The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-01-18

ings caused the contest to take place in
Maryland, though the intention was to
have it in Delaware. Bennett left
New York Sunday evening, accom-
panied by s. H. Robbins, DIR. Charles
Phelps, Louis Lorillard, Carroll Livingstone,
and servant. Lorillard and Livingstone
stopped at the Continental at Phi ladelphia. The
others went on to Wilmington. Here tickets
were bought for Easton, Pa, but the party
left the train at Maryden and started across
the country on foot in this direction of the
Delaware State line, as they supposed. They
were joined at Marydell by May and his second,
DIR. Frederick May, Of Baltimore, who drove
up in sleigh from the direction of
Wilmington They , walked south on
the railroad track about mile, and
then turned to the left and crossed
over small hill into glade which separates
the Chaptauk river from the road. Here q
spot was selected, the ground measured, and
the combatants placed in position face to face
at twenty PAGES. The seconds loaded the pis-
tolls, gave them to the principals, and, after the
usual prelininaries, ordered Fire There
was a single report, and, when the smoke
cleared away, both men were standing unhurt.
Two more shots ware exchanged with like re-
suit. Then the seconds interfered an AMIGA
bic settlement was effected, and the parties
left immediately for the North"
Hon. William A. Wheeler paid visit to Gov.
Hayes, at the Ohio capital, last week.
Lucille Western the well-known emotional
actress, is dead.
The true story Of the Bennett May duel has
at last been given to the public by Mr.. Leonard
Jerome of Few York. an eyewitness of the
affair. It agrees with the first reports, save
that one shot only was fred, instead of three.
AS soon as the shot was fired, Mr.. Bennett de-
clared his honor satisfied and made apologies,
moreover, to Mr.. May for his past conduct. Of
course Mr.. May could do nothing but accept,
and the parties quietly vacated the field.
Recent financial failures: Sargent Brothers,
dry goods, Boston; liabilities. $167, 1000; assets,
$245, 900. David Patch brewer, Boston, liza
bilities, 100000. T. & r. Slevin & Cain, Louis
vile, dry goods; liabilities heavy. Tannhauser
& Wiley, Fort Wayne, ind, dry goods and no.
tons; liabilities, $4,000.
A scarcity of silver change is reported in
Philadelphia Chicago, and most of the South
ern States. Meantime the fractional notes
are steadily disappearing. In Philadelphi the
premium on change is about per cent, and
even that is not sufficient to attract an adequate
supply. VI
The shipping in the upper Ohio river has
been the scene Of one of the most disastrous
calamities ever inflicted by the elements in
that region. The immense field of ice aver
aging fifteen inches in depth, that had Gov
cred the river for weeks above and below
Pittsburgh, gave way on the morning of the
14th inst. The ice, piled into immense bergs,
swept down the river, mangling and de.
stroying all within it's path. Steamboats,, barges
and every species Of craft were as play
things for the raging torrent of ice and water.
For hundreds of miles they were swept from
their mornings one after another, and, twirling
and sunk out of sight. The stream, all along
the route, was dotted here and there with the
wrecks of boats and barges that had repre-
scented thousands Of dollars. 1t is said that
the grinding roar Of the ice could be heard for
miles along the country side, and thousands of
people focked in alarm to the banks of the
river to ascertain the cause of the unearthly
din. The number of lost river crafts, it is es-
timated, will reach into the thousands, and the
loss is figured at between So, 600, 600 to $3, OOO-
900. .,. ,...,..
The Western Union Telegraph Company has
made another reduction in tolls on messages
between the East and West
The Supreme Court of the United States has
made a decision, four of the Justices dissent
ing, to the effect that Immigrant railroads are
not bound by the fact that they are such to
furnish the Government with transportation
free of cost, but that, on the contrary, the
Government must pay for what it gets, the
same as any citizen or corporation. The de-
cision Of the Court of Claims, upon which all
appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, is
therefore reversed.