The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-07

The pews Of the Plymouth Beech
er's) Church, Brooklyn, we're sold at auction,
realizing @42,s62.
A loss of $40, 900 was incurred by the
burning of the Phoenix pharmaceutical works,
in Eighty-eighth street, New York.
The residence Of Elisha Sperry, in
| New Haven, was robbed Of 545, 900 in bonds,
His nephew has been arrested on suspicion.
The Dixon Crucible Company, of Jer-
sey City, has suspended, the liabilities being
about 100000.
Fowler, Champion IL Co., OF New
York, engaged in the importation Of chemicals,
have made an assignment, their liabilities be-
ing 100000.
West.
Gov. Scott, who killed young Drury
at Napoleon, Ohio, has been committed TO
prison to await trial, having been refused bail.
The boiler of shingle-mill at Yesta-
burg, Mich, exploded with such force as to
tear the structure to pieces, instantly killing
Frank Filkins the engineer, and Frank Ainsly,
the night watch. The main part Of the boiler
was thrown forty-fve rods causing the death
of G. Conkey and fatally injuring George Will
COX and N. Turk.
Loomis' paper-mill. at Piqua, Ohio,
has been destroyed by the explosion of boiler.
Several members Of the family Of
Nathan lockwood, living near West I5rook-
Ign, ILL.,, have died from trichine eaten in raw
ham.
At New Albany, Ind, twin babes of
William and Fannie Johnson were frozen to
death. The father went away to obtain en-
ployment, leaving his family without fuel.
Detroit reports the erection of twelve
hundred buildings during the past year.
The death-rate of Chicago for the past
year has been 20 to every 1000 inhabitants.
There have been twenty-eight MUIR
ders and ifty-seven suicides in ST. Louis dur
ing the past year.
The Cincinnati district reports the
payment of $l2,9OO,OOO Of internal revenue
this year on whisky.
Eight emigrant cars were wrecked by
collision on the Union Pacific road, near
Lodgepole Station, Neb. Five passengers were
injured.
| In fire which destroyed Norwegian
hotel at Madison, Wis, Mrs. B. NJ. Miller and
her infant child persisted
Maj. Ilges had o fight of an hours
Duration on New Years day, with band of
Uncapapa Sioux, when the latter displayed
tag of truce and formally surrendered.
While engaged in dancing, at Addi-
son, Mich, Mrs. Garfield fell to the floor, and
her hand was SO lacerated by her husbands
| boot-heel that she died in twelve hours
Il. w. Halford, of Indianapolis, has
accepted the editorial management Of the Mil
waukee Sentinel
Mrs. Harriet N. Cooper, a negress,
who died at Cheltenham, Mo-, was lis years of
age, weighed 400 pounds, and was the mother
of twenty-five childron.
Gen. Charles B. Stuart, the eminent
civil engineer, has just died at the Forest City
House, Cleveland.
The losses by fire In Chicago in 1880
aggregate 81, 1874 1853.
A passenger train on the Chicago, st.
Paul and Omaha road, at a curve near Middle
creek, Neb crushed into party of laborers
engaged in charging a snow cut, killing six
men and wounding one.
Bowman Il Bleyer, wholesale liquor
dealers in st. Louis, have made an assignment
to Isador Bush. The firm owes $3.50, goo. and
shows assets of nearly that amount.
South.
Anthony Deiters, of Wheeling, w. Vas
has just died at the age of SO. He was, in his
Younger days, soldier in the French army, and
/ took part in most Of Napoleon's great battles.
He was one of the few survivors of the Old
Guard of glorious memory.
The Southern States have been ex-
peroncing an unusually severe spell of weather.
In the Carolinas snow fell to the depth of
fifteen inches. At Sherman. Texas, the Their
mometer registered 5degrees below zero.
Abe Rothschild has been acquitted of
tho charge of murder, for which he was tried
in Jefferson. Texas.
Henry Washington, negro who had
murdered H. II. Hill, near jackson, Miss, was
executed at the latter place in presence of 400
spectators.
For the first time since its occupation
by a civilized race, the ponds and creeks Of
Southwestern Texas afford good skating.
Bishop Atkinson, of the Episcopal
Diocese of North Carolina, died at Wilmington
lastweek.
A party of eight tiatboatmen were
found frozen to death on their craft, near Port
Royal, s. c.