The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21
WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW,



woods near Bradford, Pa, and spread with
great rapidity over a large tract OF country.
The villages of Oil Centre and Middaughville
and q tank containing Is, 900 barrels of oil were
destroyed. Railroad bridges, oil wells and
tanks, and other property have been swept
awayi in all directions. The confagration Is so
extended that anything like an accurate esti-
mate of the losses cannot be given.
An unsuccessful attempt has been made to kill
the Spanish Consul at New York, by means of
an Internal machine. The official found, on
entering his Office, an oblong package, mailed
at Philadelphia, which he proceeded to open.
On cutting the string, an explosion occurred,
filling the room with smoke, and severely
wounding him in the left hand.
The village Of Stuyvesant, n. T., has
been almost entirely destroyed by an incendlary
fire. Loss, 5000, OOO.. There was atr1ple hanging
at Lebanon. Pa, on the 18th inst, the victims be-
ing Brandt, Humel and Wise, convicted OF the
murder of old man Raber for the purpose OF
securing the insurance on hs me- Two men
had previously been executed for the same muir
der-Edwin Hunt was hanged the same day at
Bridgeport, Ct, for the murder OF his father
MILTON, Pa, has been almost entire
" destroyed by fire. Six hundred buildings
we're burned and one life lost. The loss of
property is estimated at from 100000 to
81. OOO 900. and the insurance at $780, 600. =.
Jacob Painter, one of the founders OF the
iron industry of .od Pitt SD & h wears just
A murderer named Carl Manke was executed
last week at Buffalo, N. Y. The monster ex-
pressed not the least regret for having killed a
fellow-being, refused to see his wife, swore at
those who suggested q clergyman, and went to
the foot Of the gallows using bias
phemous and vulgar expressions =:
An express-train, drawn by new LOCOMOTIVE
with but one STANDARDIZATION driving wheel
at each side was run between Philadelphia and
JERSEY City, distance of ninety miles, In
ninety-seven minutes. The return trip was
made in ninety and half minutes
The death is announced of Hon. Sanford g..
Church, Chief Justice of the New York Court
of Appeals. Judge Church was exceedingly
popular with all parties in New York State.
He has been frequently mentioned In connec-
ton with the Democratic Presidential nomlna-
ton. He was IS years old.
The body of Dennis Coppers was
some time ago refused burial in Calvary Gene
terry, New York, on the ground that he was a
Free Mason and a Protestant. The lower court
gave decision on this case adverse to the
Catholic Trustees of the cemetery, but the gen
eral term of the Supreme Court has just unanl-
mously decided that those who control the
cemetery may make conditions as to the persons
to be buried there, and that the burial OF Dennis
Coppers in Calvary Cemetery cannot be COM
PEELED.
FOREST fires still prevail in the coast
counties of New Jersey, in some of which the
destruction of property has been almost total
The people have fought the flames for weeks
and are now exhausted and disheartened. "A
IL 49, h,rIrn no
malt house of Philadelphia brewery and dam
aged the concern to the extent of $200, 600.
FORTY houses have been destroyed by
fire at Condersport, Potter county, Pa. Loss
estimated at 100000. planning mill and
lumber yard at Pittsburgh were also burned in
volving loss of 100000.
HHE WEST.
The Mihills Manufacturing Company's
works at Fond du Lac, Wis, have been de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is placed at 5000, 1000,
and the insurance, divided among thirty-six
companies, at 1863, O00.. Twenty-one business
houses and several dwellings have been de-
stroyed by fire at West Liberty, Ohio. The loss
is placed at 100000.
A MAN named John Allendorf, claim
ing to be a resident of Linn county, Kan, has
arrived at Leadvllle with narrowing report of
a massacre in the Ute country. He says he left
home in company with seventeen companions,
weeks ago, and that after taking out consid-
cradle metal on the reservation his party was
attacked by the savages he only escaping to
tell the story of the slaughter.
A SECRET organization has been formed
at Denver, with which some $50 persons, some
of them being respectable citizens are connect
ed, for the purpose of exploring the Gunnison
country and driving out the Ute Indians.
TWENTY-FIVE men from Deadwood,
Dakota, in pursuit of the murderers of John
Deffenbach the wealthy herder, have had q
fight with party of eighteen Indians, on a
tributary of the Little Powder river. The con-
fct lasted two hours, and resulted in the death
of one white man and four savages, the scat
tering of the remaining redskins and the re-
capture of about eighty of the ponies stolen
from the slaughtered frontiersman. :.
In the contest for the baseball championship
of 1880 the Chicago Club leads all competitors
IA drunken man attempted to force
an entrance into the house of Miss Char
lotte Joiner, of Huron, Ohio. She called on
him to desist, but he refused, whereupon she
took down her shotgun and lodged the con-
tents of it in his body. The intruder died of
the effects soon after David Fry and three
children were burned to death near Fort Wayne,
Ind.
REPORTS from the troops in pursuit of
Victoria the hostile Apache chief, show that
for the last month the savages have evaded the
bluecoats and killed and robbed settlers in all
directions. More soldiers will be sent against
the raiders. "A Kansas City youth who went to
beer-g garden to take charge of his brother,
who was lying there in an intoxicated condition,
got drunk himself, and on the way home late at
night was shot and killed by desperate.
BISHOP WILLIAM STANLEY, of the
United Brethren Church, has just died at his
home in Westerville, Ohio He was one of the
founders of Otterbein University. He was the
father of the author of "Nelie Gray"
THE SOUTH.
DURING an amateur theatrical per.
Torrance at Atlanta, Ca, young ladys dress
took fire from the footights, and in the panic
which ensued the clothes of two other girls