The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-24

One man, two women and two children we're
very heavy in various places, and some of the
hailstones measured seven inches in circum-
ference. lightning caused the loss of few
lives. Two boats capsized off Scituate, and
three persons were drowned. Near Montreal,
Mrs. Peter Robertson was killed by lightning.
Round about Kingston and Saugerties, N. Y,
the crops were ruined, and barns and out
houses blown down. The hallstones resem-
bled large chunks of ice
Gen. William F. Barry, commandment
at Fort McHenry. and Colonel of the Second
United States Artillery, died last week at Balti-
more, after brief illness, Of bilious dysentery
John Hope, convicted Of the robbery
Of the Manhattan IN. " Savings Bank Of
100000 securities and cash, has been SEN
fenced to the State prison for twenty years.
A Granger law" has been passed by
the lower house of the New Hampshire
Legislature A board of commissioners
will have power, under this act, to regulate the
charges of all railroads in the State.
In the case of Chastine Cox, the
murderer of Mrs. Hull, of New York, a stay
CT proceedings has been granted by Judge Noah
York Supreme Court in October.
Ex-1ax Collector r. G.. Waldron, of
North Adams, Mass, has been arrested for the
embezzlement of 100000 during 1876 and 1877
while in office.
Chicago elevators contain 3,e49,080
bushels of wheat, 2,57S,27S bushels of corn,
367, 127 bushels of oats, Fl, 689 bushels of rye,
and Sl,3T bushels of barley, making a
grand total of $685. bushels, against
1,2O3,137 bushels at this period last
year. - Milwaukee warehouses contain
1897, 900 bushels of wheat, 1864 bushels of
corn, 1880 bushels of oats, 1874 bushels of
rye aud 92,S17 bushels of barley-Stock of
lumber, etc., in the hands of ninety Chicago
yard-dealers: 49,, 1885,, 635 feet of lumber and
timber; 1885, 755, 600 pieces shingles; 81 1871, 100
pieces of lath; $50, 351 feet of pickets, and
2o6, 273 pieces of cedar posts.
John Charles Adrion Hamilton,
grandson of Alexander Hamilton, died at Mer-
ced, Cal, few days ago.
Arthur Townsend was murdered by
Indians in Tulare county, CAL, last week. The
Indians were lynched by white settlers.
It is currently reported in Milwaukee
that Alexander Mitchell, President of the Mil
waukee and St Paul railroad, has gone to
Europe to negotiate for the control of the
Northern Pacific road.
Advices from the West report that
Seen Miles is in the neighborhood of the
Bear-Paw mountains, where he expected to
find a large party Of Sioux. The Generals
fighting force does not exceed 900 men, The
wood choppers and hairbreadth- escape fellows
along the river say that he will be cleaned out
If he strikes the main body of Sitting Bulls
followers. Old officers on the frontier who
fought the Indians before Miles entered the
army say he will get caught They predict for
him the same fate that befeu Custer"
There were 274 deaths in Chicago
last week, that number being 131 less than the
figures for the corresponding week Of last year
Three men we're drowned in the bay
at San Francisco, last week, by the upsetting
of boat
@ South.
A party of Indians have been MUIR
dering and robbing near Fort Davis, Texas.
The meager accounts of the outrage do not in
dictate whether the raiders were from across the
border, although the nearness of the locality to
the lurking ground of the Mexican cut-throats
makes it likely that such is the case
Five new cases of yellow fever were
reported to the Memphis Board Of Health on
the 18th. The cases occurred under one roof
in the southern part of the city. A general
panic ensued, and citizens began to flee from
the pestilence as fast as they could get away.
Five new cases Of yellow fever and
one death were reported at Memphis on the
18th inst There was great excitement in the
city, and everybody was leaving that could get
away.
The relatives of the late Mrs. Dorsey,
who bequeathed $3.50, 900 worth of property to
J0u OdRlS, Will cOuI0SG Uu0 WILL DaVlS was
the guest of the lady before her DEATH and the
contest will doubtless be made on the ground
of undue influence or the insanity of the test
atrix =.
There were five new cases of yellow
fever, and one death, in Memphis on the 10th of
July, and on the Goth seven new cases and four
deaths were reported to the Board of Health.
A Memphis dispatch of the 2lst says: "Busi-
ness is dead. The wholesale merchants have
nearly all made their arrangements to continue
business at other points. Many retailers have
closed their stores and left the city, The
city authorities recommend the immediate
evacuation of the city, and number of promi-
nent citizens have paid the passage of all their
employees to other points The officers of the
Hebrew Hospital Association to-day distributed
about sc, GOO to 100 poor Jewish families, thus
furnishing them the means to leave this i'll