The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-22

ton. Charles W. Angel, who has been Secre-
tary of the Pullman Palace Car Company since
its organization, pocketed 100000 of the COM
pany's funds, and left for parts unknown.
A big robbery was committed at the
Palmer House, in Chicago, few days ago.
Burglars entered the room Of Henry Freund,
travelling jeweler from New York, during his
temporary absence, burst open trunk con-
tanning his goods, and rifed it of it's contents.
consisting of about $4,000 worth of valuable
jewelry. The robbery was committed in broad
daylight, aud was one of the boldest of the
many bold jobs recently executed by the
crooked men that infest the Garden CITY. The
plumber was subsequently recovered and one
of the burglars captured.
Seven young men, all Swedes, started,
one day last week, in a sail-boat from Moline,
Hi, for the purpose of having good time at
what is known as Duck creek, on the Iowa side
of the Mississippi river. When nearly over, and
in the swift current, the boat capsized, and
four Of them were drowned.
A desperate affray, growing out of an
old family feud, occurred in the streets Of
Edgefeld, s. c., few days ago, resulting in
the killing of three men, the mortal wounding
of another, and the serious wounding of two
others. All the parties engaged in the affair
were white men, and had assembled in town to
listen to a political discussion. Politics had
nothing to do with the affair.
The August returns to the Depart
ment of Agriculture show an average condi-
ton of the cotton crop in the ten cotton States
Of IS, decline of 4.
There was quadruple execution at
Donaldsonville, La, on the 18th of August,
the victims being all colored men. The MUIR
der for which they were hanged was a pecul-
iarly atrocious one. ~ ..H
A Columbia IS. o. dispatch says that
Gov. Hampton has forwarded to the Governor
of Ohio requisition asking for the extradition
of ex-Gov. A. K. Scott, who lives in Napoleon,
| Ohio. He is charged with bribery and forgery.
The reports from the yellow-fever in
fected towns of the South are truly distress
ing. The disease has become alarmingly cpl
demic at Memphis, and the citizens are fleeing
from the plague as fast as they can get away.
| The Collector of Internal Revenue and the
Postmaster have appealed to the Secretary OF
War for tents and rations for the poor. Near.
ly all the towns in all directions are quaran-
tined against the city. The ravages of toe
epidemic at Grenada have been truly appalling
The acting Mayor of the town telegraphe6
North last week that the town was almost com
pletely discretionary 300 people left, and hall
of them down with the fever.
A startling sensation was furnished
st. Louis. a few days ago, by Josiah p. Col
cord, who has been quite prominent there as g
lawyer and politician. Colcord shot his mis-
tress, a woman named Lille Gibbons, with va,
rious aliases, and then committed suicide
Colcord had given up wife. family, reputation
and everything for this woman, with whom he
was perfectly infatuated.
A New Orleans dispatch of Aug. 20,
says: "Forty deaths yesterday from yellow
fever, and 120 new cases reported. At least
1000 people are now down with the fever. Nc
further hope entertained of averting terrible
epidemic, which cannot eliminate before the
middle of September" .. Reports from Mem
phis and Vicksburg, on the Goth, repre-
sent the fever as increasing ....A Gren-
ada (Miss.) dispatch gives a distressing
picture of the state Of affairs in that Inflated
town: 'The town is not merely desolate 1t
is SO devastated that it's condition is one OF
pitiful horror. No one is seen in the streets
except the undertakers, physicians and nurses
going on their hopeless and CHASTITY errands.
In every house, almost, body is waiting for
burial-not that there is any ceremony.
man is taken with the fever, lies down ex-
hausted, falls into state of collapse or delir-
ium, and in a few hours is wrapped in the blan-
kets in which he died and hurried to the burial
place. The burial service is omitted, for the
living have no time to think of other services
than those to the sick"