The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-12-06
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
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The New York and New Haven steamer, G.
II. Northam, was burned at theformer city last
week. Three colored men persisted in the
flames. The vessel was valued at $175,000.
The failure of Evans Dalzoll & Co., iron
manufacturers, Pittsburgh, is announced.
West.
A number of the contractors and employees
on the new Custom House at st. Louis have
been indicted by the Grand Jury Of the United
States District Court. 1t has been developed
that this costly structure, upon which Uncle
Sam has already spent between 81, 900, 900 and
$4,000, 900, does not rest upon solid stone, as
specified in the contract, but that 100 of the
foundation piers, at least, are composed of I'M
substantial concrete; but these are not half
the developments new made, nor 1.-THE of
those yet come.
Information comes from the West that, while
moving the Sioux from the Red Cloud Agency
to the Missouri river, 1,700 of them broke away,
and are now on the war-path. Gen Terry
has ordered the cavalry to prepare for winter
campaign. Those who thus deserted are oper-
atng in the Deadwood country. and have al
ready attacked trains and caused general con-
ternation.
The desperate Frank Rande was conveyed
from st. Louis to Galesburg, ILL.,, on the 29th
nit, and lodged in the Knox county Jail.
The Second National Bank of Lafayette,
Ind., has been compelled to suspend business
IN consequence of the heavy defalcation OF the
cashier, Charles T. Mayo. His stealings amount
to about $50, 900.
A farmer near Champaign, H., has lost by
cholera, within few days, ninety-tive hogs.
The disease is spreading in that section.
The real name of the desperate Frank
Rande is Charles Arthur Van Zandt He
served five years in the Northern Indiana State
prison, and was one of the most unruly con-
victs that ever stepped inside of penitentiary
L. P. billiard, A. W. Edwards, John Reid
and Martin Ryan, officers of the collapsed Pro-
teotion Life Insurance Company, of Chicago,
have been indicted for perjury in swearing to
false statements of the financial condition Of
the concern. George W. Stanford, Henry
Greenebaum and E. T. Runyan, late members
of the West Chicago Park Board, have also
been indicted for conspiracy to defraud the
city.
Charles MeGill, of Cleveland, Ohio, became
incensed at his wife because she persisted in
leaving him, and murdered her by shooting
nine pistol bullets into her body.
young man named Henry Blackman. living
near Birmingham, Mich, quarreled with his
mother and sister, in the absence of his father.
and wound up by shooting and killing them
both and setting fire to the house and barn.
Frank Rande, the outlaw, has at last re-
vealed his name, which is Charles G. Scott.
He says his residence is at Fairfield. Iowa.
where he emigrated with his parents in 1889
when 12 years old, from Washington county.
Pa. He says his first crime was that of bur-
glary, committed at Ottumwa Iowa, in 1871.
South.
~ Wright (colored), Associate Justice of
the South Carolina Supreme Court, has re-
signed
Gov. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, in
his message TO the Legislature strongly, depre-
Gates the rep ~ stlo3 of the States obliga-
lions, and ar ues that the settlement of the
pubic-debt question should be made on a basis
which shall not impair the credit Of the State.