The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06
The West.

The principal part of the city Of Oshkosh,
Wis, has been destroyed by fire. The fire COM
menced among the saw mills, and then swept
the entire length of Main street. burning the
Opera-House, hotels, stores, etc., and render
ing hundreds of families homeless. The dreary
waste caused by the flames is a mile and half
long and about half mile wide, and in all that
area there is not single building standing
The loss will probably exceed $4,000, 900.
train On the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad endeavoring to make up four
hours lost time caused by break in the track
in Iowa, made the trip from Mendoza ILL.,, to
Aurora (dfty-six miles) in the unprecedented
time Of fifty-six minutes. Eighty miles were
gone over in one hour and fifty-one minutes.
The total distance run, subtracting stops for
dinner, watering and passengers averaged a
mile in less than minute and half
The factory Of the Weber Furniture Com
pany, at Detroit, with a dozen adjoining dwell
ings was recently consumed by fire. causing a
total loss of 1850, 600. The company employed
$50 men.
Another expedition, consisting of fifty
wagons and about 275 men, left Sioux City for
the Black Hills last week.
Maria Nelson, a young unmarried Danish
woman, OF Chicago, recently gave birth to
twins, which she smothered and sewed up in a
blanket, and then threw into the river. The
woman is under arrest, and has made con-
fession.
A number of fishing smacks were wrecked
on the east shore of Lake Michigan, near st.
Joseph, during the gale of the 18th ult. and
several lives were lost.
The Chicago Times prints extensive reports
as to the condition of the wheat crop in In
diana and Ohio. AS whole the prospect is
the reverse of encouraging. The extreme cold
weather and the long-continued drought have
injured both the spring and winter wheat con-
siderably, and a short crop-probably not more
than one-half the usual quantity-is expected.
In few localities farmers hope to harvest an
average crop.
The embryonic grasshopper is having a seri-
Gus time in Minnesota. Numerous reports are
received going to show that the severe winter,
though bearing hard on the sufferers from last
years devastations Of the pest, has at the same
time proved great blessing in that it has SO
frozen up the rnyriads of eggs deposited by
the insects that the power to terminate has
been lost.
A killing frost visited various parts of the
Northwest on the I'd INST, doing considerable
damage to the wheat and in some places en-
tirely killing the fruit buds.
GAINESVILLE, Wis. was visited by $3.50, 600
confagration last week.
Two of the robbers implicated in the robbery
of the train at Gad's Hill, Mo-, last fall have
been arrested. The ringleader escaped.
The concern started some weeks ago in In
dianapolis for the purpose of furnishing
ready-prnted paper to weekly newspapers and
known as the Indiana Newspaper Union, has
suspended.
John S. Coulter, an old Leavenworth KANSAS
printer, recently committed suicide by taking
laudanum. He was Treasurer of the Typo.
graphical Union and for failure to properly
account fer the moneys in his possession was
expelled from the order, which so preyed upon
his mind that he concluded to end his troubles
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