The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-11
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ANHW LINN HCROAO $1,000 - o~
of John Brougham, the well-known actor.
THE WEST
FIVE workmen were seriously injured
at Minneapolis, Mimi, by the falling of the
walls of an unfinished building upon which they
were at work.
J. WILSON, who was to have been hung
at Upper Sandusky, for murder, was found dead
in his cell the other morning, having taken
poison during the night, which was furnished
him by friends who visited him.
ExGov. JOHN WOOD, of Illinois, has
just died at his home in Quincy, of which city
he was the founder. He was 81 years old. -.
A severe storm of wind in ST. Louis destroyed
property to the value of $25O,OOO. The bridge
was slightly injured.
ADvIcEs from Fort Craig, New Next
co. report that Gen. Morrow struck band Of
hostile Apaches near Cooks canon, and fought
and drove them out Two Indians were killed
and three wounded. One of the former is sup
posed to be Mennoto, the. favorite son OF Vic
toria. A large amount OF stock was captured.
JOHN DAVIDSON, a desperate character,
at Murphysboro, ILL.,, assaulted Jerry Kane in a
saloon, and was stabbed to the heart by the
latter.
THE SOUTH.
ACCOUNTS of the recent flood at
Bracket, Texas, state that the extraordinary
amount of fourteen inches of water fell in nine
hours. It is hardly known how many were
drowned, though the number is placed at
twenty-five. The damage to business and resi-
dences at Bracket, town of 600 people, will
reach $4,000. Vast fields of grain and hun
dreds of live stock were swept away by the
rushing waters.
EMMA JOHNSON, - years old, daughter
of Maj. Robert Johnson, of Wilkes, N. c., was on
her way to neighbours house barefooted, and
passed through tobacco patch. Arattlesnake,
without giving alarm, rose and bit her leg. She
reached home and died in an hour.
GENERAL.
The National Woman Suffrage Con-
vention, in session at Chicago last week,
adopted a resolution declaring that they will
not support any party which will not insert in
its platform plank recognizing the right of
women to vote . The Brewers National Con-
vention met at Buffalo, NY, last week. about 400
delegates being in attendance. The reports
show that the revenue collected from brewers
and dealers in malt liquors for the last fiscal
year amounts to $10, 729 800, which is 1892, 1868
more than received from the same source the
year preceding that the total income from the
internal-revenue tax on malt liquors since the
yoar 1868 amounts to $120, 446, 1868; and that the
brewing establishments of the country now
number over 5000, which annually consume
35O00,OO0 bushels of barley and 100000
pounds of hops.
IT is believed in Montreal that the
headquarters of the Cuban filibusters, SO long
established at New York, have been transferred
to Canadian soil. A steamship carrying large
quantities of ball cartridges, packed in sardine
boxes, recently left Montreal, and an effort was
made to overhaul her at Quebec, but the au-
thorities failed to act. The Nicaraguan Con-
gross has confirmed the concession made by
the Nicaraguan Government some time ago in
the interest of that project. The name of Gen.
Grant is once more mentioned in connection
with the Presidency of company which is
about to engage IN the enterprise.
The suspected flibustering expedi-
ton to Cuba, which left Montreal few days
ago, was overhauled by the Canadian customs
authorities, and the ship on which it embarked
brought back into port.
A BIG lawsuit has been begun by the
Pullman Palace Car Company against the Wagner
Company, damages being laid at 100000, for
infringement of patents by the latter corpora
ton. It'll s alleged that the Wagner Company
obtained the use of certain patents on condition
that cars so constructed should be run only on
the New York Central railroad and it's branches,
and it is the violation of this agreement that
has led to this heavy suit for damages.
The French Senate has adopted bill
providing for convention with the United
States for settling the indemnity due to French
men from America for damages sustained dur
ing the civil war.
POLITICAL.
The Democrats of Alabama have re-
nominated all of the present State officers.
IT is said the South Carolina delega-
ton to the Cincinnati Convention is solid for
Bayard. The Alabama Democratic Conven-
ton, held at Montgomery, June 3, selected an
antl-Iilden delegation to the Cincinnati Conven-
ton. The delegation is said to be divided be-
tween Field Hancock, Bayard, and Thurman.
The Colorado Democratic State Con
venton, in session at Denver last week, Sc
ected an uninstructed delegation to Cincinnati.
the members of which are in favor of Judge
Field for President.
The Arkansas Democrats, in three
days convention, on the thirty-ninth ballot
nominated Thomas j. Churchill for Governor
The remainder of the ticket is as follows
Jacob Fralich for Secretary OF State, William
r. Woodruff, Jr., for Treasurer Auditor John
Crawford Land Commissioner, D. W. Lear;
superintendent Of instruction, j. L. Denton;
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court E. H.
English Chancellor, S. w. Carroll; Chancery
Clerk, j. W. Galloway.
The Michigan Democratic State Con-
Vention met at Saginaw on the 9Th inst, and Sc
lected an ant-Tilden set of delegates to Cincin-
natl. Don M. Dickinson of Detroit, o. NJ Barnes,
of Lansing, Col. T. E. Messmore of Grand
Rapids, and DIR. Foster Pratt of Kalamazoo.
We're the delegates-at-large. A resolution sus-
tanning the two-thrds rule was adopted. Hon
0. M. Barnes called the convention to order,
and nominated Hon. O'Bren J. Atkin-
son as temporary Chairman and John NJ Bulk
ley, W. M. Noble, and George G. Stewart as
Secretaries. These gentlemen were afterward
continued as permanent officers Of the conyen-