The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-10-29
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
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Details of the triple murder and sui
eide near Wheelock, VT, are SO phenomenally
horrible as 10 almost stagger belief in their
authenticity The maniac murderer and sui
eide was young man named Blake, and his
victims were his mother (Mrs. Wiliams) sister
and stepfather. The account goes on to state
that the murderer dubbed them all to
death with a shotgun, breaking the
stock off on Mrs Williams head the
lock of the gun being found entangled in her
hair The stock lay by her side. The walls,
curtains ana mirror were despatched with
blood, and there is hole made in the plaster
ing of the ceiling by an up-stroke of the weapon.
Dried appIes from hanging racks were scattered
about the room. Part of MIS-. Williams hair
was pulled out, and 1t is supposed she started to
escape, and that he caught her by the hair and
dragged her back. Though an extraordinary
lily strong woman, she was no match for the
armed maniac. The old folks, being feeble,
could make little resistance. The back of Mrs
Williams head was pounded in, her teeth
knocked out, and her skull broken in over the
right eye, and her lips cut open. Mr. Parks
head was pounded up, one arm broken, and
probably the neck broken. Mrs. Parks head
was crushed in the same as the others. The
dead body of Blake was found in the barn sus-
pended by the neck with rein taken from
some harness.
Lydia Maria Child, whose pathway
for nearly sixty years has been strewn with
literary gariands, has just died at her home in
Massachusetts.
Maine is having water famine, and
several mills and manufactures have been
forced to shut down.
Mervin Hurlbert y Co., dealers in
firearms and ammunition at No. SO Chambers
street and No. SIS Reade street. New York, have
failed. The liabilities of the firm are variously
estimated at between S15OOOO and 100000.
A French fleet of five vessels anchored
in Newport harbor last week.
j. Herbert Reed, well known in the
insurance line in Boston, killed himself by
leap from third-story window.
A cheap lodging house was burned in
New York city, and Joseph Connolly, porter,
and Jonathan White, a farmer, persisted in the
flames.
West.
A terribly fatal accident occurred in
the distillery of Cox Fairbanks, at Terre
Haute, Ind From some unexplained cause
three of the large boilers of the distill-
cry exploded with frightful effect, par
italy demolishing the building and bury
ing number of worlmen in the ruins,
niue of them being taken out dead. Following
are the names of the killed: Frank Stanley
(engineer), William Kirtly, John Brooks, Jo-
seph Denny, Howe Day, William Bergman,
Henry Dinkle, Mike Kelly, and stranger from
Cincinnati, name unknown. In addition. eight
persons were wounded, some of them danger
ously. A large piece of one of the boilers fell
into the cattle pens and killed two of the steers
Another piece knocked out the end of the malt.
house, 600 yards away.
In Hereford county, COL, Antonio
Mestes, Mexican, murdered his wife and babe
most horribly. He first knocked the woman
with down club and then seized knife and
with it savagey lacerated the lower portion OF
the weman's body, cutting out i'm
mense pieces of flesh He then de-
iberately ripped open her womb and