The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-01
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
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West, Bradley & Cory's corset and
suspender factory, in New York, burned the
other night. The loss amounted to about
$9OOOOO
At Mount Holly, N. j., the dwelling
of Matthew Gleason, a laboring man, has been
totally destroyed by fire, his three little chill
dren perishing in the flames.
At Bangor, Me-, on Christmas day,
considerable excitement was caused by reports
of the intended removal of arms from the
State Arsenal to Augusta. Two trucks were
loaded and had proceeded a ways toward the
depot, when an excited crowd overlook them
and demanded an explanation of the
drivers An unsatisfactory reply being
given, the mob undertook to unhitch
the horses, when young man sprung on
one of the wagons and stated that he was q
clerk in the Office of the Adjutant General, and
that the munitions of war were intended for
use in defense of the State House. At this the
crowd became furious, and the Mayor advised
the clerk to beat a retreat notifying him that
he was powerless to resist the crowd The
arms were then returned to the arsenal, under
an escort of police.
Alexander Stuart, the wel-known
sugar merchant, and one of Nav York's solid
men, is dead.
The city of Boston has just suffered
from another destructive confagration in the
business quarter. The fire started in the rear
Of Houghton. Osgood & 60. g publishing house,
destroying that establishment, the paper ware
house of Rice, Kendall & Co., and numerous
other large and valuable buildings The loss
is roughly estimated at from $4,000, 900, tc
100000.
South.
Two negro murderers were lynched
In Russell county, Ala, recently, by mob
composed of whites and blacks.
A freight train on the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas railroad broke through burn
ing bridge near Durant station, in Texas. The
locomotive passed over safely, but the tender
and twenty-five cars were wrecked and burned,
Mike Kelly, fireman, fell into the fire and was
burned to death. Brakeman Abernethy was
injured
Wade Hampton, Jr., son of the ex-
Governor of South Carolina, died few days
ago of malarial fever, at his plantation near
Greenville, Miss.
Robert and Dennis Patrick (colored)
quarreled in Madison county, Ala, while kill
ing hogs, and in the scufie the brothers closed
and rolled into caldron of hot water, and were
literally cooked alive
West.
The destruction by fire of some of
Best's brewery buildings in Milwaukee entailed
loss estimated at $315, 900, with an insurance
of $20S.0O0
William Mckee, senior proprietor of
the st. Louis Glo6e-Denocrat, is dead
Ouray informs Gen. Hatch that the
guilty Utes have at last concluded to surrender,
with the exception of Jack. Jack is implaca-
BILE. and thinks of joining Sitting Bull.
A generous Iowa lady-Mrs. Cordelia
Miller, of Waterloo-has made donation of
$4,000 to the Garrett Biblical Institute. at
Evanston, LII.
The holiday trade of Chicago was
very heavy indeed
They have been having some fright
ful winter weather in the Red river valley in
Northern Minnesota, Dakota, and the British
possessions, and extending away to the Pacific
coast in spite of the warm Japan current. At
St Vincent and Pembina. the spirit thermome-
ter showed So degrees below zero; at Crooks
ton, Mimi, Sc degrees, and at Brainerd SO de-
grees we're the figures.
A serious accident occurred on the
Jacksonville branch of the Chicago and Alton
railroad, between Berdan and Whitehall. Ill.
on the night Of Dec IS. The night express
from St. Louis for Kansas City was thrown
from the track by broken rail,
and thrown down an embankment
Two of the coaches caught fire from
overturned stoves, and were consumed The
terror-stricken passengers were obliged to
make the utmost exertions to save themselves.