The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-18
WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW,
THE EAST.


bilities are placed at 100000. lightning
struck 20, OO0-ga1lon tank of oil near Titus
vile, setting fire to the liquid, which poured
out in all directions. The fire communicated
with other oil tanks, and the burning fluid
spread the flames in all directions destroying the
Acme Oil Works, one of the largest oil refineries in
the world, and several smaller establishments,
the houses in the neghborhood, the railroad
bridge, and other property. The total loss is
placed at 100000. "A disconsolate colored
man put his head under heavily-loaded truck
in Broadway, New York, and, before the driver
could stop the horses, one Of the wheels had
passed over it, crushing it to pulp.
EX-SENATOR JAMES A. BAYARD, Of
Delaware, father of the present Senator Bay
ard, has just died at his home in Wilmington,
after long illness. The oil fire at Titusville,
Pa, was not gotten under control until 81, $780,
900 worth of property had been destroyed
A TORNADO near Pittsfeld, n H.,
swept away everything in it's path and dam
aged property to the amount of 800, O0O.. ..
Ex-Mayor George Opdyke, of New York, is
dead. A steam pipe exploded in Music Hail.
Cincinnati fatally injuring two visitors to the
Millers' international Exhibition.
THE WEST.
The soldiers reunion at Milwaukee
attendance. Gems Grant and Sheridan put in
an appearance, and were enthusiastically well
coined. Among the other distinguished SOL
ders present were Gems. Washburn, Bragg,
Bintliff, Bryant, Gibbon, Starkweather, and
Coils. Townsend and Villas. The address of
welcome was delivered by Gov. Smith. a +,.,.
AS SHOWING the extent to which the
telegraph was used in Chicago during the Re-
publican Convention it may be stated that on
the nine days, from May 81 to June inclusive,
the Western Union Telegraph Company dis
patched 1914 705 words over and above the usual
average of business
The Marshal of Peru, Ind, undertook
to arrest party of tramps for insulting ladies,
but, meeting with desperate resistance, drew his
revolver and opened fire. One of the ruffians
fell dead and four others surrendered.
WHILE David Williams and Miss Kate
Turner were seated in grove at Georgesvile,
Ohio, the former was shot dead by some person
unknown. One theory involves the young
lady's father another a jealous lover, and an
other party of careless schoolboys.
AT McVicker's, in Chicago, the present
week, the Bijou Opera Company, from New
York, makes it's appearance in two operas, to be
given each night. The pieces are "The Spectre
Knight and Charity Begins at Home" The
company is highly spoken of, and the class of
amusement is well suited to the present heated
term.
The recent heavy rain-storms in the
Northwest extended over vast extent of terri
tory, and the damage inflicted is very great.
Bridges have been Carried away, railway traffic
impeded, and the corn and wheat crops seri-
Ously damaged. John Atkins, a well-known
Western newspaper man, has purchased half
interest in the Rocky Mountain NeoUs, at Den
yer, Co.. and assumed the managership.
GEN. TERRY is in receipt of dispatch
from Fort Keogh, to the effect that eighty
lodges of Sitting Bulls Indians have sur
rendered at that post, and that 200 other lodges
have crossed the Missouri with the evident in
tention of doing likewise.
A VIOLENT tornado swept over con-
siderable section Of Indiana few evenings
ago, playing sad havoc with dwellings,. barns,
fences and grain fields, and causing some
loss of life. The storm was severest at
Cicero, Hamilton county, where buildings
to the value of 100000 were DESTROYED,
and some twenty-five persons injured
more or less severely. At Frankfort
fifteen people were wounded, and property
to the value of $4,000 wrecked. Near
Rushville several houses were demolished
and two persons fatally injured Some
idea of the violence of the wind may be formed
from the statement that fish were blown from
streams into the road, and were picked up by
passers-by. Farmers have suffered seriously by
the destruction of houses, barns, cattle and
growing crops.
THE SOUTH.
A DISPATCH from Sedalia, No., says
that ga Pettis county farmer named John Con-
ner, and his wife, sister and three children, aged
respectively II, 8 and years, were in two
horse wagon, going to town. At Fort creek,
tive miles west of Knob Noster, in attempting
to cross the swollen stream, the horses
upset the wagon, threw them all out.
and the three children were drowned. .
The drug house of Arthur, Peter & Co., at
Louisville, KY, has been destroyed by fire.
causing a loss of 100000. Kohn & Wolf.
clothiers and Johnston, Newman & Co., gro
GERS, occupying adjoining buildings, lost heavi-
ly. The insurance is ample.
Four men have been lynched at
White Rancho, Brown county, Tex. They were
suspected of being concerned in stealing cattle
from the farmers in the"vicinity. Charles A..
Hill, prominent lawyer of ST. Louis has been
arrested by the United States Marshal of that
city for counterfeiting bank bills Serious
riots have occurred in Galway county, Ireland,
growing out of attempted evictions for non
payment of rent.
In fight between two men at a
Texas horsc-race, both principals were wounded
and an on-looker and mule were killed
Ex-Mayor Gerard Stth, of New Orleans, is
dead. He was formerly Mayor of
that city, and has been for more
than third of a century foreman
of the Picayeuae newspaper Office. .Ex-Gov.
Brown, of Mississippi, was thrown from his
horse into pond, near jackson, Miss, and
drowned before assistance could be rendered
him. He had served two terms in the United
States Senate.
GENERAL.
A REMARKABLE libel suit for sos. 900
damages has been brought in the Supreme
Court OF New York by Samuel D. Human. who
for seventeen years has been missionary of
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