The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03
MISCELLANEOUS aLEAN1Nes.

AdGo duf1CtS 1IOlu Gu6 ClGy VI MoA1cO
are to the effect that the situation is growing
precarious for the Government Of Diaz, and
that strong revolutionary movement may be
expected at any time during the coming winter.
An examination of witnesses has late
ly been going on at Marquette, Mich, to secure
testimony to be used in the case of the United
States VS.. Samuel J. Tilden, to recover def
cheney in his taxes. In the course of the ex-
animation certain books containing the &C
counts of the New York iron mine were being
used One evening last week, as the Commits
sioners were quietly proceeding with the de-
POSITIONS two men suddenly rushed into the
room, seized the books, rushed for a carriage
that was standing conveniently by, and made
away with them. Mounted officers started in
pursuit, but succeeded only in overtaking the
empty carriage, about two hours after the
obbery.
The annual report of the Northern
Pacific railroad shows net earnings for the past
year amounting to 1862, 1000, an increase of
$780, 600 over the previous year.
Returns received at the Agricultural
Department from twelve of the largest tobacco
growing States indicate that there is consider
able falling off in tobacco crops, as compared
with last year.
Thomas Harland, of New York, the
attorney for Samuel j. Tilden at the time the
books of the New York Iron Mine Company
were seized and carried off, at Marquette,
Mich, was arrested at Detroit the other day,
upon warrant issued upon the affidavit of the
United States District Attorney. Harland de-
MES all knowledge of the alleged robbery. It
appears that the parties who seized and spirited
away the books had writ of replevin, but
didn't take time to read, or even exhibit, the
paper. The District Attorney afirms that the
books showed that Mr.. T;iden's profits from
the mine amounted, from 1864 to 1871, to over
81 100000.
Information has been received by
Capt Howgate that Capt Tyson, of the schooner
Florence, of the Howgate polar expedition, has
reached st. Johns, N. F. He has been absent
fourteen months All we'll -.
The United States steamship Enter
prise, Commander Selfridge, has arrived at
New York, after voyage of five months, ex-
ploring the Amazon and it's principal tribu-
taries, more particularly the Madeira. Most
of the officers and men suffered from modi-
fed type of malarial fever, and some Of them
are not yet quite recovered Capt Selfridge
says the exploration was a perfect success
The Madeira was found navigable for 500
miles. The Captain adds: 1--WE found the
volume of the Amazon to be 100000 cubic
feet a second, and, if the Mississippi were
flowing into it, it would not raise it's surface
perceptibly."
Among the passengers by the steam
ship Mosel, which arrived at New York last
week, were Condor and Melody, the Fenian
prisoners who were released from a British jail
on condition that they would forthwith leave
that country. .i.7:sl,,F
The contest between the six clubs
composing the League" for the baseball cham
pionship of the United States has ended in the
success of the Boston Club, which, with the ex-
ception of one year, has held the championship
uninterruptedly since 1871. The following table
shows the result of the seasons play between
the resnactiya climbs.