The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-25
WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW |.
THE EAST.

IHE 11TSU NdUlOlld1 DCbAhS VI DAcOooAO
boro VT. has been ruined by the forgeries and
thefts of Silas M Waite, it's President. 1t is
estimated that. his stealings amount in the ag-
gAeaate to 1850 900, and that they have been In
nninterrlpted progress for more than ten years.
....Am disease Resembling dysentery has.
made it's appearance at North Adams, Mass,
which has, so far, baffied the skill OF the ply
sicians. One thousand persons have been strlck-
Ell down already, and 1t is feared that
many cases will prove fatal. The epidemic
is said to be caused by impurities
In the water used in cooking and for drinking
purposes. Charles w. Schotield, New York
capitalist, has made an assignment for the
benefit of his creditors. His liabilities are
placed at 100000 The eleventh annual
reunion of the Society of the Army of the Poto-
mac took place at Burlington, VT, last week.
Gems. Sheridan and Miles and other dis
tinguished soldiers were present.
HAN1AN, the famous oarsman, was de-
feated in the race for professionals, at
Providence r. l. Ross, Riley, and Ten Eyck
crossed the line ahead Of him, in the order
named u. K. Emmett, the actor, was ar
rested and sent to an inebriate asylum, at New
York, on complaint of his wife.
THE census returns show the popula
ton of Brooklyn to be $4,000, an increase of
$4,000 in five years. Charles H. Voorhls, Con-
gresham from the Fifth Congressional district
of New Jersey, has been arrested on an 1ndlct-
ment for embezzling $4,000 from the defunct
First National Bank of Hackensack, N. j., OF
which he was President.
S1ossoN won the billiard champion
ship contest with Schaefer, at New York, his
average being thirty, the highest on record.
A DEPUTY coroner thought he detect
ed signs of life in the body Of an infant which
had been placed in the morgue at New York,
and, resortng to artificial respiration, the little
one was soon restored to consciousness. 1t is
now in the nursery of public hospital, and
doing well. Deputy Collector Boone, OF
Brooklyn, is missing with $4,000 belonging
to the United States, and Gen. Raum has Or
dered his arrest.
THE WEST.
Two GAMBLERS, named Harris and
Young, were riding in hack at Albuquerque,
New Mexico, when the latter got into quarrel
with the driver and shot him. Young then
shot and killed Harris.
JUDGE j. B. HOWELL, of Keokuk,
Iowa, veteran newspaper man, once United
States Senator, and, until it's expiration a
member of the Southern Claims Commission, is
dead.
Four men were killed and several in
jured at Gold Hill, New, by a carload of tools
falling down mine upon them. The con-
stitutional amendments recently adopted in
Indiana have been overthrown by decision of
the State Supreme Court Two stages on the
Sidney and Black Hills line were stopped by
highwaymen at French creek, but, as no valua-
bles were found, the vehicles were permitted to
pass on.
Coz. DAVID L. PHILLIPS, Postmaster
of Springfield, and an old Illinois journalist,
died last week after lingering and painful i'll
ness. Mr.. Phillips was born in Williamson
county, Oct. 81, 1923, and was a distant relative
of Wendell Phillips. David L. Shank, while
on drunken spree, attacked two women in their
own house, near Sidney, Ohio, with fence rail,
and killed one Of them, and would have killed
the other had her cries not brought assistance.
The census returns, it is stated, will show that
Nebraska has population of about 100000.
In the past decade the increase has been about
300 per cent.
Z The Chicago Times of the 23d inst.
says "The oldest inhabitants of Dubuque and
Prairie du CHEN never saw flood like that
now raging in the Mississippi at those places
Dubuque reports the water twenty-three feet
above low-water mark and fourteen inches above
the high-water mark of 1870. All the mills
and machine shops are submerged, and many
lumber-yardS are afoat. At Prairie du Chen
all railroads are under water, and no newspaper
mails have been received for more than week.
The cemetery at Davenport has been flooded,
and several collins washed away"
HIrr,, o.411o11c oP To,7ic o1oI T1,
dianapolis are greatly indignant because the
census enumerators do not find as many people
within their respective limits as had been
claimed we're located there
A RECENT dispatch from Leadville
says william Cunningham was killed and J..
P. O'Brien severely wounded, while the latter
was quareling with Tom Hogan. O'Brien
fired at Hogan, missing the latter and killing
Cunningham, when doc Norton, who was
THE SOUTH.
MEMPHIS has laid more than twenty
miles of sewerage and thirty miles of tile drain
since the close of the epidemic, and it's citizens
gre now confident that yellow fever will not find
Judgment there.
SENATOR VANCE, of North Carolina,
and Mrs. Florence Martin were married at the
residence of the BRIDES mother in Louisville,
KY, last week. jeff. Davis made his appear
ance as a witness in New Orleans court the
other day. The case was that i'll which the
heirs of the late Sarah A. Dorsey seek to set
aside the will in which she bequeathed her
estate to Davis. This is asked on the ground
of undue influence exercised over her by him.
The case involved the question of her mental
soundness, as to which Davis testified she be-
leved the Confederacy still existed that it's
truths were eternal and should prevail. He be-
lieved the same. If that were insanity, they
both were crazy.
RosEDA1E & Go. S furniture factory, on
North Frederick street, Baltimore, has been
burned. Loss, 100000; insured. "A fire at
Starkville, Miss, destroyed half the town.
Loss estimated at 100000 insurance, 800, 900.
=. Two boys had quarrel at Lancaster, KY,
which ended by one of them shooting and in
stantly killing the other. The boys were aged
respectively IA and Is. The jury in the case
of Curre, charged with the murder of Porter,
the actor at Marshall, Texas, returned YER
dict of not guilty, on the ground that he was
- Of no