The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
DOMESTIC INTEGIIdENCE.


East
William Upham, woolen-g0ods manufacturer,
Spencer, Mass, has failed for@$150,o00.
Ike Daniel Webster mansion, at&Marshfeld,
Mass, has been swept awaylby fire.
TEe sgreatest destitutio@ exists among the
espectable~working people of Newark, N. J.,
ON account of the recent savings bank failures.
disastrous fire occurred &njWVest Twenty
tlIrf' street, New York, a fev nights ago. The
Eosads estimated at upward ofs$8C0000.
Psas difficulty between Thomas Lord, ST.,
of New York; and his children 4gvewing out of
t1eaaaarriage.ef that gentleman to Mrs. Hicks,
has boeen anaieably settled. The property of
thevod gentleman, valued st 4$2000, 900, is to
be placed in tie hands of "a trustee, the chill
dreneeach to receive $4,000 8 year from the
puoce9ds, andtppon the death of the father the
estate is to be divided eanally%among them.
Mrs.LAord surranders all right ofd6ower to the
estate, and agrees to receive nothing from it
after Ehe death of her husband should she
survive him. Mas. Lord possesses fortune of
ovarN60O, 900.
West
The city of Ga cago has been bwcught to q
sezdoGsG fnanciaLe- isis by a decisionuof the Su-
prene Court of Illinois. ThaE,deciaiau is to the
effect fAaat the CITY cannot bcrrow money re-
payable out OF the general tux fund Neither
anGtborrow money to pay the principal Or in
terest scf money which has heretofore been
borrowed In that manner. Soales950G, 900 bor-
rowed IL this illega7 manner is now outstand-
ing Hew it is to be paid is what is, souzzling
the dlnanciers of the Garden Gityyas well as
those ,wao loanede@he money, and ylif the city
cannot pay the interest on what ut has already
borrowed, it can hardly expect ito negotiate
any mogeIoans.
A manufacturing seompany at 5oukh Bend,
Ind, gays off their employees, n1lraberins about
$50, liz goaG.
Three c0&ored childEsn were b1rmedtto death
at Eontoa, %Ohio, the tother day. They were
left alone. the house switch was dlsstroyed by
fire.
John w. BEAVERS Wac executed aat Madison,
Ind, ON theEE5th of February, for tfae narder
of J. W. Gss9ell. He nale full concession Of
his crime. tGn the same day JohD Ablssevas
hanged atCart1age, No., fsr the unpGowalaed
murder, In Ap=il, 1874, of Gohn Lane.
SOusA.
The change isGnade that the Judge of .tla
court (Whittakes) in which Thomas G. Antlar-
son was tried and convicted, sat New Orleans,
ds defaulter torGe Governments in the srrsa of
$4,000 Whitaker was Sub. Treasurer atli
New Orleans in 1867, and it is claimed /
h9 lost this ,aEaount of tie Govern /
nant funds in gold speculations He was l
tried at the tinae on the charge, the jury ac- |
quitting him without leaving their seats.
HE proposition in the Virginia Legislature |
to pepudiate portion of the State debt has |
been finally defea&ed.
The revenue officers ere relentlessly nsrsuing |
the Illicit distilers in the South. The extern
sive raid among the mooashiners in Southeast |
Missouri resulted in the capture Of q large
number of stills and mash-tubs. In Jackson
county, Tenn, a number of crooked digtilleeies
have been seized, and in North Georgia several
successful raids have recently been made.
warehouse in which was stored 1000 bales
OF cotton, worth $22O,OOo, was destroyed by
FIRE at Savannah, Ga, last week.
j. Madison Wells is out In an open
letter in regard to the Returning Board
It is written in Wells charac-
vigorous style, and gives what
purports to be a personal history of
the men prominently engaged in the
He asserts that Maj E. A. Burke,
one of the leading witnesses, is fugitive from
illinois and villain that the Sheriff and some
IF the other witnesses are murderers and vii
aims that Judge Whitaker is a defaulter and {
! drunkard that Attorney General Ogden is
! deacon in the church and villain; that {