The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-04-06
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The East.

On the 2Sth Dukes, the murderer of Cap
tain Mutt, declined by letter to accept the
seat in the Pennsylvania Legislature to
which he had been elected, and requested
the House to declare the same vacant. The
House so declared.
Two twin boys, aged fifteen months,
children of David Faulkner, were burned
to death at Allegheny City, Pa, on the
18th, by the building in which they lived
taking fire.
The lower branch of the Massachusetts,
Legislature has passed the bill for. biennial
elections and sessions of that body.
A PoTTsvmLE (Pa.) merchant, named
Neuman, committed suicide the other day
because his daughter was opposed to his
marrying again.
ON the 2Sth Frank Byrne, the Irish sus-
pect recently arrested in Paris, but whose
extradition was refused by the French au-
thorities, arrived in New York, accompa-
MED by his wife. These are the parties
whom the approver Carey charged with
participation in the Phoenix Park assassi-
nation conspiracy.
Ok the 2Sth Herbert w. Eaton, who lately
shot his brother and Samuel Kelly at
Calais, Me-, shot himself in a train near
Truro, N. S,
BEFORE Massachusetts Legislative Com
mittee on the 29th witnesses testified that
the Tewksbury Aims House authorities sold
bodies to the Harvard Medical School; that
some corpses were picked and sent to
Boston in pork barrels, and that funeral
services had been held over collins filled
with wood. Governor Butler was present
ms prosecutor.
AT Greenfield, Mass, ON the 3Oth ult,, a
conductor named Hosely, whose disobe-
dience of orders caused a collision on the
New Haven & Northampton Railroad last
September, by which three persons were
killed, was convicted of manslaughter.
A HEAVY snow-storm prevailed in New
York and Pittsburgh on the morning of the
Both ult.
Mrs. EMELINE l., MEAKER was hanged at
Windsor, VT, on the Both for the murder OF
an orphan girl in 1881.
THE other night safe in drug store in
the town of Rushville, N. V, near
Rochester, was blown open, and about
$4,000 in cash and negotiable paper, and a
much larger sum in registered securities
We're taken away.
REV. DIR, NICHOLSON, of Philadelphia,
who was early in March elected to the
Bishopric of Indiana by the Protestant
Episcopal Diocesan Convention, has de.
clined the office.
The Hudson. River has been opened for
navigation.
j. A. HARwooD's leather-band mills at
Leominster, Mass, were burned on the 1st
involving loss of 100000
On the ID about 1000 painters at Phila.
delphia struck for SS per day. They had
been receiving $3.50.
ACCORDING to the statistics of crime in
the seven largest cities in the Union, re.
Gently compiled at New York aud based
upon population, San Francisco leads in
Me number of murders, followed by Gin
clnnati, Baltimore, New York, Philadel
phia, Chicago and Boston, in the order
mentioned.
AT New York on the I'd Richard w. Bal
lard, alias Russell, the swindler and big
amist, pleaded guilty to the charge of
grand larceny, and received five years
sentence.
A FEW days ago p. /. Barnum, show.
man, and two others were arrested and
held for trial in $500 each, at New York
for permitting the performances of the Ell
lott children on unicycles and bicycles.
A FEW days since securities valued al
$4,000 were stolen from the safe of E. B
Treat, book publisher of New York, and
before the theft was discovered $1,000 had
been collected on coupons.