The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-09
WEEKLY AEWS REVIEW
THE EAST.

New YORK has been experiencing a
season of intensely hot weather. Two hundred
deaths from sunstroke were reported in six
DAYS. The annual boat race between Harvard
and Yale, at New London, Ct, was won with
case by the latter Hon. Gilbert De La
Matyr, the well-known Indiana Greenback
Congressman, has just been married
to widow at Friendship, N. j. -. Mrs. Chick,
of Kennebunk, Me-, held her only child, boy
about s years old, under water until he was
drowned, and then attempted to drown herself.
DURING the progress Of the Yale
Harvard boat-race, at New London, Ct, F. W
Lincoln, President of the Boston and Albany
railroad, and Mrs Dr. William Appleton of Bos-
ton, who were viewing the contest from rail-
road car, we're accidentally thrown from the
platform and almost instantly killed.
MARY O'CoNNoR, of Jersey City, MUIR
dered her three children by cutting their throats
with razor The unfortunate woman was I'M
doubtedly temporarily insane. She says she
has been sick for long time suffering from
malaria, and has been unable to take care of her
children, and she thought that by killing them
they would go to heaven and that there was no
other cause for her killing them.
The death-rate of New York city is
on the increase to an alarming extent. The
number of deaths last week were 1897, against
1,038 for the preceding week :. George Ripley,
the well-known New York journalist and author,
has just died at the age of 70. IAN explana-
ton of the Seawananaka disaster, on Long
Island sound, has probably been found. The
boiler is of the locomotive pattern, having fifty
small tubes through which the hot air and fire
are drawn from the burning GOALS. In one of
IL 4,,l0 1, InoxD rrIxy
large enough for the insertion of mans fist.
It is believed that the whole pressure of the
steam in the boiler was transferred by this
rupture to the fire-box, sending the doors open
and scattering the hot Goals over the fremen's
room, setting fire to the woodwork about the
fire-room and sending the flames up to the
main deck. AT Philadelphia, on the 9Th of
drowned Mrs. Kate Mahoy, aged %, Robert Orr
Is, Lizzie Orr 8, and Katie Orr 6.
THE WEST.
A BREAK In what is known as the shy
is river bottoms for many miles north and
south of Quincy from overflow of the Missis-
sippi river, has caused an immense destruction
of property and some loss of life.
It is estimated that 100000 bushels of wheat
and thousands of acres of standing corn have
been ruined. Many houses and barns have
fioated away, and considerable stock has been
drowned. The region flooded is forty miles
long by from four to ten wide, and comprises
some of the best land in the State of Illinois,.
Santa Fe dispatches report that Victoria's
Apaches attacked Gov. Louis Terrasas ranch
at San Lorenzo about thirty miles from Chihua-
hua, Mexico, killed some men, and stole about
100 horses They then attacked Ranch De
oI111o
killing some more men and stealing large
number of horses. United States and Mexican
troops were in pursuit of the savages.
BY the explosion of the boiler of a
pleasure steamer on Lake Minnetonka, Mimi,
the engineer and pilot of the boat and the
head waiter and guest at the hotel opposite
were instantly killed, and seven persons were
seriously injured. :. Gen. Grant left Galena on
the LIST of July for the far West.
WHEAT in southeastern and northern
Minnesota has been more or less damaged by
chinch bugs and wet weather. ee
GEN. GRANT was treated at Kansas
City to national salute, bell-ringing and a
long procession. There was big celebration
at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the Sd inst, of the
discovery of st. Anthony falls by Father Hem
nepin. There was a procession over a mile
long, composed of United States troops, militia
and civic societies. The formal portion of the
programme includeda historical oration a poem
and a dinner eaten by several thousand people.
The informal portion consisted of speeches
by Secretary of War Ramsey, Gen. Sherman
and Gen. Rosser, late of the Confederate cav
airy . information has been received at the
Chicago Custom House that cattle plague has
broken out at Winnipeg, in Manitoba. The
disease which is said to be of foreign origin. is
in the form of infammatory fever, very infec-
tious, and nearly as fatal as pleuro-pneumonia.
Over 200 cattle have died, and the
people are sorely exercised over the
unlooked-for scourge In the race for
the baseball championship of the United
States, the Chicago Club continues to maintain
q long lead over all competitors. :. AT Troy
Mills. Iowa. while Fourth of July celebration
was in progress, the marshal of the day struck a
man for insulting woman. This was signal for
a free fight which lasted over two hours, and in
which more than three hundred men took part
-Four of the combatants were fatally injured and
twenty-five others received painful wounds. :.
BY the capsizing of a yacht on White Bear
AXE about twelve miles from st. Paul, Mimi,
ON the 9Th inst, seven persons were drowned.
1t appears there were fourteen persons on
board the yacht when it was struck by heavy
squat, and, as the men on board we're by no
means expert yacAtsmen, they were unable
to prevent the accident +. "A distressing
accident occurred near Bryant, Iowa,
on the 4th of July. Hugh Hanna, with his wife
and five children, attempted to cross swollen
stream, when the wagon was upset and the en-
tire family precipitated into the water, except
Mrs. Hanna, who jumped out first in time 10
save herself Mr.. Hanna and the five children,
aged respectively 49, II, 9, 6, and 4 years, were
drowned. 4a
A TERRIBLE accident occurred last
week near Dunkirk, Ohio. The boiler con-
nected with a steam thresher exploded on q
farm, killing five persons and seriously wound
ing four. Full returns of the new census
make ChicagO's population 500, $40.
POLITICAL at
JOHN A. KAssoN, Minister to Austria,
hes been nominated for Congress by the Re-
publcans of the Des MONIES Qowa) district.
GEN. WEAVER, of Iowa, the Green
bacK-Labor candidate for President, confident
ly expects to be the next PRESIDENT of the United
States. He claims that the Greenbackers will
carry Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas and
ID. - NJ.