The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-01-11
DOMESTIC NEWS.
East.


Woodward, the Tweed ringster lately cap
tured in Chicago and sent to New York, has
effected a compromise with the authorities and
secured his release. He surrenders property
and bonds worth $1556O0, and, although the
prosecution has not been formally dismissed,
it is understood he will not be further molested
if he makes his testimony against others Of the
ring as valuable as he has promised
Rev. Mr.. Lee has just been tried by the Pres
bytery of Newark, N. j., and found guilty of
violating the scriptures for allowing woman
to preach in his pulpit.
The long anticipated death Of Cornelius
Vanderbilt, the great railway king, occurred at
his residence in New York, on the 4th inst
He was conscious to the last moment, and died
without struggle, surrounded by his family.
The venerable invalid had been sinking for
several days. Cornelius Vanderbilt was born
Oh Staten island, May q, 1904. His education
was very meager. At the age of Is he
began business, buying boat, which
ne piled between the ferry of his
neighborhood and New York. Three
years later he married. He can hardly
be said to have relinquished business until the
day of his death. Few men have begun man
hood-hfe as early or maintained hold upon
the activities of the world 80 late as did Com
modore Vanderbilt. He vas q giant. What
ever he did at ali he did in a mastery way.
MIR. Vanderbilt gave literally in certain direc-
tions, his gift to the Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tenn, being three quarters of q
million dollars, sum which has placed that
school upon basis which should stand against
all time.
MIR. Blaine has been re- elected to the Senate
from Maine.
Michael Mulroy is the biggest fool in New
York city, "by large majority" The other
day he essayed to thaw out some giant-powder
cartridges that had been frozen, and for this
purpose placed them before hot stove Re-
suit A demolished building, one person killed
and two dangerously injured Naturally enough
the fool was lucky enough to escape with .
light soorching.
The last will and testament of the late Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, dated Jan. g. 1876, with a
oodicil attached bearing date June 80, 1876
bequeaths the bulk of the immense estate to
his eldest son, William Ell. Vanderbilt. His
wife receives $500, 900 and the family mansion.
Numerous Congregational clergymen of New
York and Brooklyn, who were displeased at
the manner in which the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher was carried on the shoulders of the
old organization, have united in the formation
Of new association. The names of DR.. Tay-
Tor, DR.. Burlington, DR.. Scddder, DR.. Hep
worth, and other eminent Congregational min
listers of the vicinage appear prominently in
the new movement.
West.
Jack Mccall, the murderer Of Wild Bill, has
been sentenced to be hanged at Yankton, D.
T., ON the LIST OF March.
Henry Creighton, of Fairfield county, Ohio,
was last week murdered by his crazy wife.
She shot him twice and cut his head off with
n ak.
The hdiana Legislature organized on the
4th inst. The House elected Republican off,
GERS. The independent joined the Demo
Gratis in the Senate and gained control Of that
body.
Mr. Window has been reelected to the
United States Senate from Minnesota.
The most plausible of the many theories
evolved to account for the Ashtabula accident
is advanced By MIR. J. E. Burchell, of Chicago.
who was passenger on the train and escaped
with ewslight bruises. he Gays II will be
enembezeG that the front engine did not
lNava tho kraok shat kba Do,ofSr,o folt vsoorRv
square, ami the cars on either side slanted
toward this sleeper, and the last car on the
train stool almost ON its end. All, with very
few exceptions, who were saved were in the
Palatine, it not being broken or smashed as
were the others. These facts Mr. Burchell re-