The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-08-19
Il NEWS OF THE WEEK.



Maud S. at Rochester 1o,vorod har
record tOr2aQ11, beating BY quarter Of !
second the time she made at Pittsburgh 3 few
weeks ago.
a IAN, z in The hands Of the ianitor
p'so 'ne organ in ST PauTs Episcopal Church.
@e Erie, Pa, and caused damage of 800, 900.
Gen. Grant has bought $685.
house on East sixty-sixth street. New York
"A very rich vein of silver, two feet
wide, has been discovered at Moretown, VT, on
the top OF the mountain.
The killing of Spotted Tail by Grow
Dog was a cold-blooded assassination and the
latter will be tried for murder
Hon. o. Fl. Browning. ex-Concress-
man and Secretary of the Interior during the
administration of President johnson, died at
Quincy, ILL.,, last week
70. Il. Williams & Brother, a grain
commission house in Toledo, are charged with
Hss1Ns fraudulent bills of lading to the amount
of $4,000 or more. Their suspension is
bounced, and beth have fed.
Gray, IRE person who shot and killed
(Cal) Press, some time ago, escapes with
tHsr.5y years imprisonment.
Rev. DIR. H. w. Thomas, the distin-
Tg rguished Methodist divine, is to be arragned
for heresy next month at Chicago He is
charged with denying the truth of the doc
y trines of inspiration and atonement taught by
the church, and teaching the doctrine of pro-
baton after death for those who die in sin,
thereby sRtsgonizing the doctrine of endless
punishment for the wicked The trial will ex-
cite widespread interest
Late advices from New Mexico report
great alarm in that territory over atrocities
lperpetrated by renegade Indians. A party of
sixty Or more killed seven persons near Elrita.
Another band of twelve fired into camp Of
Atchison railway men near Rincon.
During a violent thunder storm at st.
Louis, lightning struck the Atlantic mills, at
the corner of Main and Plum streets, which
were quickly destroyed by fire, FIVE employees
being killed and several others burned. The
flames then spread over two blocks of wooden
buildings. The loss aggregates 820O.0OO on
which there is $4,000 insurance.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska has
rendered decision to the effect that the high
Hicense liquor law by the last State Legislature
us constitutional in every particular. 1t com
pels saloon-keepers to pay 81, 900 license and
give bonds in the sum of $4,000 in cities Of
over 10000 people, and in cities of under 10,
900 the license is $500.
The wheat crop of Nebraska is pro-
nouuced failure. Barley, OATS rye and flax
will prove a fam crop, Owing to the excess
lively hot weather and the total absence OF rain
recently the corn crop will not be near an aver
age
The talI-whent crop of Illinois, &C.
cording to the State Agricultural Department.
shows falling off Of about SO per cent from
the crop of last year, and is probably the worst
in quality and quantity grown in the State for
twenty years. The crop OF this wear will not
dshearten the farmers of tho State however
and it is PROBABLE that larger area will be
sown this fall than ever before
A band OF Apaches made a raid on
small glage IN New Mexico, near the line of
the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, and killed
tSenty-seven citizens. Charles G.. Cough re-
ports having been attacked by seven Apaches at
"a point only sixteen miles from Santa Fe, and
that he killed one and wounded three.
An emigrant train ran into washout
three miles east of Las Vegas New Mexico. The
engineer and fireman were instantly killed
A duel has taken place in Indian Ter
ritory between T. o. Carpenter Choctaw
chief, aud Col. Amos Price, prominent Creek.
The latter was killed, and the former fatally
injured,
1t is reported in st. Louis that the
two chief bslge lines the Lower Mississippi
have been consolidated, with capital of S.
:. 100000. The amalgamaton will give a fleet of
'twenty~three tugs and 149 barges, having ca
parity of 5000 900 bushels.
The jailer at Kansas City made the
discovery that Bill Ryan, the Glendale train
robber, had bunch of burglars saws in his
cell, and had cut three sides of large square
in the iron floor.
South.
Several negroes were killed near Lex
ington, Va, by a slide in cut upon which
they were at work ON the Richmond and Allie
gheny railroad, Six of the negroes were con-
vcts
The Kentucky Board of Agriculture
reports that there has been no such shortage
than half an average yield of wheat will be
harvested
George Griffin was executed at Bir-
mingham Aha. AS his neck was not broken by
the fall his sufferings were terrible
Benjamin Bird, negro was hanged
at Jacksonville, Fla, for the murder of Police
man Nelson. The moose at first slipped off his
neck, and he fell to the ground, but the hang
mans second attempt proved successful,
The drought has become so intense
in the region tributary to Nashville, Tenn,
that frescreens have been placed ON the loco
motive smoke-stacks to prevent wholesale
oonAagration.
The Perry county (Ark) troubles are
at an end, and the militia have returned to
Little Rock.
On the Memphis and Charleston rail-
road, near Tuscumbia, Ala, three negroes went
TO sleep on the track, and train killed two
md severely injured the third.
A prominent physician of Cincinnati
reports twenty well-defned cases of typhoid fe-
yer among the 400 English colonsts at Rugby,
Tenn. A corps of physicians and nurses has
been dispatched to the afflicted settlement
Bad drinking-water was the chief cause of the
epidemic,
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Secretary Blaine has been suffering