The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

The extensive dry goods jobbing house
of E. S. Jaffray & Co., of New York, has been
robbed of over 1000 worth of goods within
short period through conspiracy among some
of its employees
West.
A dispatch from Deadwood City says:
The dead bodies of two men, named o. B.
Davis and George w. Heating, well-known
horse and cattle thieves, were found hang
ing to a tree five miles north of Spearfsh. I'm
doubtedly the work of the vigilantes of Spear
fish, roey.l Glt tu t"D!i2 e.'+ '''-t
IS. A Portland (Ore) dispatch says Gen.
Howard has been collecting the bands of sur
rendered Indians at Camp Med ermott, and the
whole of them, aggregatng about 1000, are
being transferred to Camp Harvey. They are
held as prisoners, and are to wait the pleasure
of the Government.
Lieut.. Bishop recently had fight, il
the northeastern corner of Wyoming, with a
band of hostile Bannocks that have recently
been raiding the Yellowstone Park, and sue
ceeded in giving the red rascals sound thrash
ing. The fight was short and sharp Owing
to the excellent disposition of his forces made
by Lieut.. Bishop, it was a cleanup.
The Kansas City Horse Railway Com
pany's Office was entered by sneak thief in broad
daylight and relieved of $1,000 in money,
$21 900 in bonds, and 1926, 900 ife-insurance
policy.
A spirited fight occurred in Southern
Kansas, near the line of the Kansas Pacific
railroad, a few days ago, between some 800 In
dams and about an equal number of whites,
composed of soldiers and cattle men, The &C
counts at present at hand indicate that the In
dams were badly warsted, but the extent of their
loss is not given. .u t..n....
south. .+..;.tl
Dispatches of the 10Th from the
plague infected cities of the South indicate that
the fever had reached its height. The deaths
in New Orleans for the preceding twenty -four
hours numbered 63, and the new cases about
100 At Memphis 81 deaths were reported, but
there was marked decrease in the number of
new cases. In Vicksburg there was a decided
falling off in the mortality roll as well as in the
number of new cases, the former figuring at IL,
the latter about SO. Several stores had been
opened, and the city was gradually assuming a
more business-like appearance. Reports from
the interior fever infected towns were quite en-
couraging, nearly all of them reporting signs of
an abatement of the disease 3,st ~ I#t @fit=
Ex-Gov. Sam Bard, of Louisiana, is
dead. itt ol
Advices from the plague-infected
cities of the Mississippi valley to Sept show a
marked abatement of the disease, both as to the
number of new cases and the mortality lists
The weather was growing colder, there were
hopes of an early frost, and the sorely-stricken
people were beginning to hold up their heads
again At New Orleans, Memphis, vicksburg
and other points the mortality roll showed de-
cided decline. At Grenada, Miss, the fever had
run its course, the visiting doctors had all left
and business was being resumed ut9H.ssaf
The Secretary of War has placed
10000 rations in addition to those heretofore
distributed, at the disposal of the Relief Com
mittee in New Orleans. % " LH"8 l'a
There were ga deaths and 1856 new
cases of yellow fever in Memphis on Sept. % !:
many prominent names figured in the death
roll. At New Orleans there were A deaths and
134 new cases; total cases to Sept %, 1872:
total deaths, 2,514 At Vicksburg there were
deaths; Holly Springs 5 deaths and Is new
cases; Brownsville, 5 deaths and 10 new cases
Hickman, deaths; Baton Rouge, 3 deaths and
Sc new cases; Canton, death and % new cases.
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