The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-05-22
Asahel Peck, formerly Governor OF
Vermont, is dead He was rs years old.
West.

Chicago elevators contain COIL, 715
bushels of wheat, 3,751, 486 bushels of corn,
3O7, 594 bushels Of oats, 122,81S bushels of rye
and 264, O47 bushels of barley, making grand
total of 1915, 500 bushels, against 1880, 432
bushels at this period last year.
The twelfth annual convention of the
American Railway Master Mechanics Assocla-
ton was held at Cincinnati last week.
The Board of Review of the National
Trotting Association Col G. W. Woolley, of
Cincinnati, presiding), at its sessions in Chica-
go last week, expelled two of the most noted
turfmen of the country-R. G. Pate, of st.
Louis, owner of Woodford Mambrino, Lucille,
and other celebrated horses, and J. N. Had
dock, late owner of the flyer Edwin
Forrest. The offense for which they were
bounced was the putting up job and selling
out race at Utica, N. Y, in which Edwin For
rest and Mambrino were the contestants, in
August last Edward Pyle, driver of Edward,
the winner of the race, was expelled.
Gus Glidden and Morrill, Higbie, who
drove Forrest; Jack Bowen, the, driver of
Trampoline; and Biggs, driver of Dick Wright,
were suspended until next December,
and the case continued until the same time for
further investigation. The decision of the
judges in the Bonesetter- Proteine 2:2O race at
Chicago, last fall, was reversed, and the race
awarded by the board to Bonesetter. As a re-
suit of this latter decision, Proteine and Bone
setter have been matcned for 10,O00 race by
~, o;,. io% 10 1,o +oI =
cago on the 10Th of next July.
Agriculturists in the vicinity of In
dianapolis, Ind, say that there were never bet
ter prospects for fruit, and that the crop prom
ises to be larger than can be disposed of.-En-
couraging reports of the growing grain crops
reach us from all parts of the West With
favorable conditions bountiful harvest is pre-
dicted -lf
DR.. John FL. Rauch, of Chicago, just
returned from the South, informs the Chicago
Journal that all the cities in the Mississippi
valley are working like beavers to ward off the
yellow fever this year.
Grasshoppers have appeared in con-
siderable numbers in the region of Bismarck,
Dakota.
United States Circuit Judge Dillon,
of the Eighth district the States
souri, and Arkansas-has decided to resign his
seat on the bench and accept an offer to pre-
side over Columbia College Law School, in
New York city.
The Indianapolis Postofice was
robbed, the other day, in a bold and dexterous
manner. The safe IN the registry department
was rihed of a package of ten money-order let
ters, ffty-ive registered letters, and about
1900 in cash. The clerk had turned his back
for few minutes to look over the morning
paper. taking advantage of which the bold thief
stealthly crept to the safe, siezed the contents,
and made good his escape,
The most extraordinary game of bill
iards ever played was that contested in Chica-
go, the other day, by Jacob Schaefer and
George Slosson. Schaefer ran the game Of
600 points oct in three innings, making runs
of s. 800 and 305, thus accomplishing the ire
mendous average of $685.. The game was the
three-ball French carom, and was for stake
of 81 900 and the championship of the United
States.
A murderer named Wallace Wilker-
son was executed at Provo, Utah, on the 10th
inst Under the laws of the Territory, per-
hitting choice between shooting and hanging,
the condemned man chose to die by the first
named method. He took a position on the
chair, and, at signal from the Marshal, three
concealed merksmen fired He leaped from
the chair, exclaimed, 90 God!" fell forward on
his face, and continued writing, breathing
few gasps for twenty seven minutes. when the
physicians pronounced him dead
Advices from the Indian Territory
report that body of United States cavalry is
raiding the Territory, turning back everything
that looks like squatting outfit. The discom-
flied settlers are pouring across the Canadian
river pen-mell, evidently for the most part i'm
pressed with the belief that the soldiers mean
business, and that the Executive will maintain
the alleged treaty with the Indians. Some of
the unfortunate emigrants are hard up for food.
The cavalry, it is stated, will continue patrol
ing the country until the last intruder is driven
out
tbs reported from Omaha that Frank
James, the celebrated train robber, is en-
camped in the Wind River country, some dis
lance north of the Union Pacific railroad, and
has, besides his own force, large number of
deserters from the United States army and
lot of cowboys
A number of the people of Quincy,
Ill, are fighting taxes, because they believe
the levy exceeds the legal limit Consequently
the city treasury is empty, and the Mayor
threatens to discharge the police and fremen.
Two brothers, William and Thomas
Morgan, were drowned in the Licking river,