The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-06-14
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

DOMESTIC 4NXELL1GENCE
East.
The whole country in the vicinity of New
York city is swarming with seventeen-year
locusts.
Barnum's reward of 5000 for the recovery
of Charley Ross has stimulated the search for
him, and the Philadelphia Times reports a
strong probability that it will result in his
restoration by the LIST of july the third ami
versary of his disappearance. It is said that
the boy has been kept all the time in Western
Pennsylvania.
A five-story building, occupied by eight fami-
lies. was destroyed by fire in Boston few nights
ago. The building had but one narrow exit
and was unprovided with a fire escape, and it
was with the utmost difficulty the occupants
escaped. Two Of them jumped from the upper
stories and were killed, and several more were
badly injured in their efforts to escape.
The city of Bridgeport Ct, has been the
scene of a terrible disaster. During..the prog
ress of a fire in Glover, Sanford & Sons large
hat factory, a fve-story brick structure, and
while number of persons who had volunteered
their services were engaged in removing the
goods of the firm the walls suddenly gave way
with crash and buried twelve human beings
beneath the ruins. Only one escaped alive, the
remaining eleven being killed outright, and
their bodies crushed and bruised in shocking
manner The pecuniary loss is estimated at
$3.50, 600, upon which there is an insurance of
$15O,0OO.
| Lydia Sherman, the Connecticut Borgia, who
recently escaped from the Penitentiary at
Wethersfeld, has been caught and reincar-
cerated in her old cell. She has been guilty,
by her own confession, of poisoning nine per-
sons, and is in prison for life.
West.
| Avery Moore. Of Chicago, an ex-Supervisor
and hitherto held in high repute, has proved a
defaulter to the amount Of $4,000, and has
jumped the town.
| A school has been organized IN Chicago for
the education of ambitious young ladies to the
profession Of journalism.
| The Illinois Legislature, at its late session,
appropriated over So, 600, 900 for the support of
its State charities during the coming two years.
| The Legislature Of Illinois, at it's recent
session, passed an act, which has been ap-
proved by the Governor and will become law
July /, providing for the establishment of a
| State Board of Health. It is to consist of
seven members, each to hold office seven
years. except that one of the first seven is to
go out of Office on December 80 of each year
succeeding their appointment. This board is
to prescribe regulations for keeping the
records of marriages, births and deaths in each
county, and examine the persons applying for
State permissions to heal the sick Or take care
of the afflicted
| The band of miscreants who recently ran a
train off the track Of the st. Louis and San
Francisco railroad, at Woodend Station, Mo-,
have been captured, and one Of them, an ex-
convict, has made full confession. The in
tention was to un the entire train off the track,
and then, under the guise of assisting the
wounded rob the passengers and plumber the
train. All the parties concerned in the affair
live near the scene of their fiendish work.
Mount Carmel H., which was recently dew
oStdlSu ny u GO1LcUO SSAAS 1OlbA CiI0 lOAOW-
ing appeal for aid The calamity which has
befallen this city has not been overrated by
letter-writers to the papers of the metropolitan
cities. Fourteen blocks of beautiful homes
and business houses are in ruins, hundred
families houseless and helpless, a score dead,
over seventy badly hurt in a population of
$500. A loss not less than $4,000 is too
heavy load for this heart stricken people to
carry alone, and help must come from the
country at large. Any aid from cities or towns
that may be sent to R. S. Gordon, Mayor, or
Judge T. J. Shannon, of the clearinghouse of
Shannon & Beal, Chairman of the Relief Com
mittee, viii be wisely and faithfully appro-
priated toward those who are worthy and
needy"
Unusual heat has been prevailing throughout
California, the thermometer, at various points,
ranging from 100 to lis.
south.
disastrous confagratlon visited Galveston,
Texas, last week, reducing to ashes three
squares in the business part of the city. Two
hotels, two banks, a large number Of mercan-
tile establishments, and several dwellings, were