The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28
WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW,


DECIDED sensation has been caused
in speculative circles at the East by the an
nouncement of the failure of the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron Company and the
railroad company of the same name. The con-
Germs were known to be heavily in debt, but
their collapse was not looked for at this time.
The Philadelphia stock market has
been in state of wild agitation over the sus-
pension of the Reading Railroad Company and
the Philadelphia and Reading Iron and Coal
Company, and several banking houses
have suspended. Maj. Harold was in
iured in collision on the New
York Elevated railroad. He brought
suit against the company, claiming $4,000
damages. The jury in the case awarded him
100000. Seventy buildings, comprising the
greater portion of the little town of Edenburg,
Clarion county, Pa, have been burned. The
fire originated in vacant hotel building, and is
thought to have been the work OF an lncendlary.
The loss is about $3.50, 900, with little or no in
Surance.
A YOUNG man, recently released from
State prison, shot and killed Supervisor at
Troy, N. Y. The ex-convict was pursuing al
enemy, and the officer had ordered him to de-
sist After shooting policeman the murderer
was arrested While on the road to the station
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the prisoner and in the melee several
persons received bullet-wounds. The des-
perado was finally lodged in jail. -.
John O'Rourke, of the Boston Base Ball Club,
while attempting to make difficult play in a
game at Troy N. Y, ran against fence and
had cash five inches long cut in his throat
He was also internally injured.
THE oil-works Of Bush & Denslow, in
Brooklyn, N. Y, have been destroyed by fire.
The flames spread to shipping and to lum-
ber-yard, causing heavy loss. It is reported
that several men were killed by the explosion of
an oil tank.
THE WEST.
TE1EGRAMs from Santa Fe, New Mex
leo, state that band of Indians, numbering
about 100, attacked Lumas ranch, about sew
enty-fve miles from Rito Quorado and killed
seven-two men, three women and two chill
dren. They also carried away two girls as cap
tives. On the same day the band killed three
of Placido Romero's herders Gen. Hatch
was following Victoria. The horses of the
command having given out, the soldiers were
walking afoOt, sore and shOeless Many Of them
were still plucky and persevering. %. Dakota
wheat is 20 per cent. better than at this time
last year, and the wheat acreage along the line
of the Northern Pacific railroad is about TO-
100000 against 5000, 900 last year.
THERE is prospect that all the Navajo
Indians in New Mexico will begin hostilites. :.
The seventeen-year locusts have made their ap-
pearance in the vicinity of Wooster, Ohio . "A
telegram has been received at the War Depart
ment in Washington from Gen. Pope stating
that he succeeded in arresting Capt. Payne and
his followers for violating the Presidents proc
OotiO11 ouonct i11vo CiO IF Indian Torrito1,x
for mining purposes, etc. The prisoners will be
held until instructions are forwarded from
Washington.
A SHOCKING railway accident is report
ed from California. An excursion train on the
narrow-gauge railway running from San Fran
cisco to Santa Cruz broke through the trestle-
work at the latter place and thirteen persons
were killed and large number wounded, some
of them fatally Three blind girls, eluding
the vigilance of the authorities at the Blind
Asylum, st. Louis, walked through the streets of
that city, and, coming to an excavation, which
was being made to prepare for the erection
of a new building, fell distance of twenty feet,
and were badly but not fatally injured. The
steamer Maine, owned by the Northern Transit
Company of Detroit, was burned at Port Huron,
Mich. The crew and passengers were all res
cued. The loss is estimated at $3.50, 900. . Mark
Fee has been convicted in the Criminal Court
of Chicago of attempting to convict an innocent
man of larceny, and the jury fixed his punish
ment at nine years in the penitentiary.
The last opportunity to see the famous
Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels previous to their
departure for Europe is offered the present
week at Chicago. Their enterprising manager
has gathered in no end of shekels the past
season with this aggregation, and now seeks
fresh fields to conquer on the other side of the
water. The United States is decidedly too
small a country for the complete exercise of
Haverlys business enterprise.
AT a public meeting of leading citi-
zens of Topeka, Kan, called for the purpose
of taking steps to relieve the inhabitants of
Western Kansas who are suffering on account
of the continued drought, it was resolved that
no appeal be made outside the State, as it was
believed that the people of the more-favored
districts of Kansas would contribute suff-
cient to aid their suffering fellow citizens. .
A local freight AGENT a freight accountant and
a cashier of the Fort Wayne and Jackson rail-
road, stationed at Jackson, Mich, have alb
seconded, owing the company large sum of
money, most of which has been expended by
the trio in riotous living Two boys were Gre
mated at Piqua, Ohio, by the burning of a
house
POLITICAL.
THE Minnesota Republican Conven-
ton, held at st. Panl, May 10, instructed
the delegates to Chicago to vote for Sena-
tor Window for President. A lresoution de-
clarng Blaine to be the second choice of the
convention was voted down. An anti
third-term resolution was referred to a
committee and not reported back. .
The Dakota Republicans have selected two
delegates to the Chicago Convention for Win
dom first, and Blaine second. The Virginia
Democratic Convention selected twenty two
delegates to the National Convention at Gin
cinnati. They are uninstructed, but are under
stood to be favorable to Judge Field.
The Minnesota Democrats held their
State Convention at st. Paul May 20. The
delegates to the National Convention received
no Instructions. The resolutions declare
that the State delegation should act as a unit ;
that the Democrats of Minnesota would
''never again submit to reversal of the pop
ular will by fraud or violence" and that
no President should have third term
The California Greenbackers have elected four
delegates-at-large, headed by Denis Kearney to
the National Convention to be held at Chicago.