The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-10-22
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENoB,



A child 2 years old, of Elmira, N. Y,
has just died of hydrophobia.
Thirty-two deaths have resulted from
the Pittsburgh railroad collision.
Wright Smith, of Paterson, N. j., man.
ufacturer Of silk goods, has failed, with La
bilities amounting to $25O,OOO.
Two boys, one II and the other 8
years of age, quarreled at Pembroke, Me-, about
cat, when the elder seized gun and shot his
little companion to death. He was discovered
by neighbor in the act of burying the body of
his victim.
The " Ladies' Deposit Bank, :" of Bos-
ton, ninstitutionmanaged by women, and which
has been paying enormous rates of interest, has
collapsed and turns out to have been q swim
die of gigantic proportions. The liabilities
amount to about 100000, and poor women
are the principal victims. The officers of the
so-callod bank, all of them women, have been
arrested.
John A. Woodward, cashier of the
City Treasury of Boston, is defaulter in the
sum of $4,000. He has fed to parts un-
known.
A peculiarly shocking tragedy is re-
ported by telegraph from Wheelock, VT A
man named Byron Blake murdered his mother
sister and stepfather with knife. and then
hung himself. The murderer was 26 years of
age. He had six years ago a spinal difficulty,
which occasioned the loss of reason. He was
confined in an asylum two years, and when he
returned home was considered safe, but was of
ugly temper, as in fact he had always been.
His mother was So years old, the stepfather "a
years.
Hon. Henry d. Foster, ex-Congress-
man from Pennsylvania, and at one time a
leading Democratic politician in that State, is
dead.
West.
A fire ut Stanton, Montcalm county,
Mich, destroyed tho newspaper Office of the
place, c. d. Aliens, Weber & Chapins, w.
II. Paines, ]. II. Persons, and ID. w. Gard
nern stores. The total loss is placed at $50, 000
The insurance will scarcely cover half the loss
Ihe stores destroyed were the principal ones in
the village
Five Detroit tiremen were badly in
jured by an oil explosion in a burning building.
Michael Carey, of Gratiot, Wis, died
of grief within few minutes after the death
of his nife.
Berry, the Indian Agent of Del Norte,
Col, has been arrested for completely in the
killing of young Jackson, who was butchered
by the Ute Indians. Warrants are also out for
the arrest of Hoyt, Holmes and Cline, of the
United States troops.
Two men robbed stage-coach near
Del Norte, Col, carrying away the mail and
treasure-box.
The horse distemper has made its APP
pearance in Chicago in a mild form.
Seven persons were killed and four
seriously wounded, at Chicago, by the bursting
of what is termed "cooker." in Haas &
Powelrs Gistillery.
A fierce railroad war has been raging
between the main lines running southwest from
Chicago. The trouble was inaugurated by 8
cut in passenger rates between that city and
st. Louis, ON the part of the Wabash road
Inc Chicago and Alton at once assumed q bel
ngerent attitude, and the cutting was kept up
until fares between Chicago and st. Louis
were reduced to nominally nothing, tickets be-
ing sold as low As 70 cents. Finally
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
eitic, and the Chicago, Burlington
ana Quincy roads became involved in the
struggle, and limited tickets between Chicago
and Kansas CITY were sold for so cents over all
four OF the competing lines. Thousands of UNI
limited tickets between Chicago and Kansas
City were sold for Sc, and between Chicago and
ST. Louis for So. The effect of the fight will
be to permanently reduce rates between these
points, and thus the people at least viii be BEN
Gifted by this fight.
The heaviest wind-storm exnerienced
for many years prevailed throughout the North
west on the 10th and 18th Of October The
gale was particularly disastrous to shipping on
the great lakes. Three or four vessels were
wrecked in the vicinity of Chicago and
several lives we're lost Near the Mani.
tou islands barge, with all hands was
lost In the vicinity of Sturgeon bay, on
the west shore of Lake Michigan, an immense
amount OF damage YVES done to shipping, NO
less than twenty vessels having been blown
ashore. Old sailors say it YVES the worst storm
they ever saw on Lake Michigan The gale
also swept over Lakes Superior and Erie bui
the damage wRs light compared to tina,