The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-17
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

New England furnishes the first seri-
eountry for some weeks. The Old Colony rail-
road, at point five miles from Boston, was
the scene of the disaster. An excursion train,
consisting of twenty crowded cars, returning
from q rowing match at Silver lake, twenty
eight miles from the city, was thrown from a
high embankment and the coaches piled one
upon another at the bottom of the ravine, many
Of them being badly wrecked. A dozen people
were killed, and upward of hundred more or
less injured, some of them beyond hope of re-
covery. Fortunately, the train did not take
fire, else the catastrophe would have proven
the most horrible in railway annals.
While four miners were endeavoring
to dispense the accumulation of gas in the shaft
of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, of Wilkes
barre, Pa, the other day, one of them made
his appearance with naked lamp An explo-
sion instantly followed, inficting injuries which
resulted in the death of the entire party.
The town of Edinburg, Pa, has been
almost totally destroyed by fire. The loss is
estimated at about 100000
Joseph II. Oakley, the defaulting
cashier of the Merchants Exchange National
Bank, of New York, has been convicted and SEN
fenced to five years hard labor in the peniten-
tiary.
George J. Hathaway, the rascally
treasurer of the Border City Mills Of Fall
River, Mass, has received ten years SEN
tence. Chace, the President of the company,
was awarded similar term some time ago.
South. a
The Collector of Internal Revenue at
Little Rock, Ark, telegraphs to Washington for
military assistance to enable him to successfully
attack and destroy four illicit distlleries which
he discovered on Benefits bayou in that State,
The distilleries are located close together, are
surrounded by rife-pits, and the employees,
numbering sixty armed with rifles, constitute
formidable garrison. ge n
There were 43 deaths from yellow fe
yer in Memphis on the 9th inst; in New Or
leans the deaths numbered AZ and the new cases
143; at Vicksburg there were 5 deaths, with
very few new cases; Chattanooga, 8 deaths and
a large number of new cases. There was little
or no improvement in the situation at the in
terror points where the fever has gained foot
hold and no hopes of an abatement of the
plague until the appearance of frost ~
A dispatch from Dallas, Tex, says
heavy robberies of money and freight from the
1 Texas and Pacific and the Houston and Texas
Central railroads have been detected, and that
many of high business and social standing, in
eluding officers, conductors and agents. are i'm
picated
Bill Langley, the well-known Texas
desperate, hero of innumerable ARRAYS, and
the slayer of eight men, was recently executed
at Giddings, Texas
A New Orleans dispatch of the 14th
announces that Gov Nichols has been attacked
by yellow fever. R88ea
There were so deaths from yellow
fever in New Orleans on the 18th inst, and 1913
new cases reported; total cases to that date,
II, 537; total deaths, $3.50 AT Memphis the
deaths numbered 16; at Yicksburg, l at Chat
tanooga, 9, with 2o5 sick. The fever had broken
out in large number Of towns along the line