The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-29
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FRESH TOPICS.

FRESH TOPICS.
A LIVELY game Of baseball was played
Savannah, Ca, the other day. One
the players had leg broken by a
ase-runner knocking him down and
ling upon him another had his nose
roken by foul-tipped ball, Lille
arcely any of the players escaped with
ut hurt or bruise Of some sort.
ONE of the strongest points made by
he opponents Of capital punishment in
ne Pomeroy case is based on the testi-
lony of DR. Walker, Superintendent of
ne Insane Asylum at South Boston, who
estifies emphahcally that Pomeroy is
asane and irresponsible. His reason for
linking SO is that Jessie is not truthful,
nd he lays down the general rule that
insane people are not truthful. Com
-aenting upon this, contemporary sug-
;ests that it would be good plan to
AVE the doctor examine some of the
witnesses in the Brooklyn case. Per
laps he would find some of them insane
A PROMISING young man has just met
IN untimely death at Somerville, Tenn.
His name was Oscar Barton. Although
out eighteen years old, this bright youth
aad in his brief career slain no less than
three men. He met his match at last in
the shape Of q one-armed shootist named
Tom Doyle, and died like his victims
with his boots on. Tom emptied the
ieaden contents Of a double barreled
shotgun and two barrels of navy Colt
into the body of the gentle Oscar, and
he had barely time to utter the stereo-
typed I'm shot" ere his spirit winged
its flight to the land where shot-guns,
revolvers, and bowie-knives are I'M
known.
The inevitable squabble over a rich
mans viii has begun in Detroit. Mr..
e. B. Ward, dying few months ago,
eft fortune Of 100000, and the fu-
neral was hardly over before the heirs
began to quarrel about the requests.
One relative, who had received $4,000,
said he deserved ten times that amount,
and gave notice that he would contest
the will. The Michigan Legisla-
ture has passed an amendment
to the present law relating to the settle
ment of estates, so as to do away with
the special administrator who may now
be appointed to take charge of the estate
until it is settled, and, instead, to give
the executors control.
ALTHOUGH the people of the United
States have achieved worldwide noto-
riety for their immense consumption of
spirituous liquors, yet figures recently
compiled show that the people Of the
United Kingdom are much more bibu-
lous than We The average annual con-
sumption for each individual in this
country is about gallon and four fifths
to Ireland's two gallons and a pint, and
England's and Scotland's two gallons
less a pint, of spirituous and fermented
liquor Of imported and domestic dis
titled liquors we annually consume 72,-
600, 900 gallons, from which our revenue
is over $3.50, 000, 900, while that of Great
Britain is $125, 100000 from all the
liquor drunk within her borders.
The death OF the two aeronauts in
France, which seems to have resulted
from the extreme rarefaction of the air
at the height $4,000 feet) to which they
assembled, gives warning to aeronauts
that any distance beyond 10000 feet is
dangerous. At the previous ascension
of the Zenith, although it did not attain
so great height, some of the party srlf-
fered from dizziness, and two of the
PASCCAho WC4O AOI11El O0ftIl LII ULt cage,
while the third was almost ifeless. Mr..
Glaisher assembled to the height of 3d.
900 feet, whereupon he became insensi-
BILE and his assistant nearly SO, and it
was only by promptly opening the valve
that the latter saved their two lives. The
brothers Schlanginweit climbed to a
height Of p, 259 feet on one of the peaks
of the Himalayas, and they describe their
sufferings as very intense.
CAPT. HALL, of the Coast Survey,
who has been stationed three years in
Alaska, has addressed to the Commits
sioner Of Education at Washington an
elaborate account of the country and it's