The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-12


collision on the Lake Erie and Western railroad
near Penn Horn creek, N. J. The engineer Of
the passenger train and the fireman Of the
freight train were killed.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague has deter
mined to bring action for divorce against he1
husband, ex-Gov. Sprague of Rhode Island.
Willie, 15-year-old son of ex-Gov.
Sprague, made an unsuccessful attempt. at
Providence, R. l., to shoot Robert Thompson
his mothers trustee.
John P. Gordon, Of Quincy, Mass,
was fatally shot in midnight struggle with
| housebreaker.
The steamer Rhode Island struck
Whale rock, and went ashore in Narragansett
bay. She had 10 passengers on board all of
whom were saved. She was valued at $4,000
| Wreckers pronounce her total loss.
Sarah Bernhardts appearance on the
| New York stage was the signal for prolonged
applause and showers of bouquets. Among
her auditors were Clara Morris, Senator Blaine.
and Gov. Cornell.
| The testimony in the case of Philip.
charged with forging the Garfield Morey letter.
closed at New York on the 9th, when Gen.
Pryor asked the discharge of the prisoner
Judge Davis said he would render decision on
Saturday, the 18th. George Bliss then caused
the arrest Of S. s. Morey and Robert Lindsey
for perjury, and they we're committed for OK
animation. Lindsey testified that for ten years
he had not slept twice in the same place.
Col. E. l.. Drake, who drilled the first
oil-well at Titusyille, and who has for years re-
ceived pension from the State of Pennsylva-
MIA, is dead.
West.
A German Count, who stole several
saws at Fort Wayne, has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for one year.
There are twenty-five murderers in
the jail at San Francisco. awiting trial.
The Grand Jury of San Francisco has
indicted Sheriff Desmond, of that city, for fell
ony in permitting prisoners to escape.
The st. Paul Company will lay its
Black Hills track to within twenty miles of the
Missouri before closing operations this fall.
A collision OF freight trains on the
Marietta and Cincinnati railroad caused the
death of an engineer and fireman and the utter
wreck of the rolling stock.
While firing Garfield salute at Ev-
ansvllle, Ind, a poor mechanic named Henry
Yost had both arms terribly mangled by pre-
mature explosion.
A collision on the Milwaukee and st.
Paul railroad, near Minneapolis, killed three
men and wrecked two locomotives.
Mayor Kalloch, of San Francisco, has
been arrested on an Indictment which sprang
from his employing laborers by the day on the
new City Hall.
The Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad
has agreed to pay Red Cloud and Spotted Tail
$1lO per mile for the right of way through the
Sioux reservation, 81 per acre for station ground,
and So per acre for a town site.
Elbridge J.. Dawson, Assistant Post
master at Leadville, and Edward A. Clark,
stamp clerk, are in jail for embezzing $4,000.
The town of Batesville, Ohio, has
been the scene of most horrible tragedy. 1t
seems that Frank NJ. Biedenbaugh, wealthy
young German, who three years ago married
the daughter of neighboring farmer, came
home late at night intoxicated. and, entering
the room where his wife and child slept, as
saulted them with an ak. His wife's
skull was crushed by single
blow, and then his sons throat cut by the edge
Of the AK. He then went to room where Mrs.
stephens, q visitor, and her child and servant
girl were sleeping, and killed Mrs. Stephens
and child. The servant-glrl, awakened, sprang
toward the door, but was knocked senseless and
left for dead. Upon recovering consciousness
she gave the alarm, and the neighbors came.
1t was not until morning that the murderer was
found hidden in tobacco-house, with his
throat cut not fatally. Jealousy, insanity and
drunkenness are the theories advanced to ac-
co1ut for the horrible crime.
A fire in a mine at Bodie, CAL, re-
suited in the death of five men,
G. HI. Day, clothing manufacturer,
of indianapolis, has made an assignment, with
liabilities of $4,000.
South.
White Oak mountain, near Ozark.
Ark, is reported in state of volcanic eruption.
One of the most revolving tragedies on
record is reported from Loudon county, Va.
Merrill Mott, small farmer, luarreled with
his wife. His sister-in-law took his wife's
into his barn, where he obtained a
large knife, with which he made a
savage attack on the sister-in-law, in
flcting wounds which he seemed to think
were fatal. He then took down his gun, fired
its contents into the air, coolly reloaded it, and
placed it under his own chin, and fired. The
shot blew away the lower part of his face, tear
ing away the tongue, but did not prove in
stantly fatal. While lying in pool of blood,
he noticed that his sister-in-law began to show
signs of life, and, with demoniac purpose he
dragged himself toward the PROSTATE body
lifted large stone, and allowed it to fall on
her head. He was about to repeat the fiendish
act. when his wife came ON the scene. She
wrcnched the stone from him. and used it on
his own head quickly dispatching him. The
sster-in-law died few minutes after.
Col. Lucien c. Cause, for six years
Congressman from the First Arkansas district,
is dead.
The election in Tennessee had a
marked effect on State bonds, which have risen
from $50 to $45.
There was heavy snow-storm In
"arts of Texas on the 9th inst One man was
found frozen to death near Fort Worth.
Hon. Fayette McMullen, prominent
Virginia politician for the last thirty-fve years,
was recently run over by the cars and killed at
Wytheville, Va. He was one of the Readjuster
candidates for Congress from that State at the
recent election. He was once United States
Senator from Virginia, and was also member
of the Confederate Congress.
POLITICAL POINTS.
Garfield carried Hancock's native
town in Montgomery county, Pa. Hancock
carried Galena nv 900 mo ioyitv Gen Waavnr'g