The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
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ames Mcdonnell and Charles Sharpe

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James Mcdonnell and Charles Sharpe
were hanged at Mauoh Chunk, Pa on the 14th
INST for the murder of George K Smith, q
eoaI-operator, in 1863 A reprieve from Gov.
Hartranft arrived just thirty seconds after the
drop fell The doomed men died protesting
their innocence.
A fire on Broadway, New York, last
week, destroyed property valued at 81, 75O, 900.
The principal sufferers are Howard, Sanger &
Co., fancy goods; Naumberg, Kraus & Lancer,
clothing, and Edwin Bates Il Co, clothing. One
fireman was killed and several injured by fall
ing walls.
Martin Bergin was executed at Potts
ville Pa, Jan. 16, for the murder of Patrick
Burns, coal-mine clerk, in April, 1870. This
makes the nineteenth Molly Mcguire who has
suffered death in Pennsylvania within few
years.
Mrs. Kate Al. Cobb, Of Norwich, Ct,
has been sentenced to Imprisonment for life for
the murder of her husband
New York city was visited by another
very destructive fire on the evening of Jan. II.
Worth street, from No. SO to 62, was the scene
of the confagrahon, and it is estimated that be-
tween three and four millions of dollars worth
Of property was destroyed, dry goods importers
being the principal victims. One frm--Van
Valkenburg & Leavitt-lose a million, and an
amount .. .t. ,..... ... ..
The WOODEN mill of John Brown &
gons, in Philadelphia, has been burned Loss,
$250,OOO
New York papers positively assert
that the remains of the late A. T. Stewart have
been delivered up to the fanlilyof the deceased,
IN consideration of the payment of $4,000
West.
Five persons were killedand number
wounded by the explosion of the Giant Powder
works, near San Francisco, Gal.
The round-house and machine shops
Of the Atchison and Nebraska railroad, at Atchi-
son, Kan, have been destroyed by fire. Loss
about 100000.
At Kearney, Neb., the wholesale MUIR
derer, s. D. richards, the story of whose crimes
lately SO shocked the public, has been convicted
and sentenced to be executed April 26.
The massacre of thirty or forty Chey-
enne Indians, at Fort Robinson, the recapture
Of fifty others, and the flight to the foothills of
the remainder of the band, has been heretofore
recorded in this column. Those who were lucky
enough to escape the bullets and sabers of
the relentless soldiery took refuge in
the bed of the Indian creek, and strongly
fortified themselves by throwing up
breastworks. Here they were beseged
for two days and nights, but on the third night
they silently stole away, and their pursuers, de-
Sldedly crestfalien at the discovery that they
had been outgeneraed By the dusky warriors.
as silently stole back to Camp Robinson The
casualties during this campaign were five SOL
diers killed and eight wounded; thirty two In
dams killed and about dozen wounded.
Richards, the Nebraska butcher, has
BOW confessed to the killing of twelve people at
various times. He talks of his approaching
execution as if 1t were q marriage.
All the officers of the recently -col-
Iapsed National Bank of Missouri, at ST. Louis,
have been indicted, and will be tried for embez-
element E-.
South.
All the business portion of Aliens
vile, Ky, has been destroyed by fire. ,us
A. Seligman, the we]l-known New
York banker, was recently robbed of $500 in
money and diamonds. ON a train between New
Orleans and Louisville
Information has been received in
Washington of the arrest by warrant of the
State or municipal authorities of Alabama of
United States District Attorney Mayer and
United States Marshal Turner, the latter being
now in jail, and the former having been re-
leased on writ CT hebeas corpus issued by
United States District Judge Bruce These
officers were commanded by State court to
deliver before it certain ballot boxes and ballots
used at the November election, they being at
the time in question used by the Grand Jury of
the United States Court, sitting at Montgomery.
as evidence in certain cases therein pending on
indictments for violation of the Election laws of
the United States. Mayer and Turner refused
10 obey the mandate, hence their arrest.
POLITICAL POINTS.
The Nevada Legislature has reelected