The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-05
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.


New York failures: George W.
Beach, railroad contractor, liabilities $12O,
600; Joseph Stiner, tea merchant, liza
bilities $27O,OOO; Nathanie Burchill, builder,
liabilities $2sS,OOO, no ass Young, Smith q
Co., importers of sugar, liabilities ,0OO ;
Francis Williams, merchandise broker, habill-
ties $l12,0OO, no assets.
Peters oil cloth factory, at Newark,
N. j., has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000.
Ex-Collecror Thomas Murphy, of New
York, went through the bankrupt court just
before the expiration Of the law. His iabili-
ties are scheduled at $726,0O0.
West.
A dispatch from Cheyenne says that
Sheriff Widdowfeld and q man named Vincent
were lately killed, in canon of Elk mountain,
by party of highwaymen.
Judge Hollins, of Deadwood, a VIC
tim of the stampede to the Sinking Water
gold region, arrived at Bismarck, d. T., the
other day, by steamer. He reports it a fraud,
and the man Wetmore, who led the party into
the country, a liar. There was no gold, and
the Deadwood party is now struggling to get
out. They found absolutely nothing.
Three highwaymen recently rode into
Consocdia, a town of 1,50O inhabitants in
Lafayette county, Mo-, dismounted in front Of
the principal bank, walked in, and, after in
timidating the cashier into silence, helped
themselves to all the paper money in the
vaults, some $4,000, They then mounted
their horses and galloped off.
Two men were killed and another NOR
tally injured by an elevator accident in Kings
land, Ferguson & Co.'s building, in st. Louis
Mo-, last week.
Great forest fires, extending almost
continuously for distance of 100 miles, are
reported as raging along the north shore of
Lake Superior.
Frank A. George, superintendent of
the money-order department in the st. Louis
postof6ce, has absconded, taking with him
about $4,000 of the postofice funds.
The President, accompanied by
Messrs. Thompson and Devens, of the Cabinet,
reached Chicago Sept. 8, formally opened the
National Firemen's Tournament at Dexter
Park. near that city, on the 4th, and left for
st. Paul on the afternoon of that day.
The Indian difficulties in the far North
west have been extinguished in council in
rrb
Howard presided. The chiefs promised to give
up the Indians who had murdered whites, and
announced their future peaceful Intentions.
Seven hundred and thirty. four petit
tons were fled in the Bankruptcy Court OF
Chicago during the last six days of the exist
ence of the Bankrupt law. The total liabili-
ties of the bankrupts were scheduled at lit
tie over $23,OOO,0OO, and the assets at some
thing over 100000.
South.
A Washington dispatch says that
Internal Revenue Commissioner Raum has or.
dered Collectors Woodcock and Cooper, OF
Nashville, Tenn, to employ forty additional,
men each, and to make the woods so hot 70,
the moonshiners as to compel them to sur
render. The Commissioner is confident that
all illicit whisky-distlling in Tennessee will
cease in thirty days.
The yellow-fever reports from the
South, on the 29th ult., we're not encouraging.
At Memphis the plague had become more
viosent But 5000 white people were left in
the city. New cases, 119; deaths, So. The
physicians were completely worn out, and were
resting, while friends of the sick were search
ing in vain for medical attendants. At New
Orleans the death rate was steadily advancing
deaths for the preceding twenty-four hours,
81. At Vicksburg a larger number of new
cases were reported than on any previous
day, though the mortality was not so
great. Canton, Miss, which had population
OF $500 when the plague appeared, was almost
completely deserted not a single business
mouse open except stores the Court House was
locked up, all the officials having left the town
nothing but hearses and collins were to be seen
on the streets. Grenada, Miss, reported
twenty deaths in the preceding twenty-four
hours. With the exception of physicians and
nurses nearly every living soul in the town was
down with the plague. At Port Gibson, Miss,
the fever was extremely malignant, and showed
no abatement.
A severe fight recently took place forty
miles northwest of Ell Paso, between q squad
OF Texas State troops and large body Of
Indians from Fort Stanton reservation Saua,,
Indians and one Ranger were killed
Yellow-fever bulletin for Aug. 81.
New cases ia vicksburg for the preceding
twenty-four hours, 100; deaths, 10. Memphis
View cases, 100; Deaths 81. New Orleans
The deaths increased to SO, the largest number
OF the season to date. Canton, Miss.-The