The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-30
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.
East.

Bush fires on the sSaugeen Peninsula
in Canada have caused a loss Of $4,000.
Nine carpenters, employed by tbs
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Compant
despite due warning, took hand-car at Bea-
con, Pa, to so to their work. A special train
filed with newspaper correspondents, bound
for Cleveland, to attend the Garfield funeral
ceremonies, crashed into it on an iron trestle-
work, killing four men instantly and wounding
TWO others so that they died in few minutes.
Three made their escape by leaping.
Swalthmore College, at Philadelphia,
has been burned. There is insurance to the
amount of $4,000, with which the institution
can be rebuilt,
West.
Mr.. Cyrus N. Walls, of the Paris Gil. J
RepuJHca,- Beacon, who mysteriousIy disap-
peared, while visiting Chicago on the '2Sd Of
July last, suddenly turned up in that city the
other day. He walked into a hotel and asked
fora room, but whenasked toregister saidhe did
not know his own name, A Terre Haute Qnd.)
lawyer met him afterward on the street and called
linn by name. It was the first time in two
months that he had heard it. He says he was
robbed of his money, stabbed by the robber,
and then nursed by some unknown parties. His
case is certainly an extraordinary one.
The oil warehouses of the Collier
White Lead Company and several adjacent
structures, on Clark avenue, st. Louis, have
been burned Loss about 100000. 8& 9
A tornado swept the city of Quincy,
ILL.,, with great violence. Joel Harris tobacco
factory was blown down and one man killed
and eight injured. The foundry of Bennett,
Duff d Co. was almost wholly demolished.
killing three men and wounding four. Many
buildings were unroofed or damaged and the
telegraph wires were badly wrecked.
A cyclone laid desolate the village of
Camden, Schuyler county, H., place of sew
era hundred inhabitants. The wife of DR..
Watts was killed instantly by the falling walls
of her residence, being buried beneath the de-
bris. There were buttwo houses in the place
that escaped injury. sNs{Blst
A car loaded with dynamite, resting
on tho track near the Rock Island round house,
at Council Bluffs, exploded the other day, de-
molishing -four engines, freight house, an ice
house, seven passenger coaches and eighty
freight cars belonging to the Rock Island Rail
road Company Some oil-cars resting on the
track were set on fire, and the flames commune
Gated to some houses in the vicinity, and seven
of them we're burned to the ground. The loss
to Tue railroad is estimated at 100000.
The Maxwell bandits hive made their
appearance in Calhoun county, Ill. An at
tempt to capture them resulted in the killing
Of Sheriff JohnIammie and the wounding of
Of John IT, Ohurchman and Frank McNeff.
Tho Deputy Sheriff Of Pike county, q. W. Rob
erts, pursued the desperadoes, but was kept
back by steady firing.
A recent dispatch from Minden, in the
fire devastated region of Michigan, says $50
seph Viookowsky, of Paris, aged 10 years, has
died Of exposure. Walter Johnson, of Austin,
and Mary Kolar aged 30, of Minden, are. dy-
ing of exposure. The latter is lying in an open
board shanty eight by ten feet, which contains
thirteen persons. Typho-malarial fever,
bilious collie and inflammation of the lungs
arc increasing to an alarming extent. George
Mc}ary is dying of his burns William McRary
is slowly recovering Mrs. James White pa
ticut in llinden Hospital No. 2, is in very crit
cal condition. The condition of the people in
this section is simply terrible. 1t will take g.
100000 to place the burned-out in comfortable
circumstances. Not one tenth of that amount
has been raised. The prospects are gloomy
indeed"
south.
The rolling-mill at Atlanta, Ga, the
only one in that State, which was taken there
from Chicago by Lewis scofeld, at a cost of
100000, has been destroyed by fire.
Recent advices from Arizona report
that the Indian troubles in that Territory are
ended and the hostile Indians are surrender
ing. Agent Tiffany, at San Carlos, telegraphs
that there are 4,960 of his Indians on
the reservation, leaving only seventeen
in the White mountains. Gen. Carr
did not encounter d single hostile
Indian on his recent scout. He did fnd how
over, that the bodies of Capt. Hentig and his
Inflated companions who were slain on the 30th
Of August had been disinteTed and horribly
mutilated by the red demons,
A party of twenty-five gentlemen in.
Dallas, Tex, made the first response to the
call OF the Cleveland committee for dollar