The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-10
or conspiracy to defraud policy.

Company, for conspiracy to defraud policy
holders
Thomas Lord, one Of the wealthiest retired
merchants Of New York, aged "a, married, =
few days ago, the celebrated Mrs. Wilhelrnina
Wilkins Hicks, aged 43. His children have
joined in petition stating that their father is
deprived of bis understanding through old
age, infirmity and decay of his natural powers,
and is unfit for the government of himself and
management of his estate, wherefore they
pray for commission in lunacy. The affair
has produced big sensation in the metrop-
oils. 8&
The cost to Pennsylvania of suppressing the
riots of last summer foots up about S5OO,000.
Two men were killed and a third probably
fatally wounded at Glendale, L. /, by the ex-
plosion of 8 dynamite cartridge while preparing
blast
The schooner Martha Innes went ashore on
Cape Cop, and the crew of six men were lost.
number of other vessels were wrecked by
loss of life is reported.
Henry r. Hinckley one of the private de-
positors who lost heavily by the robbery Of the
Northampton Bank, has recovered $25,OOO OF
Union Pacific 6 per cent. gold bonds, with two
years interest, at a cost Of $4,000. A short
time ago the bank burglars pledged 100000
of the best railroad bonds for loan of $8,000
The bonds recovered were among the collat-
erals.
West.
A poor orphan boy in st. Louis named Au-
gust Kablemann, has been left fortune of
$4,000 by the death OF an uncle in San Fran
cisco.
Jacob Bum, banker, Springfield, ILL.,. has
joined the innumerable caravan of banlrupts.
Liabilities, $750000; assets, $250,000. The
State Savings Bank Indianapolis, Ind. and
Hickox & Spear, bankers San Francisco, CAL,
have also collapsed.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company has or
dered areduction of the wages of it's employees.
A terrible explosion Of nitro glycerine oc-
Cured at Negaunee, Mich, on the I'd inst, by
which seven men were instantly killed and sew
eral others more or less injured. The shock
was felt for many miles around, shaking the
buildings in Ishpenling, three miles distant,
breaking the glass in nearly all the stores and
dwellings i'll Negaunee. The explosion oc-
| CURED while some men were loading nitro
| glycerine into freight car on the Chicago and
| Northwestern railway track, just west Of Ne
! gaunee, within twenty rods of the North jack
son mine. Some 1890 pounds had been or was
| being loaded, when the explosion occurred,
with such tremendous force as to completely
| denlolish the locomotive attached to
the car and blowing the car itself
into fragments. The engineer, William
Myers, the fireman, and two brakemen,
| named respectively Charles Miller, jeremiah
Foley, and William Spellman, were instantly
killed, and their bodies horribly mangled.
Ira Hinkley, S. A. Wheeler, and his son, 20
years old, who were handling the packages,
were blown to atoms, fragments of their bodies
| being found three-fourths of mile away.
| Considerable property was destroyed by the
explosion. t
Chicago papers announce the failure of
Samuel Bliss & Co., wholesale grocers, and J.
D. Easter & Co., dealers in Marsh harvesters.
The Bliss liabilities are given at $130,000; as
sets not stated. Easter & Co. owe 81, AGO. 600;
assets Con paper) about 81 $780, 900. ....sr
| The failure is announced of Clement, Morton
& Co., one of the heaviest wholesale clothing
| firms in Chicago.
Abraham Lipman, the leading pawnbroker
of Chicago, has failed, owing creditors about
| 100000. When our ''uncles" begin to go
into bankruptcy the times must indeed be sadly
out of joint. t "ae9a
! 1t is reported that 8 desperate and bloody
! fight took place recently in the Panhandle OF
Texas, south of the Red river, on the buffalo
limiting grounds, between q hunting party OF
Indians composed of Arapahoes and Pawnees,
and another hunting party of Pawnees, during
which some thirty Cheyennes and twelve Paw
nees were killed. z.4& /
The gold and silver product Of Colorado FOR
1877 reaches the neat sum of $7,879, 1882.
| south.
A Nashville (Tenn.) dispatch says fright
ened team backed a wagon, containing Mrs.
Morris Goodloe and four children off the
! bridge over the Oblon river, resulting in the
drowning Of the four children.
The banks composing the Clearing House
Association of New Orleans have passed reso-
lutions protesting against the remonetizing OF
| silver.
| The business men of Nashville and the
other Southern cities are agitating the CUES
ton of establishing direct trade with the West
Indies. A delegation has gone to Havana
with that object in view.
| POLITICAL. POINTS.