The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-09-30

object several years ago, announces its own
demise.
The cattle disease has broken out in Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island, and number of
animals are rapidly dying off.
Vice-President Wilson'S name having been
mentioned in connection with the Governor
ship of Massachusetts, he addressed letter to
q Boston paper stating that although he would
esteem it as q great compliment, his sense of
duty to the country would not permit him to
accept it even if rendered by the unanimous
voice of the State Convention.
The platform of the Massachusetts, Democ-
racy reioices in the removal of the : odIous
prohibitory law
Drake & Colby, one of the largest produce
commission firms in the city of New York has
succumbed to the general depression of trade,
and made an assignment for the benefit OF
creditors.
At Piedmont, N. H., one night LAST week, a
man named Getting was awakened by tramp,
who, with cooked pistol, demanded his money
Getting directed the tramp to bureau contain
ing $780, The tramp laid down his pistol to
search, when Getting seized the pistol and shot
the tramp dead.
A prize-fght was contested near New York,
last week, by two brutes named Jack Townley
and Patsy Gallagher, the latter winning in
thirty-one rounds. Both were badly punished.
Mr.. Moody, the revivalist has started up his
forces for the fall and winter religious cam
paign, at Northfield, Mass.
A horrible accident is reported from Haver-
straw, N. Y. During the progress of a fire in
paint factory, one of the walls fell, burying
beneath it number of workmen who were
endeavoring to extinguish the flames. -Four
men were killed outright, their bodies being
shockingly burned and mangled, and several
others were badly hurt, two mortally.
The grand jury of Erie county, N. Y. has
indicted the following State officials and con-
tractors and dealers with the State, for the
crimes of bribery, larceny and conspiracy
Geo. D. Lord, canal contractor, and late Mem.
Der of Assembly Alexander Barley, Canal
Commissioner in 18Th; Thaddeus G. Davis,
Canal Appraiser; VIM. n. Bowman, counsel
for Geo. D. Lord Lewis J. Bennett, canal
contractor.
Ned OBaldwin, the Irish giant and prize
fighter, was shot and fatally wounded in saloon
row with his partner, Mike Finnell, in New
York, last week.
The wife of Ebenezer Dunsmore, Of Wealth
ersfeld, VT, poisoned herself and three chill
dren inc other day. Temporary insanity.
Serious labor troubles are reported from Fall
River, Mass. The long strike of the mill opera
tives there, it was hoped, would be brought to
a close on Monday, Sept. 81, the employers and
employees having agreed upon basis upon
which work should be resumed. AS the opera
tives presented themselves at their respective
mills on that morning they were asked as an
additional condition to sign an agreement that
they would not enter into strike against the
mill-owners. Very few signed the paper, the
majority being greatly ineensed at the exaction
of additional terms. For a time serious trouble
was apprehended, but as a general thing the
operatives were orderly and well behaY ed and
only few breaches of the peace occurred.
The West.
Jesse James is living quietly in st. Louis,
among friends, and denies that he was killed
at Pine Hill Ky. It has been ascertained that
the name of the dead robber of the Huntington
bank was Thompson McDaniels, a Western
Missouri desperate, whose brother Bill was
shot while endeavoring to break jail at Kansas
City few months ago, where he was held for
completely in the robbery of the Kansas Pacific
train at Muncie last December.
The Kansas City Times has special from
Great Bend, Kan, saying that Col Wheeler
8 wealthy cattle-dealer who was recently re-
ported killed by cattle thieves in the Indian
Territory has returned to Great Bend. having
captured five of the thieves and recovered 200
cattle.
The story of terrible crime comes from
Williamson, county, I'll. A bitter feud has for
long time existed between two colored fami-
lies living near Carbonate. Ono night last
week one of these negroes effected an entrance
into the house of the other and proceeded to
murder every human being in the cabin, STAY
ing the man, his wife, child Of years, and
an old woman who CHANGED to be staying there
that night.
hesrt-rending catastrophe occurred at Mar
shall, Mich, by the burning of the Herndon
House, early on Friday morning, Sept. "a.
Claude Avery, q prominent jeweler of that
bOhus ddAQ AnCOAAO O40DC4s q C4Sd1 14dhcIs 1IO1n
New Haven, Conn.,, persisted in the flames.
Their bodies were afterward taken from the
ruins burned to crisp. Eliza King, dining
room girl, attempted to descend ladder from
a fourth-story window, fell, and was instantly
killed. Mrs. Claude Avery, who was being res
cued by fireman from third-story window,
fell out of his arms, he being overcome by the
Gm0La when within Tan fnct nf tho orOI1nd
and was severely injured. Mrs. Varsden had
one leg broken and was otherwise badly hurt.
A dining-room girl, known as Martha, in at
tempting to get out of fourth-story windnw
fell and broke her leg in three places, and
was terribly bruised and cut about the
head she is probably fatally injured. Nick
Renks, hotel porter, had both legs broken by
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