the ring first began to assume
form. 1t gives in detail the story of various
conferences between the writer, Peter
B. Sweeney, Richard Connolly, Henry
Genet, A. Oakley Hall, and others, by
which Tweed was elected to the State
Senate, Connolly Comptroller in 1867, and Hall
Mayor. Jan. 1, 1869, Tweed, according to the
story, transferred to State Senator Winslow in
person 5000, 900 to secure the charter of 1870,
which gave to the ring the control of the city
through the support of several influential Re-
publican members of the Legislature. The
confession gives the circumstances of the
division of the spoils between himself,
Sweeney, Hall, Connolly, and Woodward.
1t duplicates Garvey, Ingersoll, Da-
wilson, Watson, and majority of the
Board of Supervisors. Mayor Halls proportion
was 10 per cent He shared throughout in all the
profits. He was in full collision with the fraud
in its various details, and was fully aware of
the fraudulent nature of the contracts presented
for his signature. Hugh Hastings, editor of
the Commercial Advertiser, is credited
by Tweed with having received
a snug amount of the swag. He also mentions
George III. Purser, of New York. as a person to
whom he paid money. The confession con-
cludes with promise that the writer will be
witness for the city in any suit brought by the
city for the recovery of moneys from any of
the persons mentioned
John B. Young, of Cincinnati, met his death
in shocking manner, in New York, the other
day. While visiting lawyers office on Broad
way, he fell from front window out Of which
he had been looking. In falling he struck an
iron gas-lamp fixture, upon which he was i'm
paled the sharp iron passing through his abdo-
men and appearing at his back.
William M. Tweed refuses absolutely to
testify before the New York Legislative COM
mittee appointed to investigate the charges of
bribery against Senator Woodin.
A Tobacco Board of Trade has been formed
in New York
Two wood-choppers' cabins in the noun
tains near White Haven, Pa, were washe
away few nights ago by sudden flood, and
six laborers drowned.
West.
Chicago elevators contain 2,84O, 849 bushels
of wheat 3,617, 889 bushels of corn ; 645, AS
bushels of oats; 1876, $40 bushels of rye. and
tai of 1856, 1893 bushels, against 5572, 1878 BUSH
els for the corresponding period last year.
Advices from the far West report more
Apache outrages in Southeastern Arizona
There is much dissatisfaction in Arizona at
the renewal of Gov. Stafford.
J. FL. Hildreth, convicted and pardoned
member of the Chicago whisky ring, was lately
elected to the Common Council of that CITY,
That body, however, chooses to exercise some
discretion touching the choosing of it's COM
pany, and has just decided, by vote of % to
4, to close its doors against the self confessed
thief
Miss Emma Smith, of Peoria, has been ap-
pointed Assistant Entomologist for the State of
Illinois.
Another Of those horrible gallows scenes
which have become disgrace to the
machinery of justice in this country
was presented at the hanging of a
murderer named Sterling, at Youngstown,
Ohio, last week. The moose slipped under the
culprit's chin, and failed to break his neck.
After few moments of silence, he began to
clap his hands, kick his feet, and moan most
pitifully. The sight was horrid one, sicken-
ing in the extreme For at least two minutes
these motions and groans we're kept up, and it
was thirteen minutes before he was pronounced
dead. While this scene of horror was trans
piring on the scaffold, his attorney was being
carried into the Jail, where he fell upon bed
and wept in most piteous manner. 1t took
three men to control him. Every few seconds
he exclaimed: "He dead he dead !"
Omaha, Neb. was visited last week by the
most destructive confagration that has oc-
CURED in the city for ten years. A number of
stores were burned. The loss is estimated at
quarter of million dollars.
A large number of Cheyenne Indians came
In and surrendered to Gen. Crook. at Red Cloud
Agency, last week.
1t turns out that the pretended confession of
Tweed, printed in the New York papers, was
no confession at ALL but fabrication manufact-
tured in the Office of the World out of rumors
picked up on the street.
A late Washington telegram says: Senator
Paddock, of Nebraska, who has forwarded a