The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-27
The Chicago Dailu Commercial

1883 The estimated increase in the number
of hogs packed is $4,000, but the quality is not
quite as good as that of last season, and the in
crease in product is only about equal to 63O,0o0
hogs of last years weight The total number
of hogs estimated packed for the season is
1865 600.
The Kansas House of Representa-,
tives has passed bill creating Patriot Guard
for the frontier, with view to repelling Indian
invasions, and appropriating $4,000 for its
maintenance; and the Senate has passed a bill
forever prohibiting the manufacture of liquor
in the State of Kansas.
The town of Stockton, CAL, has been
the scene of a shocking calamity, by which six
teen people were suddenly launched into eter-
nifty, and twenty-six others wounded, several
of them fatally. A crowd Of more than 200
people had assembled to witness the trial of
new propeller pump set in the slough and run
by threshing engine, which exploded. Those
who stood near were Frustrated. The body of
the engine was blown a distance of $50
feet through the large crowd. The dead lay
PROSTATE in every direction, some falling into
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dead bodies lay in one heap near the bridge.
Others lay strewn dead and dying on the street,
blown from fifty to one hundred feet. The
heads of some were blown to pieces. Others
were blown to the ground with such force as
to break every bone in their bodies Their
faces, hands and bodies were steamed in
dirt and smoke and cinders The explosion
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the engineer. The steam gauge refused to
work, and, after the engineer had attempted to
fix it and failed, he screwed down the safety
valve and went on with his work MAN, were
blown a considerable distance and escaped un-
injured. The body of the engine, weighing 800
pounds, was blown over the telegraph wires and
landed on the plaza.
Little VOLTS band of Cheyenne In
dams are raiding through the Black Hills, tax
ing scalps and attacking wagon train occa-
sionally.
George W. Dupre, State Printer of
Louisiana, has been indicted for perjury by the
New Orleans Grand Jury.
John McLeon, quondam Methodist
preacher, now in prison at Asheville, n c.. is
the champion bigamist of the age. He has
been married nineteen times, his wives ere all
alive and none of them has he ben legally
separated from.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Ca, gives
the following brief particulars of shocking
railway disaster: "a passenger train on the
Selma Rome and Dalton road which had just
left Selma Ala, fell through rotten bridge over
Mulberry creek, thirteen miles from Selma.
George Evans, prominent young Alabamian,
and four negroes were killed Three white
tendent of the road, is among those fatally
wounded. Twenty five persons were injured
Conductor White was terribly wounded The
sleeping car did not go down with the wreck. ALI
the rest of the train, including several freight
cars and the engine, were smashed in one mass
The bridge was perfectly rotten, and much in
dignation exists. The escape of so many is
considered miraculous"
The press and people of New Orleans
Indignantly deny that the yellow fever has re-
appeared in that city.
In Sumter, S. c., two negroes, who
burned another's barn because no voted the
Democratic ticket, have been sentenced to the
penitentiary for two years.
Near Baltimore, Nd, Farmer Parks,
on horseback, drunk, refused to ride home
with his wife and family in carriage, exclaim-
ing that he could ride to hell. After full
gallop for short distance, he was dashed
against stone and killed.
A Virginia constable, near Washing
ton City, went with posse of thirty five men
to the house of Felix Quanders (colored) for the
purpose of serving a warrant. Quanders bar
ricaded his doors. The constable ordered him
to come out, but he declined An attempt was
made to fire the house. The posse then fired
thirty-fve shots into the house, wounding
Quanders, ST., his wife, two sons, the wife of
one of the sons, and female victor. The
constable was arrested and placed under bonds.
George Washington (colored) was
doubly hanged at Louisville, Ky, the other
day. When the drop was sprung the rope
snapped in twain, and the culprit fell with
heavy thud to the ground. The body was lift
ed up, another moose placed around the neck,
and the bungling job completed
A colored member of the Arkansas
Legislature swears that United States Senator
elect Walker paid him money for the purpose
of influencing votes. Walker swears, on the
other hand, that E.e Gid no such thing. and that
the "membsh" is guilty of flat perjury.
A United States mail coach was re-
Gently halted by two highwaymea inside the
city limits of Fort Worth, Texas, town of
$4,000 inhabitants, who compelled the passen
gers to give up their money, and relieved the
mail bags of fourteen registed packages.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
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