The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-29

the murder of one Of his countrymen, suicided
M his cell by strangulation.
Advices from New Mexico report an
other engagement between Maj. Morrow's
command and Victoria's band. After q fight
of several hours duration the Indians
were finally routed Lieut.. H. T..
French, of the Ninth cavalry, was
killed while calamity leading his company.
The hostiles' loss could not be ascertained, the
country being inexpressibly rough, giving
| them chance to carry the wounded off after
the Indian fashion. It is stated that three dif-
ferent expeditions will be organized to thor
oughly clean out the Indians under Victoria in
Southern New Mexico, and give the country
peace. R4N
Chicago is suffering from an epidemic
of crime, and the papers of that city are loaded
every day with accounts of murders, shootings,
robberies, garrotinga, burglaries, etc. The city
is full Of daring and desperate criminals, who,
setting the laws and The police at defiance, ply
their vocations in open daylight as well as un-
der cover of darkness. So indignant have the
citizens become at the alarming state of affairs
that three Or four attempts have lately been
made to take the law into their own hands and
hang some of the 1awless classes to lamp posts,
and were only prevented from doing SO by the
timely interference of the police.
The Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany has made very important addition to its
lines by purchasing the New Orleans, st. Louis
and Chicago railroad, which runs from New
Orleans, via Jackson, Miss, to Cairo, Ill.
where it joins the Illinois Central line.
The lumbermen of Chicago have adj
vanced the price of lumber per cent
A Chicago highwayman was indicted,
tried and sentenced to fifteen years. imprison-
ment in the penitentary within less than three
days after the commission of the crime
Intelligence comes from Las Vegas,
New Mexico, of a bloody battle between cti-
zens and party of cowboys The latter
rode into town late at night, intending to
wreak vengeance on the City Marshal,
whom they found at dance. After
MORALLY wounded. The lights were then put
out and the fight continued in the dark, the
friends of the dead man taking hand. When
the combat ended, it was found that two of the
attackers had been killed. The rest some of
them wounded, no doubt, made their escape.
A daring bank robbery occurred at
Danforth, Ill, few nights since. The cracks
men arrived in town on an evening train,
gagged an old man who lived over the bank,
blew open the vault and, taking about 5000,
made good their escape.
The Mayor Of Columbus, Ohio, was
halted by highwaymen in one of the public
streets of that city, few nights ago, and re-
lieved of his money and a gold watch.
A Chicago paper reports that with
in few weeks the railroads have invested
$500, 600 in the purchase of depot grounds and
track yards in and around that city.
The Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific
and Denver Pacific railroads have been con-
solidated into one new company, to lie known
as the Union Pacific Railway Company.
The capital of the new company is fixed at
s5o,O0O,0Oo
All but one of the WOODEN mills in
Indiana have shut down, owing to the high
price of raw material and the low rates which
the manufactured goods bring in the markets
Better times are expected before spring.
South
A negro named Austin Jordan, living
near Warrenton, Va, abandoned wife and
five children and eloped with Miss Corder, the
beautiful daughter of wealthy and respectable
farmer, the pair carrying away 81, 900 belong
ing to the girls father. They were pursued
and brought back, and the negro placed in
jail, from whence he was taken by mob and
hanged to a tree in the village cemetery.
The work of sewering the city of
Memphis has been commenced.
Three men were killed and several
dangerously wounded by the explosion of a
boiler On sugar plantation near New Orleans
Five men were crushed to death by
the fall of building that was being raised at
Opeiika, Ala.
The report of the New Orleans Super
visor of Steamboats, shows that during the past
year not single death was occasioned by steam
explosion, a fact unprecedented in the history
of Mississippi; steamboat navigation
The steamer Charmer was recently
burned in the Red river, near Bayou Sara, La.
Eight of the boats crew lost their lives. Boat
and cargo, consisting of 2,10O bales of cotton,
were totally destroyed.
WASHINGTON NOTES.