The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-08-18
NEWS ITEMS.

I NEWS ITEMS
! Lady Franklin visits Harriet Beecher
Stowe at Lenox, Mass, and sails for Erg-
land to-day. 4aM
Edward Hoag, who murdered Mrs
Clear and Mrs. Phillips last month, was
sentenced to the state prison for life, last
Friday morning, in Detroit.
The Chicago Journal has come out in
complete new dress. and is much improv-
ed by the change. aa
President Grant, Vice President Colfax,
and Hon. VIM. Ell. Seward were in Chica-
60 last Sunday.
Milkmen in Idaho charge seventy-fve
cents per gallon for milk.
John Davidson, of Quincy, ILL.,, last
Saturday night at 10 o'clock, concluded
the task Of walking 105 hours without
sleep or stopping to eat. A despatch
from that place says his life is despaired
of, and paralysis has already set in.
President Grant was met in st. Louis
with law suit, in which Col. Stark
claims $4,000 for horse that was kicked
to death on the Presidents farm.
Michael Lovett threw cheese knife at
his wife In New York last Thursday,
which missed her and killed his infant
son, eleven months old, who was sitting
on the floor ei 8Aa "a
A western paper reports that Brigham
Young is down with the small pox, and
that his wife is seriously alarmed.
George Francis Train was treated to a
dose Of rotten egg while talking in favor
of Chinese emigration at San Francisco, a
few nights ago. It almost threw the
Train off the track.
At an execution in Dublin, short time
since, a drop of fourteen feet was given
the victim, which not only broke his
neck, but snapped his head from his
body.
Judge MeCunn, of New York, 4 now in
Ireland, while standing with party Of
friends at a railway station on the 18th
inst, was assaulted by party of Orange
men, The Judge escaped unhurt, though
several of his companions were roughly
handled =
A correspondent of the Chicago Jour
mi, writing from Niagara Falls, says the
water is slowly but surely wearing away
heLrocks, and in time, when the lakes
are forced tofnd their level, all the lake
cities will find themselves from ten to
eleven miles inland. h@aa8 81 H
Jenny Lind's agent has arrived in New
York to adyertisea series of concerts by
that great artistic. aeb
/" Count de Granville who has been
cutting heavy swell at the watering
places this season, turns out to be jour
neyman tailor from Iowa, named Charles
Moss. The Dubuque sheriff recently ar
rested him for stealing.
A Mr.. Breezer, on the south bank of
Buffalo Lake, had his barn struck with
lightning, on Friday OF last week The
barn, three horses, a quantity OF hay and
grain, and some farming tools were con-
Sumed. "a
Two children of Henry Phillips, resid-
ing near Westfe1d, aged five and eight
years, were struck by lightning one day
last week. while sitting in the door.
Both were severely burned on their backs,
but not fatally injured.
A young colored woman in Beloit has
taken contract to paint housewife.
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1 THE Wharf.-The cable dispatches re-
ceived daily continue to announce vic
tories for the Prussian arms. McMahon's
corps at and around Stras5ourg is believed
to be cut off entirely from the main army,
and Napoleon is so worked up over the
disasters attending the French armies
that fears are entertained for his sanity
According to last accounts the French
were ahead-with the Prussians close at
their heels. F ~