The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-05-01
The citizens of Wyandotte, Kan, re-

The citizens of Wyandotte, Kan, re-
Gently refused to allow steamer to land $50
negro enigrants at the levee in front of that
town.
The buildings of the celebrated Cath
olic University Of Notre Dame, located near
South Bend, Ind. were destroyed by fire on the
oa,~ Of April. The loss is about $500, 600. and
~. ~ ;,.,r:-sse 100000 Rebuilding will COM
mence immedia
I. As A small fight y so hostile Sioux lately
occurred in Northern Mont.. na' on .ne Mussei.
shell, tributary of the Miss. orh 1lsn. u
the savages were killed, and one Ga
acting with the whites, was killed, al QUO
wounded The troops engaged we're UNI y
command of Lieut. Loder, Of the Seventh In
fantry s @s #E
A sensational scene, and one not down
in the bills, was enacted in Mcvicker's Theater,
at Chicago, the other evening. Shakspeares
historical play Of Richard IL was being enacted,
the well-known tragedian, Edwin Booth, per-
sonating Richard The third act had been
reached, and Mr.. Booth, dressed in somber Co.'S
tune, was seated on the stage delivering the
lines of the immortal bard, when
man arose in the audience and de-
liberately fred two pistol-shots at the
actor. Fortunately, the would-be assas
sin was poor shot and the bullets went wide
of the intended mark. The episode created
the widest excitement among actors and audi
ence; but, after a brief intermission, the play
went on and was carried to it's conclusion. The
shooter was arrested and gave the name of
Mark Gray, and his residence Keokuk, Iowa. He
admitted the shooting, and expressed regret
that he had not aimed more accurately. 1t is
suspected that the man is crazy. = ~
-Four large warehouses, with their
contents, on Kinzie and State streets, Chicago
were destroyed by fire last week. Loss about
$4,000.
A very notable murder trial has just
been concluded at Chicago, having lasted
eighteen days In July of last year q young
man named Peter e. Stevens, fired by jealousy,
shot and killed his wife, a girl Of Is years. In
due course of time he was indicted and ar
raigned for trial. For counsel Stevens en-
gagged Storrs and Trude, probably the two
shrewdest, if not ablest, criminal lawyers in
Chicago. They set UP she insanity plea, and
abored with mastery ingenuity to con-
vince tie iurv that the murderer was
insane at the time of the commission of the
deed; but without success. A verdict of man
slaughter, with fourteen years in the peniten-
tiary, was rendered. No sooner was the decis-
ion Of the jury rendered in the court than Mrs.
Young, the mother of tho murdered woman,
who had been constant attendant at the trial
leveled revolver at the head of Stevens and
pulled the trigger. but, fortunately, a corner of
handkerchief which the would-be murderess
held in the same hand that grasped the weapon
was caught by the hammer, the cap failed to
explode, and the intended-victim's life was
saved. .#3 Il- s..a
One of the most depraved and blood
thirsty wretches of whom modern criminal an
nails give any record has just been executed at
Minden, Kearney county, Neb. The immediate
crime for which s. d. Richards-such being
the name of the fiend-suffered was the muir
der of Mrs. HARRISON and her two children,
but these constitute but third of the people
whom he had robbed of life within a
period of four years. The wretch made
speech from the gallows, in which he said
he had made his peace with Jesus, and expect
ed to 20 to heaven. Richards was in his 25th
year; was born and raised in Northern Ohio,
and was an exemplary young man until he
came West four years ago. t fl
The late attempt upon the life of
Edwin Booth has had the effect of crowding
the houses at each performance in McVicker's
large Chicago house. For the present week
John Howard Paynes tragedy of @Brutus,''
Shakspeare's Hamlet" and sKing Lear" and
Bulwer's "Richelieu are the attractions. The
support given Mr.. Booth in this engagement
by Messrs Keene and Levick and the stock
company at McVickers is no small element in
the attractiveness of the performances.
South.
It is reported that the emigration
fever has reached the sugar parishes, and that
the negroes are leaving in such numbers as to
excite the most serious apprehensons regard
| ing the sugar crop.
A Charleston IS. o. dispatch says
that ex-Treasurer Cardozo and ex-Congress-
man smalls, convicted of bribery, have been
pardoned by Gov. Simpson.
The region of Corsicana, Texas. was
visited, the other day, by one of the most ter
| rife rain storms ever Witnessed Tn twenty
seven hours 81 inches of rain fell Bridges
and fences were swept away, hundreds of cat
tie and hogs were drowned, and the Texas Cen
trail railroad was submerged and the trains
| abandoned. II..-= AT
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| The Iron Mountain road bridge across