The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-10-01
THE PAST WEEK.
DOMESTIC NEWS.


TENDER. Thirty thousand strangers were pres
ent. Ex-Gov. Tllden presided, Orlando B. Pot
ter read an historical paper, and Chauncey NJ.
Depew delivered an Grafton.
Bristol, r. L, celebrated its 200th an
niversary Sept. "a. with appropriate exercises.
Two boys in Reading, Pa, quarreied
recently over game Of marbles; one of them
settled the dispute by killing the other with a
stone.
Pittsburgh is excited over the case of
nun who was removed from the House of the
Good Shepherd to Dixmont Insane Asylum un-
der suspicious circumstances. The Superin-
tendent of the asylum has had charge of her
for three months and says she is perfectly
sane, and was when she was brought to the
asylum. The doctors who certified to her in
sanity admit that their examination lasted only
five minutes. an
Elk Congressman Albright, Of Mauch
Chunk, Pa, is dead.
Elisha Bliss, Jr, President of the
American Publishing Company, Hartford, Ct,
is dead. @@51A -
GhV WS0Cs
Reports from Indian Territory show
that the Cheyennes have assumed threaten
ing attitude. Three hundred of them recently
visited the agency and assaulted the Agent.
A train on the Northwestern railway
raninto a herd of sheep and killed twenty-eight
of them, near Fort Atkinson, Wis. ss.s
Fire in Cincinnati destroyed Marrnet
& Co.'S coal elevator and portion of Lane &
Bodley's machine shop.
The Supreme Court at Indiana has
overruled the petition for rehearing in the
case involving tllevalidity of the constitutional
amendments. Judges Riddle, Warren and
Howk we're against reopening the case, and
Judges Niblack and Scott in favor. The State
election WILL therefore, be held in October.
A serious collision between passen.
ger aud freight train occurred on the Vandalia
railroad, near Terre Haute, by which the en-
gineer and fireman of the passenger train lost
their lives, and several other train men were
injured more or less seriously.
The boiler in Loose & Sons fruit-dry-
ing house, at Monroe, Mich, exploded With ter
rihc violence, killing Henry O'Brien engineer,
Leonard Martin, cutter, and boy named Cha
beraux, and wounding more or less seriously
nine others. reg #E
The ladies of Doniphan county, Kan,
bought all the booths on the fair ground bid
ding much higher than the saloon-keepers,
whose bar'l could not compareiin size with that
of their fair antagonists.
Clarence Gray, Republican candidate
for District Attorney, recently shot and NOR
tally wounded Theodore CLANCY, editor of the
Santa Barbara (Cal.) Press
1t is estimated that the various rail
roads centering in Chicago will expend $6OOO,-
900 in permanent improvements there this
year. s.ts....s
Three men were scalded fatally, and
two others painfully by the explosion of the
steam-pipe of the packet Maggie Harper, on the
Ohio river
A. H. Latham, of Albany, and Miss
Sarah J. Faris, of Rennoville, md, were mar
ried by telegraph the other day, Rev. Mr.. Par
rett, OF Portland, Ind, officiating.
Douglass Williams, nephew of the
Governor of Indiana, was murdered, few
days ago, at Vincennes, Ind, by Ed Hogan,
railroad man. The murderer made his escape.
Miss Sarah Vance, patient in st.
Vincent's Insane Asylum, st. Louis, set fire to
her clothing, and was fatally burned. .
William Sly, of Nicholasville. Cler-
mont county, Ohio went to Cincinnati and ex-
changed 1900 4-per-cent bonds for gold, put
ting the gold in a vahse On the cars on his
way home he found his valise exchanged for
one containing three bricks. No clew to the
robber.
A horrible tragedy has been enacted
at Warsaw, Ind, the particulars of which are
furnished III the following telegram from that
place; "George L. Smith, formerly sewing
machine agent, went to the jail, where he called
Miss Chaplin out, and deliberately shot her
twice, after which he shot himself, both
dying almost instantly. About week
ago Smith, who is married man.
with a family, land Miss Chaplin,
daughter Of a wealthy farmer, were
arrested for forgery, in I which she
signed her fathers name to paper which
was afterward collected at the bank She i'm
plicated him, claiming it was through his direc-
ton that she did it. For this it is supposed he
did the rash act Rumor has it they were
shortly to be married. although he was mar
ried man."
Emperor William, of Germany, has
completely recovered his health.
Fifty hay barges were recently burned
in the river Neva, at st. Petersburg.
fF.lH The South.
Five persons were drowned by the
sinking of a steamboat near Natchez, Miss.
Peter Slack (colored) has been hanged
at Lumberton, N. G., for the murder of Sam
Townsend, also colored, IN January, 1879.
The nimble grasshopper has appeared
in Northwest Texas. A cloud of hoppers SO
dense as to obscure the sun passed over Jacks
horo, Jack county, the other day.
Accounts from various parts of Texas
say there is great deal of sickness throughout
the State on account of the wet season. On
some plantations on the Brazos Colorado and
Trinity rivers there is so much malarial fever
that there is not enough help to pick cotton.
Typho-malarial Cor dengue) fever is the prevail
ing malady.
j. Q. Wright, cashier of the late civil
Sheriff of New Orleans, is under arrest for the
embezzlement of $4,000.
Miscellaneous.
Lieut.. Schwatka and party, who sailed
from New York two years ago to discover the
remains of Sir John Franklin and his Arctic
expedition, have arrived at New Bedford.
Their long journey was not as successful as
might have been wished by the projectors,
but it was not altogether fruitless. They have
obtained many relics of Franklins party, made
numerous charts which will he of great value to
future explorers, and demonstrated that white
men can adapt themselves to the habits of the
Esquinlaux in making long journeys in the polar
regions.
1t is said that an enterprising show
man has engaged Sitting Bull, and will exhibit
him throughout the country.
The New York Herald publishes a
letter of a correspondent who accompanied the