The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-25
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.



The boarding house keepers Of New
England met in convention at Boston, to or.
game for protection against beats.
Adelina Patti gave a concert in New
York for the benefit Of the Michigan sufferers,
which realized 5000 after all expenses were
paid
George Law, well-known New York
capitalist, died last week.
Twenty-Five fremen were seriously
injured while Bubduing fire at Hopkinton
Mass
At Stafford, N. H., an invalid lady,
named Waldron, killed Der granddaughter and
herself with razor.
West.
The Clark House, the principal hotel
at Duluth, was swept away by FIRE, causing
loss Of $4,000.
A new kind of cattle disease, SO fan
attended in each case with fatal results, has
appeared in Dubuque county, Iowa.
Western distillers held a meeting in
Chicago, and formed the Western Export As.
ISOLATION, the object being to export the sur.
plus Of the liquor distilled.
An accident occurred on the Spring
field and Northwestern railroad, near the San
canon river about four miles from Spring
field, I'll. The mail and passenger train fell
through treatle twenty feet to the ground
No one was killed, but fifteen were more Or less
injured.
The Asylum for Idiotic Children at
Columbus, Ohio, has been burned. 1t is be-
lieved to have been the work of incendiaries
Owing to the excellent discipline of the teach
crs, the pupils were safely marched out, and no
lives we're lost. The loss Of property is about
$25O,OOO.
Edward Maxwell, the bandit recently
captured in Nebraska, was lynched by the ctl-
zens of Durand, Wis. People from the sur
rounding country flocked in by squads and
heard the impudent wretch confess numbering
the Coleman brothers. A rope was thrown
over his neck in the courtroom, and he was
stranged while being hauled down the aisle
and stairway to the nearest tree, whore his
corpse was left to dangle nearly all the Of
ternoon.
At Alta, Wis, Mrs. Verrier induced
her mother and brother to eat poisoned SOUP
and both died within a few hours.
At Athens, Ohio, mob broke into
the jail, overpowered the Sheriff and lynchcd
mulatto named Davis, who was accused of out
raging an elderly white woman.
South.
James l.. Ridgely, who since 1910 has
been Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows Of the United States, died in Balh-
more.
At Atlanta, Ga, Gen. ]. B. Gordon
drove the first spike in the new Georgia Pacific
railroad, which will, it is believed, be great BEN
eft to the whole South.
A negro named Augustus Smith suf-
fered execution at smithfeld, N. c., for out
raging the person of white girl years of age
Several thousand colored people assembled al
Hamburg, Ark, to witness the execution of
Boge jackson for the murder Of Reuben Jor.
dan.
The jail at McDonough, in Henry
county, Ga, was destroyed by ire, and two OF
the fifteen prisoners persisted in the flames
The others were in senseless condition when
rescued. Many of the citizens Of McDonough
were injured while attempting to save the un.
fortunate inmates.
In presence of his wife and five chill
dren, Henderson Lasater was murdered by five
masked men, who broke down the doors Of his
,idenco at Harrison, Ark.
Osborn Pitts, of Columbus, Co., drank
quart of whisky on wager, and survived but
an hour or SO, The iquor-seller was arrested
for murder.